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High Risk Pools Are a Good Answer, But Obamacare DESTROYED Them (OCTS original reporting)
http://0363930.netsolhost.com/WordPress/2018/06/23/high-risk-pools-are-a-good-answer-but-obamacare-destroyed-them/
Insurers seek ACA price hikes that outstrip inflation – FL (8.8%) OH (8.2%) IA (5.6%) IN (5%)
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/iowas-obamacare-plans-stabilize-for-2019
+ https://www.ibj.com/articles/69358-premiums-could-edge-up-5-percent-for-indianas-obamacare-plans-next-year
+ http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/fl-bz-obamacare-plans-rate-filings-in-florida-20180622-story.html
+ https://www.cleveland.com/open/index.ssf/2018/06/2019_insurance_on_the_obamacar.html
+ http://www.njbiz.com/article/20180621/NJBIZ01/180629973/obamacare-enrollment-in-state-drops
Another escape hatch from Obamacare opens as final association health plan (AHP) rule promulgated
https://www.wsj.com/articles/exit-from-obamacare-1529449852
Health Policy Consensus Group proposal would replace Obamacare with block grants, expand HSAs, etc. It’s the only serious repeal effort going at the moment. HealthcareReform2018.org
https://www.healthcarereform2018.org/
Texas doctor groups urge AMA not to file brief opposing lawsuit that would end Obamacare
https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Texas-medical-group-tells-national-association-to-13015873.php
Reprise: Support for ACA’s supposedly popular preexisting-condition provisions drops precipitously if costs are included in the poll question
https://www.cato.org/blog/i-will-bet-drew-altman-100-obamacares-preexisting-conditions-are-unpopular
Maine legislature votes to fund first year of Medicaid expansion with one-time budget gimmicks – temporary surplus and tobacco settlement. #OpenBridgeAhead
https://www.pressherald.com/2018/06/20/bill-to-fund-medicaid-expansion-in-maine-amended-to-use-tobacco-settlement-funds/
Oregon’s growing share of Medicaid expansion costs are one of two major contributors to state’s $500M-$1.1B budget gap. #ChickensComingHomeToRoost
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2018/06/roadshows_on_the_state_budget.html
Medicaid expansion has caused enrollment to explode in Alaska; botched expansion roll-out hurting truly sick and needy applicants waiting in line
http://mustreadalaska.com/alaskas-medicaid-population-explodes/
Medicaid expansion enrollment continues to blow past projections in Louisiana – 475,426 as of June 18th v. 375,000 projected
http://ldh.la.gov/healthyladashboard/
Insurers are making “spectacular profits” from Medicaid expansion; costs per newly eligible adult will almost double by 2025
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/shock-report-health-care-eats-17-gdp-medicaid-up-3-491-fraud-obamacare-blamed?src=ilaw
Nobody knows how Virginia’s new Medicaid expansion and provider tax will work out; some hospitals will be net losers. Politicians bought a pig in a poke.
https://baconsrebellion.com/too-early-to-predict-impact-of-medicaid-expansion-on-carilion/
Shame on Emmet Hanger, Republican who master-minded Medicaid expansion in Virginia. Censured by his local GOP unit. Hanger told OCTS some years back, ‘Us conservatives gotta stick together.’ Sure. What a phony!
http://thebullelephant.com/greene-county-gop-censures-senator-emmett-hanger/
North Carolina Medicaid wrapped in scandal – ‘expansionist spending by conniving Democrats who don’t care about law or ethics’
http://www.mdjonline.com/opinion/bob-barr-nc-medicaid-scandal-broadens-on-dem-gov-cooper/article_1bf8ebb8-56f7-11e8-ac66-47829cbf0b56.html
Study: Fraud, overpayments, and Medicaid expansion are drivers of soaring Medicaid costs
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/washington-secrets/shock-report-health-care-eats-17-gdp-medicaid-up-3-491-fraud-obamacare-blamed?src=ilaw
Deconstructing the Single Payer Narrative (tweets & analysis) –
http://www.liberato.us/single-payer.html
REPEAL OBAMACARE NOW!
– legalize true catastrophic insurance
– return Medicaid to a poverty program
END THE OBAMACARE CONGRESSIONAL EXEMPTION!