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Pro-Obamacare LA Times Article brings the lulz
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:47 pm
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:47 pm
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Against all odds and expectations, enrollments in health plans qualified under the Affordable Care Act are surging Monday toward -- and maybe beyond -- the 7-million figure projected by the Congressional Budget Office before Oct. 1, when the open-enrollment period began. The deadline for starting enrollment applications for 2014 plans is midnight Monday.
The surge is creating a big problem for the "train wreck" narrative of Republican opponents of the ACA, who have been holding out hope for Obamacare's utter failure. So the excuse-making has begun.
Before we examine those excuses: You will recall that the budget office reduced its projection of enrollments on individual insurance exchanges to 6 million earlier this year to account for the botched launch of healthcare.gov, the federal enrollment website. Enrollments blew past that mark days ago. If exchange enrollments meet or exceed the original projection of 7 million despite the loss of some six weeks in website functionality in October and November, that would be a testament to the public's latent desire for effective healthcare coverage.
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Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:51 pm to Lsut81
Goebbels would be proud
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:52 pm to Lsut81
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This post was edited on 12/23/14 at 11:29 pm
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:57 pm to Lsut81
Liberals cannot understand this. Even if the law ends up being good, which I do not believe will happen, it was done without popular support and pisses a lot of people off. Some of us just don't want to be told what to buy and don't appreciate the state coming in to babysit.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 4:59 pm to Lsut81
There is so much falsehood and misinformation in that article it is fricking hilarious...
Posted on 3/31/14 at 5:14 pm to Lsut81
This morning on CNBC I saw a guy say they have over 9 million signed up.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 5:20 pm to Lsut81
A snippet:
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Where do the subsidies (a cute word for other people's money paying for your health insurance) come from?
I have employee provided health insurance. My out of pocket for my kids and I which includes dental and a lot of riders is around $250 a month.
My insurance under Obamacare would be $800 a month just for basic coverage. Is that where the money is supposed to come from? It isn't going to come from people like me because I have a good job, make good middle class money and have employer provided insurance.
This entire thing is just a cluster frick.
What is the funding source for the subsidies?
quote:.
Of the nearly 442,000 Floridians who have enrolled to buy health insurance through federal exchanges, nine of 10 qualify for subsidies
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Where do the subsidies (a cute word for other people's money paying for your health insurance) come from?
I have employee provided health insurance. My out of pocket for my kids and I which includes dental and a lot of riders is around $250 a month.
My insurance under Obamacare would be $800 a month just for basic coverage. Is that where the money is supposed to come from? It isn't going to come from people like me because I have a good job, make good middle class money and have employer provided insurance.
This entire thing is just a cluster frick.
What is the funding source for the subsidies?
Posted on 3/31/14 at 5:32 pm to Scoop
It's a shell game. They're taking money out of Medicare to partially subsidize the same people's Obamacare. They were also hoping that young, healthy people would join and overpay because it's the cool thing to do and further subsidize the old and indigent.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 5:39 pm to Tigerlaff
I've seen it mentioned on this site numerous times that the masses are idiots so why should we give their opinion any weight? These dipshits thought the PATRIOT Act was a good idea. The fact you would still be upset if this change actually helped people is telling.
(i think it'll be a disaster and one step closer to single payer for those keeping score)
(i think it'll be a disaster and one step closer to single payer for those keeping score)
Posted on 3/31/14 at 5:42 pm to Lsut81
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LA Times
Is whitehouse.gov operating under a new name or something?
Posted on 3/31/14 at 5:42 pm to Lsut81
quote:
Pro-Obamacare LA Times Article
Hope they continue!
Posted on 3/31/14 at 5:43 pm to Lsut81
And I'm glad we had to blow up the entire health care industry so those 7 million could get cheap plans. Totally worth it.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 5:43 pm to Scoop
quote:
Of the nearly 442,000 Floridians who have enrolled to buy health insurance through federal exchanges, nine of 10 qualify for subsidies
So. Put another way. The whole concept of the bill as described has completely blown up. The only people signing up are the ones who are getting other people's money to do it but, the source of other people's money(premiums from full payers) has not arrived.
So. Guess where that shortfall will come from.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 5:46 pm to SettleDown
And 6 out of 10 can afford to pay a mere $100 per day!
Posted on 3/31/14 at 5:51 pm to CC
CBS just aired an interview with Obama, and allowed him to assert that Obamacare would come close to reaching their enrollment projection of 7 million signups. The CBS reporter just sat there and allowed it to stand. No follow-up questions, no objective analysis of how many of those enrollees were previously uninsured.
This has to be one of the biggest shams ever. I mean, how can a professional news organization really pretend not to know that 5 million people had lost their insurance because of Obamacare?
One more indication that 90% of the media will ignore the truth in favor of falsely portraying Obama as a successful president.
This has to be one of the biggest shams ever. I mean, how can a professional news organization really pretend not to know that 5 million people had lost their insurance because of Obamacare?
One more indication that 90% of the media will ignore the truth in favor of falsely portraying Obama as a successful president.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 5:55 pm to Rickety Cricket
quote:3-4.5 million of those lost better plans.
And I'm glad we had to blow up the entire health care industry so those 7 million could get cheap plans. Totally worth it.
Posted on 3/31/14 at 6:44 pm to Lsut81
quote:No, it would be a testament to the fact that the 5 or 6 million people whose insurance was canceled by Obamacare were forced to purchase coverage they didn't want or need
that would be a testament to the public's latent desire for effective healthcare coverage
and that citizens are being extorted by their own government: buy our insurance or we'll fine you
and that the freeloaders flocked to the website to get their freebies and subsidies
But "Oh, look, everybody wants Obamacare!"
Posted on 3/31/14 at 6:54 pm to NC_Tigah
Are they still counting people as signed up even if they haven't paid/pulled the trigger and have merely created an account and selected a plan on the website?
Posted on 3/31/14 at 7:00 pm to Rickety Cricket
quote:what?
And I'm glad we had to blow up the entire health care industry
Posted on 3/31/14 at 7:01 pm to Lsut81
It's like they don't care their bias is shining as bright as the sun.
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