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– #SinglePayer most Mondays here
– All the Bad News About Obamacare most Saturdays here
CBO was crazy wrong about Obamacare - ACA boosted deficit; number of sign-ups only 1/3 of what CBO projected; cost of subsidies much higher than CBO imagined. Obamacare was passed and later not repealed because of CBO’s bad-faith estimates. #WeToldYouSo
https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/obamacare-cbo-numbers/
Law prof: Supreme Court likely to strike ACA individual mandate but leave the rest of the law standing (case won’t get there for a year)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/justices-seen-as-likely-to-strike-down-obamacare-requirement
Number of grandfathered ACA plans is falling; White House looking for ways to assist such plans and insurers
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20190221/NEWS/190229968
Alaska Governor looking for $270 million in Medicaid cuts to plug $1.6 billion budget deficit.
http://www.alaskajournal.com/2019-02-20/health-care-officials-alarmed-proposed-medicaid-cuts
Alaska scrambling for cuts after Medicaid expansion projections go awry. 23,273 enrollees at a cost of $7,500 predicted, but enrollment reached 35,000 in 2017 at $10,500 apiece.
https://www.juneauempire.com/opinion/opinion-the-hard-truth-about-medicaid-expansion/
If Maine has any sense, it will get out ahead of the Medicaid expansion enrollment and per enrollee cost explosions occurring in other states.
https://www.themainewire.com/2019/02/medicaid-expansion-will-cost-our-state-dearly/
“Colorado hospital prices jumped 60 percent in 9 years despite hope Medicaid expansion would curtail costs”
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/02/20/hospital-costs-increase-medicaid-expansion/
Louisiana sends out 37,000 denial letters to Medicaid expansion recipients after audit found astoundingly high percentage not eligible because they exceed income limits
https://www.klfy.com/news/louisiana/denial-letters-thousands-could-lose-la-medicaid-coverage/1800340555
Discredited Kaiser Medicaid expansion report wrong about the number of recipients working and supposed stimulus to economy – “the truth is, Medicaid expansion discourages work and shrinks the economy.”
https://www.juneauempire.com/opinion/opinion-the-hard-truth-about-medicaid-expansion/
Medicaid expansion states will face a lower federal match rate soon; new taxes, liquor sales, provider reimbursement cuts, premiums, and work requirements are all being considered to address the situation
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-health-202/2019/02/21/the-health-202-states-scramble-to-head-off-future-medicaid-shortfalls/5c6db0641b326b71858c6bec/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.6f57fa3fb0a3
Study shows Medicaid expansion in Wisconsin would cost taxpayers $600 million a year and drive up prices in the private sector
https://www.watchdog.org/wisconsin/report-medicaid-expansion-in-wisconsin-to-cost-more-than-billion/article_03cbe338-350e-11e9-b804-776325887fc7.html
How to Defraud Medicaid #182 – Contractors rubber-stamped requests for braces in Texas Medicaid program; state AG recovers $236 million in fraud settlement
https://patch.com/texas/downtownaustin/texas-ag-recovers-record-236m-medicaid-fraud-settlement
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!