Thread: Health Care Passes

Originally Posted by hazz

Originally Posted by sabang

Vote Republican. We are anti-AHA, anti-Iran peace deal, anti-immigration reform, anti-Congressional process, anti-budgetary resolutions, anti raising minimum wages, anti Roe vs Wade. If you scratch us a bit, we are anti civil rights, black man voting, women voting, reproductive rights also. Heck, We are anti-Everything, except climate science denial and that Obama is a Manchurian muslim. And we are Pro cutting taxes for the already Rich, because the fact they are already paying a record low rate of tax is not enough yet! VOTE REPUBLICAN!!! I dare you to.

is there any right wing campaine of bollocks that booners has not bought into lock stock and right up his ause?

No, he sits there feverishly browsing junior republican websites for spam before cutting and pasting it between faps.

Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

Originally Posted by hazz

Originally Posted by sabang

Vote Republican. We are anti-AHA, anti-Iran peace deal, anti-immigration reform, anti-Congressional process, anti-budgetary resolutions, anti raising minimum wages, anti Roe vs Wade. If you scratch us a bit, we are anti civil rights, black man voting, women voting, reproductive rights also. Heck, We are anti-Everything, except climate science denial and that Obama is a Manchurian muslim. And we are Pro cutting taxes for the already Rich, because the fact they are already paying a record low rate of tax is not enough yet! VOTE REPUBLICAN!!! I dare you to.

is there any right wing campaine of bollocks that booners has not bought into lock stock and right up his ause?

No, he sits there feverishly browsing junior republican websites for spam before cutting and pasting it between faps.

You a Jon Gruber acolyte too, Hairy?

"Stupidity of the American Voter" -- Jon Gruber

What a fine epitaph, eh?

But he's right, you only have to look at all those dickheads that vote republican. Can't get much more stupid than that, can you?

Originally Posted by harrybarracuda

you only have to look at all those dickheads that vote republican. Can't get much more stupid than that, can you?

That is a fair point . . .

^ Communism . . . clearly.

Leading the population into false sense of security by ensuring they get treated for their ills . . . and then: WHAM.
Forced Homosexual Marriage after Forced Conversion to Islam for everyone!!!!

Clearly

I'm still waiting to see my own doctor like Obama assured me I could...

You're in Thailand . . . is that also Obama's fault?

Thailand has universal health care.

Imagine how hypocritical it would be availing oneself of such services.

I'm also trying to find out where that promised $2,500.00 USD per year savings went?

two articles showing how the ACA is (and will be) helping more people,…..

White House: Alaska's Medicaid Expansion 'Right Decision'

The White House on Tuesday praised the decision by Alaska Gov. Bill Walker to expand Medicaid to thousands of residents over the wishes of the Republican-led Legislature, calling it the "right decision."

Alaska on Tuesday became the 29th state to expand Medicaid, opening up health care through what it calls the Healthy Alaska Plan to an estimated 20,000 low-income residents.

"Many Alaskans are working two or three jobs to make ends meet, and have not been able to afford health insurance," Walker said. "The Healthy Alaska Plan ensures that working Alaskans will no longer have to choose between health care and bankruptcy."

Walker has said nearly 20,000 working Alaskans will have access to health care under expansion. State-commissioned estimates released earlier this year indicate that nearly 42,000 Alaskans would be eligible for coverage under expanded Medicaid the first year and about 20,000 would enroll.

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Medicaid Drives Historic Coverage Gains In Colorado

Colorado’s uninsured rate has plummeted from a recent high of 15.8 percent four years ago to 6.7 percent this year, and the success of the Affordable Care Act in Colorado is almost entirely the result of Medicaid expansion, according to a much anticipated survey from the Colorado Health Institute.

The survey found that nearly one in three of the state’s 5.3 million residents now get insurance through Medicaid or other public health insurance programs.

Skip: Yada, yada, good news,……….

Jefferson County hugs the foothills west of Denver and is the state’s fourth most populous county. There, the uninsured rate dropped a stunning 75 percent in just two years from 11.6 percent to 2.8 percent. That was the largest decrease statewide, according to the survey; analysts found that about 50,000 fewer people are now uninsured in Jefferson County than in 2013.

Skip: More good news in the link and why it’s so important that people are/get covered,……….

With the rush of patients in Jefferson County, some are arriving with severe problems.

Jamie Vader, a physician’s assistant at the Wheat Ridge Clinic, cared for a 61-year-old woman who arrived last week with severe abdominal pain. Vader and a student working with her did an extensive history and suspected more than the first-brush diagnosis of a bladder infection. They feared possible cervical cancer.

Tests showed they were right. The woman came back two days later. She was devastated, but the clinic set her up with a specialist to treat the cancer along with mental health care and a care coordinator to help her navigate the many appointments she’ll now need.

