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– #SinglePayer most Mondays here
– All the Bad News About Obamacare most Saturdays here
Idaho starts Medicaid expansion $90 million in the hole; cost of original program rising. Oops. Funny how that happens.
https://lmtribune.com/northwest/medicaid-costs-rising-even-before-expansion/article_9733c485-0b18-5158-addd-3d8537119f70.html
How to Defraud Medicaid #184 – give customers generics, bill Medicaid for brand-name medication, take home $8 million. Sweet!
https://fraudscrookscriminals.com/2019/03/02/__trashed-3/
Older middle-income consumers finding Obamacare unaffordable. #ItsNotWorking
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/aca-premiums-rising-beyond-reach-of-older-middle-class-consumers/2019/03/04/bdd07d9e-3e9a-11e9-922c-64d6b7840b82_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.ce7ec412d5e7
Not much appetite in Congress for fixing Obamacare
https://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/The-Health-202-Obamacare-remains-unaffordable-13665050.php
Trump admin looking at Section 1333 interstate compacts as a way to sell insurance across state lines
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-health-202/2019/03/07/the-health-202-the-trump-administration-is-embracing-part-of-obamacare-in-order-to-loosen-more-health-insurance-rules/5c801fc01b326b2d177d5ff3/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1c4cbadda1b1
Low cost is primary reason people gravitate to short-term health plans; more findings from consumer survey
https://news.ehealthinsurance.com/_ir/68/20191/eHealth%20Short-Term%20Consumer%20Survey%20February%202019.pdf
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!