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List the good thing about Obama care...
As a healthcare worker of 30 years, the ONLY thing I can think of that is good about obamacare is that when it achieves it's ultimate goal of single-payer socialist healthcare it will be good for the healthcare owrker. Government employee with government benefits and government pay. Less work for more money and no worries about inspections or having to concern myself with bedside manner.
Obamacare: the efficiency of the post office with the compassion of the IRS.
The best thing about Obamacare that I have seen is that it drives you right wing whack jobs bat shit crazy.
Maybe those crazy rethugs in the House can vote it down........again.
The best thing about Obamacare that I have seen is that it drives you right wing whack jobs bat shit crazy.
Maybe those crazy rethugs in the House can vote it down........again.
Less than five months before the Affordable Care Act fully kicks in, hospitals are improving care and saving millions of dollars with one of the least touted but potentially most effective provisions of the law.
While much of the focus on Obamacare has been on the government rush to open insurance exchanges by Oct. 1, 252 hospitals and physician groups across the U.S. have signed up to join the administration’s accountable care program, in which they share the financial risk of keeping patients healthy.
Under the program, hospitals and physician practices take responsibility for tracking and maintaining the health of elderly and disabled patients. If costs rise beyond an agreed upon level, hospitals may become responsible for reimbursing the government. If they cut the cost of care while maintaining quality, hospitals share in the savings. The government expects the savings may be as much as $1.9 billion from 2012 to 2015. Early indications suggest they are starting to add up.
This year [2012] we saw significant improvement in measures included in the Medicare Star rating pay-for-performance program for health plans that participate in Medicare Advantage. Although Medicare Advantage plans have reported on quality and results have been reported to consumers for many years, the Affordable Care Act required the Medicare program to make higher payments to health plans with better quality performance, starting in 2012. In addition to this new program, the Department of Health and Human Services established a demonstration program to complement it, making even higher payments to plans with better performance.
WASHINGTON — The new health care law is injecting more competition into health insurance markets nationwide, drawing additional insurance companies into states long dominated by a few carriers, Obama administration officials said Thursday.
Such competition offers the prospect of more choices for millions of consumers who will be shopping for insurance this fall. Companies entering the market could also put downward pressure on prices, partly offsetting factors that tend to increase premiums. The competition could pose new challenges to Blue Cross and Blue Shield plans, which dominate the individual insurance markets in many states.
More than 120 insurance companies have filed applications with the federal government, and it appears that most consumers will be able to choose from health plans offered by five or more insurers, the administration said.
One-fourth of insurance companies proposing to offer coverage in these federal exchanges have recently entered the individual market, the administration said.
This is what competition looks like: One health insurer wants to charge $169 a month next year to cover a 40-year-old Portland-area non-smoker. Another wants $422 a month for the same standard plan.
The new health insurance marketplace envisioned by federal health reforms doesn't formally kick in until fall. But it already is taking shape – and consumers for the first time can compare, premium by premium, identical plans by different insurers.
Soon they'll be able to compare benefit-by-benefit as well.
On Thursday, a comparison of proposed 2014 health premiums became public online, causing two insurers to request do-overs to lower their rates even before the state determines whether they're justified.
The unusual development was sparked by a comparison that used to be impossible because plan benefits varied so widely. But under the federal reforms that take effect Jan. 1, health insurance is mandated and every insurer must offer certain standard plans.
Despite predictions of rate shocks, most consumers in Washington state will actually see lower premiums and enhanced coverage when they buy insurance through the state's health insurance exchange.
Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler on Tuesday released rates proposed by insurers, including Premera Blue Cross, Lifewise, Group Health Cooperative, BridgeSpan and Molina Health Care of Washington, for health plans they will sell on the state-run online marketplace, called the Washington Health Plan Finder, reported the Spokesman-Review.
And those prices don't include federal subsidies available to consumers, so the premiums that consumers will pay actually will be less than the rates proposed.
"We're pleasantly surprised with the individual rates we've seen so far," Kreidler said. "In many cases, people will get better benefits and pay less--especially if they qualify for subsidies."