“It’s been over 10 years since she had any well care. Had she gotten care then, she wouldn’t have cancer,” Vader said.

The woman’s prognosis is not good since her cancer is so advanced.

While it’s good that people are getting coverage now, Vader said she’s seeing many sad cases.

“You have to clean it up first,” she said “We’ve always had a lot of really sick people. There are just more of them.”

Meanwhile, back here in reality, outside of the rightwing blog-o-sphere:

"The number of Americans without health insurance coverage dropped from 13.3% in 2013 to 10.4% in 2014, the New York Times reports. That means that 8.8 million more people now have health insurance."

You've nothing to worry about anyway Booners. You can continue to use the socialised healthcare services here in Thailand.

Without Obamacare, Jobs Report Might've Been Worse





The Affordable Care Act, which is infusing millions of new paying customers into the economy who previously couldn’t afford medical care services, continues to boost jobs growth as the health industry emphasizes outpatient care and value-based medicine.


The health care industry added 22,000 jobs last month, which was about on par with February totals for health services jobs, according to the jobs report issued Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In the past year alone, 363,000 jobs have been added in the health sector. The entire U.S. economy added 126,000 jobs in March though such totals ended a string of 12 consecutive months when 200,000 jobs or more were added to employment rolls.


The growth in health care continues to come in the ambulatory care sector which is key to the shift away from fee-for-service medicine to value-based care models that emphasize outreach to patients, encouraging them to take their medications and see a primary care provider, typically in a less costly outpatient care setting.
The labor department said there were 19,000 jobs added in the ambulatory care sector. By comparison, hospitals added just 8,000 jobs. And the nursing home sector actually contracted by losing 6,000 jobs.



As an example of the shift going on in health care, technology firms are benefiting as well as hospitals and other traditional medical care providers look to cloud-based platforms to help them manage populations of patients. Value-based care emphasizes health outcomes.


On Friday, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel said health technology company ZirMed, which helps hospitals manage populations of patients in part with predictive analytics and help with claims management, is openings its first Chicago office and would add 200 or more jobs, including “advanced healthcare technologists” to what it calls a “Healthcare Analytics Center of Excellence.”


Forbes Welcome

Christmas came early for 225,000 Cajuns

Louisiana Just Voted to Give a Quarter of a Million People Health Care

Republican Sen. David Vitter lost his bid to be the next governor of Louisiana on Saturday, and it wasn't even close. The two-term senator lost the runoff election to Democratic state Rep. John Bel Edwards by double digits, setting the stage for the state to potentially become the first in the Deep South to accept a pivotal part of Obamacare.

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(By the time Jindal dropped out of the presidential race on Wednesday, the one-time rising star's approval ratings had dropped to 20-percent.)

Jindal also rejected federal funding to expand Medicaid. Edwards has pledged to sign an executive order authorizing the expansion of the program on his first day in office. That's a really big deal. Such a move would provide coverage to about 225,000 residents in one of the poorest states in the nation.

Half of co-ops under Obama Care have failed, leaving tax payers on the hook for millions.

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Half of co-ops under Obama Care have failed, leaving tax payers on the hook for millions.

Half of Repeater's posts are unsourced claims and the rest are bollocks.

UnitedHealth takes a direct approach with the Affordable Care Act - StarTribune.com

NOVEMBER 28, 2015 — 11:13AM

UnitedHealth takes a direct approach with the Affordable Care Act

UnitedHealth Group shook the ground under the Affordable Care Act market for individual health insurance when it said it was considering withdrawing altogether after a bad experience this year.

Officials at Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth said the company’s initiative with ACA-related exchanges, which United hoped would be roughly a break-even business in 2015, was instead a money loser, and will be again in 2016.

UnitedHealth is, after all, the nation’s largest health insurance company. It has earned a reputation for good management. It if can’t sell insurance through an exchange and make money, the whole program created by the ACA to get more people private health insurance must be in trouble.

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Half of co-ops under Obama Care have failed, leaving tax payers on the hook for millions.

Originally Posted by slackula

Half of Repeater's posts are unsourced claims and the rest are bollocks.

He works on smeg-like fractions, however, where another 1/3 are simply brainfarts evacuationg from his lobotomised brain

(prepare for witty responses from milkman; 'duh, your old'<sic>, 'fool', 'your dumm'<sic> etc...)


^ You forgot to mention the part where the CEO mentioned:
"this may take longer to evolve"

You're welcome

Originally Posted by slackula

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Half of co-ops under Obama Care have failed, leaving tax payers on the hook for millions.

Half of Repeater's posts are unsourced claims and the rest are bollocks.

Is this your way of saying you don't believe me?

Originally Posted by panama hat

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Half of co-ops under Obama Care have failed, leaving tax payers on the hook for millions.

Originally Posted by slackula

Half of Repeater's posts are unsourced claims and the rest are bollocks.

