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– #SinglePayer most Mondays
– All the Bad News About Obamacare most Saturdays below and on Twitter
Obamacare 10th Anniversary – a decade of failure: skyrocketing costs and dwindling insurance choices. Break out the champagne!
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sally-pipes-obamacare-turns-10-decade-of-failure-nothing-to-celebrate
Obamacare sign-ups on Healthcare.gov decline more than 1 percent
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payer/nearly-8-3m-pick-aca-plans-healthcare-gov-for-2020-a-slight-dip-from-2019
Obamacare sign-ups hit second consecutive record low in Louisiana. #ItsNotWorking
https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/news/politics/legislature/article_ee38e30c-3329-11ea-8d36-6b454ccdc1aa.html
Biden: Nobody understood Obamacare and you can’t keep your doctor, so let’s expand it. Ye gads!
https://www.theblaze.com/news/joe-biden-nobody-understood-obamacare-wrong-to-say-people-could-keep-their-doctors
So far, repeal of the Obamacare individual mandate is a big yawn, not the cataclysm supporters said it would
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/obamacare-still-working-despite-individual-mandates-repeal
Mayor Pee-wee Pete wants to force people to buy health insurance again. How retro.
https://thefederalist.com/2020/01/08/3-proofs-pete-buttigieg-is-no-moderate/
Many Americans avoiding medical treatment because it costs too much. Not only did Obamacare not fix the problem, it made it worse.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jan/07/americans-healthcare-medical-costs
Program intended to prevent hospital readmissions is declared a stunning failure; connecting patients with homeless, addiction, and mental health services had no effect. #TheyWereWrongAboutEverything #SDOH
https://apnews.com/34b72276ec597f5ab189abe33f96fcf5
State Medicaid budget problems to get bigger in May when feds cut hospital payments
https://floridapolitics.com/archives/315052-medicaid-funding-challenges-loom
“as a result of Medicaid expansion, states spent 17.1 percent of their combined revenue on Medicaid in fiscal year 2017 – $228.2 billion – an increase of 3.5 percent from 2016.”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/illinois/pew-tax-revenue-exceeds-pre-great-recession-levels-in-states/article_818d6740-33ca-11ea-a627-3b27b2ef4e77.html
Pay attention, North Carolina: Medicaid expansion blowing up New York state budget
https://wwnc.iheart.com/featured/pete-kaliner/content/2020-01-07-medicaid-expansion-blows-up-another-state-budget/
- NY Gov. Cuomo wants to stick cities and counties with state Medicaid costs
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/medicaid/ny-governor-looks-shift-medicaid-burden-new-york-city-and-counties
Idaho trying to pay for voter-mandated Medicaid expansion with anti-cigarette money, county indigent funds, and ‘savings’. Good luck with that. Supposed savings evaporated in ther states, causing new state expenditures. #ChewingGumAndBalingWire
https://www.kivitv.com/news/political/inside-the-statehouse/how-governor-little-plans-to-pay-for-medicaid-expansion
Medicaid coverage starts for illegal alien young adults in California
http://www.capradio.org/articles/2020/01/06/regardless-of-immigration-status-all-low-income-californians-up-to-age-26-can-now-sign-up-for-medi-cal/
State and local officials working to lift restriction on Medicaid benefits for pretrial detainees. By all means, let’s spend more money we don’t have.
https://khn.org/morning-breakout/local-officials-across-country-push-back-against-federal-policy-barring-pre-trial-inmates-from-medicaid-benefits/
What is the mortality difference with Medicaid expansion after you back out gun deaths, car crashes, and emergenices (already covered by EMTALA)? Nobody knows, so expansionistas should stop making wild claims.
https://www.swtimes.com/news/20200101/how-you-see-it-cult-like-claims-for-medicaid-expansion
Medicaid expansion crowding out private insurance in Idaho, as elsewhere. #ToldYouSo #GovernmentTakeover
https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/northwest/idaho-exchange-enrollment-dips-due-to-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!