Obamacare: IT'S NOT WORKING.

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Obamacare 10^th 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!

Join us:
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Preliminary Obamacare enrollment numbers are nothing to write home about; 8 million is nowhere close to the 21 million promised, and ‘stable’ enrollment at such a low level is not a ‘success’
https://apnews.com/866d1de0ce5a2aeb25e397c247def40f

Delusional Jonathan Gruber thinks Obamacare is a success. Sure.  The ACA more than doubled the cost of health insurance and destroyed insurance for millions who had catastrophic plans. #WheresMy2500
https://www.newsweek.com/they-call-me-architect-obamacare-i-cant-stand-activist-judges-threaten-american-lives-1478559

BREAKING: “Appeals court strikes ObamaCare mandate, sends case back to lower court” #ToldYouSo
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/475186-appeals-court-strikes-obamacare-mandate-sends-case-back-to-lower-court
+ commentary:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2020/12/31/will-obamacare-ever-die/#581853fc3851

Obamacare subsidies to climb over next two years
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/higher-obamacare-subsidies-expected-over-next-two-years

I’ve got an idea! Let’s raise Obamacare subsidies and repeal Obamacare taxes to make federal deficits go through the roof. Whaddya say?
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/12/17/spending-deal-would-make-obamacare-more-fiscally-irresponsible/

Federal appeals court ruling means ACA risk adjustment program will continue penalizing smaller and low-cost insurers. #RubeGoldberg
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/legal/appeals-courts-risk-adjustment-ruling-deals-blow-small-insurers

HHS finalizes rule to make insurers stop hiding the Obamacare abortion surcharge
https://www.hydesmith.senate.gov/hyde-smith-praises-hhs-rule-end-hidden-abortion-surcharge

Medicaid expansion has had “disastrous results” – crowding out private insurance which raises costs to taxpayers and benefits childless able-bodied adults over the truly needy
https://www.hannapub.com/ouachitacitizen/news/local_state_headlines/report-medicaid-expansion-has-produced-disastrous-results/article_d5c9e6d6-2cb2-11ea-8354-53d8ddbc86dd.html

Maine leaving intellectually disabled behind in Medicaid expansion goldrush
https://www.themainewire.com/2019/12/maine-must-fund-waitlists-for-people-with-intellectual-disabilities/

“Georgia officials cracked down on $8.5M worth of Medicaid fraud in 2019”
https://www.thecentersquare.com/georgia/georgia-officials-cracked-down-on-m-worth-of-medicaid-fraud/article_1b3e4118-2294-11ea-92f5-cb8bfc5e884e.html

“CMS Cracks Down on States’ Abuse of Supplemental Medicaid”
https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/cms-cracks-down-on-states-abuse-of-supplemental-medicaid-payments

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

It’s Not Over – Obamacare premiums to rise as much as 200% in Virginia area
https://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/area-aca-premiums-could-rise-as-much-as-advocates-warn/article_5f0504e5-6299-523a-94bd-4ab5e479b4f4.html

Obamacare 40% Cadillac tax will hit counties and their employees hard
http://sjvsun.com/news/fresno/obamacares-cadillac-tax-is-a-looming-drag-on-county-governments/

“Obamacare did nothing to stop people from delaying treatment for cost based reasons.” ItsNotWorking
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/12/09/setting-gallup-record-quarter-americans-say-they-or-family-member-delayed-medical

Surprise medical billing is an Obamacare problem – who ever heard of it before the ACA’s infamous narrow networks?  Fixing the problem with government price controls is the wrong direction.
http://www.campaignforliberty.org/if-you-like-your-doctor-tough

California confusing people with its expanded Obamacare subsidies – household size, location, and age are in the complicated formula
https://californiahealthline.org/news/some-rejoice-over-new-california-health-insurance-subsidies-others-get-shut-out/

