Obamacare: IT'S NOT WORKING.

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Federal appellate court upholds escape hatch from Obamacare – short-term plans.  Hip, Hip, Hooray for true catastrophic insurance and the restoration of sanity to the individual marketplace.
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/trump-wins-on-obamacare-alternative-appeals-court-upholds

Obamacare activists reading judicial tea leaves are encouraged by the fact the Supreme Court struck down provisions of the CFPB without striking the entire law (implication: the Court could strike the individual mandate and leave the rest of Obamacare in place)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/obamacare-backers-see-hope-in-roberts-opinion-in-non-health-case

Trump administration removes Obamacare rules requiring employers to provide abortifacient and ‘gender identity’ coverage
https://www.mrctv.org/blog/trump-hhs-dept-removes-obamacare-rule-mandating-coverage-abortions-and-gender-identity

Federal judge blocks Trump administration rule requiring insurers to issue separate bills for abortion coverage
https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/10/politics/federal-judge-obamacare-abortion-coverage/index.html

Catholic diocese likely to appeal New York court order requiring diocese to pay for abortion coverage under state law
https://www.lifenews.com/2020/07/02/court-rules-catholic-church-must-pay-for-killing-babies-in-abortion-in-its-insurance-plan/

Obamacare subsidizes hi-risk lifestyles, meaning taxpayers fund healthcare for people who make bad lifestyle choices. #Unsustainable
https://www.washingtonpolicy.org/publications/detail/should-the-rest-of-us-pay-for-other-peoples-bad-lifestyle-choices

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!

Join us:
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– All the Bad News About Obamacare most Saturdays below and on Twitter

Obamacare ‘enhancement’ bill would increase subsidies, fatten insurance company profits, and unnecessarily federalize successful state reinsurance programs
https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/06/24/obamacare-2-0-bill-would-be-a-windfall-but-also-pyrrhic-victory-for-insurance-lobby/

Turbulence ahead for Obamacare individual market as workers laid off in the pandemic lose employer coverage; it’s the less healthy who tend to sign up for insurance
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payer/insurers-should-prepare-for-volatile-individual-market-due-to-covid-19-pandemic-study

Obamacare’s #EpicFail – left 29 million uninsured, sent the disabled to the back of the line for Medicaid, and drowned doctors in red tape and record-keeping
https://heartlanddailynews.com/2020/06/obamacare-gets-mixed-reviews-on-its-tenth-anniversary/

Cost of insurance still climbing out of sight for those ineligible for Obamacare subsidies
https://news.ehealthinsurance.com/_ir/68/20205/eHealth_2020_ACA_Index_Report_Unsubsidized_Consumers.pdf

Businesses and religious group sue Illinois over law requiring abortion coverage in all insurance policies sold in the state (not even churches are exempt)
https://www.theepochtimes.com/illinois-sued-over-law-compelling-health-insurance-coverage-for-abortions_3385694.html

“Obama believed it was necessary to compel the Little Sisters of the Poor to purchase abortion coverage. Many people are rightly offended by this ideological nonsense masquerading as affordable health care.”
https://www.sj-r.com/article/20200611/OPINION/200619946/2014

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!

Join us:
– #SinglePayer most Mondays
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Pandemic’s hit to employer plans drives cowardly insurers back to Obamacare – “There is growing taste for subsidized business”
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/05/14/coronavirus-health-insurers-obamacare-257099

“Fewer Cancer Deaths After ACA Medicaid Expansion” – one of a slew of articles recently touting better health outcomes with Medicaid expansion; in some instance yes, in some instances no, but in any case the cost per patient helped is ginormous and nobody ever talks about that
https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/930510

COVID budget crunch forces California to pull the plug on plans to give Medicaid coverage to illegal aliens.  So, you were going to make more people dependent on you, just to pull the rug out from under them when it got too hard for you?  How cruel you supposedly ‘compassionate’ people really are. #UnsustainablePipeDreams
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/employee-benefits/california-health-expansion-plans-shelved-in-virus-budget-crunch

Never let a good coronavirus go to waste – dependency lobby exploiting pandemic to push for Medicaid expansion in Southern/GOP states
https://khn.org/morning-breakout/medicaid-expansion-advocates-hope-pandemic-will-boost-support-in-southern-states/
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https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-pandemic-renews-push-for-medicaid-expansion-in-gop-led-states-11589194800

Remember this one? ‘We need Medicaid expansion so people will have a doctor and won’t have to go to expensive emergency rooms.’ – Study shows “Trouble getting a doctor’s appointment may drive Medicaid enrollees to opt for the ER”. #ItsNotWorking
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-05/aaof-tga051220.php

The difference between people and animals is that people plan for the future.  Or, at least, we’re supposed to….  Advocates want to use one-time COVID funds for Medicaid expansion in Alabama.  Can you get more irresponsible than this?
https://yellowhammernews.com/7-things-alabama-one-of-the-most-open-states-jones-continues-supporting-biden-democrats-want-to-use-one-time-funds-for-medicaid-expansion-and-more/

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!

