posted July 27, 2017 08:27 AM            

Had you not only listened, but understood the ramifications [posted by myself, and others here] of:
The constant attacks
and intentional efforts to create uncertainty =
pushing some plans to withdraw from the marketplace and others to raise premiums.

Cause and effect
If you understood the Neutering that has been going on you would know.
The political blame game is likely to continue and intensify in coming weeks as insurers announce more decisions, either to curtail or withdraw from markets or to seek big rate increases.

"In other states, insurers have made requests for large rate increases. Others face the prospect of having zero option for consumers. In Iowa and Nebraska, a small midwestern insurer called Medica has been catapulted into the national spotlight as potentially the last insurer in both states' marketplaces, although that company has not announced a final decision about whether to participate in either state. In Missouri, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City announced in late May that it would leave 32 counties in Kansas and Missouri."

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Team Trump Used Obamacare Money to Run PR Effort Against It
The Trump administration requested $574 million from the Department of Health and Human Services' “consumer information and outreach” budget, which is supposed to be used for advertising the ACA and encouraging enrollment. Instead, they bought social media ads and produced more than 130 videos designed to damage public opinion of Obamacare. http://www.linda-goodman.com/ubb/Forum26/HTML/003526.html

Trump is threatening to gut the Obamacare markets, repeatedly telling aides and advisers that he wants to end the subsidy payments. The deadline for sending out the monthly Affordable Care Act subsidies to health plans is Thursday. Trump has the discretion to decide unilaterally whether the payments continue

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posted July 27, 2017 02:24 PM            

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Originally posted by Node:
Health coverage should not be political.

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AMEN!!!

posted July 27, 2017 03:14 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
It was on a death spiral before President Trump. Obama had to lie to get it passed. And the core principles it is based upon doomed it inevitably to failure.

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Documentation disproving all three of those assertions have been posted.
You continue with a baseless diatribe. Why?

So you want the dismal situation of the mid 2000's to not only make a come-back but worsen?

It would seen so. Millions upon millions of people have coverage now that never had it before.

Was the ACA what Progressives or the health industry itself wanted? NO

Call it the Art of the Compromise Deal. It became what we could get passed.

Now we are looking at over 30 million uninsured in the coming years. Most of these people live paycheck to paycheck.

Thanks for proving you are a tool, and I do mean that in both uses of that word.

posted July 27, 2017 04:05 PM            

Trump is destabilizing ObamaCare...by not throwing more US taxpayer money at the insurance companies?

Since when is it the duty of Presidents and taxpayers to prop up major US corporations...who, btw lobbied hard for ObamaCare....same as the drug companies?

posted July 27, 2017 07:25 PM            

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Originally posted by Randall:
Yeah, millions upon millions have insurance they were forced to buy but can never afford to use.

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posted July 27, 2017 07:32 PM            

Choosing to not purchase is a far cry from LOSING insurance coverage.

July 27, 2017:

posted July 27, 2017 09:22 PM            

Looking forward to paying more for your Medicare and insurance are you jwhop? How about not being able to get care in the ER because it's jammed with people who can't see their doctor anymore?