Posted on Feb 13, 2017
With billions at stake, a federal judge just nullified the GOP's most cynical attack on Obamacare...
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That underscores the cynicism of the Republican attack. GOP politicians such as House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) talk continually about a lack of competition on the Affordable Care Act exchanges as though that’s a structural flaw in Obamacare. They don’t admit that much of that lack of competition is their own handiwork.
One remarkable feature of this attack is that, even though it helped destroy some low-income insurers and harmed their customers, Republicans in Congress jostled with each other to take credit for it.
That old saying about what's done in the dark eventually comes to light seems appropriate right now
One remarkable feature of this attack is that, even though it helped destroy some low-income insurers and harmed their customers, Republicans in Congress jostled with each other to take credit for it.
That old saying about what's done in the dark eventually comes to light seems appropriate right now
With billions at stake, a federal judge just nullified the GOP's most cynical attack on Obamacare...
Posted from latimes.com
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Okay. Latimes. Nytimes. WaPo. All can be listed with Completely Not News. Using g judges to overturn decisions is gonna get old real quick. You notice that non of this is being g challenged at the Supreme Court yet. Hmmmmm.
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SSG Michael Hartsfield
It's always easy to discount news organizations you don't agree with so I won't bother asking if you read the article.
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SFC Dave Beran
I read it. But all of these have been proven to distort facts. Yes I read the article. No I do not agree with destroying Obamacare. I believe it needs to be changed. And the problem with the smaller companies was a supply and demand problem. The larger companies could offer a lower price and better coverage initially. Then they were able to do whatever they wanted. Many of the smaller companies have or are being bought up by larger ones. The biggest problems with Obamacare are twofold. First the requirements that you must have insurance. That is like requiring everyone to own a gun. It should not happen in a free society. The second part was giving free healthcare to all immigrants. Legal (Refugees) or illegals at taxpayers cost. Get rid of these and put some controls on the insurance market (see stock exchange) and all of the rest can stay.
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Slowly but surely we will continue to see the evidence of intentional sabotage of the healthcare law. A provision to allow smaller insurers opportunity to compete with the big leagues gets blocked resulting in smaller businesses bowing out later, lack of competition in the exchanges, and higher costs; who'd have predicted that outcome.
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So I am to understand that the AHA was flawed from the get go. A bunch of small insurers took on heavy risk (the complete opposite of what any viable insurance program would normally do) under the promise that money would be taken from profitable insurers by the government and given to them. Hmmm...sounds like a match made in the Soviet utopia.
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SSG Michael Hartsfield
Actually, the government was going to pick up the tab through having those smaller insurance companies being able to insure people under Medicare Part D. Since then, Republicans refuse to properly fund Medicare Part after these small companies already began insuring people which was one of the reasons Obamacare flopped and those insured by those small companies lost coverage.
So, to summarize, the government said that they would fund these small insurers, Republicans (who are a part of the government) broke that word and now on on the hook for it.
Oh, and in Russia if you didn't comply, they would shoot you and put someone in your place that would j/s
So, to summarize, the government said that they would fund these small insurers, Republicans (who are a part of the government) broke that word and now on on the hook for it.
Oh, and in Russia if you didn't comply, they would shoot you and put someone in your place that would j/s
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