Good news for Obama regarding Obamacare

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Yes, falling.

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Yet is simultaneously still more expensive than 99% of private insurance plans pre-obamacare.

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Yet is simultaneously still more expensive than 99% of private insurance plans pre-obamacare.

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I have no doubt that some plan's prices are cheaper, however, those cost savings are just being pushed over to the other plans.

Like I just pointed out, I am sure NYC one one of the studies 7 major cities, however the entire state of NY was asked for 18% increases in 2015 premiums. They are just shifting the costs.

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The Congressional Budget Office explains that Obamacare's premiums are cheaper-than-expected because its insurance features "lower payment rates for providers, narrower networks of providers, and tighter management of their subscribers' use of health care than employment-based plans do."

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Translated into English this means rationing since you get less for what they are willing to pay. The providers will refuse to accept lower payment rates, and some in need will go without. Narrower networks is a reflection of providers unwilling to provide services for lower payments. And tighter management of subscribers' use of health care is simply refusing to cover some procedures or services that employer based plans routinely cover.

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seven major cities that have released data on 2015 premiums, the price of the benchmark Obamacare plan?— the second-cheapest silver plan

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That seems like an awful small sample.

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Obama's signature accomplishment is succeeding beyond all reasonable expectation.

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I hate to pile on, but I was expecting my healthcare costs to go down, instead they have risen by 17%, and there are so many conflicting reports on the net change in insured / uninsured it's hard to know what to believe except for that we've barely increased the total % of the population that is insured.

Working in the industry, it would appear that the previously uninsured are only signing up once they enter into the hospital (purely anectodal, but that's what it looks like from the data; you can analyze it for yourselves by reading the management discussion & analysis for publicly held healthcare providers).

The true impact and net additions and churn on health insurance is done somewhere in May of 2015, we'll end up with a net neutral change. Probably good longer term but that assumes the poor that have been using the ER and are newly signed up continue to pay premiums. That's a pretty big IF.

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it would appear that the previously uninsured are only signing up once they enter into the hospital (purely anectodal,

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How would they be doing this? You can only sign up during the open enrollment period. Carriers are not writing individual plans outside the open enrollment period unless there is a qualifying event. At least that's what is happening in Louisiana.

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Yet is simultaneously still more expensive than 99% of private insurance plans pre-obamacare.


I have no doubt that some plan's prices are cheaper, however, those cost savings are just being pushed over to the other plans.

Like I just pointed out, I am sure NYC one one of the studies 7 major cities, however the entire state of NY was asked for 18% increases in 2015 premiums. They are just shifting the costs.

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Yep, it's like lower the price of one item in a grocery store while increasing the price of another. More smoke and mirrors from the liberal progressive Dems and their compliant media.

Link in OP is from Vox.com

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Vox.com was founded by political strategist Jerome Armstrong, freelance writer Tyler Bleszinski, and Markos Moulitsas (creator of Daily Kos)

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As to the Kaiser Family Foundation report, the names Cynthia Cox, Larry Levitt, Gary Claxton, Rosa Ma, and Robin Duddy-Tenbrunsel are listed as co-authors.

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Outside of her work at the Foundation, Cynthia currently serves as Board of Directors Chair for the Berkeley Free Clinic, where she has volunteered for over a decade.

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Yes, that Berkely Free Clinic.

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Prior to joining the Foundation, he served as a Senior Health Policy Advisor to the White House and Department of Health and Human Services, working on the development of President Clinton’s Health Security Act and other health policy initiatives.

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A Clinton guy, you don't say.

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Mr. Claxton worked as a senior researcher at the Institute for Health Care Research and Policy at Georgetown University, where his research focused on health insurance and health care financing. From March 1997 until January 2001, Mr. Claxton served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health Policy at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services,

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A Clinton guy from Georgetown, more non-partisanship working on the report.

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Rosa volunteers as a Hepatitis Counselor at the Berkeley Free Clinic, where she sits on the steering committee. Rosa received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley in 2012.

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More from Berkeley, another bastion of even-handedness

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my.barackobama.com Greater Boston Young Democrats and Drinking Liberally of Boston are teaming up to host a watch party for the October 3rd Presidential Debate. Not only will you be able to cheer Obama as he takes on Romney in a verbal duel, but you’ll also be able to hang out, drink, and eat with two of the coolest, bluest groups in Boston!
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Robin Duddy-Tenbrunsel

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Another Dem hack who worked for the Obama campaign!

Call me crazy but I'm going to file this one in the partisan hack study category.

it is a failure and Rand will beat Hildog and it will be done away with and have only cost us a few trillion $$$ no biggie