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The Affordable Care Act, a k a Obamacare, goes fully into effect at the beginning of next year, and predictions of disaster are being heard far and wide. There will be an administrative train wreck, were told; consumers will face a terrible shock. Republicans, one hears, are already counting on the laws troubles to give them a big electoral advantage.
No doubt there will be problems, as there are with any large new government initiative, and in this case, we have the added complication that many Republican governors and legislators are doing all they can to sabotage reform. Yet important new evidence especially from California, the laws most important test case suggests that the real Obamacare shock will be one of unexpected success.
California had ridiculous high price estimates right from the start.
It's something that Calif. does all the time in order to make the policies look better.
They did the same thing in 2006.
The prices listed on the California State Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development website often are not what people actually pay for a procedure. Insured patients would pay a smaller amount than listed on the site
Read more: Californians Struggle To Find Accurate Medical Pricing - California Healthline
It's never been accurate or correct.
I used that older article to show how Calf. has always been incorrect.
It's a very old trick that Democrats have used for a very long time.
we are supposed to thrilled over california?
I read it.
Like I said, it's a trick that Dems have used for a very long time.
Heritage Action for America, the advocacy arm of the Heritage Foundation, and the Tea Party-aligned group FreedomWorks will push Congress to cut off funding for the exchanges in the debate later this year over raising the debt ceiling, the Washington-based groups said. The chairman of the advocacy group Restore America’s Voice, Ken Hoagland, said he plans to warn people through advertising about the “dysfunctional” exchanges.
While opposition to the health-care program is nothing new, the tactics are changing. Rather than focusing on repealing the law in Congress and the courts, two avenues that have failed so far, the groups are aiming to prevent the cornerstone of the legislation, the insurance exchanges, from succeeding. Their goal is to limit enrollments, drive up costs, and make it easier to roll back all or part of the law later.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/27/opinion/krugman-the-obamacare-shock.html?hp&_r=1&
The rabid rw's won't read any further and that's a shame. But, its their loss.The Affordable Care Act, a k a Obamacare, goes fully into effect at the beginning of next year, and predictions of disaster are being heard far and wide. There will be an administrative train wreck, were told; consumers will face a terrible shock. Republicans, one hears, are already counting on the laws troubles to give them a big electoral advantage.
No doubt there will be problems, as there are with any large new government initiative, and in this case, we have the added complication that many Republican governors and legislators are doing all they can to sabotage reform. Yet important new evidence especially from California, the laws most important test case suggests that the real Obamacare shock will be one of unexpected success.
They're afraid. And they should be. They've made a serious miscalculation and at this point it's virtually impossible for them to back down:
Heritage Action for America, the advocacy arm of the Heritage Foundation, and the Tea Party-aligned group FreedomWorks will push Congress to cut off funding for the exchanges in the debate later this year over raising the debt ceiling, the Washington-based groups said. The chairman of the advocacy group Restore America’s Voice, Ken Hoagland, said he plans to warn people through advertising about the “dysfunctional” exchanges.
While opposition to the health-care program is nothing new, the tactics are changing. Rather than focusing on repealing the law in Congress and the courts, two avenues that have failed so far, the groups are aiming to prevent the cornerstone of the legislation, the insurance exchanges, from succeeding. Their goal is to limit enrollments, drive up costs, and make it easier to roll back all or part of the law later.
Opposing the power of well-performing markets was always going to be a mistake and they of all people should've understood that. Now they're making a last ditch plug to get someone--anyone!--to pull the plug on the exchanges so they don't have to answer for their idiocy.
My insurance jumped 85% and some medications that used to be covered at 100% no longer are, we must pay for everything now. Thanks OBAMA! Asshole!
My insurance jumped 85% and some medications that used to be covered at 100% no longer are, we must pay for everything now. Thanks OBAMA! Asshole!
Buy a different plan.
My insurance jumped 85% and some medications that used to be covered at 100% no longer are, we must pay for everything now. Thanks OBAMA! Asshole!
Buy a different plan.
