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– #SinglePayer most Mondays here
– All the Bad News About Obamacare most Saturdays here
Obamacare reduced costs, expanded access, and allowed us to keep our doctors if we like our doctors. Then I woke up. (Ron Paul)
https://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/31949-obamacare-s-unhappy-anniversary
Obamacare enrollment in Illinois drops 7 percent as price goes up and penalty for not having insurance disappears. If Obamacare were really such a great deal, people wouldn’t be leaving.
https://www.watchdog.org/illinois/fewer-illinoisans-enroll-in-obamacare-as-costs-increase-penalties-disappear/article_9e7162a5-1061-5ce5-bcc4-678b18755637.html
Obamacare: I’m supposed to pay $15,000 in premiums and deductibles before my insurance kicks in? Forget it! #BadDeal #StupidLaw
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/04/obamacare_has_a_premium_problem_and_a_few_others.html
Poll: Few Americans believe Obamacare has helped them
https://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-thinking/437401-poll-few-americans-believe-they-have-personally-benefitted-from
Kansas House votes up noncompliant farm bureau plans
https://apnews.com/681cae9e6082483eb11559793831f376
North Dakota doing what it can to address chaos Obamacare caused in individual marketplace (e.g., reinsurance)
https://www.inforum.com/entertainment/podcasts/1001966-Plain-Talk-Podcast-ND-insurance-commissioner-seeks-to-address-chaos-Obamacare-has-caused-in-the-individual-marketplace
Obamacare can’t be fixed with ‘more market forces’
https://noqreport.com/2019/04/11/no-fix-obamacare/
Obamacare court challenge to be heard in July
https://www.reuters.com/article/health-obamacare/obamacare-appellate-court-challenge-expected-to-be-heard-in-july-idUSL1N21S1YT
Medicaid expansion defeated in Tennessee House subcommittee
http://www.wmcactionnews5.com/2019/04/11/medicaid-expansion-fails-tn-legislature/
Medicaid expansion in Maine on course to exceed enrollment projections by January 2020
https://www.themainewire.com/2019/04/medicaid-expansion-enrollment-is-on-track-to-surpass-projections/
Arkansas lawmakers working hard to blow up state budget again; Medicaid expansion put state in financial tailspin before, but state Senate votes to reauthorize it even though enrollment-depressing work requirements got shot down.
https://katv.com/news/local/lawmakers-approve-medicaid-expansion-budget
Special interest SEIU behind advocacy group successfully pushing state Medicaid ballot initiatives
https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20190327.757286/full/
Medicaid expansion is quicksand: federal government can withdraw support and change the rules tomorrow
https://www.mspolicy.org/gunn-remains-opposed-to-medicaid-expansion/
Medicaid started as a poverty program. Then it got transformed into a middle-class entitlement. Now it’s about special rights and redistribution for special groups. #MissionCreep
https://www.watchdog.org/illinois/pritzker-to-change-state-s-medicaid-policy-to-cover-sex/article_75451e2b-ac45-56b0-ad02-1ec2028c3a47.html
“Louisiana governor shelves Medicaid work requirement idea”
https://apnews.com/1367df6ddd2646db9507d7cdb5e41aeb
Louisiana drops 30,500 from Medicaid expansion rolls as ineligible
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/article228782269.html
How bad is waste, fraud, and abuse in Louisiana Medicaid? “1,600 people were identified as making $100,000 while being covered by Medicaid.” If you’re not mad, you’re not paying attention.
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/article_b6cbbefe-5b1a-11e9-a18b-eb8f97dbb48c.html
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!