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Health Insurers Frustrated with Republican Sabotage of ACA
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:06 am
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:06 am
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And this might violate a host of ethics rules:
The false narrative that the increase in price in the ACA is due to some inherent flaw in the law is just that, false. Some of you (NC) know this and lie anyway, but some of you truly just don't know any better.
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Health insurers across the country are making plans to dramatically raise Obamacare premiums or exit marketplaces amid growing exasperation with the Trump administration’s erratic management, inconsistent guidance and seeming lack of understanding of basic healthcare issues.
At the same time, state insurance regulators — both Democrat and Republican — have increasingly concluded they cannot count on the Trump administration to help them ensure that consumers will have access to a health plan next year.
The growing frustration with the Trump administration’s management — reflected in letters to state regulators and in interviews with more than two dozen senior industry and government officials nationwide — undercuts a key White House claim that Obamacare insurance marketplaces are collapsing on their own.
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Instead, according to many officials, it is the Trump administration that is driving much of the current instability by refusing to commit to steps to keep markets running, such as funding aid for low-income consumers or enforcing penalties for people who go without insurance.
“All this uncertainty is not helpful,” warned Blue Shield of California Chief Executive Paul Markovich, who said health plans were being forced to make plans to raise premiums to account for the turmoil, jeopardizing Americans’ coverage.
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The uncertainty created by Trump comes as some Obamacare markets were beginning to stabilize, according to many industry and government officials. In several states, insurers and regulators noted that 2017 was shaping up to be a better year than the first several years of the marketplaces.
Tennessee Blue Cross Blue Shield Chief Executive J.D. Hickey reported in a letter to that state’s insurance commissioner this month that “our 2017 performance has improved due to a combination of better claims experience and more sustainable rate structure.”
Hickey warned in the letter that “potential negative effects of federal legislative and/or regulatory changes,” including not paying CSRs or enforcing the mandate, would require the Tennessee plan “to price-in those downside risks.”
And this might violate a host of ethics rules:
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At one recent meeting, Seema Verma, whom Trump picked to oversee the federal Medicare and Medicaid programs, stunned insurance industry officials by suggesting a bargain: The administration would fund the CSRs if insurers supported the House Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act.
The false narrative that the increase in price in the ACA is due to some inherent flaw in the law is just that, false. Some of you (NC) know this and lie anyway, but some of you truly just don't know any better.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:17 am to BamaAtl
So the price increases every year for the last 6 years were because of trump?
Also: if insurers are actually making money on providing insurance on the Ocare market, why do they have to be begged to stay, and given corporate welfare?
Is that what you want, corporate welfare?
Also: if insurers are actually making money on providing insurance on the Ocare market, why do they have to be begged to stay, and given corporate welfare?
Is that what you want, corporate welfare?
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:18 am to BamaAtl
ACA sucks and you should feel bad for supporting it. Now eeat, not one, but a whole big ol bag o' dicks
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:19 am to BamaAtl
And who created this shite? Not going to pin this one on Trump.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:20 am to cokebottleag
Obama was bailing them out with illegal payments to keep his signature legislation afloat, doubt that's continuing...
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:21 am to cokebottleag
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So the price increases every year for the last 6 years were because of trump?
Of course not. Insurers priced their plans low to entice customers, knowing there would be some stabilization required.
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if insurers are actually making money on providing insurance on the Ocare market, why do they have to be begged to stay, and given corporate welfare?
Risk.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:23 am to cokebottleag
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So the price increases every year for the last 6 years were because of trump?
Also: if insurers are actually making money on providing insurance on the Ocare market, why do they have to be begged to stay, and given corporate welfare?
Is that what you want, corporate welfare?
EXACTLY!!
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:23 am to BamaAtl
Health Insurance lobbyists wrote the ACA.
Let them lie in the bed they made.
Let them lie in the bed they made.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:23 am to BamaAtl
I'm surprised you keep posting your fake news
No one on here believes anything you say
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:24 am to HailToTheChiz
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HailToTheChiz
It's a good thing your belief is the opposite of truth.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:25 am to BamaAtl
So before Trump, Obamacare was doing fine?!
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:25 am to weptiger
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And who created this shite? Not going to pin this one on Trump.
Per Forbes Magazine, stop trying to pin this on one party alone.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:26 am to TrueTiger
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Health Insurance lobbyists wrote the ACA.
Let them lie in the bed they made.
Yep. They wrote it counting on big bailouts for themselves from the Feds. Guess they should have realized that policies change.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:27 am to austintigerdad
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Per Forbes Magazine, stop trying to pin this on one party alone.
Good luck with that. Our political system is currently designed to create tribal tendencies, not actually solve issues.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:36 am to BamaAtl
It would work if only those nasty people would let me steal more of their money.
If you were familiar with the industry, you'd know why BCBS is supporting this.
If you were familiar with the industry, you'd know why BCBS is supporting this.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:37 am to austintigerdad
I am talking specifically about who created the affordable care act, not the broader market and political conditions that led to its creation. Keep up.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:38 am to BamaAtl
Obamacare was doomed way before Trump.
Obamacare is a failed experiment.
Obamacare is a failed experiment.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:38 am to BamaAtl
obama-fraud was intentionally designed to fail.
The big health insurance exec's who wrote this bill KNEW this as well. They are laughing at the US American taxpayers and the millions upon millions who have seen their insurance rates sky-rocket.
Let these folks who are getting welfare-freebies(in free health care) on my dime pay more, make pay full market value for their welfare.
Make-em pay more, I have to.
The big health insurance exec's who wrote this bill KNEW this as well. They are laughing at the US American taxpayers and the millions upon millions who have seen their insurance rates sky-rocket.
Let these folks who are getting welfare-freebies(in free health care) on my dime pay more, make pay full market value for their welfare.
Make-em pay more, I have to.
Posted on 5/19/17 at 6:54 am to BamaAtl
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Insurers priced their plans low to entice customers, knowing there would be some stabilization required.
You have a future on the 24 hr news networks or as a spokesman. This is golden.
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