Obamacare
This is the best explanation I've seen about Obamacare, what it is/isn't, what it does/doesn't, and why.
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very informative and even-handed
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It makes me sad to think how much time, energy, money, and political good will
has been wasted by the GOP and GOP governors fighting Obamacare. |
I wonder if Roberts will take much heat on this? His position seems conservative in the sense of not being disruptive of the way society has organized itself to address a difficult problem.
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Maybe he listened to these Arizona republicans.
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Is there supposed to be some correlation between the employment info and the insurance info?
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The GOP has been bullet-pointing Obamacare as a "JOB KILLER" ever since the ACA was introduced. |
So we'd have more jobs without it. OK.
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:D
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But big increases next year. Quote:
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Cost transference and cost reduction are different things. Getting those other people to pay for stuff ... never mind.
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If the rate increases are justified, then complaining about it is essentially complaining that more sick people are getting treatment than were expected.
If they're not justified, then people will get rebate checks at the end of the year. I suspect that, as mentioned in the article, the release of pent-up demand pushed much of the increase. Also, I suspect that a lot of people who were used to going to the ER for routine healthcare are still doing so, but now with insurance cards. That's going to hit the insurance companys' bottom lines until they can get their new members educated and paired with GPs. |
Plus, as the article also mentioned, the mass of uninsured entering the system were more likely to be sick than those already insured, because being sick was precisely the reason they couldn't get insured under the old system.
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Sicker and older... and they are an increasing population ...
But - "If insurance regulators “do their job, my expectation is that [rates hikes] will come in significantly lower than what’s being requested.” BO |
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