CNN Poll
Obamacare's overall approval rating remains upside-down by nearly 20 points (40/59)
Asked whether the law has helped or hurt their families, respondents shared the bad news, 2 times as many say they have been hurt by ObamaCare than helped.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2014/images/07/22/rel7c.pdf
Obamacare's overall approval rating remains upside-down by nearly 20 points (40/59)
Asked whether the law has helped or hurt their families, respondents shared the bad news, 2 times as many say they have been hurt by ObamaCare than helped.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2014/images/07/22/rel7c.pdf
Well, except:
What’s important to remember politically about this is if you're a state and you don’t set up an exchange, that means your citizens don't get their tax credits—but your citizens still pay the taxes that support this bill.
--Jonathan Gruber, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology economist who helped design the Massachusetts health law that was the model for Obamacare
[video=youtube;GtnEmPXEpr0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=GtnEmPXEpr0[/video]
Keep clapping, idiot.
[h=2]Agents obtained subsidized 'Obamacare' using fake IDs[/h]
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Undercover investigators using fake identities were able to secure taxpayer-subsidized health insurance under President Barack Obama's health care law, congressional investigators said Wednesday.
The weak link seemed to be call centers that handled applications for frazzled consumers unable to get through online.
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office told a House committee that its investigators were able to get subsidized health care under fake names in 11 out of 18 attempts - even after HealthCare.gov's much maligned online system flagged some applications as problematic.
The GAO is still paying premiums for the policies, even as the Obama administration attempts to verify phony documentation.
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/07/...&a_dgi=aolshare_twitter&ModPagespeed=noscript
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Undercover investigators using fake identities were able to secure taxpayer-subsidized health insurance under President Barack Obama's health care law, congressional investigators said Wednesday.
The weak link seemed to be call centers that handled applications for frazzled consumers unable to get through online.
The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office told a House committee that its investigators were able to get subsidized health care under fake names in 11 out of 18 attempts - even after HealthCare.gov's much maligned online system flagged some applications as problematic.
The GAO is still paying premiums for the policies, even as the Obama administration attempts to verify phony documentation.
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/07/...&a_dgi=aolshare_twitter&ModPagespeed=noscript
[h=1]Obamacare Website Has Cost $840 Million[/h]
http://www.nationaljournal.com/health-care/obamacare-website-has-cost-840-million-20140730
Mismanaged from day 1.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/health-care/obamacare-website-has-cost-840-million-20140730
Mismanaged from day 1.
Doctors not accepting ObamaCare
On a recent afternoon at his office in Hartford, Conn., Dr. Doug Gerard examines a patient complaining of joint pain. Gerard, an internist, checks her out, asks her a few questions about her symptoms and then orders a few tests before sending her on her way.
For a typical quick visit like this, Gerard could get reimbursed $100 or more from a private insurer. For the same visit, Medicare pays less — about $80. And now, with the new private plans under the Affordable Care Act, Gerard says he would get something in between, but closer to the lower Medicare rates.
That's not something he's willing to accept.
"I cannot accept a plan [in which] potentially commercial-type reimbursement rates were now going to be reimbursed at Medicare rates,” Gerard says. “You have to maintain a certain mix in private practice between the low reimbursers and the high reimbursers to be able to keep the lights on."
Three insurers offered plans on Connecticut’s ACA marketplacein 2014, and Gerard is only accepting one. He won't say which, but he will say it pays the highest rate to doctors.
...
Dr. Bob Russo is sure of it. He's a radiologist and he's also the president-elect of the Connecticut State Medical Society. He says that the low rates and administrative burdens that come along with the ACA could make it a financial loser.
"You get what you pay for,” Russo says. “If you can't convince [doctors] that they're not losing money doing their job, then it's a problem. And they haven't been able to convince people of that."
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2014/August/04/A-Doctors-Perspective-On-Obamacare.aspx
On a recent afternoon at his office in Hartford, Conn., Dr. Doug Gerard examines a patient complaining of joint pain. Gerard, an internist, checks her out, asks her a few questions about her symptoms and then orders a few tests before sending her on her way.
For a typical quick visit like this, Gerard could get reimbursed $100 or more from a private insurer. For the same visit, Medicare pays less — about $80. And now, with the new private plans under the Affordable Care Act, Gerard says he would get something in between, but closer to the lower Medicare rates.
That's not something he's willing to accept.
"I cannot accept a plan [in which] potentially commercial-type reimbursement rates were now going to be reimbursed at Medicare rates,” Gerard says. “You have to maintain a certain mix in private practice between the low reimbursers and the high reimbursers to be able to keep the lights on."
Three insurers offered plans on Connecticut’s ACA marketplacein 2014, and Gerard is only accepting one. He won't say which, but he will say it pays the highest rate to doctors.
...