Join us:
– #SinglePayer most Mondays
– All the Bad News About Obamacare most Saturdays below and on Twitter

The cost of voter-mandated Medicaid expansion in Nebraska was predicated on state tax revenue growth. With the pandemic hitting state budgets hard, now what? #CarefulWhatYouWishFor
https://www.nptelegraph.com/opinion/todays_column/groene-this-is-no-time-for-pie-in-the-sky-proposals/article_6187f088-8fef-11ea-bfd4-6fb885d638cb.html

• Pandemic forces Ohio, Colorado, and Georgia to make deep cuts to their Medicaid programs
  https://www.businessinsider.com/states-medicaid-cuts-coronavirus-devastates-economy-budgets-ohio-dewine-2020-5

• Ohio has to cut $210 million  from Medicaid program because of the pandemic’s hit on tax revenues. #Unsustainable #ToldYouSo
  https://www.wfmj.com/story/42093835/a-look-at-the-dollar210-million-cut-to-medicaid-and-the-potential-impact

Advocates claim necessary signatures to put Medicaid expansion initiatuve on the ballot in November in Missouri.  Good luck paying for it.
https://www.lakenewsonline.com/news/20200504/medicaid-expansion-advocates-say-they-have-signatures-to-force-public-vote

• Missouri Governor: Are you crazy? Medicaid rolls are expanding because of coronavirus. ‘The state budget is tough enough to handle with the coronavirus outbreak, let alone if Medicaid is expanded.’
  https://www.mymoinfo.com/governor-parson-continues-stance-against-medicaid-expansion-for-missouri/

Oklahoma legislature getting a pay raise and they still haven’t figured out how to pay for Medicaid expansion or factor the pandemic into their calculations for it. Party like it’s 1999!
https://www.newson6.com/story/5eb3438fe934da1d6e7eb649/oklahoma-legislature-gets-pay-raise-amid-budget-cuts

Democrat pandemic relief plan would give states $19 in federal funds for every dollar a state spends on Medicaid, and they want to make this permanent. “This invites enormous and wasteful spending….”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-new-recipe-for-waste-in-medicaid-11588629304

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!

Join us:
– #SinglePayer most Mondays
– All the Bad News About Obamacare most Saturdays below and on Twitter

Obamacare’s medical device tax hampered production of PPE; production moved off-shore
https://ktrh.iheart.com/content/2020-04-28-taxing-issue-how-obamacare-hurt-ppe-production/

Oklahoma still doesn’t know how to pay for the state’s share of Medicaid expansion and now the pandemic has made the problem $100M worse
https://khn.org/morning-breakout/lawmakers-in-oklahoma-grapple-with-rising-costs-of-medicaid-expansion-set-for-july-california-stores-can-start-using-disposable-plastic-bags-for-safety/

Pandemic relief bill suspends Medicaid eligibility checks; no one can be disenrolled for the duration of the emergency
https://thefederalist.com/2020/04/27/how-congress-coronavirus-legislation-could-pay-millionaires-bills-with-medicaid/

Throw gazillions at a problem and, undoubtedly, some metrics will improve. But not always – Medicaid does not improve outcomes for small cell lung cancer
https://www.cancernetwork.com/lung-cancer/medicaid-not-associated-improved-survival-patients-sclc

Medicaid expansion for childless able-bodied adults makes no sense in a pandemic where resources need to be prioritized to patients like the elderly who are suffering life-threatening illness
https://msbusiness.com/2020/04/jameson-taylor-the-wrong-time-to-expand-medicaid/

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!

Join us:
– #SinglePayer most Mondays
– All the Bad News About Obamacare most Saturdays below and on Twitter

Obamacare insurers have been overcharging their customers billions and, by design, will have to pay it back even if they are losing money.  #RubeGoldbergsRevenge
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/obamacare-insurers-to-owe-estimated-2-7-billion-in-refunds

“The ACA has failed to reduce insurance costs, increase choice, or bend the cost curve down because it depends on a centralized, top-down approach that is insulated from the real-life problems most Americans face in health care.”
https://www.heritage.org/health-care-reform/report/why-expanding-obamacare-not-the-answer

“President Obama promised Americans a new era of affordable health care. But costly coverage, millions of uninsured, and a growing doctor shortage are Obamacare’s true legacy.”
https://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2020/04/14/obamacare-has-failed-us-over-past-decade/2988022001/

Never let a good crisis go to waste – Obamacare supporters pushing open borders agenda in COVID crisis to get more people hooked on government
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/494167-democrats-call-for-daca-recipients-to-receive-obamacare-benefits-amid-pandemic

