Doc Posted August 6, 2014 Posted August 6, 2014 Yep, I've heard libs blame Repubs for not going along with single payer or the public option, when even Dems wouldn't go along with them.
Gary M Posted August 8, 2014 Posted August 8, 2014 Deleted her e-mails? http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/214625-obamacare-office-raises-possibility-of-lost-emails
/dev/null Posted August 8, 2014 Posted August 8, 2014 Deleted her e-mails? http://thehill.com/p...-of-lost-emails Subpoena the NSA
B-Man Posted August 13, 2014 Posted August 13, 2014 Thousands might lose health insurance over missing documents By Tony Pugh WASHINGTON — Some 310,000 people with inconsistencies in their citizenship and immigration materials might lose their federal marketplace health coverage Sept. 30 unless they provide proper supporting documents by Sept. 5, the Obama administration announced Tuesday. In May, the Department of Health and Human Services began contacting about 2 million people about discrepancies or errors in the personal information they’d provided in their insurance applications. The problems stem, in part, from an administration policy that allowed applicants to self-report information about their incomes, citizenship and household size, all of which contribute to determining their eligibility for tax credits to help pay for coverage. Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/08/12/236247/thousands-might-lose-health-insurance.html#storylink=cpy More at the link: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/08/12/236247/thousands-might-lose-health-insurance.html
Keukasmallies Posted August 13, 2014 Posted August 13, 2014 I'm hopin' the whole self-reported inconsistencies thing migrates from the IRS' management of the ACA to their main line responsibility - income tax collection. If a whole lot of us self-report with inconsistencies, maybe POTUS will work his "...if Congress won't act, I will..." magic and exempt us from paying. Ya think?
DC Tom Posted August 13, 2014 Posted August 13, 2014 More at the link: http://www.mcclatchy...-insurance.html They probably just lost them in a hard drive crash. No big deal.
B-Man Posted September 7, 2014 Posted September 7, 2014 Rural hospitals close as healthcare system changes Small, rural hospitals have always struggled to remain viable, but things are getting worse. Now, the Affordable Care Act is bringing additional pressure. .
Nanker Posted September 7, 2014 Posted September 7, 2014 Rural hospitals close as healthcare system changes Small, rural hospitals have always struggled to remain viable, but things are getting worse. Now, the Affordable Care Act is bringing additional pressure healthcare insurance coverage to all Americans. . Ya' know, B. O. finds it curious that this keeps coming up. He never said anything about providing health care coverage to anybody. But at least now they've got the right to be taxed to have insurance! STICK TO THE NARRATIVE!
B-Man Posted September 9, 2014 Posted September 9, 2014 Ouch, the Bill for ObamaCare Coming Due The bill is coming due for ObamaCare and it’s a whopper. According to Medicare Care’s own actuaries U.S. health care spending is about to rocket. http://finance.townh...ng-due-n1889080 THE HILL: Support For ObamaCare Continues To Fall. Comparing Obamacare to an Alternative The best alternative to Obamacare that has been put forward so far is that of the 2017 Project. (I’ve commented on it here before.) Now the Center for Health and Economy has estimated what its effects would be. The results: More Americans would have private insurance coverage, premiums would be lower, patients would have more access to doctors, and the deficit would be lower. There would be no individual mandate, no employer mandate, no essential benefits package, and so on. Obamacare would, however, cover 6 million more people than the alternative, thanks to its Medicaid expansion. I imagine that gap could be closed, though, if the alternative included auto-enrollment. .
/dev/null Posted September 9, 2014 Posted September 9, 2014 (edited) Had an interesting email at work recently about my employee benefits. Employees can no longer waive medical beneifits. I've talked to several folks who had been covered under a spouses medical plan or are retired military under Tricare. Yeah, they're not too happy about being forced to pay into the employee medical plan for services that they already received elsewhere Edited September 9, 2014 by /dev/null
Nanker Posted September 10, 2014 Posted September 10, 2014 Had an interesting email at work recently about my employee benefits. Employees can no longer waive medical beneifits. I've talked to several folks who had been covered under a spouses medical plan or are retired military under Tricare. Yeah, they're not too happy about being forced to pay into the employee medical plan for services that they already received elsewhere I was wondering if that would happen in some instances. This is such a farcical charade.