Medicaid expansion in Florida would crowd out private insurance and violate state constitution
https://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/20191207/point-of-view-floridians-should-not-be-hoodwinked-into-unconstitutional-expansion-of-broken-medicaid-system

New York to fix Medicaid funding shortfall by pushing $2.2 billion of this year’s Medicaid payments into next year’s budget. Problem solved!
https://www.newsday.com/opinion/editorial/medicaid-benefits-health-care-1.39286008

Once Missourians realize Medicaid expansion would cost $250 million for openers and hurt their schools, they will vote against it
https://themissouritimes.com/66727/medicaid-expansion-cost-could-deter-missouri-voters-from-supporting-it-rowden-says/

State budget woes? Too bad! Feds tell Alaska to reinstate adult Medicaid dental benefits. #HotelCalifornia
https://mustreadalaska.com/no-exit-obamacare-forces-alaska-to-pay-for-teeth-cleaning-for-medicaid-adults/

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

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!

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

ACA Drove Costs through the Roof – Obamacare premiums and deductibles rose from 7.8% of middle-class household income in 2008 to 11.5% in 2018; premiums and deductibles outstripping wage growth. #ItsNotWorking
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2019/11/22/obamacares-legacy-abc-news-report-shows-healthcare-costs-skyrocketing-over-past-decade-n2556944

Obamacare a complete failure at cost containment
https://www.fa-mag.com/news/excising-the-negative-smoke-and-mirror-effects-of–obamacare-52922.html

Another Obamacare #EpicFail – hospital uncompensated care costs going UP not down as expected; Obamacare’s high deductibles to blame
https://www.modernhealthcare.com/operations/hospitals-uncompensated-care-continues-rise

We want Obamacare welfare, but we don’t want to pay for it; some Obamacare taxes have gone away
https://khn.org/news/healthbent-paying-for-aca-disappearing-tax-measures/

Sharp decline in Obamacare carriers in rural Colorado; 22 counties have monopoly provider
https://www.vaildaily.com/news/health-insurance-rates-are-dropping-but-so-is-choice-in-rural-markets-like-eagle-county/

15,000 thousand happy insurance customers in Idaho get slammed into Medicaid expansion. #YouWillBeAssimilated
https://www.mountainhomenews.com/story/2649459.html

Medicaid expansion destroys another free clinic, this one in Syracuse
https://www.syracuse.com/health/2019/11/free-syracuse-medical-clinic-that-served-thousands-of-uninsured-patients-closes.html

Kansas Medicaid expansion would cover childless able-bodied adults who are already elilgible for subsidized Obamacare policies
https://themercury.com/news/kansas-house-majority-leader-explains-opposition-to-medicaid-expansion/article_68d788ff-26a9-574d-906b-f2a9571a0651.html

Medicaid expansion did not turn New York into the land of milk & honey; in fact, Medicaid is billions over budget and the cat has the Governor’s tongue about how to fix it. #HitTheWall
https://www.wsj.com/articles/as-new-york-faces-big-medicaid-cost-overruns-cuomo-stays-mum-11574288850

Medicaid expansion tripled the amount of improper spending in the program; states not conducting proper eligibility reviews because they view Medicaid expansion as a cash cow (free money from Washington)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/why-obama-stopped-auditing-medicaid-11574121931
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https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hblog20191115.353837/full/

Study warns Wyoming it will end up raising taxes to pay for Medicaid expansion, just like Montana
https://kgab.com/medicaid-expansion-bad-for-wyoming-study-says-audio/

Utah Medicaid expansion enrollment caps likely to be contested
https://www.manatt.com/Insights/Newsletters/Health-Update/One-Step-Forward-Two-Steps-Back-Utahs-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 Overpromised and Underdelivered – now a “high-risk pool for lower-income people with a limited selection of plans, most of which exclude top doctors and facilities” despite Trump’s efforts to shore it up; 25 million enrollees expected, only 10 million showed up
https://www.wsj.com/articles/bidens-plan-for-health-is-already-a-failure-11573411672

