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Don’t let anyone tell you Obamacare premiums are falling. #WheresMy2500
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/obamacare-premiums-forecast-to-rise-2-5-insurers-expand-offerings
Obamacare’s guaranteed issue, regulations, and induced consolidation have jacked up the price of health insurance
https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/04/survey-family-health-insurance-now-averages-more-than-20000-a-year/
Obamacare’s sky-high premiums for the unsubsidized have driven people away, causing the overall number of uninsured to increase
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sally-pipes-obamacare-not-trump-is-adding-to-the-number-of-uninsured-americans
Obamacare destroyed a lot of people’s health insurance; there was a need to bring back catastrophic insurance and it’s been done in the form of short-duration plans
https://www.streetinsider.com/Business+Wire/HealthCare.com+Releases+Customer+Survey+Showing+58%25+of+Short+Term+Health+Insurance+Buyers+Were+Uninsured/15961735.html
Surprise medical billing problem is caused by Obamacare’s narrow networks. Whoever heard of narrow networks before Obamacare?
https://www.citizensvoice.com/opinion/surprise-billing-from-obamacare-1.2540137
Employer insurance is unaffordable, thanks to Obamacare. #ToldYouSo
https://71republic.com/2019/10/01/kaiser-obamacare-healthcare-unaffordable/
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https://www.heraldtribune.com/opinion/20191008/mccaughey-on-the-job-coverage-rip-off
Dem proposal to provide Obamacare to illegal aliens would cost $23 billion a year
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/10/obamacare-for-illegal-immigrants-may-cost-taxpayer/
More than half a million ineligible people are enrolled in Medicaid expansion in 9 states
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/study-more-than-half-a-million-enrolled-in-medicaid-in/article_b9458b0e-d62d-11e9-ac03-93ebfb05ba2a.html
Medicaid waiting lists for the disabled up 40 percent since Medicaid expansion
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/24/since-obamacare-waiting-lists-for-care-for-disabled-people-have-grown-40-percent/
Idaho still trying to figure out how to pay for Medicaid expansion. Well, citizens, congratulations on voting yourselves the treasury. Now what?
https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/little-dubious-about-proposal-to-tap-counties-to-pay-for/article_74458898-eda4-595b-928a-cbf6c1f4daa7.html
Maine neglecting its most vulnerable as childless able-bodied adults drive Medicaid expansion enrollment and costs
https://www.timesrecord.com/articles/opinion/childless-able-bodied-adults-are-driving-cost-and-enrollment-under-medicaid-expansion/
Primary care shortage in North Carolina would worsen under Medicaid expansion, as childless able-bodied adults elbow the disabled and other vulnerable populations aside
https://www.heraldsun.com/opinion/article235958992.html
Minnesota Medicaid doesn’t always check death records, would rather pay millions in benefits for dead people
https://www.thecentersquare.com/minnesota/report-dhs-paid-million-for-deceased-enrollees/article_cfedb73e-e91d-11e9-bcca-e737b70abe8a.html
Don’t look to Indiana for how to do Medicaid expansion ‘right’ – state pays for most of the ‘cost-sharing’ HSA-like accounts, so it has to cough up $366 million more in the first year than it would have under a straight expansion
https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/opinion/29190/indiana-whiffs-on-medicaid-model
Enrollment in Louisiana Medicaid program going down, but costs going UP by $3.2 billion.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/louisiana/louisiana-medicaid-costs-projected-to-rise-by-billion-even-as/article_a16c565a-e098-11e9-b167-03f73a774626.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!