Yup but Gopher has 2 good news stories for every one of your bad ones .
But I wonder how he will spin the Gopher State's going to private industry to run there vaunted exchange ?
Smile! You’ve Got Socialized Healthcare!
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But I wonder how he will spin the Gopher State's going to private industry to run there vaunted exchange ?
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As for the notion that cancer patients have less access to coverage, I believe we discussed that previously. Contrary to Breitbart's distortions,
Obamacare is having an impact on narrow networks, it's also the case that the law dramatically increases access to care for cancer patients. The law's provision outlawing discrimination against pre-existing conditions arguably benefits cancer patients more than any other group. The law also provides premium protection for people with health conditions, removes lifetime and annual limits on benefits, and expands cancer screening and other preventive measures. The American Cancer Society endorsed the law and has written extensively on the benefits of the law for cancer patients, including listing six ways Obamacare "will meaningfully improve the health care system for people touched by cancer."
Right-Wing Media Distort AP Story On Access To Cancer Centers Under Obamacare | Blog | Media Matters for America
Even the American Cancer Society has reported that this is yet another distortion which so many on the deluded far right have swallowed without looking into the facts.
"SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX 5) — Two months after KPIX 5 ConsumerWatch first reported about some doctors listed on the Covered California exchange were actually not accepting the plans, insurer Anthem Blue Cross admitted that nearly 1,000 doctors were erroneously listed..."
Insurer Admits Nearly 1,000 Doctors Wrongly Placed On Covered California Provider List « CBS San Francisco
Insurer Admits Nearly 1,000 Doctors Wrongly Placed On Covered California Provider List « CBS San Francisco
Someone didn't get the memo.
Dem Congressman on Obamacare: "We Will Lose Seats In The House" | Video | RealClearPolitics
Dem Congressman on Obamacare: "We Will Lose Seats In The House" | Video | RealClearPolitics
About half of the enrollees in Georgia haven't paid their insurance premiums. As a result they don't really have health coverage.
General Electric is telling its investors that Obamacare is to blame for recent losses in the company’s health care division, The Daily Caller has learned.
“Hospitals and clinics appear to be delaying purchases and responses to the ACA [Affordable Care Act],” stated GE senior vice president and CFO Jeffrey S. Bornstein in the company’s first-quarter earnings call.
General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt, an outside economic adviser to President Obama, confirmed at a shareholder meeting Wednesday that the health sector is experiencing uncertainty.
Asked at the meeting about Obamacare’s impact on the company’s earnings, Immelt responded, “I think there’s still a lot of uncertainty in health care and we’ll just have to see that over time.”
The company’s health care unit, which produces medical and biopharmaceutical technologies and which grew in 2013, showed losses in revenues, segment profits, margins and orders in the first quarter of 2014.
The Daily Caller has reported extensively on Obamacare’s damage to the medical device and technology industry. By February, the health-care law had already cost 33,000 jobs in the industry and 132,000 more were expected, according to a report from an industry trade group.
Read more: GE to investors: Obamacare to blame for losses | The Daily Caller
“Hospitals and clinics appear to be delaying purchases and responses to the ACA [Affordable Care Act],” stated GE senior vice president and CFO Jeffrey S. Bornstein in the company’s first-quarter earnings call.
General Electric CEO Jeffrey Immelt, an outside economic adviser to President Obama, confirmed at a shareholder meeting Wednesday that the health sector is experiencing uncertainty.
Asked at the meeting about Obamacare’s impact on the company’s earnings, Immelt responded, “I think there’s still a lot of uncertainty in health care and we’ll just have to see that over time.”
The company’s health care unit, which produces medical and biopharmaceutical technologies and which grew in 2013, showed losses in revenues, segment profits, margins and orders in the first quarter of 2014.
The Daily Caller has reported extensively on Obamacare’s damage to the medical device and technology industry. By February, the health-care law had already cost 33,000 jobs in the industry and 132,000 more were expected, according to a report from an industry trade group.
Read more: GE to investors: Obamacare to blame for losses | The Daily Caller
And the hits keep coming.
Democrat Steve Lynch called it from the start. He is actually my state representative and I vote for him each time. He is in my opinion the only one of the Massachusetts delegates to Congress that isn't ultra-liberal and voted against Obamacare. He can hold his head high on this.
Democrat Steve Lynch called it from the start. He is actually my state representative and I vote for him each time. He is in my opinion the only one of the Massachusetts delegates to Congress that isn't ultra-liberal and voted against Obamacare. He can hold his head high on this.
The ACA Becomes a Democratic Weapon as Sen. Mary Landrieu Uses It to Destroy GOP Opponent
In the key state of Louisiana, Sen. Mary Landrieu isn’t running away from Obamacare. She is using the ACA as weapon to point out how Republicans who have health insurance deny it to others.