“Obamacare offers Hoosiers fewer choices, higher prices” – #WheresMy2500
https://www.ibj.com/articles/obamacare-offers-hoosiers-few-choices-higher-prices

People still can’t afford healthcare or insurance.  Obamacare was supposed to fix all that, but it did nothing about costs.  #WrongDirection
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/despite-obamacare-a-shockingly-high-number-of-people-know-someone-who-died-after-being-unable-to-afford-health-care-2019-11-12

Here we go again with the phony multiplier studies presented as fact by the #LeftMediaAxis – “A full Obamacare repeal would devastate Arizona’s economy”.  Sure, and I’m the tooth fairy.
https://www.azcentral.com/story/opinion/op-ed/2019/11/14/aca-repeal-would-devastate-arizona-economy-access-health-care/2564715001/

• How soon they forget.  From 2014: #ACA contributing to structural unemployment; 1,151,000 near full time jobs lost b/c of #Obamacare
  http://politicalcalculations.blogspot.com/2014/09/the-contribution-of-obamacare-to.html

Popular association plans probably won’t be offered next year even if appeals court revives Trump admin rule authorizing them
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/the-health-202/2019/11/15/the-health-202-tens-of-thousands-of-americans-are-about-to-lose-their-association-health-plans/5dcdbcf9602ff1184c316503/

Medicaid budget shortfall in New York (a Medicaid expansion state) is $3-4 billion, headed to $7 billion.  ‘We have to pass Medicaid expansion to leverage more money out of Washington and save money.’ Savings? What state savings?
https://www.wxxinews.org/post/new-york-faces-multi-billion-dollar-medicaid-gap

Critics oppose Medicaid expansion ballot initiative in Florida on the grounds it violates Florida’s constitutional single-subject rule
https://mk0xituxemauaaa56cm7.kinstacdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/2019.11.14-Initial-Brief.pdf

Louisiana Governor telling pack of lies about Medicaid expansion; claims it saved state money and kept rural hospitals from closing when it didn’t
https://thehayride.com/2019/11/sadow-edwards-lies-again-about-medicaid-expansion/

“Medicaid spending now accounts for 30 percent of state budgets, skyrocketing to an estimated $603 billion in 2018…. with 32 states spending 25 percent or more of their budgets solely on Medicaid” (it’s closer to 40 percent in some states)
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/report-medicaid-spending-skyrockets-consumes-percent-of-state-budgets/article_d2bc509e-ff2d-11e9-aee9-2ba713f549f1.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!

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

State reinsurance programs reduce Obamacare premiums up to 43% in the first year
https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payer/state-reinsurance-programs-reduce-premiums-nearly-17-first-year-operation-avalere

#GroundhogDay – “Widespread glitches occur on 1st day of ‘Obamacare’ sign-ups” #TrainWreck
https://apnews.com/da4bb26e243a46c5941a33f917fc6522

40% of the unsubsidized dropped out of Obamacare exchanges between 2016 and 2018 because of sky-high premiums. #ItsNotWorking
https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/report-unsubsidized-individuals-are-fleeing-the-obamacare-exchanges

A court ruling overturning Obamacare would mean a big tax cut
https://www.foxbusiness.com/money/obamacare-affordable-care-act-provisions-overturn

“America’s fiscal crisis, in short, is a health spending crisis.”
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/11/01/the-increasing-weight-of-health-care-spending-on-american-taxpayers/

Obamacare-spawned CMMI being misused as backdoor way to make wholesale changes to federal health programs.  Don’t say you weren’t warned.
https://morningconsult.com/opinions/reforming-cmmi-is-not-partisan-issue/

North Carolina legislature adjourns without passing Medicaid expansion
https://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/politics-government/article236874893.html