HELENA — The average price of health insurance policies offered on Montana’s new insurance “marketplace’ this fall — a key aspect of the federal health reform law — won’t be a sticker shock for consumers, Montana’s insurance commissioner says.
In fact, state Auditor Monica Lindeen said late Monday that an analysis by her office shows that policies for individuals and businesses will be less expensive than projected rates without the law, often known as “Obamacare.”
“A lot of Montanans have been worried about how Obamacare would affect the cost of health insurance,” Lindeen said in a prepared statement. “These preliminary figures show that rates haven’t skyrocketed.
“Rates are actually lower than projections, which is a relief to a lot of Montanans, including me.”
Lindeen’s office said for an individual buying a policy on Montana’s marketplace, the average monthly cost of the submitted policies is $273 a month.
Without the Affordable Care Act, the same policies would have cost about $290 a month, the actuary estimated.
The “average” individual is a 40-year-old consumer. Policies for younger consumers would be less expensive and those for older consumers more expensive.
Policies purchased by small businesses on the marketplace, to cover their employees, will see an even better relative savings, compared with the market without the Affordable Care Act, the actuarial analysis said.
The average monthly cost for a small-business policy bought on the marketplace will be about $375 per employee per month, the analysis said. The price is higher than the individual policy because business policies tend to cover more costs, Lindeen’s office said.
Without the Affordable Care Act, those policies would have averaged $450 per employee per month, the analysis said.
A record number of students applied to medical school in 2012 according to new data from the Association of American Medical Colleges. Applications have risen over the past decade, growing more quickly over the past few years than they did in the mid-2000s.
The 2013 residency program match hit an all-time high of more than 29,000 positions due to a new "all-in" policy that requires programs to register all their available slots, according to final data from the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP).
The 29,171 positions offered in 2013 marked a 9% increase from the 26,772 offered the year before, and 96.4% were filled -- resulting in the "highest fill rate in NRMP history," with match rates rising for "nearly every applicant group," Mona Signer, executive director of NRMP, said in a statement.
List the good thing about Obama care...
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The best thing about Obamacare that I have seen is that it drives you right wing whack jobs bat shit crazy.
Maybe those crazy rethugs in the House can vote it down........again.
The best thing about Obamacare that I have seen is that it drives you right wing whack jobs bat shit crazy.
Maybe those crazy rethugs in the House can vote it down........again.
Well, just talking off the top of my head I can list a few good things.
You will not be denied for a pre-existing condition if you get sick and you won't be kicked off your insurance if you become sick no matter what the condition.
You can stay on your parents plan until you are 26.
You can keep the insurance you have or you can pick one of the exchanges and more info. is coming out about them in October.
If you have Medicare the doughnut hole will slowly start closing and eventually be gone.
More preventative services will be covered under Medicare that were not before.
Medicaid coverage will expand for folks that need it.
I'm sure there's more if I went and looked but this is just a few basic points.
Well, just talking off the top of my head I can list a few good things.
You will not be denied for a pre-existing condition if you get sick and you won't be kicked off your insurance if you become sick no matter what the condition.
You can stay on your parents plan until you are 26.
You can keep the insurance you have or you can pick one of the exchanges and more info. is coming out about them in October.
If you have Medicare the doughnut hole will slowly start closing and eventually be gone.
More preventative services will be covered under Medicare that were not before.
Medicaid coverage will expand for folks that need it.
I'm sure there's more if I went and looked but this is just a few basic points.
And all of that is free, Free, FREE! Right?
Well, just talking off the top of my head I can list a few good things.
You will not be denied for a pre-existing condition if you get sick and you won't be kicked off your insurance if you become sick no matter what the condition.
You can stay on your parents plan until you are 26.
You can keep the insurance you have or you can pick one of the exchanges and more info. is coming out about them in October.
If you have Medicare the doughnut hole will slowly start closing and eventually be gone.
More preventative services will be covered under Medicare that were not before.
Medicaid coverage will expand for folks that need it.
I'm sure there's more if I went and looked but this is just a few basic points.
And all of that is free, Free, FREE! Right?