He works on smeg-like fractions, however, where another 1/3 are simply brainfarts evacuationg from his lobotomised brain

(prepare for witty responses from milkman; 'duh, your old'<sic>, 'fool', 'your dumm'<sic> etc...)


^ You forgot to mention the part where the CEO mentioned:
"this may take longer to evolve"

You're welcome

More Than Half of Obamacare's Co-Ops Have Now Failed -- Here's ...
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Nov 15, 2015 - More Than Half of Obamacare's Co-Ops Have Now Failed -- Here's Why You Should Care ... to make the transition to the individual insurance market for the first time under Obamacare.

^ Your quoted website is fool.com? No wonder you 'read' it

You quote the Motley's site but nothing specific. Do you have a problem (rhetorical questions coming up) highlighting, copying and pasting something?

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Originally Posted by slackula

Originally Posted by RPETER65

Half of co-ops under Obama Care have failed, leaving tax payers on the hook for millions.

Half of Repeater's posts are unsourced claims and the rest are bollocks.

Is this your way of saying you don't believe me?

You're quick off the mark on this one . . .

Obamacare Premiums To Soar 3 Times Faster Than Feds Claim
RICHARD POLLOCK, Reporter
10:58 PM 11/01/2015

Obamacare premium costs will soar 20.3 percent on average in 2016 instead of the 7.5 percent increase claimed by federal officials, according to an analysis by The Daily Caller News Foundation.

The discrepancy is because the government excluded price data for three of the four Obamacare health insurance plans when the officials issued their recent forecast claiming enrollees would face only a 7.5 percent average rate increase in 2016.

When data for all four plans are included, premium costs will actually rise on average 20.3 percent next year. The 2015 Obamacare price hike was 20.3 percent.

The Obamacare program’s federal exchange operates in 37 states where officials declined to set up state-run exchanges. Officials in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Center for Medicare Services, which manages Obamacare, only calculated price changes for the health insurance program’s Silver plan, thus ignoring data for the Bronze, Gold and Platinum plans.

Obamacare Premiums To Be 3 Times Higher In 2016 Than Predicted | The Daily Caller

^
The fear mongerers polluting information with their distortions

Then there's this

An Insurer Wants to Raise Its Obamacare Premiums by 85 Percent. Don't Sweat It.

Under Obamacare, health insurance companies that want to jack up their premiums by more than 10 percent in a year are required to submit their requests to state and federal regulators for review. Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services posted all of those petitions online in an easily searchable database, which revealed that a number of insurers are, in fact, asking for double-digit rate hikes. As Politico notes, some large plans could theoretically get 20 or even 30 percent more expensive. The New York Times found one insurer in Georgia looking to up its premiums by as much as 85 percent. The Wall Street Journal, which reported on the news earlier after states began making the filings public, thinks it is "setting the stage for an intense debate this summer over the law’s impact."

So what does this tell us about the overall state of the insurance market, and the effects of Obamacare on the cost of health coverage? In spite of what John Boehner might have you think, not much. Because, again, the administration has done nothing but offer a list of the companies that are seeking especially large bumps. “Trying to gauge the average premium hike from just the biggest increases is like measuring the average height of the public by looking at N.B.A. players,” Larry Levitt of the Kaiser Foundation told the Times. Moreover, some states may ultimately end up rejecting the gaudiest requests if they're deemed unjustified.

How skewed is the federal database? Here's one telling illustration from ACAsignups.net founder Charles Gaba. In Washington State, 17 insurers submitted health plans for next year, requesting an average rate increase of 5.4 percent. Only three of those companies asked for a big enough hike to show up on the federal rate review site. Together, they requested bumps averaging 18 percent, more than three times larger than the actual statewide mean. That gap should make everyone think twice before drawing conclusions from yesterday's data dump.

The new federal numbers are useful in some senses, especially because insurers are required to explain why they are requesting such high increases. Obamacare has profoundly changed the insurance landscape by requiring companies to cover people who would have previously been shut out of the market due to pre-existing conditions, while also forcing more young and healthy Americans to pay for coverage. And as the Times and Politico both noted, some plans seemed to miscalculate how sick their customers would be, and are adjusting their prices now that they have a better picture of what the pool looks like. Others have said they are trying to compensate for the rising cost of pharmaceuticals. Other plans cut rates last year in order to compete, and are now reversing course in order to make a profit.

But again, that only means some companies guessed very wrong about their customer base, or are struggling with drug costs. There's a very strong chance we're talking more about the exceptions rather than the rule.

Jordan Weissmann is Slate’s senior business and economics correspondent.

^^ Ah the daily caller a far right website run by none other than Tucker Carlson. We keep hearing all this bogus doom and gloom from the right wing propaganda machine but the ACA keeps chugging along.

Move along nothing to see here.

How's that Obama Care working for ya now...?