Never let a good crisis… well, you know – 60 groups ganging up on legislators for Medicaid expansion in Alabama
https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2020/04/15/medicaid-expansion-advocates-organize-amid-pandemic-gop-leaders-remain-cool/5136344002/

• Uh huh, and where will you get the $168 million in Alabama funds to pay for the first year? Lawmaker: “to this day, no one can tell me where.”
  https://yellowhammernews.com/state-sen-ward-to-medicaid-expansion-proponents-where-do-you-get-168-million-to-pay-for-it-wont-solve-coronavirus-issue/
• Alabama Governor: Medicaid expansion would be “irresponsible” without a stable source of funding
  https://www.alreporter.com/2020/04/14/governor-it-would-irresponsible-for-alabama-to-expand-medicaid-right-now/

Study: “Is Medicaid Expansion Worth It?A Review of the Evidence Suggests Targeted Programs Represent Better Policy”
https://files.texaspolicy.com/uploads/2020/04/20142441/Blase-Balat-Medicaid-Expansion.pdf

Throw gazillions at a problem and, undoubtedly, some metrics will improve. But not always – “Medicaid Expansion Did not Improve Time to Treatment for Young Patients With Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma”
https://www.urotoday.com/recent-abstracts/urologic-oncology/renal-cancer/120803-medicaid-expansion-did-not-improve-time-to-treatment-for-young-patients-with-metastatic-renal-cell-carcinoma.html

Higher threshold for ballot initiatives may scuttle Medicaid expansion proposal in Florida
https://www.gainesville.com/news/20200413/senate-says-new-law-scuttles-medicaid-initiative

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!

Join us:
– #SinglePayer most Mondays
– All the Bad News About Obamacare most Saturdays below and on Twitter

‘The pandemic shows we need Obamacare’ – No, the pandemic shows we need more people with simple catastrophic Insurance, which Obamacare outlawed, to help them meet the coronavirus and future catastrophes
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/489986-attacking-the-affordable-care-act-in-the-time-of-covid-19

• Setting the record straight on Obamacare and the pandemic: “Losing your job is a qualifying event that would allow enrollment.”
  https://twitter.com/AGHamilton29/status/1245711575383707655

• “There will be no need to expand Medicaid eligibility – millions will have no jobs and will qualify- so put guard rails on checking income status (eg 6 months to start and then 3 months after) to limit system abuse.” (from a health policy listserv)

• Every state should allow free trade in short-term limited-duration (STLD) health plans (escape hatch from Obamacare)
  https://www.cagw.org/thewastewatcher/every-state-should-have-stld-healthcare-insurance-plans

Trump still supports lawsuit to strike down Obamacare; ACA insurance too expensive
https://www.mypanhandle.com/washington-dc/obamacare-lawsuit-moves-forward-as-newly-unemployed-apply/

10 years of Obamacare’s junk insurance – “networks shrunk, deductibles increased, many states saw insurers leave their state, and more Americans became dependent on government for their care”, people forced into coverage they did not want or need (maternity care for single men, really?). #GeniusMasterminds
https://www.cagw.org/thewastewatcher/obamacares-ten-year-anniversary-goes-unnoticed

ACA enrollment ticked up, but still 10 million short of what they promised. #GeniusMasterminds
https://www.wsj.com/articles/affordable-care-act-sign-ups-total-11-4-million-for-this-year-11585798403?

COVID relief Act removed ACA restriction on buying over-the-counter medications with HSA money
https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/features/health/35384/cares-act-reverses-obamacare-rule-on-health-savings-accounts

“Obamacare Rations Care for the Sick and Overcharges the Healthy”
https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/commentary-obamacare-rations-care-for-the-sick-and-overcharges-the-healthy

Pro-lifers were right to worry that Obamacare would increase federal subsidies for abortion and assault the conscience rights of employers
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/ten-years-after-obamacare-pro-life-concerns-are-proven-right/

Another big surprise (NOT).  After exceeding enrollment projections for the first time in December and exceeding projections ever since, Virginia’s Medicaid expansion enrollment now exceeds the highest number estimated for the entire program – 400K max projected, 401K now. #BlowUpComing
http://www.dmas.virginia.gov/#/dashboard

Medicaid state budget crunch coming: increased enrollment, lower state revenue expected after coronavirus
https://www.kff.org/coronavirus-policy-watch/covid-19-expected-implications-medicaid-state-budgets/

Coronavirus relief bill boosted federal Medicaid reimbursement to the states, and this shows the need for the proposed federal Medicaid fiscal accountability rule
https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20200331.308494/full/

Did you know Medicaid expansion is a “market” with “players”, “segments”, “revenue growth”, and “profitability”?  It was always all about the money and special interests, wasn’t it?
https://www.curiousdesk.com/medicaid-expansion-market-2020-segmented-by-trending-players-analysis/

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!