Dr. Bob Russo is sure of it. He's a radiologist and he's also the president-elect of the Connecticut State Medical Society. He says that the low rates and administrative burdens that come along with the ACA could make it a financial loser.
"You get what you pay for,” Russo says. “If you can't convince [doctors] that they're not losing money doing their job, then it's a problem. And they haven't been able to convince people of that."
http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2014/August/04/A-Doctors-Perspective-On-Obamacare.aspx
Not long ago, I worked for a major consulting company. Part of my job was focused on the overall marketing campaigns of the clients, which included analyzing the effectiveness of their web presence.
I've managed projects that involved rebuilding/relaunching some pretty elaborate web sites for some enormous multinational companies. Even on some of the most complex sites I've helped build, I've very rarely seen a build price tag even remotely approach 1/10,000th of what this fucking monstrosity cost. I'm not talking about post-build labor...I'm talking about just getting the damn thing built.
Let that sink in for a second. Some of the biggest and baddest ass sites you'll ever see on the internet cost 10,000 times less to build that this barely functioning, unsecured POS.
Premiums for plans sold on the Affordable Care Act exchange next year will increase by an average of 13.2 percent
Floridians who buy health insurance on the individual market for next year will face an average increase of 13.2 percent in their monthly premiums, according to rate proposals unveiled Monday by the state’s Office of Insurance Regulation.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/08/04/4271376/proposed-prices-for-health-plans.html
Just more of that $2,500 in annual savings the average family will see under ObamaCare
Floridians who buy health insurance on the individual market for next year will face an average increase of 13.2 percent in their monthly premiums, according to rate proposals unveiled Monday by the state’s Office of Insurance Regulation.
http://www.miamiherald.com/2014/08/04/4271376/proposed-prices-for-health-plans.html
Just more of that $2,500 in annual savings the average family will see under ObamaCare
CA Insurance Commissioner Admits 'Affordable Care' Costs 55% More
by Chriss W. Street 30 Jul 2014 166 post a comment
As someone who saw his monthly health insurance premium double from $780 in 2013 to $1,460 this year, I was interested to see how long it would take for California’s Democrat leaders to fess up that there is nothing affordable about their version of the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
Facing political shock and awe as ten million working Californians are soon to get notices of big insurance premium increases for next year, Democrat Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones admitted July 29th that rates for individuals that enrolled in Covered California jumped by an average of 55% last year.
Patrick Johnston, Chief Executive Officer of the California Association of Health Plans, said last year just before the launch of Covered California, “The arithmetic is inescapable.” Costs must be spread, so while some consumers will see their premiums drop, others will pay more – “no matter what people in Washington say.”
After two years of swearing that Covered California would save money for working state residents, Insurance Commissioner Jones in a news conference said, “The rate increase from 2013 to 2014, on average, was significantly higher than rate increases in the past.” He eventually got around to admitting that "significantly higher" meant average healthcare insurance premium increases of 22% to 88%.
Jones also admitted for the first time that Covered California health insurance premium increases were the most punishing for young people in Los Angeles County age 25. The Commissioner stated rates jumped for the middle-of-road “silver plan” coverage by 52% for the young versus 38% more for the same plan for someone age 55.
The biggest contributor to this cost increase appears to be those paying for health insurance to subsidize the 1.5 million increase in the state’s Medi-Cal enrollment to 8.6 million or 22% of the entire population of the State of California.
The exploding costs of Covered California and other “affordable” regulations help explain why 81 to do business in the nation for the last three years running. This is reflected in the grim detail that California’s unemployment rate for the last three years has been at least 50% higher than the unemployment rate in neighboring Mexico.
However, having already financially pained a couple million Californians, Insurance Commissioner Jones is now lobbying voters to pass Proposition 45 on the November ballot and add another layer of “affordable regulations” Jones claims will:
- Require that health insurance rate changes must be approved by the California Insurance Commissioner before taking effect.
- Require a sworn statement by health insurance companies submitting rate change requests certifying the accuracy of the information they submit to the Insurance Commissioner to justify the rate change they are proposing.
- Provide for public notice, disclosure and hearing on health insurance rate changes and subsequent judicial review.
- Prohibit health, auto and homeowners insurers from determining policy eligibility or rates based on lack of prior coverage or credit history.
Proposition 45 would expand regulation of California healthcare in a similar way to how Proposition 103 in 1988 supposedly imposed “cost containment” on California automobile insurance rates. Commissioner Jones argued that without passing Prop 45, “We're going to continue to see rates go up simply because... no one has the ability to stop excessive rates.”
A recent study by Insure.com found the average middle-of-the-road auto insurance coverage for a 40-year-old driver with a 12-mile commute to work in California is the 6th most expensive in the nation, with an annual premium cost of $1,991. The annual premium cost for auto insurance in California was 54% higher than the average of neighboring Oregon at $1,306 and Nevada at $1,300.