In an interview with The Washington Post, Landrieu said:
“It’s a solid law that needs improvement,” Landrieu said. “My opponent offers nothing but repeal, repeal, and repeal. And even with all the law’s setbacks, we’re seeing benefits for thousands of people in Louisiana.”
“I think the benefits that people have received are worth fighting for,” Landrieu continued, citing an end to discrimination against preexisting conditions and extended coverage for young adults on parents’ plans. “I think Bill Cassidy is going to be at a distinct disadvantage. He has insurance, but he’s also denying it to the 242,000 people who fall into the Jindal gap. He also wants to take coverage away from tens of thousands who have gotten it for the first time.”
Sen. Landrieu’s comments represent the changing Democratic tactics on the ACA. Now that there is proof that the law is working and helping millions of people, Democrats can shift the healthcare debate to discussing what will happen if Republicans who want to repeal the law get their way.
Landrieu’s argument also echos the fairness argument that Democrats have bludgeoning Republicans with on various issues for the last three years. It’s not fair that her Republican opponents who have health insurance get to deny hundreds of thousands of people in her state who lack health care. It is a moral argument that moves the discussion past killing the ACA and puts Republicans on the defense about their position of repeal.
Landrieu uses obamacare in her campaign and polls differ on its success 2014 Louisiana Senate: Cassidy vs. Landrieu - Polls - HuffPost Pollster
In the key state of Louisiana, Sen. Mary Landrieu isn’t running away from Obamacare. She is using the ACA as weapon to point out how Republicans who have health insurance deny it to others.
In an interview with The Washington Post, Landrieu said:
“It’s a solid law that needs improvement,” Landrieu said. “My opponent offers nothing but repeal, repeal, and repeal. And even with all the law’s setbacks, we’re seeing benefits for thousands of people in Louisiana.”
“I think the benefits that people have received are worth fighting for,” Landrieu continued, citing an end to discrimination against preexisting conditions and extended coverage for young adults on parents’ plans. “I think Bill Cassidy is going to be at a distinct disadvantage. He has insurance, but he’s also denying it to the 242,000 people who fall into the Jindal gap. He also wants to take coverage away from tens of thousands who have gotten it for the first time.”
Sen. Landrieu’s comments represent the changing Democratic tactics on the ACA. Now that there is proof that the law is working and helping millions of people, Democrats can shift the healthcare debate to discussing what will happen if Republicans who want to repeal the law get their way.
Landrieu’s argument also echos the fairness argument that Democrats have bludgeoning Republicans with on various issues for the last three years. It’s not fair that her Republican opponents who have health insurance get to deny hundreds of thousands of people in her state who lack health care. It is a moral argument that moves the discussion past killing the ACA and puts Republicans on the defense about their position of repeal.
Landrieu uses obamacare in her campaign and polls differ on its success 2014 Louisiana Senate: Cassidy vs. Landrieu - Polls - HuffPost Pollster
According to your link Landrieu is behind. AND the Huff Post is a shrill for the Democrats.
Please... continue posting this great news!
Brought to you by the people who said "If you like your plan you can keep your plan. If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor."
The plan is a failure.
It is incredible to see how the tards are basing the success on enrollees and nothing else.
More and more people are going to prison for drugs... the war on drugs is successful.
Everything good about Obamacare has already happened. But everything bad was delayed and is still to come.
So true... as Dem. Steve Lynch said, they have deferred many of the future mandates and provisions because "it's going to hit the fan" when they do.
And signups... because people are forced to sign up or they lose a significant portion of their taxes if they don't is a success!
Pro ACA numbers are going up:
Cases like this one tell why:
Once opposed to ACA, now a convert
''"I don't read what the Democrats have to say about it because I think they're full of it," he told his friend Bob Leinhauser, who suggested he sign up.
That refrain changed this year when a faulty aortic valve almost felled Angstadt.
"A lot of people I talk to are so misinformed about the ACA," Angstadt said. "I was, before Bob went through all this for me. I would recommend it to anybody
... "I didn't trust this Obamacare. One of the big reasons is it sounded too good to be true."
"I probably would have ended up falling over dead" without the surgery, Angstadt said. "Not only did it save my life, it's going to give me a better quality of life."
Angstadt faces a long recovery, but his conversion to ACA supporter is done.
From my own experience, the ACA is everything it's supposed to be and, in fact, better than it's made out to be."
Once opposed to ACA, now a convert
Aetna: Late Obamacare changes account for half of 2015 premium increases
"...Aetna chief executive Mark Bertolini says premium increases in those 17 states, which encompass 132 rating areas, will be quite literally all over the map in 2015. He said those increases will range from “the very low single digits” to “some that will be over double digits.” That depends on the number of members, the demographics of memberships and what limited information the company has about new members, he said.
