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Kaiser: Obamacare enrollment is approaching a ceiling

05 Saturday Mar 2016

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Hot Air by John Sexton

obamacare logoA new analysis of Obamacare by the Kaiser Family Foundation concludes there is still room for growth in the program but probably not nearly as much as once believed.

Kaiser estimates that there may be a ceiling for the growth of Obamacare around 14.7 million people under current law. That estimate is based on behavior observed in the marketplace so far. Specifically, Kaiser notes that nearly all of the people signing up for ACA plans are eligible for subsidies. Most people who are not eligible for subsidies buy plans outside of Obamacare. Kaiser looks at top performing states and finds their potential for additional growth is probably very small:

The 10 best-performing states – which include several large states such as Florida, North Carolina, and California — have collectively signed up 59% of the potential market. While that might appear to leave room for substantial further growth, there…

Continue Reading –Kaiser: Obamacare enrollment is approaching a ceiling

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Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders battle over health care

18 Monday Jan 2016

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Washington Free Beacon by: David Rutz

Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) had a sharp exchange over their differing health care plans at Sunday’s NBC debate, with Clinton fiercely defending the Affordable Care Act as she continues seeking the title of President Obama’s successor.

Clinton was asked by Andrea Mitchell if it was fair to say, as she has charged, that Sanders wanted to “kill” Obamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act, with his universal health care plan. However, Sanders voted for Obamacare as a member of the U.S. Senate.

“When you’re talking about health care, the details really matter, and therefore we have been raising questions about the nine bills that he introduced over 20 years as to how they would work and what would be the impact on people’s health care,” Clinton said….

Continue Reading – Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders battle over health care

 

Am I the only one getting the idea that Comrade Sanders smells blood in the water?

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Poll: Many insured people have trouble paying medical bills

05 Tuesday Jan 2016

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affordable care act logo NOT AFFORDABLE CARE ACT

 

The Hill by Peter Sullivan

Even many people with health insurance have problems paying medical bills, according to a new survey.

The survey from the Kaiser Family Foundation and The New York Times finds that 20 percent of people with health insurance say they or someone in their household had problems paying medical bills in the last year.

That figure is significantly less than the 53 percent of uninsured people who had problems paying medical bills, but it shows that even people with insurance are not completely out of the woods.

“As the nation moves beyond the debate over the Affordable Care Act, issues of health care costs and affordability like those highlighted by this survey are likely to play a prominent role in health policy discussions,” the Kaiser study authors write.

One of the reasons is high deductibles[…]

Continue Reading — Poll: Many insured people have trouble paying medical bills

Below is a screenshot of Appendix 1 to the survey listing by demographic, age, ethnicity, etc. those who say who say they or someone in their household had problems paying medical bills in the past 12 months.

As with all social engineering policies we enter the land of unintended consequences (or maybe not so unintended).

Take note that the groups most negatively affected and having problems paying medical bills are those Progressives claimed that the Affordable Care Act would benefit.

 

BEFUNKY Appendix 1 Kaiser NYT Survey of those who have problems paying medical billls by demographics, age, ethnicity

 

View Appendix 1 here.

Below are a few of the highlighted findings of the New Kaiser/New York Times Survey conducted between Aug. 28 through Sept. 28, 2015:

People with health insurance who have problems with medical bills also report skipping or putting off other health care in the past year because of the cost, such as postponing dental care (62%), skipping doctor-recommended tests or treatments (43%), or not filling a prescription (41%). In general, people with medical bill problems are two to three times as likely to report each of these problems as those without problems paying medical bills.

The Kaiser/Times survey provides an in-depth, quantitative look at the extent and causes of Americans’ medical-debt issues and their impact on people’s lives, families, finances and access to health care. The New York Times is reporting on the findings this week, and the Foundation is issuing a report detailing the survey’s results and implications.

Other findings include:

  • Among the insured with problem medical bills, a quarter (26%) say they received unexpected claim denials; and about a third (32%) say they received care from an out-of-network provider that their insurance wouldn’t cover. The out-of-network charges were a surprise for a large majority: 69 percent were unaware that the provider was not in their plan’s network when they received the care.
  • Among those with private insurance, those in higher deductible plans are more likely to report medical bill problems than those in plans with lower deductibles (26% versus 15%).
  • Most (61%) of those with medical bill problems say they’ve had difficulty paying other bills as a result of their medical debt, and more than a third (35%) say they were unable to pay for basic necessities like food, heat, or housing. Almost six in ten of those with problems paying medical bills (58%) say they’ve been contacted by a collection agency in the past year. Those who faced medical bill problems with and without insurance are about equally likely to report each of these situations.
  • Among those with medical bill problems, 31 percent say the total reached at least $5,000, including 13 percent who say the total reached at least $10,000. Significant shares also report having problems with smaller totals, including one in four (24%) who say their bills totaled less than $1,000….

