The ACA is in better shape than you think

[still_one]

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"Meanwhile, beneath the turbulence, the ACA has been slowly gaining more acceptance. One new study published in Health Affairs found notable changes in the way Americans view the law since it was first passed in 2010. While still unpopular overall, fewer people worry about it disrupting their own healthcare and more feel the law has actually done some good. And the portion of Americans favoring repeal is declining. “The ACA has delivered discernible benefits,” the study concludes, “and some Americans are increasingly recognizing that it is improving access to health insurance and medical care.”

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"Roughly 20 million Americans have gained healthcare coverage through Obamacare – about 13 million through an exchange and the rest through expanded Medicaid coverage. And the portion of Americans lacking insurance has declined by about 9 percentage points under the law.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obamacare-unitedhealth-repeal-not-happening-150042506.html#

[Skink]

1. Works for me

[Kip Humphrey]

2. Yeah ACA is so wonderful my wife and I are actively praying we live to see Medicare.

[sylvanus]

3. The Heritage Foundation rubs it's hands and smiles.n/t

[mmonk]

4. Being in a red state, one insurer has left and the remaining

insurer will leave next year. Thanks for a few years of affordable health insurance. You are gods in getting us something we can afford from the middle man gods for awhile. But whatever you do, don't let that white privilege single payer ever happen.

[Hortensis]

5. Last I heard, a couple of major insurers are developing

insurance programs for the ACA marketplaces. Courtesy of the ACA's requirement that everyone be on line with access to patient records (strictly only to those granted access by patients), these companies are offering physicians more information that they will ever have had before.

For instance, doctors prescribe but don't know if the prescriptions are actually filled and taken. Patients may be embarrssed to admit they never got the medication, so say they did, and the docs are left scratching their heads and prescribing a second-best medication in the hope that that will work. Patients frequently can't remember the name of someone they went to before, but the insurance companies do. And so on. These companies expect the tremendous asset of additional information they can base medical decisions on will be very popular with healthcare providers.