“No appetite” for Medicaid expansion in Alabama
https://yellowhammernews.com/7-things-24-7-impeachment-talk-hunter-biden-promises-to-stop-profiting-off-his-dads-service-no-medicaid-expansion-in-alabama-and-more/

Medicaid expansion didn’t save Arkansas hospitals as promised. #ToldYouSo
https://townhall.com/columnists/nicholashorton/2019/10/24/another-broken-obamacare-promise-medicaid-expansion-is-still-not-saving-arkansas-hospitals-n2555340

Medicaid expansion crowding out private insurance in Maine. #ToldYouSo
https://www.pressherald.com/2019/10/30/maine-aca-enrollment-expected-to-drop-as-medicaid-expansion-continues/

The big money behind the Medicaid expansion push in Missouri comes from the usual specials interests: hospitals, unions, and assorted left-wing groups
https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/politics/2019/09/15/who-putting-their-money-behind-missouri-medicaid-expansion/2303326001/

#ObamacareLogic – Medicaid expansion will save the state so much money we have to raise taxes to pay for it
https://www.ksnt.com/capitol-bureau/increased-cigarette-tax-could-help-pay-for-medicaid-expansion/

Medicaid expansion in Oklahoma would mean higher taxes or cuts to other programs
http://tulsabeacon.com/medicaid-expansion-means-higher-taxes-for-oklahomans/

Medicaid expansionistas in Louisiana still making inflated economic and job growth claims; refuse to subtract existing federal subsidies for low-end exchange customers being slammed into Medicaid
https://www.heartland.org/news-opinion/news/states-can-use-funny-math-on-medicaid-expansion-economic-claims

Advocate leaves out his earlier position that Medicaid expansion would exacerbate the primary care shortage from his pro-expansion testimony in North Carolina. #ExposeTheirMethods
https://www.jdnews.com/news/20191014/sen-jim-perry-medicaid-expansion-would-increase-gaps-in-access

Medicaid expansion kills another free clinic, this one in Ohio
https://www.daytondailynews.com/news/local/dayton-free-clinic-suspends-hours-lacks-funding/BPvo4EcLQORVcPjlAsmVEM/#

Obamacare’s ‘temporary’ authority to auto-enroll food stamp recipients in Medicaid never went away; so much for eligibility checks; add in auto-renewal and you have another left-wing Dependency Machine
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/billion-dollar-loophole-threatens-medicaid-integrity

The Iron Law of Medicaid: spending still goes up even if enrollment stays flat.
https://healthpayerintelligence.com/news/medicaid-spend-grows-2.9-in-fy-2019-medicaid-enrollment-flat

Just a reminder: Medicaid expansion is running up the national debt and is, therefore, unsustainable
https://journalrecord.com/2019/10/17/free-market-friday-medicaid-expansion-linked-to-growth-of-debt/
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https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/features/health/29271/dollars-and-debt-how-long-can-medicaid-expansion-last

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

Unsubsidized couple making $85K with one child now pays $36,404 a year for premiums and deductible. Thanks, Obamacare Genius Masterminds, you’re swell.
https://www.the-dispatch.com/news/20191024/letter-let-me-give-you-reality-of-obamacare

Louisiana Obamacare premiums going up an average 10 percent. #WheresMy2500
https://wwl.radio.com/articles/louisiana-radio-network-news/obamacare-health-insurance-premiums-rise

Obamacare premiums going down on average? What they’re not telling you is that deductibles and maximum out-of-pocket limits are still rising. #ItsNotWorking (BTW, Obamacare premiums are still going up in plenty of places.)
https://news.ehealthinsurance.com/_ir/68/20199/ACA_Market_Unsubsidized_Price_Analysis_OEP_2020.pdf

The one thing Obamacare was supposed to do was reduce the number of uninsured but #ItsNotWorking
https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/468034-number-of-uninsured-children-rises-for-second-year-tops-4-million

