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– #SinglePayer most Mondays
– All the Bad News About Obamacare most Saturdays below and on Twitter
Total healthcare spending is up, even though fewer people are insured, and Obamacare’s health insurance tax is to blame
https://morningconsult.com/2019/12/05/u-s-health-spending-rose-to-3-6-trillion-in-2018-propelled-by-health-insurance-tax/
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http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2019/12/05/US-Health-Care-Spending-Hits-Record-High-Even-1-Million-Fewer-Insured
“Healthcare spending passes $11,000 a person” – Obamacare and the Big Medicine / Big Insurance / Big Government complex are the wrong direction
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/healthcare/healthcare-spending-passes-11-000-a-person
Obamacare set to get even less affordable – tax breaks designed to help consumers are down, presaging higher premiums for 2020
https://www.wvtf.org/post/obamacare-customers-beware-lower-subsidies-may-mean-higher-premiums
Short-term plans a welcome relief for Idahoans who can’t afford Obamacare
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/business/article237753174.html
California pushing state Obamacare subsidies further into the middle class, and gearing up to enforce state individual mandate penalty
https://www.times-standard.com/2019/12/05/middle-income-earners-can-soon-receive-health-insurance-benefits/
Joe Biden would let millions of illegal aliens buy into Obamacare
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/06/joe-biden-vows-to-give-taxpayer-funded-obamacare-to-all-illegal-aliens-in-u-s/
Nancy Pelosi admits Obamacare is a pathway to #SinglePayer – #ToldYouSo
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/05/politics/nancy-pelosi-obamacare-medicare-for-all/index.html
If Obamacare is so great, why doesn’t half of America support it after all this time? #ItsNotWorking
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/472943-nine-years-later-americans-evenly-split-on-obamacare-gallup
The fig leaf is off in Virginia – Gov. Northam kills Medicaid expansion work requirements. #NotSurprised
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/virginia-hits-pause-on-medicaid-work-requirements
Many People on Medicaid Expansion Don’t Belong There – states fail to maintain proper documentation, don’t properly verify income eligibility, misclassify people in the expansion category, and fail to properly verify citizenship. No incentive to change.
https://www.mercatus.org/publications/healthcare/aca-medicaid-expansion
Louisiana removes another 46,000 from Medicaid rolls for failure to respond to eligivbility determination letters
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/medicaid/46000-kicked-louisiana-medicaid-rolls-ineligibility
Illegal enrollment driving Medicaid shortfall in New York
https://nypost.com/2019/11/30/new-york-city-leads-the-country-in-illegal-medicaid-enrollment/
New York Gov. Cuomo proposing to slash Medicaid provider reimbursement to deal with $4 billiion cost overrun in the program
https://www.wsj.com/articles/state-comptroller-to-cuomo-come-clean-on-medicaid-cuts-11575244800
Medicaid expansion crowding out private insurance in Maine. #ToldYouSo
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/12/05/aca-enrollment-down-so-far-in-maine-but-medicaid-expansion-is-a-big-reason-why/
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!