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obama, champion of healthcare... bombing a hospital in afghanistan
Americans Fall In Love With Obamacare As New Poll Shows Growing ACA Support
According to the latest PPP Poll, more Americans support Obamacare than oppose it as Democrats have become unified in their support of the ACA.PPP discussed the results, “Evidence continues to mount that the Affordable Care Act is just not a liability for Democrats anymore. Nationally we find that 42% of voters support it to 40% who are opposed.
Those numbers are in line with what we’ve found in most swing states where we’ve polled on it over the course of this year. It’s a far cry from when we used to consistently find voters opposed to it by a 10-15 point margin nationally and in key states. One big reason for the change is that Democrats (73%) are more unified in their support of it than Republicans (70%) are in their opposition to it.”
It turns out that as more Americans have gained first-hand experience with the health care law, they have liked the results.
Obamacare as a term has been demonized by years of Republican lies and smears, but the law itself is not the political anchor that Republicans had hoped it would be.
The worse news for Republicans is that approval of the law has been steady since people started experiencing the benefits of the ACA.
Obamacare is closer to becoming a political asset than it is to being a liability for Democrats.As more people gain coverage, it is going to be difficult to impossible for Republicans to be able to repeal the law.
What makes 2016 so urgent for Obamacare critics is that if they fail to win the White House, it is likely that the ACA will be the law of the land for a very long time.
The public is finally catching up to what Democrats have known for a long time. Obamacare is a good thing for our country and the calls of hands off my Obamacare will only grow in the months and years to come.
http://www.politicususa.com/2015/10/...iticus+USA+%29
of the 40% who are opposed, many of them are opposed because ACA doesn't go far enough, does provide a govt insurance option
obama, champion of healthcare... bombing a hospital in afghanistan
he bombed a hospital like Hillary killed 4 Benghazi people
Repus privatizing, screwing up Medicaid
Iowa Hands Over Medicaid to Companies With Troubled Histories
Iowa Department of Human Services (DHS) officials said last week that the agency had signed contracts with four companies to implement RepublicanGov. Terry Branstad’s plan to privatize the state’s Medicaidprogram, despite the troubled history and frequently criticized lobbying tactics of the companies selected to run the program.
Critics of the privatization scheme point to other states that have handed over Medicaid to health-care companies only to watch Medicaid waiting lists grow and service dwindle.
Iowa Medicaid Director Mikki Stier said in a statement that implementation of the program is intended to improve quality and access, promoting outcomes and accountability while creating a more predictable and sustainable Medicaid budget.
DHS officials have claimed that the program could save the state $51.3 million in its first six months. Lawmakers and critics of the privatization plan have questioned the accuracy of the agency’s estimates.
The four companies that the state has hired to manage Medicaid were announced by DHS in August. Amerigroup Iowa, AmeriHealth Caritas Iowa, UnitedHealthcare Plan of the River Valley and WellCare of Iowa will operate the state’s $4.2 billion Medicaid program.
Iowa’s DHS is working with the companies to establish provider networks in the new IA Health Link program that will serve nearly 600,000 low-income Iowans.
The four companies that the state has contracted each have troubled histories of managing similar programs in other states, according to a Des Moines Register investigation. More than $10.2 million in fines have been imposed on the companies resulting from more than 1,500 regulatory violations.
Amerigroup, the parent company of Amerigroup Iowa, in its bid for the contract, provided the state with information about nearly 800 regulatory sanctions against it, totaling more than $4.7 million in fines. Among the companies that provided bids for the Iowa contracts, no other company disclosed as many sanctions or as many fines as Amerigroup.
Amerigroup agreed to pay $225 million in 2008 to settle claims that it defrauded the Illinois Medicaid program by systematically avoiding enrolling pregnant women and unhealthy patients in the state’s managed care program, reported the Wall Street Journal.
Amerigroup was one of the three managed care companies contracted by Kansas to operate a similar Medicaid privatization program championed by Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. KanCare has been mired in controversy since its inception, and Amerigroup has been at the center.
KanCare was launched in January 2013, when the state’s traditional Medicaid program was phased out. In its place, the Brownback administration contracted three for-profit health insurance companies to coordinate health care for more than 360,000 low-income residents. Amerigroup Kansas, United Healthcare Community Plan and the Sunflower Health Plan all received contracts to operate the program.