B-Man Posted September 10, 2014 Posted September 10, 2014 (edited) Obama Threatens to Veto Bill Letting People Keep Their Health Insurance President Obama issued a veto threat against a House bill designed to allow people to keep health-insurance plans otherwise unavailable due to Obamacare regulations. “With health care costs rising at low rates and choices for small businesses improving through the Health Insurance Marketplace, this bill would be a major step back,” a statement of administrative policy from the Office of Management and Budget says. The president’s opposition to the Employee Health Care Protection Act was always certain, but it plays into the hands of Representative Bill Cassidy (R., La.) and Representative Cory Gardner (R., Colo.) who are both running against incumbent Democratic senators this year. “The president and supporters of Obamacare promised numerous times that ‘if you like your health-care plan, you can keep it, period,’” Cassidy said while touting the bill, which he sponsored, in July. “If supporters of this law really believe in keeping their word to the American people, they should support this legislation to help millions of Americans keep the healthcare plan they like.” New: WSJ/NBC polls shows Americans still aren't sold on Affordable Care Act, with 34% in favor and 48% against. http://on.wsj.com/1qePzrM What’s Next For Obamacare Over at his blog, BobLaszewski tells us what we should be expecting on the Obamacare front in the coming months. The short answer: lots of confusion and some big question marks. He writes: To say this fall’s 2015 Obamacare open-enrollment has the potential to be problematic is an understatement. The HealthCare.gov backroom is not built yet––a year and counting after it should have been. How many people are enrolled in Obamacare? Without a government to insurance company accounting system yet built, no one knows. The administration says they are going to auto-renew existing Obamacare policyholders. But they don’t have a valid baseline census from which to start. much more at links: 'Fewer Doctors, More Demand': The predictable consequences of Obamacare http://natl.re/1CRNUwn . . Edited September 10, 2014 by B-Man
IDBillzFan Posted September 10, 2014 Posted September 10, 2014 New: WSJ/NBC polls shows Americans still aren't sold on Affordable Care Act, with 34% in favor and 48% against. http://on.wsj.com/1qePzrM What's the matter with those people? Don't they know it's the law?!?!?
Doc Posted September 11, 2014 Posted September 11, 2014 What's the matter with those people? Don't they know it's the law?!?!? Yeah, haven't they been told the proper story? And what about the optics?
DC Tom Posted September 11, 2014 Posted September 11, 2014 9 1/2 weeks until open enrollment. That means about five weeks or so until the solid biological waste material intersects the oscillating cooling device.
Doc Posted September 11, 2014 Posted September 11, 2014 9 1/2 weeks until open enrollment. That means about five weeks or so until the solid biological waste material intersects the oscillating cooling device. Yeah. A month and a half should be more than enough time for everyone to sign up.
Joe Miner Posted September 11, 2014 Posted September 11, 2014 9 1/2 weeks until open enrollment. That means about five weeks or so until the solid biological waste material intersects the oscillating cooling device. Mmm.. Young Kim Basinger
Koko78 Posted September 11, 2014 Posted September 11, 2014 9 1/2 weeks until open enrollment. That means about five weeks or so until the solid biological waste material intersects the oscillating cooling device. Oh don't worry about that. Obama will just use his pen to create a legislative mandate that new insurance premiums will be classified as 'top secret' and cannot declassified and released until the day after the mid-term elections.
B-Large Posted September 13, 2014 Posted September 13, 2014 525/month for my wife and I in Maine- 6k individual, 12k family. PPO, no limits on providers... COBRA, 1260 for the month, though that does include vision and dental What amazes me is talking to people here locally, and they rave about the Maine Co-OP plans..... And that they would never sign up for Obamacare.... People are so dumb. There is no such policy called Obamacare, and they bought their Co-OP insurance on an ACA exchange. Americans really lack rigor for anything above an Applebees menu....
DC Tom Posted September 13, 2014 Posted September 13, 2014 525/month for my wife and I in Maine- 6k individual, 12k family. PPO, no limits on providers... COBRA, 1260 for the month, though that does include vision and dental What amazes me is talking to people here locally, and they rave about the Maine Co-OP plans..... And that they would never sign up for Obamacare.... People are so dumb. There is no such policy called Obamacare, and they bought their Co-OP insurance on an ACA exchange. Americans really lack rigor for anything above an Applebees menu.... You haven't been in an Applebees recently, have you?
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