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Zeke Emanuel betrayed your trust – Obamacare did NOT reduce total medical spending, as Zeke claims. Zeke cited an estimate before ACA was passed for the proposition that it did. #LIAR
https://www.medpagetoday.com/publichealthpolicy/healthpolicy/81275
Total cost of healthcare and cost per taxpayer are both way UP under Obamacare
https://www.laconiadailysun.com/opinion/letters_to_editor/obamacare-hasn-t-lowered-health-care-costs-just-the-opposite/article_56aa434c-ae3f-11e9-8820-33969a161d2f.html
High Obamacare deductibles provoking real anger – ‘better off on Medicaid’
https://newsradiowrva.radio.com/blogs/jeff-katz/mess-created-obamacare-ruining-lives
Spending half the Democratic debates on Medicare-for-All is an admission that Obamacare is a big flop. #ItsNotWorking
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/in-the-debate-on-healthcare-the-democratic-candidates-admit-obamacare-isnt-working
Joe Biden, Obamacare’s biggest defender – structured his taxes to avoid paying for it
https://thefederalist.com/2019/07/31/joe-biden-says-loves-medicare-obamacare-deliberately-avoid-paying-taxes/
ACA’s Anatomy – Big money and bevy of left-wing groups behind push for Obamacare and other government-run healthcare proposals of recent decades
https://capitalresearch.org/article/the-blueprint-for-obamacare-originates-in-left-wing-dark-money/
Incredible Shrinking Obamacare losing policyholders to Medicaid, small group market, and short-term plans
https://www.baconsrebellion.com/wp/health-insurance-check-up-migration-to-medicaid/
Medicaid expansion might have improved access in Louisiana, but at what cost? State spending is way up and Medicaid is the primary reason
https://www.thecentersquare.com/louisiana/study-louisiana-s-medicaid-expansion-improved-health-care-access-critics/article_c970f7c8-b3b6-11e9-85d1-8fd48a86e511.html
Louisiana congressman seeks federal probe into whether state’s Governor is misusing taxpayer funds to misrepresent impact of Medicaid expansion
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/article_e6ea779c-b48e-11e9-aee9-f3ec358b4f6d.html
Federal rejection of Utah partial Medicaid expansion throws cold water on similar proposals in other states (e.g., Georgia). (Trump administration raised the stakes: Medicaid expansion is now an all-or-nothing proposition)
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/payment/utah-waiver-denial-dooms-states-hopes-partial-medicaid-expansion
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https://khn.org/morning-breakout/georgias-hopes-for-generous-federal-funding-to-expand-medicaid-dim-following-utah-rejection/
Economists studying proposed Medicaid expansion in Florida can’t agree on how many would sign up or how much it would save on prisoner healthcare, but they do agree 593,000 would drop private insurance
https://cbs12.com/news/local/economists-grapple-with-medicaid-expansion
LSU researchers dishonest and won’t retract flawed study; tout economic benefits of Medicaid expansion but don’t acknowledge loss of federal subsidies when people leave Obamacare to go on expanded Medicaid
https://thehayride.com/2019/07/appel-jbes-voodoo-economics-on-medicaid-expansion/
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!