Smile! You’ve Got Socialized Healthcare!

[gopher]

I kept my health care and it is now comprehensive.


BTW, you folks in Massachusetts are quite happy with Romneycare:



Highlights of what RomneyCare has accomplished after 5 years of being in affect:

1 - Nearly every Massachusetts citizen is covered. A recent study showed that 98.1% of adults and 99.8% of children now have medical insurance. This is by far the highest rates in the nation. The overall national rate is 83%, with Texas having the worst rates in the nation at 74%. In Texas, one out of every six children is uninsured.

2 - Many more businesses are offering medical insurance to their employees. Now 76% of employers of medical insurance to their employees, compared with 70% just five years ago. The national rate remained at 60%.

3 - The overall costs of the program to the state have NOT exceeded expectations





RomneyCare - The Truth about Massachusetts Health Care | Mitt Romney Central

 

[EagleSmack]

Massachusetts... Highest Health Care Costs in the US!


Not exceeded expectations... I agree. They knew the costs would rocket skyward!

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I must say, it is kinda fun watching the wingers throw their leader under the bus.

 

[BaalsTears]

Obamacare can be used as a political bleeding wound against the American Left. It's a burdensome subsidy from the middle class to the lazy. Use it to stoke the fires of resentment.

 

[gopher]

Meet Jennifer, A Woman Who Could Die If An Anti-Obamacare Lawsuit Succeeds



Meet Jennifer, A Woman Who Could Die If An Anti-Obamacare Lawsuit Succeeds | ThinkProgress




This is what health care looked like in the United States of America, the wealthiest nation the world has ever known. And it is what it will look like again in much of the country if the courts side with the plaintiffs in Halbig. Hard-working Americans will die because their jobs do not provide them with health benefits. Mothers will pray helplessly over sick children who are unable to receive essential care. Senior citizens will count the days until they qualify for Medicare and will finally receive treatment a long-neglected condition. Rape survivors will be treated like pariahs by the insurance industry.




Now insert the name Teri Schiavo so that right wingers will stand up and applaud ACA - that is if they believe in any real principle.

 

[EagleSmack]

Gosh that was such an idiotic post as well as article.

Now insert the name Teri Schiavo so that right wingers will stand up and applaud ACA

lol...Are you for real?

So that right wingers will stand and applaud ACA... such ridiculousness spews from your brain.

I must say, it is kinda fun watching the wingers throw their leader under the bus.

Who Romney?

 

[gopher]

Correction: the only real idiocy is those who criticize it and who take an inconsistent position on saving lives. When Teri Schiavo's medical bill was hitting the roof and then the sky the far right said it was society's obligation to pay for it. Now we have this case and they suddenly feel the bill is too costly. What is even more ridiculous is for people to respond with criticism rather than with substantive replies. Unfortunately for those fools they fail to realize that their lack of substantiation is an affirmation of what I post, not a valid refutation.

 

[EagleSmack]

The ACA is about insurance not medical care. Good grief.

"For her entire life, Jenn has lived with cystic fibrosis... "

Well I wonder how she received medical care before Obamacare!

 

[gopher]

And what is medical insurance for but to pay for medical care (?????) ?????

 

[gopher]

Here's how Obamacare worked for me - redeyechicago.com


I was invincible.

Like, Mario-star invincible. And why wouldn’t I be? I hadn’t been sick in years. I worked out every day. I commuted on my bike like I own the city. At 27, you don’t stop to think about being anything less than invincible. That's for old people, for someone else. Besides, nothing bad has ever happened to anyone who was 27.

In June I slid into third base in my men’s league baseball game, something I had done hundreds if not thousands of times in my life. I caught my right cleat on the ground and landed funny. I thought it was just a sprain.

My fibula was broken.

I figured I’d be in a cast for a month, if that. Instead, I had surgery, with a plate and five screws put in to stabilize the break. I’ve just started walking again. Every day is a struggle to accomplish the most basic activities I had always taken for granted.

Still, it could have been so much worse. I freelance for a living, and with that career you don’t get things like health insurance.

At the end of last year, I signed up for Obamacare as a complete afterthought. I waited until the deadline like it was homework—if I put it off long enough, maybe it would just do itself. My experiences with the system have been far from perfect. The entire rollout and signup process were confusing. It took hours of calling to find an orthopedic surgeon who would take my insurance, and I had to travel more than an hour to get to the appointment.

But without Obamacare, I would not have had insurance. Like most people I know my age, I’m getting by without a lot of wiggle room. Hundreds of dollars a month on traditional coverage is something I wouldn’t have been able to manage. My surgery, hospital visits and physical therapy would have cost somewhere between $15,000-$30,000 with no insurance at all.

That’s a life-altering amount. I certainly wouldn't be getting a master's degree in the fall, probably would have moved to a cheaper apartment and definitely would have needed another job or three. I have no idea where my life would be right now. It's a terrifying thought.

And yet I haven’t heard many stories like mine, in part, I think, because of the stigma that comes with Obamacare. It's become a political issue so shrouded in negativity that it's easy to forget it helps real people like me. Instead of struggling for years with added debt and an unhappy life, I will be walking normally before long; all this will be nothing more than a struggle I overcame. But I’ll always have a six-inch scar on my ankle to remind me of what could have been.

Thanks, Obama.





One of many THOUSANDS of testimonials.


ACA works.




