The Obamacare success stories you haven't been hearing about
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And what percentage are enrolling into Medicaid....And yes, the back-end is still not working...still an enormous number of duplicate applications, erroneous info on the applications and an assortment of other problems...
Of that 29,000, not one of them has made a premium payment yet, so we're right back to that whole debate over what percentage of people with items in their "shopping cart" are actually going to follow thru with the order.
Meanwhile, commie Ricter is playing "pocket pool" over these numbers.
Here's another 'success' story ...
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/health...ion-over-to-insurers/?mod=MW_home_latest_news
Oh, I guess that's actually another failure.
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/health...ion-over-to-insurers/?mod=MW_home_latest_news
Oh, I guess that's actually another failure.
Harry Reid, huge Obamacare cheerleader and all-around nice guy, is apparently using his power to exempt many of his staffers from entering Obamacare exchanges. Uh, obvious question here: If Obamacare is so swell, why wouldnât his staffers be jumping at the opportunity to sign up for Obamacare?
From CNN:
Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, one of Obamacareâs architects and staunchest supporters, is also the only top congressional leader to exempt some of his staff from having to buy insurance through the lawâs new exchanges.
â¦In the charged atmosphere surrounding Obamacare, Reidâs decision only gives Republicans more ammo to attack Democrats already suffering politically from the lawâs botched rollout.
In September, Reid told reporters, âLetâs stop these really juvenile political games â the one dealing with health care for senators and House members and our staff. We are going to be part of exchanges, thatâs what the law says and weâll be part of that.â
Thatâs true. Reid and his personal staff will buy insurance through the exchange.
But itâs also true that the law lets lawmakers decide if their committee and leadership staffers hold on to their federal employee insurance plans, an option Reid has exercised....
From CNN:
Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, one of Obamacareâs architects and staunchest supporters, is also the only top congressional leader to exempt some of his staff from having to buy insurance through the lawâs new exchanges.
â¦In the charged atmosphere surrounding Obamacare, Reidâs decision only gives Republicans more ammo to attack Democrats already suffering politically from the lawâs botched rollout.
In September, Reid told reporters, âLetâs stop these really juvenile political games â the one dealing with health care for senators and House members and our staff. We are going to be part of exchanges, thatâs what the law says and weâll be part of that.â
Thatâs true. Reid and his personal staff will buy insurance through the exchange.
But itâs also true that the law lets lawmakers decide if their committee and leadership staffers hold on to their federal employee insurance plans, an option Reid has exercised....
Insurance companies cancel plans but not people's freedom to get a different plan, which they will in most cases.
Sorting out why insurers cancel policies: Blaming Obamacare is a smokescreen obscuring the relentless search for profits
By Wendell Potter
November 18th, 2013 10:33 AM
"Now that President Obama has said itâs OK with him if insurance companies keep their policyholders in health plans that donât meet the standards established by the Affordable Care Act, at least for another year, the big question is whether insurers will take him up on the offer.
"The answer: it depends.
"Some insurance executives will view the offer as one they canât turn down. Even though Karen Ignagni, president of Americaâs Health Insurance Plans, the industryâs big PR and lobbying group, had nothing good to say about Obamaâs proposal, keep in mind that she doesnât run an insurance company. While industry executives look to her to comment on what politicians do, they make their own decisions when it comes to their companiesâ bottom lines.
"Hereâs what Ignagni was quoted as saying in a FOX News story Friday:
âThe only reason consumers are getting notices about their current coverage changing is because the ACA (Affordable Care Act) requires all polices to cover a broad range of benefits that go beyond what many people choose to purchase today.â
"Not so fast. There are other reasons some folks are being told theyâll have to change health plans next year. Many of them are having to switch plans not because of Obamacare but because their insurance companies want to move them into policies with higher profit margins.
"Insurance companies have been sending similar notices to their customers for years. My son Alex â and thousands of other customers of a Blue Cross plan in Pennsylvania â got such a notice four years ago, months before Congress passed the health reform law.
"Why? The insurer wanted to move those policyholders out of a plan with a reasonable $500 annual deductible and into one with a deductible ten times that amount. To accomplish that, Blue Cross notified its policyholders that their health plan would not be available in 2010. Their options were to switch to the high-deductible policy, which would still cost them a couple of dollars more each month, or to another plan with that reasonable $500 deductible. If they chose the latter, their monthly premiums would increase 65 percent."
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(Wendell Potter is a health insurance industry whistleblower and author of 'Deadly Spin: An Insurance Company Insider Speaks Out on How Corporate PR Is Killing Health Care and Deceiving Americans')
Which "group" do I follow bigarrow?
I've called out many of the neo-con's and party-line Republicans on this site. Did you see me mindlessly endorsing Romney in last year's election?
Just because I can't stand liberals and their incessant hypocricy DOES NOT mean that I'm some partisan hack who blindly follows the "other team".
Try again, bigarrow.