Humana cuts hundreds of jobs as Obamacare health insurance tax looms
https://www.wdrb.com/in-depth/obamacare-tax-at-issue-as-humana-cuts-hundreds-of-jobs/article_be35fd12-fb2e-11e9-a9ff-7b94ec28c558.html

Obamacare a big failure – can’t keep your doctor, costs went UP not down, and it destabilized the individual market with guaranteed issue
https://www.parkrapidsenterprise.com/opinion/letters/4736301-LETTER-TO-EDITOR-Intended-purposes-of-Obamacare-weren’t-achieved

Doctor: Dem candidates all agree Obamacare has failed, but the answer is catastrophic insurance, state hi-risk pools, etc., not one-size-fits-all government-run medicine
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/op-eds/obamacare-is-a-failure-every-single-presidential-candidate-agrees

99 percent of people have health coverage one way or another; most of the rest choose not to enroll.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/what-you-should-know-about-the-uninsured/

You can call them ‘junk’ plans all you want, but short-term insurance undeniably helps retirees near 65, people between jobs, and everyone Obamacare’s sky-rocketing premiums forced out of the individual market
https://www.dailysignal.com/2019/10/23/not-junk-setting-the-record-straight-on-short-term-health-coverage-plans/

Two courts rule against Little Sisters of the Poor on Obamacare birth control mandate; Supreme Court needs to settle this once and for all
https://www.theepochtimes.com/federal-appeals-court-rules-little-sisters-of-the-poor-must-provide-birth-control_3129705.html

Obamacare still hiding abortion surcharge
https://www.theepochtimes.com/congressmen-urge-hhs-to-stop-obamacares-hidden-abortion-charges-for-third-year-in-a-row_3128063.html

“What Obamacare promised was something that looked like traditional Blue Cross insurance for an affordable price. What we got was Medicaid with a high deductible and an unaffordable price.”
https://www.forbes.com/sites/johngoodman/2019/10/30/where-democrats-go-wrong-on-pre-existing-conditions/#54d80fe450da

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

Supporters declare Obamacare “stable” – “But how can anything that so negatively impacts the American middle-class be considered stable?”
http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2019/10/obamacare-is-stable-at-incredibly.html

Here’s your “stable” Obamacare – average premium increases of 12% in Vermont, 7% in New York, 13% in New Mexico
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2019/10/17/opinion-blame-unaffordable-insurance-obamacare/3974858002/

The stupidity of the Obamacare Genius Mastermind: “We never had more than 40% of the subsidy eligible sign-up for coverage (75% are needed for a balanced and efficient risk pool).”
http://healthpolicyandmarket.blogspot.com/2019/10/obamacare-is-stable-at-incredibly.html

Obamacare’s regulations jack up the price of insurance – essential health benefits, community rating, and guaranteed issue. Obamacare never addressed cost drivers because Obamacare IS the cost driver.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/opinion/2019/10/17/opinion-blame-unaffordable-insurance-obamacare/3974858002/

Obamacare health insurance providers tax pushes up premium increases for federal employee plans 2 percentage points
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/health-insurance-premiums-for-federal-employees-retirees-to-go-up-56-percent-next-year/2019/10/02/222f793e-e53f-11e9-a6e8-8759c5c7f608_story.html

You can blame Obamacare if your employer plan doesn’t cover your spouse
https://www.forbes.com/sites/simonconstable/2019/10/07/cant-get-your-spouse-healthcare-from-your-employer-blame-obamacare/#6b9fbb053b5f

Federal court knocks down Obamacare transgender and abortion services mandates on religious freedom grounds
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/obamacare-transgender-bias-rule-violates-religious-freedom-law
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https://www.lifenews.com/2019/10/16/judge-permanently-blocks-obama-mandate-forcing-doctors-hospitals-to-do-abortions/