Insurance Commissioner Jones would rather try to distract the public from the debilitating costs of Covered California by adding another layer of regulation in Proposition 45 that could lead to even more debilitating costs. Although Jones failed to admit that rate increases are as high as the doubling of cost I am paying, at least he admitted that California health insurance rates may skyrocket next year.
The hits just keep on coming:
IF you like your Obamacare plan, you can keep it—but you might end up paying a whole lot more.
People who decide to stick with the coverage they've already gotten through Obamacare, rather than switching plans, are at risk for some of the biggest premium spikes anywhere in the system. And some people won't even know their costs went up until they get a bill from the IRS.
Insurance plans generally raise their premiums every year, but those costs are just the tip of the iceberg for millions of Obamacare enrollees. A series of other, largely invisible factors will also push up many consumers' premiums.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/health-care/if-you-like-your-obamacare-plan-it-ll-cost-you-20140805
IF you like your Obamacare plan, you can keep it—but you might end up paying a whole lot more.
People who decide to stick with the coverage they've already gotten through Obamacare, rather than switching plans, are at risk for some of the biggest premium spikes anywhere in the system. And some people won't even know their costs went up until they get a bill from the IRS.
Insurance plans generally raise their premiums every year, but those costs are just the tip of the iceberg for millions of Obamacare enrollees. A series of other, largely invisible factors will also push up many consumers' premiums.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/health-care/if-you-like-your-obamacare-plan-it-ll-cost-you-20140805
I vividly remember watching this imbecile on TV saying exactly what is written in this article. "No, no...it's not going up. Costs will in fact go down!" I'm not a body language expert, but this lying prick was giving away enough tells that anyone with half a brain could clearly realize he was full of shit. You didn't even need to have watched him...just use your fucking head for a second and ask yourself how the hell the cost of anything could possibly go down after you add several new layers of bureaucracy to it?
So, how will Californians react to this? "Oh, wow. How ghastly that these costs went up...AGAIN! We really need to vote more dimpcraps into the state senate to fix this problem!" Battered wife syndrome at its finest...and I wish nothing but complete misery and despair on every single retard out here (or anywhere for that matter) who voted for the POS POTUS with whom we're cursed for two more years...except the lingering damage from his administration will last far longer than that...
[h=1]ObamaCare Enrollment Is Shrinking, Top Insurers Say[/h]
ObamaCare exchange statistics should clear up any doubt as to why the Obama Administration has been tight-lipped about enrollment since celebrating 8 million sign-ups in mid-April.
Reality, evidence suggests, could require quite a come-down from those lofty claims.
The nation's third-largest health insurer had 720,000 people sign up for exchange coverage as of May 20, a spokesman confirmed to IBD. At the end of June, it had fewer than 600,000 paying customers. Aetna expects that to fall to "just over 500,000" by the end of the year.
http://news.investors.com/politics-...2-obamacare-enrollment-falling-aetna-says.htm
ObamaCare exchange statistics should clear up any doubt as to why the Obama Administration has been tight-lipped about enrollment since celebrating 8 million sign-ups in mid-April.
Reality, evidence suggests, could require quite a come-down from those lofty claims.
The nation's third-largest health insurer had 720,000 people sign up for exchange coverage as of May 20, a spokesman confirmed to IBD. At the end of June, it had fewer than 600,000 paying customers. Aetna expects that to fall to "just over 500,000" by the end of the year.
http://news.investors.com/politics-...2-obamacare-enrollment-falling-aetna-says.htm
Man Overboard!
Obamacare Enrollment Is Sinking Rapidly
The number of Obamacare enrollments for top health insurer Aetna is plummeting, according to a report from Investor’s Business Daily.
Aetna’s enrollment reached 720,000 by May 20, after the final end to the the extended open enrollment period. But by the end of June Aetna had less than 600,000 paying customers, IBD reports, and the company expects paying customers to fall to “just over 500,000″ by the end of 2015. That would be a drop of just under 30 percent from the May sign-up numbers — the last time the Obama administration released its official Obamacare enrollment tally.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/11/obamacare-enrollment-is-shrinking-fast/#ixzz3A8UxTTj1
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Obamacare Enrollment Is Sinking Rapidly
The number of Obamacare enrollments for top health insurer Aetna is plummeting, according to a report from Investor’s Business Daily.
Aetna’s enrollment reached 720,000 by May 20, after the final end to the the extended open enrollment period. But by the end of June Aetna had less than 600,000 paying customers, IBD reports, and the company expects paying customers to fall to “just over 500,000″ by the end of 2015. That would be a drop of just under 30 percent from the May sign-up numbers — the last time the Obama administration released its official Obamacare enrollment tally.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/11/obamacare-enrollment-is-shrinking-fast/#ixzz3A8UxTTj1
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