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– #SinglePayer most Mondays
– All the Bad News About Obamacare most Saturdays below and on Twitter
Obamacare Overpromised and Underdelivered – now a “high-risk pool for lower-income people with a limited selection of plans, most of which exclude top doctors and facilities” despite Trump’s efforts to shore it up; 25 million enrollees expected, only 10 million showed up
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-plan-for-health-is-already-a-failure-11573411672
“Obamacare offers Hoosiers fewer choices, higher prices” – #WheresMy2500
https://www.ibj.com/articles/obamacare-offers-hoosiers-few-choices-higher-prices
People still can’t afford healthcare or insurance. Obamacare was supposed to fix all that, but it did nothing about costs. #WrongDirection
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/despite-obamacare-a-shockingly-high-number-of-people-know-someone-who-died-after-being-unable-to-afford-health-care-2019-11-12
Here we go again with the phony multiplier studies presented as fact by the #LeftMediaAxis – “A full Obamacare repeal would devastate Arizona’s economy”. Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2019/11/14/aca-repeal-would-devastate-arizona-economy-access-health-care/2564715001/
- How soon they forget. From 2014: #ACA contributing to structural unemployment; 1,151,000 near full time jobs lost b/c of #Obamacare
http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-contribution-of-obamacare-to.html
Popular association plans probably won’t be offered next year even if appeals court revives Trump admin rule authorizing them
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-health-202/2019/11/15/the-health-202-tens-of-thousands-of-americans-are-about-to-lose-their-association-health-plans/5dcdbcf9602ff1184c316503/
Medicaid budget shortfall in New York (a Medicaid expansion state) is $3-4 billion, headed to $7 billion. ‘We have to pass Medicaid expansion to leverage more money out of Washington and save money.’ Savings? What state savings?
https://www.wxxinews.org/post/new-york-faces-multi-billion-dollar-medicaid-gap
Critics oppose Medicaid expansion ballot initiative in Florida on the grounds it violates Florida’s constitutional single-subject rule
https://mk0xituxemauaaa56cm7.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2019.11.14-Initial-Brief.pdf
Louisiana Governor telling pack of lies about Medicaid expansion; claims it saved state money and kept rural hospitals from closing when it didn’t
https://thehayride.com/2019/11/sadow-edwards-lies-again-about-medicaid-expansion/
“Medicaid spending now accounts for 30 percent of state budgets, skyrocketing to an estimated $603 billion in 2018…. with 32 states spending 25 percent or more of their budgets solely on Medicaid” (it’s closer to 40 percent in some states)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/report-medicaid-spending-skyrockets-consumes-percent-of-state-budgets/article_d2bc509e-ff2d-11e9-aee9-2ba713f549f1.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!