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Senate Democrats vote to destroy healthcare for millions with preexisting conditions
https://www.wsj.com/articles/first-do-no-harm-to-obamacare-1539298783?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=a5a6424d9e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_09_14_12_40__COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-a5a6424d9e-171567693&mc_cid=a5a6424d9e&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Individual health insurance costs twice as much as it did in 2013. Thanks, Obamacare!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2018/10/08/obamacare-premiums-democrats-donald-trump-insurance-aca-coverage-mandate-column/1444804002/
Obamacare plans going up 5% in Colorado. #WheresMy2500
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/colorado-obamacare-rates-to-increase-by-about-5-percent-in-2019
Illinois ACA plans to cost 4-6% more next year – this is not what we were promised
https://herald-review.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/insurance-rates-stabilizing-on-affordable-care-act-exchange-for-illinois/article_530f0b3e-4a7f-5d55-8806-8f4d320bcbb0.html
Obamacare plans in Ohio spiking an average 6.3%, way more than inflation.
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/ohio-obamacare-insurers-seek-modest-price-hikes-for-2019
Obamacare’s narrow networks problem leads to big fine on Humana for failing to maintain enough anesthesiologists in network
http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20181011/NEWS/181019967
20 million Americans coughed up $8.4 billion between 2014 and 2016 just because they declined to buy Obamacare plans. Thanks, ACA individual mandate.
https://www.freedomworks.org/content/obamacares-poverty-tax-hit-20-million-people-cost-84-billion
Iowa providing escape hatch from overpriced Obamacare through low–cost Farm Bureau plans
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/iowa-to-offer-plans-without-obamacares-protections-for-sick-people
Separate hi-risk pools – blocked by onerous rules during the Obama administration – are succeeding in stabilizing the individual insurance market in 3 states
https://www.forbes.com/sites/gracemarieturner/2018/10/03/several-states-have-found-ways-to-mitigate-obamacares-damage-to-their-health-insurance-markets/#2f62fd30da7c
State hi-risk pools a better answer to the preexisting conditions problem than Obamacare is
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/state-innovation-the-key-affordable-health-care-coverage-choices?utm_source=Galen+Email+Alerts+%26+AHC&utm_campaign=61ae4aa6a1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_12_18_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_93ad194d45-61ae4aa6a1-171567693&mc_cid=61ae4aa6a1&mc_eid=4fec4aa80b
Obamacare’s poor design “limits the kind of health coverage people want to buy, reduces the productivity of physicians and hospitals, and encourages practitioners to avoid providing medical care to high-risk patients”
http://www.goodmaninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/BA-126-What-Are-We-Getting-for-Our-Obamacare-Dollars.pdf
Medicare lab services are being cut; that’s what happens when you chop $716 billion out of Medicare to pay for Obamacare
https://www.acla.com/pama/?utm_source=axios-site-ad&utm_medium=ad&utm_campaign=axios-sponsorship
Obamacare’s risk adjustment program should not be continued; punishes low-cost insurers and favors big carriers over small ones
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/oct/4/trump-must-let-obamacare-implode-under-its-own-wei/
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!