Continue Reading -New Kaiser/New York Times Survey Finds One in Five Working-Age Americans With Health Insurance Report Problems Paying Medical Bills

High deductibles. High medical bills. Can’t say we did not see that one coming. As it turns out, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) aka the Affordable Care Act (ACA) aka Obamacare, all references to which is excluded from the Kaiser/NYTimes survey including the legislation’s direct connection to its namesake, Barack Obama (no doubt intentionally) is unaffordable.

 

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Roll Tide

19 Saturday Dec 2015

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healthcare exchanges going out of business 2016

 

Indyfromaz’s Blog

One might be forgiven for thinking health insurers are cracking under the strain of Obamacare’s broken insurance exchanges. But don’t be fooled: it is the 10 million Obamacare enrollees who are in trouble, not the insurers.

To be sure, new nonprofit cooperative insurers, set up with special subsidies to compete in the exchanges, have had a terrible run. They deliberately underpriced their premiums to gain market share, expecting the federal government to bail out their losses. Once the Republicans took over the House of Representatives, then the Senate, this became unlikely. As a result, the administration announced in November that 12 of 23 nonprofit cooperative insurers were shutting down.

However, these nonprofit cooperative insurers, which did not exist[…]

Click Here To Read The Rest of: Indyfromaz’s Blog: The Thoughts of An Independent Arizonan | Welcome To The Age of Big Brother, Citizen…

Another example of the immense harm done by failed social engineering policies and for which the middle class and poverty-stricken will bear the brunt.

 

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UnitedHealth CEO regrets entering ObamaCare

02 Wednesday Dec 2015

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The Hill by Sarah Ferris

The CEO of UnitedHealthCare on Tuesday said he regretted the decision to enter the ObamaCare marketplace last year, which the company says has resulted in millions of dollars in losses.

“It was for us a bad decision,” UnitedHealth CEO Stephen Hemsley said at an investor’s meeting in New York, according to Bloomberg Business.

UnitedHealth, the country’s largest insurer, announced last month that it would no longer advertise its ObamaCare plans over the next year and may pull out completely in 2016 — a move that sent shockwaves across the healthcare sector […]

Continue Reading, click here… UnitedHealth CEO regrets entering ObamaCare

Well, it certainly appears that the chickens are coming home to roost.  The problem is that the American people will suffer greatly regardless of which direction this Obamanation heads.

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Arizona’s Obamacare Co-Op to Shut Down After Receiving $93.3 Million From the Government

03 Tuesday Nov 2015

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meritus health partner arizona

 

The Daily Signal by Melissa Quinn

Two days before the start of Obamacare’s open enrollment period, a nonprofit health insurance provider located in Arizona announced that it would be closing its doors, leaving more than 56,000 consumers to purchase new insurance plans.

On Friday, the Arizona Department of Insurance announced that Meritus Health Partners is winding down its operations and will no longer offer coverage in 2016. Meritus Health Partners is the 11th of 23 co-ops, or consumer-operated and oriented plans, created under Obamacare to shut its doors. The co-ops have received a combined $2.4 billion from the federal government.

Consumers currently insured by Meritus will remain covered for the rest of the year.

“[W]ith open enrollment beginning this weekend and many Meritus policyholders subject to re-enrollment, it was vital that the department step in and protect Arizona citizens,” Andy Tobin, the state director of insurance, said in a statemen.

Meritus Health Partners received $93.3 million in start-up and solvency loans from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. Despite the money the co-op received, the nonprofit insurance company struggled to enroll consumers in 2014, an audit from the Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Inspector General found.

According to the report, just 869 Arizonans purchased plans from Meritus Health Partners by the end of 2014. The co-op had projected that it would enroll 23,998 consumers[…]

Continue Reading, click here… Arizona’s Obamacare Co-Op to Shut Down After Receiving $93.3 Million From the Government

Permission to reprint granted by The Heritage Foundation.

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http://dailysignal.com/2015/11/02/arizonas-obamacare-co-op-to-shut-down-after-receiving-93-3-million-from-the-government/

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