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– #SinglePayer most Mondays here
– All the Bad News About Obamacare most Saturdays here
The ACA in 2018: more than half of the counties in the nation had only one insurer, and there was a net loss of 37 insurers. (Sally Pipes)
https://aapsonline.org/aaps-news-february-2019-fail-first/
Obamacare produced an increase in number of persons insured less than half the increase in the civilian labor force, at a cost of $70,000 per person per year. #ItsNotWorking
https://aapsonline.org/aaps-news-february-2019-fail-first/
Two out of 3 people polled say Obamacare brought no improvement to the healthcare system
https://newsok.com/article/5621677/aca-has-failed-to-improve-health-lower-costs
“California blames drop in new Obamacare enrollees on gutted mandate” – but if Obamacare is so great, why do people have to be forced to buy it?
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/jan/30/california-blames-drop-new-obamacare-enrollees-gut/
Quick rundown on escape hatches from Obamacare – health sharing, limited benefit plans, short-term plans,
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2019/01/30/alternatives-to-obamacare/#bcee12f61ff5
Scenes from a train wreck – Obamacare’s broken promises: You can keep your plan; you’ll save $2,500 a year; you’ll have more choices; the number of insured Americans will go way down; ACA will ‘bend the cost curve down’. #LIARS
“Up to 93 percent of Louisiana Medicaid expansion recipients may be ineligible, audit finds”
https://www.theblaze.com/news/louisiana-medicaid-may-be-paying-millions-for-recipients-who-make-too-much-money-to-qualify
The states’ failure to check Medicaid eligibility is costing federal taxpayers (us) $60 billion a year; Medicaid expansion has made the problem worse
https://aapsonline.org/aaps-news-february-2019-fail-first/
Medicaid expansion adds to the fiscal insanity of runaway entitlement spending
https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article225180640.html
20 percent of Obamacare exchange customers in Idaho will be slammed into Medicaid expansion (i.e., be forced onto welfare).
https://www.healthleadersmedia.com/strategy/exchange-enrollment-expected-drop-20-due-medicaid-expansion
Idaho’s cost estimates for Medicaid expansion assumed unemployment would stay below 3 percent for the next 10 years. Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy. Good luck with that, you’re going to need it.
https://idahofreedom.org/medicaid-expansion-a-fiscal-train-wreck-headed-for-idaho/
The rosy assumptions used to sell Medicaid expansion in Alaska blew up; costs exploded, requiring an extra $170 million for the 2019 budget
https://mustreadalaska.com/after-medicaid-expansion-alaskans-health-failing-the-test/
Medicaid expansion has not improved health outcomes: “we do not detect significant improvements in patient health, although the expansion led to substantially greater hospital and emergency room use”
https://www.nber.org/papers/w25488
Medicaid expansion can’t continue in Montana without new taxes and fees or increasing state costs
https://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/bill-draft-outlines-potential-elements-of-gop-medicaid-expansion-plan/article_729bb25f-dc3b-5f2e-8040-d7213ea66f49.html
Lawyer contesting Idaho’s Medicaid expansion in court is motivated by the knowledge the program is dangerous and will end in disaster
https://idahofreedom.org/thank-you-bryan-smith-for-defending-freedom/
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!