Bertolini said about half of the company’s premium increases, whatever they turn out to be, will be attributable to “on the fly” regulatory changes made by the Obama administration. He cited as an example the administration’s policy of allowing old health plans that were supposed to expire in 2014 to be extended another three years if states and insurers wanted to..."
Aetna: Late Obamacare changes account for half of 2015 premium increases
"...Aetna chief executive Mark Bertolini says premium increases in those 17 states, which encompass 132 rating areas, will be quite literally all over the map in 2015. He said those increases will range from “the very low single digits” to “some that will be over double digits.” That depends on the number of members, the demographics of memberships and what limited information the company has about new members, he said.
Bertolini said about half of the company’s premium increases, whatever they turn out to be, will be attributable to “on the fly” regulatory changes made by the Obama administration. He cited as an example the administration’s policy of allowing old health plans that were supposed to expire in 2014 to be extended another three years if states and insurers wanted to..."
Aetna: Late Obamacare changes account for half of 2015 premium increases
The numbers keep going way up:
From Boehner to Rush: Republicans Are Crushed as Obamacare Enrollment Hits 17.8 Million
From Boehner to Rush: Republicans Are Crushed as Obamacare Enrollment Hits 17.8 Million
By: Jason Easley
Thursday, May, 1st, 2014
Republicans are so crushed by the news that total ACA enrollment has reached 17.8 million that they are immediately trying to forget Obamacare, and are changing the subject to Benghazi.
The numbers via an HHS press release:
Importantly, 2.2 million (28 percent) of those who selected a Marketplace plan were young adults ages 18 to 34 — a number that grows to 2.7 million when counting ages 0 to 34, the report found. The report also shows, for the first time, the race and ethnicity of the 69 percent of enrollees in the Federally-facilitated Marketplaces who voluntarily reported this information.
HHS also announced today that more than 4.8 million additional individuals enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP through the end of March 2014, compared to enrollment before the Marketplace opened last October.
“More than eight million Americans signed up through the Marketplace, exceeding expectations and demonstrating brisk demand for quality, affordable coverage,” said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. “In addition, over 4.8 million more people have been covered by states through Medicaid and CHIP programs, around 3 million more Americans under 26 are covered under their parents’ plans, and recent estimates show that an additional 5 million people have purchased coverage outside of the Marketplace in Affordable Care Act-compliant plans. Together we are ensuring that health coverage is more accessible than ever before, which is important for families, for businesses and for the nation’s health and wellbeing.”
If we exempt the three million kids who stayed on their parents’ plan, because they didn’t enroll, the total number of people who now have coverage thanks to the ACA is 17.8 million. The majority of ACA enrollees are white (62.3%) and female (54%). Thirty-four percent of those who enrolled are under age 35, and 28% are age 18-34.
Can't argue with success.
From Boehner to Rush: Republicans Are Crushed as Obamacare Enrollment Hits 17.8 Million
From Boehner to Rush: Republicans Are Crushed as Obamacare Enrollment Hits 17.8 Million
By: Jason Easley
Thursday, May, 1st, 2014
Republicans are so crushed by the news that total ACA enrollment has reached 17.8 million that they are immediately trying to forget Obamacare, and are changing the subject to Benghazi.
The numbers via an HHS press release:
Importantly, 2.2 million (28 percent) of those who selected a Marketplace plan were young adults ages 18 to 34 — a number that grows to 2.7 million when counting ages 0 to 34, the report found. The report also shows, for the first time, the race and ethnicity of the 69 percent of enrollees in the Federally-facilitated Marketplaces who voluntarily reported this information.
HHS also announced today that more than 4.8 million additional individuals enrolled in Medicaid and CHIP through the end of March 2014, compared to enrollment before the Marketplace opened last October.
“More than eight million Americans signed up through the Marketplace, exceeding expectations and demonstrating brisk demand for quality, affordable coverage,” said HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. “In addition, over 4.8 million more people have been covered by states through Medicaid and CHIP programs, around 3 million more Americans under 26 are covered under their parents’ plans, and recent estimates show that an additional 5 million people have purchased coverage outside of the Marketplace in Affordable Care Act-compliant plans. Together we are ensuring that health coverage is more accessible than ever before, which is important for families, for businesses and for the nation’s health and wellbeing.”
If we exempt the three million kids who stayed on their parents’ plan, because they didn’t enroll, the total number of people who now have coverage thanks to the ACA is 17.8 million. The majority of ACA enrollees are white (62.3%) and female (54%). Thirty-four percent of those who enrolled are under age 35, and 28% are age 18-34.
Can't argue with success.
... that would be true only if the Dept of Health and Human Services fails the annual GAO audit:
Obamacare enrollment may approach 18 million | MSNBC
I'm sure the right wing media will keep us posted on its conclusions.
Obamacare enrollment may approach 18 million | MSNBC
I'm sure the right wing media will keep us posted on its conclusions.