Despite Trump's Claims, Obamacare Isn't Collapsing

[DonViejo]

Source: Political Wire





June 28, 2017 at 8:42 am EDT By Taegan Goddard

Congressional Budget Office: “Although premiums have been rising under current law, most subsidized enrollees purchasing health insurance coverage in the nongroup market are largely insulated from increases in premiums because their out-of-pocket payments for premiums are based on a percentage of their income; the government pays the difference between that percentage and the premiums for a reference plan… Nevertheless, a small number of people live in areas of the country that have limited participation by insurers in the nongroup market under current law.”

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[zipplewrath]

1. 60K

I heard a brief analysis one day that the number of people who are actually buying insurance in these counties with 1 or no insurance plans is around 60,000 people. Seems like a rather solvable problem without throwing 20+ million people off of medicaid to "fix" the ACA.

[Wounded Bear]

3. If they actually wanted to fix the problem, it would be pretty easy...

but they obviously don't want to fix the problem. At least the real problem. The "problem" that they want to fix is the old "I pay too much in taxes" problem.

[Wounded Bear]

2. It's not collapsing, it is being udermined...

Repubs have been trying since the beginning to make the program look like it's failing. Most of the worst "problems" with the ACA are happening in red states that rejected the Medicaid expansion and refused to put any effort to set up the exchanges. The fact that the "deplorables" can't see what is happening in the blue states that actually worked to implement the program is a testament to the effectiveness of the RW fake news industry.

[vlyons]

4. "Risk Corridors" - How Republicans sabotaged the ACA

Republicans won't tell you is why it is that the insurers are running away from a plan that they had no small hand in creating. The answer is obvious - the plan was changed, to the detriment of the insurers ... by a Senator Marco Rubio from Florida, the state that likely consumes more health care per capita than any other.

In December of 2014, Rubio inserted the poison pill that would neuter the effectiveness of the risk corridor program into a must-pass budget reconciliation bill. Budget reconciliation is the same strategery that Paul Ryan has been hoping to use to get his Trump-Care initiative bulled through, as such legislation is filibuster-proof. Rubio’s amendment placed a hard limit on risk corridor payments, thus restoring the risk to insurers that the risk corridor policy was designed to mitigate. More than anything else, it was this single act that caused insurers to "flee the exchanges", especially in those states that did not expand Medicaid.

https://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/3/23/1646512/-Risk-Corridors-or-How-Marco-Rubio-Broke-Obamacare

[busterbrown]

9. I cant freaking believe it viyons!

I just posted a question to Don Viejo about that...and you verified my question..

I can not for Fing life in me why Dems. are not bringing this up everyday all frteaking day..>
I’m getting rather annoyed... more like really pissed.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

10. Yes, Republican Rubio has to be made to wear that sabotage. . . . nt

[calimary]

5. Remember, too, that without the ACA, those premiums would have skyrocketed, unrestrained.

The increase would have been MUCH higher, and MUCH sooner.

The ACA has held them down. It'd be far worse, and on far more people, without it.

[Scalded Nun]

6. If it collapses it will be because of Trump and the actions of the GOP.

They have done everything possible to mortally wound it and now want to point to the Dems as the problem.

They are despicable creatures.

[Gothmog]

7. Trump is a liar

[busterbrown]

8. Don Viejo.. Help!

I rely on your posts for info and thanks for that..
But why is not the “Loss Corridor" part of the AHCA which insures Heathcare Insurance Compabies reccover losses
if and when they were losing money.. Wasn’t that ass Marco Rubio a few years ago the lead on a bill a which took Millioms out of that part of that program.

Wasn’t The Loss Corridor a safety net for the insurance companies which enabled them to stay in the game..and isn’t that the reason why many healthcare companies packed their bags?

[dalton99a]

11. Kick.

[Initech]

12. Hey kids, this is your brain.

This is your brain on Fox News:



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