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/20...ality+Check%29
Privatizing Medicaid fails as wonderfully as privatizing K12 to charter schools.
Cosmic Irony: States That Didn't Expand Medicaid Paying More For The Program
States that refused to expand Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act are now paying the price, literally.
A new Kaiser Family Foundation report released last week suggests that the Republican-controlled non-expansion states are seeing their share of Medicaid costs rise more sharply than expansion states.
The trend undercuts a popular argument against the Medicaid expansion in states where Republican leaders continue to resist opting into the program, under which the federal government pays 100 percent of costs through 2016 and at least 90 percent share after.
“We did see a higher growth rate of what states spent of their own dollars on Medicaid in the in non-expansion states than we did in the expansion states” said Laura Snyder, a senior policy analyst at the Kaiser Family Foundation. The report found that total spending in expansion states grew by 17.7 percent, but the state spending only grew by 3.4 percent. Meanwhile, state spending on Medicaid in non-expansion states increased by 6.9 percent as total spending rose by 6.1 percent.
According to Snyder, it is not entirely clear what is driving the trend, but a number factors appear to be at play. Obviously having the federal government bear the burden for Medicaid expansion costs helped expansion-states curb their own spending on the program after it expanded. However, it also appears that Medicaid expansion states have saved money beyond that, such as in the way it they were delivering the program or how the expansion affected other aspects of Medicaid.
“There’s some potential the ACA is having some effect in the report we did,” Snyder said. “Among the expansion states, some of them noted savings in other parts of their budgets, some of them also noted savings within the Medicaid program.”
Furthermore, the report found that more than two-thirds of expansion states saw that the amount they paid per member per month was at or lower than their previous projections.
Additionally, non-expansion states on average saw a rise in their enrollees, perhaps due to more people becoming aware they were eligible for Medicaid with the publicity about the ACA, which could have attributed to the rise in the states' costs.
Finally, spending levels of non-expansion states -- which was measured by Kaiser in weighted averages, rather than in state-by-state breakdowns in the report -- could have been impacted by the rise in costs in big states like Texas, which saw a decline in their traditional match rate, Snyder said.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/stat...+%28TPMNews%29
Repug MISgovernance!
over their own states, over their own poor, to spite the Muslim n!gg@
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2015/0...ford-Treatment
This it's how Ponzi's work....look great on paper....makes beautiful charts....real life, not so much.
people who can't afford treatmnt isn't ACA's, Obama's fault. It's the fault of the predatory, greedy, -all-y'all insurers, docs, hospitals, and their INVESTORS demanding stock price up and dividend.
That's how unregulated, predatory capitalism works, in real USA life.
It's nothing more than cost shifting.....something that was easily predicted by anyone with an occupied brain pan.
insurance IS cost shifting, more precisely cost spreading. you against insurance, too?
Thats the gist.. It aint insurance anymore. Its all HMO. Trying to shoehorn that concept into leveraging risk across time is asinine.
Hence the ongoing rate and affordability chaos we're witnessing now.
the affordability "chaos", with health care prices' annual increase of 2 or 3 x inflation been around for 20, 30 years. That's not ACA's fault, but keep trying.
For-profit health care is just another way BigCorp/investors/capitalists suck up the wealth of all Americans, aka, ATMs.
ACA did nothing to address this...nothing.
Instead, it simply provided another avenue for increase. Keep trying to defend this piece of legislation.
If ACA had touched BigHealthCare's cheese, the rats would have Harry-and-Louise'd it before it got out of committee.
Totally separate from ACA, the entire for-profit health care system is a huge scam
Drug Makers Sidestep Barriers on Pricing
The pain reliever Duexis is a combination of two old drugs, the generic equivalents of Motrin and Pepcid.
If prescribed separately, the two drugs together would cost no more than $20 or $40 a month. By contrast, Duexis, which contains both in a single pill, costs about $1,500 a month.
Yet sales of the drug are growing rapidly, in large part because its manufacturer, Horizon Pharma, has figured out a way to cir vent efforts of insurers and pharmacists to switch patients to the generic components, or even to the over-the-counter versions.
