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DEATH SPIRAL – OK Obamacare Exchange Down to One Insurer

Posted on August 25, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment:  Here’s that vibrant, competitive Obamacare market you were promised–it’s not working! “TULSA, Okla. (KTUL) — The State of Oklahoma could face a healthcare crisis in 2017.” “There will only be one insurance company offering policies on the Healthcare Exchange … Continue reading →

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CT Obamacare Exchange Struggles to Save Remaining Two Insurers

Posted on July 29, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment: “[W]ithout competition, the price of insurance goes up and quality goes down.  And it makes it easier for insurance companies to treat their customers badly.” –President Barack Obama, Sept. 9, 2009 “HARTFORD, Conn.  Connecticut’s health insurance marketplace hopes to … Continue reading →

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Dropping Like Flies–10,000 To Lose Plans in New Mexico

Posted on July 25, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment:  It’s gettin’ ugly folks.  But the solution is simple: don’t force people to buy things they don’t need or want, just let them pay cash for ordinary care, and buy super-cheap catastrophic insurance for the rest.  That eliminates the … Continue reading →

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49,000 Losing Plans in Illinois

Posted on July 15, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment: “If you like your plan, you can keep it.” “Illinois moved Tuesday to take control of Land of Lincoln Health to begin an orderly shutdown of the insurance company, meaning about 49,000 people will lose their health coverage in … Continue reading →

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Eight of Arizona’s 14 Counties to Have No Choice of Insurers?

Posted on July 6, 2016 by OCTS4

Blue Cross Blue Shield could soon be “the only option” in 8 of Arizona’s 14 counties Comment: “[W]ithout competition, the price of insurance goes up and quality goes down.  And it makes it easier for insurance companies to treat their … Continue reading →

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Free Doctor-Owned Hospitals from the Shackles of Obamacare

Posted on June 23, 2016 by OCTS1

Under Obamacare, physician-owned hospitals (POHs) are prohibited from expanding while their competitors remain free to do so.  Physicians and their financiers lost millions of dollars when 30 expansion projects already underway were scuttled by the Affordable Care Act.  Only a … Continue reading →

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White House Renews Obamacare ‘Big Lie’

Posted on May 19, 2016 by OCTS4

Comment: Obamacare fantasyland: “The health insurance market is a lot better for private citizens now than it was before the Affordable Care Act. That’s just a fact.” —White House spokesman Josh Earnest, 5/16/2016 Meanwhile, back in unAffordable Care Act reality… … Continue reading →

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UPDATED Obamacare Endgame: 20 Hospital Systems Leading to Single-Payer

Posted on March 25, 2016 by OCTS1

by Tom Barilovits The Obamacare endgame is to consolidate hospitals locally, then regionally and nationally into 20 massive systems across the U.S., each with around 250 hospitals and thousands of clinics. Why? Because it’s easier to nationalize twenty hospitals into … Continue reading →

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Report: ACA Hikes Cost and Reduces Competition

Posted on March 17, 2016 by OCTS4

FLASHBACK: “So just by pooling and creating competition so that insurers have to go after people’s business the way they go after a group plan, we have drastically reduced premiums and costs.” –President Barack Obama, making delusional remarks about the … Continue reading →

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Co-ops Cease Ops, 740,000 Lose Plans

Posted on November 6, 2015 by OCTS4

Comment: Obamacare-unwisdom said Gruberized non-profit co-ops would eliminate over-charging by “evil” insurers. OCTS readers will be glad to know the co-ops have avoided profits so successfully that most of them are already dead, taking loads of your health care money … Continue reading →

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