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Too bad Virginia did not expand as it (thanks to obstructionist Republicans) cost that state over half a billion:


Virginia Governor Expands Health Care To 25,000 People In The Medicaid Coverage Gap | ThinkProgress


Thankfully, the state's Democratic governor will take this initiative and provide care to 25,000 who really need it.

 

[Grievous]

This guy must be a taker, not a maker....or entitled to his entitlements....or some other con bull crap catch phrase.

 

[gopher]

Now for the good news – Medicare costs are falling


Now for the good news – Medicare costs are falling



Remember the dire warnings about Medicare? Its costs are growing at an unsustainable rate. They will drive up federal deficits for years to come. The program could become insolvent in a few years.

As it turns out, Medicare may not be in such bad shape, after all. The Congressional Budget Office recently reported that the program’s cost growth is not out of control. In fact, Medicare spending has actually started to fall. (To read the full report, click here.)

In 2011, CBO reported that Medicare spent about $12,000 on average for each beneficiary. This year, the number will be about $11,200. And by 2017, it is projected to be less than $11,000. (All of these numbers are adjusted for inflation for purposes of comparison.)

And CBO’s projections of future costs have been steadily falling, as well. In 2010, spending per beneficiary was predicted to have reached almost $12,000 this year. And in 2006, it was predicted to have reached almost $14,000.

The good news on spending is not limited to Medicare. Cost growth is moderating across American health care.

One school of thought sees the recent recession at work. Many people who lost their jobs also lost their coverage, and they can no longer afford health care.

But Medicare is a government program. Its benefits are guaranteed to those who are elderly and totally disabled regardless of the state of the economy. The recession may have reduced private health care spending, but it would not directly impact government outlays.

An alternative explanation is that underlying changes in the practice of medicine are at work and that physicians and hospitals are becoming more cautious about running up costs. CBO found that Medicare beneficiaries are using less hospital care and fewer expensive drugs, suggesting that providers are ordering such costly forms of care less often.

If that is true, then government policy initiatives may deserve some of the credit. The Affordable Care Act includes several of them, such as incentives to reduce readmissions to hospitals too soon after patients are discharged and to improve overall quality and efficiency.

In the long-run, Medicare still faces major challenges as the number of beneficiaries grows with the aging of the baby boomers and expensive new treatments continue to be developed. However, the program may be in better to shape to deal with those challenges than we had thought. The dire warnings may be quite premature.

 

[EagleSmack]

Oh my

Many may lose Obamacare coverage because of missing paperwork - LA Times

 

[gopher]

^ the operating term is ''may'' - and as my link shows the projected losses and price increases have not panned out, contrary to the hopes of the Obamacare haters


Romneycare ... oops, I mean Obamacare, is working out quite well despite all.

 

[BaalsTears]

Obama stole $250 billion from one of the Medicare Trust Funds and transferred it to fund Obamacare. In doing so, Obama cut Medicare.

 

[Locutus]

oh dear.


Minnesota’s Biggest (And Cheapest) Obamacare Insurer Drops Out Over Overwhelming Costs

The largest insurer with the lowest premium rates on Minnesota’s Obamacare exchange is dropping out because the government health-exchange is unsustainable, the company announced Tuesday.

PreferredOne Health Insurance told MNsure, the state-run exchange, Tuesday morning that it would not continue to offer its popular insurance plans on the marketplace in 2015. It’s “purely a business decision,” spokesman Steve Peterson told KSTP-TV. The company is losing money on administrative costs for plans offered on the bureaucratic and glitchy government exchange.

Part of the problem, according to PreferredOne, is that MNsure hasn’t even been able to verify its customers’ information.

PreferredOne said that some of its customers have turned out not to even live in Minnesota.


Insurers are required to accept customers who’ve been approved by the exchange for coverage, but states and the federal government have been struggling for months to determine which applicants are actually eligible for the benefits.

(RELATED: Obama Admin Is Kicking 115K Off Obamacare Plans)

“Our MNsure individual product membership is only a small percentage of the entire PreferredOne enrollment but is taking a significant amount of our resources to support administratively,” the company said in a statement. “We feel continuing on MNsure was not sustainable and believe this is an important step to best serve all PreferredOne members.”

PreferredOne was Minnesota’s largest exchange insurer with 59 percent of individual MNsure sign-ups, according to KSTP. Another four insurance companies — Blue Cross Blue Shield, HealthPartners, Medica and UCare — will continue to offer plans on the exchange next year.

This leaves Minnesota Obamacare customers in a tricky situation. PreferredOne had significantly lower rates than any other insurer on the exchange. When these plans disappear, customers will see a significant rate hike if they choose to continue on the Obamacare exchange, independent of yearly rate hikes.

Minnesota is scheduled to announce premium rates for 2015 Obamacare plans in October and signs point to looming price hikes that will hit Minnesotans doubly hard.


Scott Leitz, CEO of the state exchange, released a joint statement with PreferredOne CEO Marcus Merz, emphasizing that the company will work with MNsure to “minimize impact” to current enrollees.


Minnesota's Biggest Obamacare Insurer Drops Out Over Costs | The Daily Caller

 

[captain morgan]

My goodness..... Never saw that coming.

Quelle suprise!

 

[taxslave]

Governments have proven they can't even run a brothel at a profit. Why would anyone expext them to run a complicated system like health care without eating all the money up in administration?

 

[Walter]

In which country have most medical advances in medications and medical equipment been made in the last 50 years?

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

In which country have most medical advances in medications and medical equipment been made in the last 50 years?

The one with the largest population, money, lab facilities, and research infrastructure in the world?