It is called “Prescriptions Made Easy.” Instead of sending their patients to the drugstore with a prescription, doctors are urged by Horizon to submit prescriptions directly to a mail-order specialty pharmacy affiliated with the drug company. The pharmacy mails the drug to the patient and deals with the insurance companies, relieving the doctor of the reimbursement hassle that might otherwise discourage them from prescribing such an expensive drug.
“They are all trying to get rid of the sticker shock of using their drugs,” said Dr. Kenneth Beer, a dermatologist in West Palm Beach, Fla. “They become the drugstore now,” he said.
.... Valeant ... etc, etc, etc
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/20...n-pricing.html
So instead we get . Good solution. Awesome show Great Job!
the overriding objective was to get people access to health care, MISSION ACCOMPLISHED. Your "perfect" plan would have NEVER passed. ACA is having lots of other effects, like price transparency, penalties for re-admissions, but BigHealthCare is a ing greedy, nasty, impossible animal to wrangle. That's not ACA's fault.
next phase -- Obamacare death spiral
.... still waiting for it, along with hyper-inflation, a destroyed US economy, and a weak dollar. you mofos, and the mofos you elect, are ALWAYS wrong.
Access ro healthcare they cant afford. Solid answer
Well, what will cause it is not enough young, healthy people enrolling to help pay for all the sickos. Don't blame the messenger.
"price transparency".
The plan I propose it's far from perfect....thanks for the strawnan.
I would, however, stay away from the fool's gold of the current trainwreck....that is rolling it in all at once.
Lay out a framework of changes to be made, problems to address then draw up the time frame. I wouldnt even consider < 5 years. , I'd shoot for a decade.
But it's impossible to pass.
Bull .
The Repugs have voted 50+ times to kill ACA, and now are attempting to take it apart piecemeal.
The plan I propose it's far from perfect....thanks for the strawnan.
I would, however, stay away from the fool's gold of the current trainwreck....that is rolling it in all at once.
Lay out a framework of changes to be made, problems to address then draw up the time frame. I wouldnt even consider < 5 years. , I'd shoot for a decade.
Bull .
the 40 Billionaire Boys Toys in the House will NEVER vote for any kind of serious health care reform (ideology: 1. the free market is perfect, 2. NO GOOD (for the 90%) can come from govt) , and they will be joined by less House Repugs who fear not voting with the 40 and get punished by being primaried by the billionaires (eg, Cantor beat by a tea bagger)
So as long as insane gerrymandering (and new gerrymandering is their menu), plus voter suppression cements the Repugs SAFELY into place, the gridlock will continue, nothing significant will change, or even be attempted. The 40+ want the Hastert rule left in place.
iow, America (of the 90%) is ED by the Repugs, and is un able due to gerrymandering, voter suppression, aided by Repug vote counting fraud, Citizens-United.
Bull .
One piece at a time. Stop the give-up and go borrow some balls.
My balls are 100% more realistic than yours, less.
That 40+ plus Repug pussies will keep growing, to 50 and up, as the Kock Bros, etc buy more control of America, both at Federal and state levels.
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How about this insane MISgovernance, USA default is their objective:
Lawmakers Wrangle Over Plans to Avert, Manage or Embrace Default
With the potential for an unprecedented federal default two weeks away, House Republicans on Wednesday plan to pass legislation not to avert disaster, but rather to manage it, channeling daily tax collections to the nation’s creditors and Social Security recipients if the government’s borrowing limit is not lifted.
nine of last year’s 28 Republican supporters have left Congress and at least three of their Republican successors — Representatives Dave Brat of Virginia, Steve Knight of California and Mark Walker, Republican of North Carolina — are almost certain to be opposed.
Also, 14 Democrats who voted to increase the debt limit are gone, replaced by Republicans, some of whom are likely to vote no.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/21...ault.html?_r=1
Nobody on this board has any given me any path to stop Repugs from ing America and Americans, who will remain ed for decades, ing paid for by the kleptocratic/oligarchic/plutocratic 1%/VRWC/BigCorp/ALEC owning the Repugs.
America has reverted to, and will keep moving to, the historic mean, which is a few wealthy, powerful individuals running the show. The period 1945 - 1975 was an anomaly.
"Stop the give-up and go borrow some balls"
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