B-Man Posted December 2, 2016 Share Posted December 2, 2016 ED MORRISSEY: Obamacare RIP: Republicans Finally Have a Plan. GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE: Wisconsin VA Hospital May Have Infected 600 Veterans With HIV Or Hepatitis. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Buffalo Posted December 3, 2016 Share Posted December 3, 2016 ED MORRISSEY: Obamacare RIP: Republicans Finally Have a Plan. GOVERNMENT HEALTH CARE: Wisconsin VA Hospital May Have Infected 600 Veterans With HIV Or Hepatitis. No there is a recipe for a disaster... a high risk pool for preexisting conditions funding thru a medical savings acct... Gonna drive people broke. Medical Savings accts don't work except peripherally and unless you have a one stop shop its gonna make things even more complicated. Folks are just going to come to the ER without insurance in larger numbers then the currently do and all these doc in a box clinics are going to go away because no one has insurance. I am all for free market prinicipals... this would be a give away to insurance companies by allowing them to cherry pick clients, weed out underperformers and users of health insurance when they need it. I still think the Crop Insurance Model works the best... Mandate coverage and subsidize the high risk pools for both insurance cos and payers and allow insurance cos to keep premiums of low risk pools and split the middle risk pools premiums between Feds and Insurance cos... do it actuarial based, but subsidies should be asset/income based. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted December 4, 2016 Share Posted December 4, 2016 G.O.P. Plans Immediate Repeal of Health Law, Then a Delayhttp://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/us/politics/obamacare-repeal.html?_r=2 WASHINGTON — Republicans in Congress plan to move almost immediately next month to repeal the Affordable Care Act, as President-elect Donald J. Trump promised. But they also are likely to delay the effective date so that they have several years to phase out President Obama’s signature achievement. This emerging “repeal and delay” strategy, which Speaker Paul D. Ryan discussed this week with Vice President-elect Mike Pence, underscores a growing recognition that replacing the health care law will be technically complicated and could be politically explosive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted December 5, 2016 Share Posted December 5, 2016 (edited) Why Luxury TVs Are Affordable when Basic Health Care Is Not. “It’s not that complicated, folks. If you want good services, good products, innovative ideas, and low prices, you need competitive markets. The more you control, the higher the prices and the worse the results.” Yes, but more control produces more opportunities for graft. The Four Legs of a New Health-Care System The Great Recession enabled ObamaCare. Now the law’s failure makes reform possible. http://www.wsj.com/a...stem-1480550930 Edited December 5, 2016 by B-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 (edited) Pretty please? Chuck Schumer makes an Obamacare promise we hope Dems will keep Chuck Schumer: Democrats won't help GOP with Obamacare replacement http://washex.am/2gCFB1d A FRAMEWORK FOR REPLACING OBAMACARE James Capretta and Scott Gottlieb of AEI lay out the four reforms around which they say the effort to replace Obamacare should center. Capretta and Gottlieb are calling for a system that’s fully consumer driven — one that empowers individuals to be the surveyors and purchasers of their care. Such a system would stand in stark contrast to Obamacare which tells people what insurance they must have and pretends that many insurance plans tailored to individual needs are “junk insurance.” As noted above, Obamacare engages in this pretense to force some people to buy insurance they don’t need as a means of subsidizing other people. Some “subsidizing” will, I assume, be necessary in a post-Obamacare world if popular provisions, such as accommodating folks with pre-existing conditions, are to be continued. But the way to pay to for any such subsidies is the same way we normally pay for things the public deems desirable — through general revenue, not through coercing unlucky individuals into buying things they don’t want or need. Edited December 8, 2016 by B-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Pretty please? Chuck Schumer makes an Obamacare promise we hope Dems will keep Chuck Schumer: Democrats won't help GOP with Obamacare replacement http://washex.am/2gCFB1d Cool. Now tell them they're just along for the ride, and they can sit in back. And watch their pointy little heads explode with cries of "Racist!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keepthefaith Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Pretty please? Chuck Schumer makes an Obamacare promise we hope Dems will keep Chuck Schumer: Democrats won't help GOP with Obamacare replacement http://washex.am/2gCFB1d Right, because Obama, Pelosi and Reid got it absolutely right when they passed the ACA. Nobody could ever craft a better solution or improve what is in place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nanker Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 US life expectancy declines for the first time in 20 years. Life expectancy last fell during the peak of the HIV/Aids crisis in 1993. Thank you Obamacare! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 US life expectancy declines for the first time in 20 years. Life expectancy last fell during the peak of the HIV/Aids crisis in 1993. Thank you Obamacare! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted December 8, 2016 Share Posted December 8, 2016 Thanks, Climate Change! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 US life expectancy declines for the first time in 20 years. Life expectancy last fell during the peak of the HIV/Aids crisis in 1993. Thank you Obamacare! If You Like Your Longevity, You Can Keep Your Longevity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted December 9, 2016 Share Posted December 9, 2016 MICHAEL WARREN: GOP’s game plan for undoing Obamacare. It didn’t take long for Republican leadership in both houses of Congress to get over the shock of winning the election last month and start gaming out a repeal plan. The details remain under discussion, but House speaker Paul Ryan, Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell, and Vice President-elect Mike Pence (who is working closely with Ryan and McConnell on repeal) are already coalescing around a rough legislative framework. The plan might be summed up as: repeal, delay, replace. More precisely, Republicans plan to repeal most of the law, delay the implementation of most of that repeal for at least two years—and figure out what to replace it with in the interim. It’s a legislative strategy adopted largely from the Heritage Foundation’s recommendations. The think tank’s health care experts Nina Owcharenko and Edmund F. Haislmaier authored a brief in November that advocated a four-step process that begins: “Maximize the reconciliation process for repeal.” According to Mitch McConnell, this will come in the form of an “Obamacare repeal resolution” on January 3, the first day of the new Congress. Why start here and not a straightforward repeal bill? While such a repeal could pass the House of Representatives with a party-line vote, the small majority Republicans hold in the Senate (likely 52 to the Democrats’ 48) means there’s no supermajority of 60 to override an almost-certain Democratic filibuster. So the GOP plans to repeal Obamacare the same way Democrats passed it: through budget reconciliation, because Senate rules limit debate (and thereby avoid the filibuster threat) on budget legislation. This process, however, also limits what Republicans can repeal. Read the whole thing,............................ although it did leave me with one nagging question: ObamaCare was passed in its entirety via reconciliation, so I don’t understand why it can’t be repealed in its entirety via reconciliation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 POLITICO @politico 4h4 hours ago A surprising number of Democratic lawmakers say they'd play ball with replacing Obamacare http://politi.co/2hR0xlf It's not really "surprising" at all to anyone outside the beltway. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pine Barrens Mafia Posted December 16, 2016 Share Posted December 16, 2016 Thanks, Climate Change! Thanks, Russia! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 “we were approved for APTC subsidies, which totaled about $1,580 on a monthly basis…” Government Accountability Office: 9 of 12 fictitious Obamacare applicants were able to get coverage with subsidies Great work guys........ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted December 21, 2016 Share Posted December 21, 2016 YOUR OBAMACARE FAIL OF THE DAY: Another Obamacare Co-Op Exits Exchanges, Leaving Only 5 Co-Ops in 2017. Evergreen Health Cooperative Inc. of Maryland announced earlier this month that it is withdrawing from the Affordable Care Act exchanges next year, leaving only five co-ops in operation. The co-op will not offer or renew individual health policies in 2017. “After many months of working closely with Evergreen management, leadership at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and outside investors to find a workable solution, we have run out of time to meet the deadline for a January 1 effective date,” said Maryland Insurance Commissioner Al Redmer Jr. “We remain committed to a viable, competitive insurance industry in Maryland.” This action will force 6,000 customers serviced by the co-op to be automatically enrolled in new plans. The co-op was awarded $65.5 million in taxpayer-funded loans in 2012. Assuming the incoming Congress repeals ObamaCare, it will be a much bigger story that ruthless Republicans put the remaining co-ops out of business — and never mind that 18 others did little more than suck up tax dollars before going broke all on their own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tiberius Posted December 22, 2016 Share Posted December 22, 2016 http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/more-6-million-sign-obamacare-n698841 Nearly 6.4 million people have signed up for 2017 Obamacare coverage on the federal exchanges — 400,000 more than last year — the federal government said Wednesday. The administration has been pushing the marketplace hard in the last few weeks before Obama leaves office and puts his signature health reform legislation in the hands of Republicans who have promised to repeal it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 1, 2017 Share Posted January 1, 2017 Obamacare Attempt to Force Abortion Coverage by Wesley J. Smith A primary reason Donald Trump won the election, in my amateur’s opinion, was because members of faith communities voted for him as a means of self-defense. Most particularly, making Trump president was seen by these communities as the only way to prevent Hillary Clinton continuing the Obama administration’s unremitting war against faith-based institutions practicing what their churches preach. Obamacare was used by rampaging bureaucrats as the assault troops in that effort, such as attempting to force Catholic nuns to cover contraceptives. Here’s another one which I hadn’t heard about. Apparently a regulation was promulgated that would have required abortion (and transgender issues) coverage as a means of preventing “sex discrimination.” Now a judge has enjoined enforcement under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. From the Reuters story: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-obamacare-idUSKBN14L0OP A federal judge in Texas on Saturday issued a court order barring enforcement of an Obama administration policy seeking to extend anti-discrimination protections under the Affordable Care Act to transgender health and abortion-related services. The decision sides with Texas, seven other states and three Christian-affiliated healthcare groups challenging a rule that, according to the judge, defines sex bias to include “discrimination on the basis of gender identity and termination of pregnancy.” Denying abortion coverage is sex discrimination? That kind of blatant term redefinitionism (if you will) is one of the Left’s favorite weapons in the culture war they never cease waging. Had Clinton become POTUS, these efforts to force faith communities to embrace liberal secular values in the operation of their community institutions would have been pursued even more energetically. And once the Supreme Court was in their hands, the cultural hegemons would have prevailed. That self-defense vote will work, I think. Whatever policies Donald Trump pursues as POTUS, he won’t wage political war against religious institutions. Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B-Man Posted January 2, 2017 Share Posted January 2, 2017 (edited) House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday that the ball is in the GOP's court when it comes to replacing ObamaCare, according to reports. Pelosi didn’t necessarily rule out working with the GOP on replacing President Obama’s signature domestic policy achievement after it is repealed, but said the responsibility to do so will ultimately fall in their laps. "The ball is in their court," Pelosi said during a Democratic conference call on Monday, according to ABC’s Rick Klein. "You break it, you own it." (Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ... Thank you dems, for re-electing Nancy to be seen as your face in Washington DC Edited January 2, 2017 by B-Man Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chef Jim Posted January 3, 2017 Share Posted January 3, 2017 House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) said Monday that the ball is in the GOP's court when it comes to replacing ObamaCare, according to reports. Pelosi didnt necessarily rule out working with the GOP on replacing President Obamas signature domestic policy achievement after it is repealed, but said the responsibility to do so will ultimately fall in their laps. "The ball is in their court," Pelosi said during a Democratic conference call on Monday, according to ABCs Rick Klein. "You break it, you own it." (Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ... Thank you dems, for re-electing Nancy to be seen as your face in Washington DC "You break it you own it!" How about "you built you own it!" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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