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– #SinglePayer most Mondays here
– All the Bad News About Obamacare most Saturdays here
After almost 10 years, half the country still does NOT support Obamacare
https://today.yougov.com/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/03/21/obamacare-affordable-care-act-anniversary
Obamacare is gouging rural residents – typical premium $592/mo v. $376 in competitive areas. #ItsNotWorking
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/rural-areas-largely-left-out-of-improving-obamacare-picture
Obamacare carriers being sued in 4 states for inaccurate doctor directories. #ItsNotWorking
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-health-202/2019/03/19/the-health-202-obamacare-plans-face-lawsuits-over-erroneous-doctor-directories/5c9011581b326b0f7f38f1cb/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.77b7f36c55e9
Short-term insurance gives consumers another choice besides costly Obamacare
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/robertrobb/2019/03/15/short-term-insurance-arizona-isnt-bad-obamacare/3166884002/
Look for protectionism and lack of will to stymie sale of health insurance across state lines for the foreseeable future
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/chris-pope/obstacles-selling-health-insurance-across-state-lines-remain
CMS threatens to go after Louisiana after “deeply troubling” audit showing state misspent $85 million on ineligible Medicaid expansion enrollees
https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/health/federal-medicaid-agency-louisiana-audit-deeply-troubling/289-71549e82-122b-42e4-8773-b9f6d459efe5
Senators demand answers from CMS why 7-82% of Medicaid enrollees are ineligible in various states. Under Obamacare, states can only review eligibility once a year! What sense does that make? #StupidObamacare
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/mar/17/chuck-grassley-pat-toomey-find-medicaid-waste-frau/
Alaska hits the wall – needs $250 million in cuts to state’s Medicaid budget; will start with low-hanging fruit (dental, travel, etc.)
https://www.ktuu.com/content/news/Dunleavy-team-unveils-95-million-Phase-1-reduction-to-Alaska-Medicaid-programs-507378831.html
Maine Governor’s budget spends down surplus, ignores possibility of recession, fails to account for how Medicaid expansion has blown up in other states. Maine still has no long-term funding source for Medicaid expansion!
https://www.themainewire.com/2019/03/governor-mills-budget-sets-up-maine-for-fiscal-ruin/
Medicaid “expansion has cost states 157 percent more than projected. The average cost overrun is 92 percent, which has decimated state-budgets across the country.”
https://www.cjonline.com/opinion/20190316/ty-masterson-argument-against-medicaid-expansion
Medicaid expansionistas are misleading Kansans about exploding costs in other states, how many prospective enrollees already have insurance, how expansion would save rural hospitals, etc.
https://www.cjonline.com/opinion/20190316/ty-masterson-argument-against-medicaid-expansion
Medicaid expansion – unaffordable and destroys work incentives
https://flatheadbeacon.com/2019/03/20/medicaid-expansion-affordable/
Policymakers should focus on lowering healthcare costs. This would make insurance more affordable and fewer people would end up on Medicaid expansion.
http://www.reflector.com/Op-Ed/2019/03/21/How-to-Expand-Insurance-Coverage-Without-Expanding-Medicaid.html
When you can solve Medicaid expansion’s bad health outcomes, astronomical costs, and welfare cliff, get back to me.
https://www.allongeorgia.com/georgia-column-politics/column-three-reasons-why-medicaid-expansion-is-bad-for-georgia/
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!