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Millions saving 60, 80, 93 percent with non-Obamacare short-term insurance
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/01/25/study-short-term-health-plans-80-percent-cheaper-than-obamacare/
Urgent care doc feels sorry for Obamacare customers, delivers instant care for modest cases while customer’s Obamacare card stays in wallet. #SaveMeFromObamacare
https://www.nationalreview.com/2019/01/mark-kot-anti-obamacare-doctor/
Obamacare’s pesky, costly, completely avoidable narrow networks problem claims more victims – “I feel like I’m paying $1,250 a month for something I didn’t know what it is”
https://www.ajc.com/news/state–regional-govt–politics/blow-for-aca-patients-anthem-blue-cross-individuals-lose-wellstar/wjY4J2gDzPRikpJeWltGOI/
‘Obamacare saves tens of thousands of lives a year!’ Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy. New study shows exercising 30 minutes a day has greater impact on saving lives than Obamacare does.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2019/01/18/at-best-obamacares-lifesaving-potential-was-equivalent-to-exercising-briskly-for-30-minutes-a-day/#21e749d34df5
Why on earth did Democrats ram Obamacare down our throats when they don’t want to fully implement it? Dems working feverishly to delay an Obamacare tax.
https://www.libertyheadlines.com/senators-buried-obamacare-tax/
States not using federal income tax records to verify income eligibility for Medicaid expansion, and it’s costing tens of millions of dollars in Louisiana alone. https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/article_29523080-1b69-11e9-a5d9-cf974d5770e4.html
Medicaid expansion further entrenches hi-cost medical care. Cutting insurance mandates, boosting association health plans, repealing Certificate of Need, and instituting scope-of-practice reform are better answers.
https://www.johnlocke.org/update/the-case-against-medicaid-expansion/
‘The feds will always pay 90 percent of Medicaid expansion costs.’ Boy, are you naïve. The feds promised always to pay 87 percent of the original Medicaid program in the ‘60s.
http://www.jacksonfreepress.com/news/2019/jan/23/bridge-too-far-no-medicaid-expansion/
Playing the morality card to pass Medicaid expansion is disingenuous. How is moral to crowd out other state programs and run up the national debt with ‘free healthcare’ when other problems are more pressing?
https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article224597675.html
Study: Medicaid expansion fails to measurably improve heart attack care. “Care quality actually improved more in non-expansion states”
https://www.medpagetoday.com/cardiology/myocardialinfarction/77460
How to Defraud Medicaid #181 – submit fake bills for treating autistic children
https://fraudscrookscriminals.com/2019/01/21/south-carolina-9-million-health-care-fraud-busted-thanks-to-a-whistleblower/
Medicaid expansion will ‘only’ cost Georgia $200 million a year. OK, what programs will you cut and what taxes will you raise? Better idea for politicians – avoid the hard issues and make your career giving away other people’s money.
https://www.ajc.com/blog/politics/the-net-cost-medicaid-expansion-georgia-about-200m-year-2022/BE490IAAo4dgcnmZy6lKyJ/
Medicaid spending by states is growing faster than tax revenues and the private economy; Medicaid expansion only digs the hole deeper.
http://www.liberalfirst.com/opinion/medicaid-expansion-supporters-ignore-how-policy-breaks-budgets
Utah Guv: ‘We know Medicaid expansion will blow up, but let’s start it up anyway without any restrictions.’
https://utahpolicy.com/index.php/features/today-at-utah-policy/19177-herbert-says-medicaid-expansion-should-be-implemented-first-then-changed-later
The many-splendored access problems of Medicaid: 30 percent of doctors don’t accept new patients with Medicaid, way more than Medicare or private insurance.
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20190124/NEWS/190129962
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!