Up is down in GOP land. Conservatives scramble to downplay ACA news Americans learned yesterday that the Affordable Care Act has extended health care coverage to 16.4 million people, slashing the nation’s uninsured rate by over a third, against the backdrop of related system-wide good news. This puts “Obamacare” critics in an unenviable position: trying to characterize a law that’s working as a horrible failure, all evidence to the contrary notwithstanding.
I now have insurance for my family that has 0 deductible and 0 copay. Thank you obamacare. Not really because of obamacare, but since everyone is using it as a cause, i may as well also.
So many Americans won't have to go bankrupt if they have a major medical issue -- saving the nation billions -- amazing work by Obama.
More excellent Obamacare news. According to a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), hospitals saved at least $7.4 billion last year, thanks in large part to reforms under Obamacare.
I was self-employed and making not much when I moved back to Texas. I still managed to get allergy testing, fix some serious tooth problems and get treatment for bad bronchitis. Oh yeah, and I quit smoking. It's almost like living in the the First World. It's not perfect, but it's a good start.
My insurance rates are ~700 per month for my family of 4 and that's through my company which is a major 100,000+ employee corporation. and that includes high deductibles and we've never had any major claims. I think the only people getting any benefit off this are the people with pre-existing conditions, government and insurance companies.
That's incorrect. Obamacare’s projected cost falls due to lower premiums under health care law, CBO says By Max Ehrenfreund March 9 The estimated cost of President Obama's signature health care law is continuing to fall. The Congressional Budget Office announced on Monday that the Affordable Care Act will cost $142 billion, or 11 percent, less over the next 10 years, compared to what the agency had projected in January. The nonpartisan agency said the Affordable Care Act will cost less for two essential reasons. The first, and most significant, is that health insurance premiums are rising more slowly, and thus requires less of a government subsidy. In addition, slightly fewer people are now expected to sign up for Medicaid and for subsidized insurance under the law's marketplaces. That's because the agency now says that more people than anticipated already had health insurance before the law took effect, and fewer companies than anticipated are canceling coverage. All in all, three million fewer people are expected to sign up for Affordable Care Act provisions by 2025. Still, by 2025, the CBO estimates "the total number of people who will be uninsured ... is now expected to be smaller than previously projected," because more will have had health insurance to begin with. ... In revising their estimates, the agency noted two trends. The first is the relatively modest increase in how much private insurance companies spend on their policyholders' health care. Between 1998 and 2005, spending on health care increased by an average of 5 percent per year, adjusting for inflation and demographics. That figure fell to 1.8 percent per year for the period from 2006 to 2013, the latest year for which data are available. ... http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...eive-coverage-under-health-care-law-cbo-says/
History will look very kindly on Obama, that is, unless the next regime undoes everything that Obama did, which would be disastrous.
Wing nuts, please form a single file behind your leader: http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/24/politics/ted-cruz-obamacare/ LOLOLOLOLOL