#TheLeftNeverQuits – “Abortion Activists Trying a Third Time to Force Little Sisters of the Poor to Fund Abortions”
https://www.lifenews.com/2019/10/02/abortion-activists-trying-a-third-time-to-force-little-sisters-of-the-poor-to-fund-abortions/

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

Don’t let anyone tell you Obamacare premiums are falling. #WheresMy2500
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/health-law-and-business/obamacare-premiums-forecast-to-rise-2-5-insurers-expand-offerings

Obamacare’s guaranteed issue, regulations, and induced consolidation have jacked up the price of health insurance
https://thefederalist.com/2019/10/04/survey-family-health-insurance-now-averages-more-than-20000-a-year/

Obamacare’s sky-high premiums for the unsubsidized have driven people away, causing the overall number of uninsured to increase
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/sally-pipes-obamacare-not-trump-is-adding-to-the-number-of-uninsured-americans

Obamacare destroyed a lot of people’s health insurance; there was a need to bring back catastrophic insurance and it’s been done in the form of short-duration plans
https://www.streetinsider.com/Business+Wire/HealthCare.com+Releases+Customer+Survey+Showing+58%25+of+Short+Term+Health+Insurance+Buyers+Were+Uninsured/15961735.html

Surprise medical billing problem is caused by Obamacare’s narrow networks.  Whoever heard of narrow networks before Obamacare?
https://www.citizensvoice.com/opinion/surprise-billing-from-obamacare-1.2540137

Employer insurance is unaffordable, thanks to Obamacare.  #ToldYouSo
https://71republic.com/2019/10/01/kaiser-obamacare-healthcare-unaffordable/
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https://www.heraldtribune.com/opinion/20191008/mccaughey-on-the-job-coverage-rip-off

Dem proposal to provide Obamacare to illegal aliens would cost $23 billion a year
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2019/oct/10/obamacare-for-illegal-immigrants-may-cost-taxpayer/

More than half a million ineligible people are enrolled in Medicaid expansion in 9 states
https://www.thecentersquare.com/national/study-more-than-half-a-million-enrolled-in-medicaid-in/article_b9458b0e-d62d-11e9-ac03-93ebfb05ba2a.html

Medicaid waiting lists for the disabled up 40 percent since Medicaid expansion
https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/24/since-obamacare-waiting-lists-for-care-for-disabled-people-have-grown-40-percent/

Idaho still trying to figure out how to pay for Medicaid expansion.  Well, citizens, congratulations on voting yourselves the treasury. Now what?
https://www.idahopress.com/news/local/little-dubious-about-proposal-to-tap-counties-to-pay-for/article_74458898-eda4-595b-928a-cbf6c1f4daa7.html

Maine neglecting its most vulnerable as childless able-bodied adults drive Medicaid expansion enrollment and costs
https://www.timesrecord.com/articles/opinion/childless-able-bodied-adults-are-driving-cost-and-enrollment-under-medicaid-expansion/

Primary care shortage in North Carolina would worsen under Medicaid expansion, as childless able-bodied adults elbow the disabled and other vulnerable populations aside
https://www.heraldsun.com/opinion/article235958992.html

Minnesota Medicaid doesn’t always check death records, would rather pay millions in benefits for dead people
https://www.thecentersquare.com/minnesota/report-dhs-paid-million-for-deceased-enrollees/article_cfedb73e-e91d-11e9-bcca-e737b70abe8a.html

Don’t look to Indiana for how to do Medicaid expansion ‘right’ – state pays for most of the ‘cost-sharing’ HSA-like accounts, so it has to cough up $366 million more in the first year than it would have under a straight expansion
https://www.laurinburgexchange.com/opinion/29190/indiana-whiffs-on-medicaid-model

Enrollment in Louisiana Medicaid program going down, but costs going UP by $3.2 billion.
https://www.thecentersquare.com/louisiana/louisiana-medicaid-costs-projected-to-rise-by-billion-even-as/article_a16c565a-e098-11e9-b167-03f73a774626.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!