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– #SinglePayer most Mondays
– All the Bad News About Obamacare most Saturdays below and on Twitter
“Affordable Care Act at Ten: Huge Expansion of Welfare and Injury to Individual Insurance Market” (Galen Institute) #DependencyMachine
https://galen.org/assets/ACA_at_10_huge_expansion_of_welfare.pdf
“After ten years of Obamacare, the cost of coverage is skyrocketing, the nation’s uninsured rate is on the rise, and millions of new patients rely on an unsustainable public insurance program that does little to benefit their health.” (Sally Pipes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/sallypipes/2020/03/20/a-decade-of-obamacare-has-been-ten-years-too-many/#e83e18b151ab
Judge skeptical of challenge to short-duration escape hatch from Obamacare: “Short-term plans draw people out of the ACA exchanges, but they also draw a lot of people into insurance who would have been uninsured otherwise.” That’s right – hooray for the new catastrophic insurance!
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/court-skeptical-trump-unlawfully-expanded-obamacare-alternative
Problems with Obamacare have escaped scrutiny with cries to jump right to #SinglePayer
https://ricochet.com/podcast/roth-effect/fixing-our-ailing-healthcare-system/
Idaho House can’t find all the money needed for voter-mandated Medicaid expansion, kicks the can down the road to next year. #AReckoningIsComing
https://www.idahopress.com/eyeonboise/house-narrowly-passes-medicaid-budget-sends-to-governor-s-desk/article_b34f6cb9-f323-5887-95ac-10c9f2d53b26.html
- Idaho lawmakers still trying to stick counties with Medicaid expansion bill. Let’s play #MusicalChairs
https://www.ktvb.com/article/news/politics/new-bill-would-tap-counties-even-more-to-help-pay-for-medicaid-expansion/277-22b5cbd0-fe7b-42e1-91f4-fd295d357252
- Cautionary tale for Idaho’s counties: whatever you might agree to pay for Medicaid expansion today, the state will be back eventually wanting you to pay more. Think I’m kidding? It’s happening right now in New York: “This is a drastic reversal of an agreement counties have lived up to for years,” one county executive said.
https://highlandscurrent.org/2020/03/14/governor-wants-counties-to-pay-more-for-medicaid/
Arizona lawmakers approve expanding provider tax gimmick to fund Medicaid by pulling more money out of Washington
https://apnews.com/9a8ac9de585935905c0aaa9a68083d9f
- Hey, wasn’t Medicaid expansion supposed to save states all kinds of money? It’s funny how expensive ‘free money’ from Washington can be.
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!