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– #SinglePayer most Mondays
– All the Bad News About Obamacare most weekends below and on Twitter
Howler of the Year – Joe Biden falsely claims no one lost health insurance under Obamacare when, in fact, millions did
https://kwwl.com/2020/10/22/biden-falsely-declares-no-one-lost-health-insurance-under-obamacare/
- the Obama administration KNEW it was going to happen – NBC and OCTS found the smoking gun memo
Obamacare enrollment among the unsubsidized fell 45 percent between 2016 and 2019. It’s not affordable and #ItsNotWorking
https://www.cnn.com/2020/10/09/politics/obamacare-enrollment-subsidies-affordable-care-act/index.html
- “This is what a death spiral looks like.” (from a health policy listserv)
Nevada wants to spend millions convincing people Obamacare is a great deal and they should sign up for it. But if Obamacare were so great, P.R. wouldn’t be necessary; people would flock to it.
https://www.odwyerpr.com/story/public/15082/2020-10-22/nevada-issues-32m-rfp-for-obamacare-pr.html
Obamacare has failed in reducing the net number of uninsured, unless you consider putting 13 million people on welfare (Medicaid expansion) a success
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2020/09/23/the-disappointing-affordable-care-act/#50a43aa84d99
Obamacare protects people with preexisting conditions? Ha! Skyrocketing premiums placed coverage outside the reach of everyday Americans, including countless with preexisting conditions.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/10/obamacares-illusion-of-pre-existing-condition-protections/
Hi-risk pools a better way than Obamacare to address the preexisting conditions problem. Easily done, unlike Obamacare which disrupted the individual insurance market and stuck the government’s nose into lots of things it shouldn’t have
https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/pre-existing-conditions-can-be-handled-without-obamacare
Trump health plan largely brings back catastrophic insurance – short-term insurance that costs 60 percent less and can be customized to individual needs
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-america-first-healthcare-plan/
- “CBO politely but firmly rejects House Democrats’ claim that short terms plans are ‘junk.’”
https://twitter.com/DeanClancy/status/1311336401833725956
Another stupid Obamacare idea still in place: the moratorium on physician-owned hospitals
https://www.adn.com/opinions/2020/09/30/yes-we-can-get-rid-of-obamacare/
‘Oops, we didn’t need the individual mandate, after all.’ Remember that the next time Progressive genius masterminds try to sell you a crazy idea with dazzling rhetoric. #BendTheHyperboleCurveDown
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/upshot/obamacare-mandate-republicans.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!