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Healthcare Bill Part III; Obamacare
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kbp	Aug 27 2015, 08:17 AM Post #2176
Posts: 52,052 Group: Tier1 Member #20 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	longstop Aug 27 2015, 08:14 AM August 27, 2015 ObamaCare's True Cost By Marion DS Dreyfus Quote: Because the Feds are so involved in care, micromanaging medicine and its practitioners, all independent hospitals in Queens, she notes, are gone. Every surgeon generates seven or more support staff: aides, accounting, intensivists, resupply, nurses, and the like. When you cut a hospital, you cut all ancillary staff that keeps it humming -- and patients in standard ameliorative care. Medicine is Big Biz..................................................... http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/08/obamacares_true_cost.html ...and Barry is still bragging about the competition it created!



LTC8K6	Aug 27 2015, 11:43 AM Post #2177
Assistant to The Devil Himself Posts: 28,896 Group: Tier1 Member #15 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	Quote: Nevada's Obamacare non-profit insurance co-op going belly-up By Rick Moran Nevada Health CO-OP, a non-profit insurer created by Obamacare and given $66 million in start-up loans, will cease operations on January 1 of next year. The cause of the co-op's downfall is attributed to "market realities." Duh. ... http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/08/nevadas_obamacare_nonprofit_insurance_coop_going_belly_up.html



kbp	Aug 27 2015, 11:15 PM Post #2178
Posts: 52,052 Group: Tier1 Member #20 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	LTC8K6 Aug 27 2015, 11:43 AM Quote: Nevada's Obamacare non-profit insurance co-op going belly-up By Rick Moran Nevada Health CO-OP, a non-profit insurer created by Obamacare and given $66 million in start-up loans, will cease operations on January 1 of next year. The cause of the co-op's downfall is attributed to "market realities." Duh. ... http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/08/nevadas_obamacare_nonprofit_insurance_coop_going_belly_up.html The way the system is in place, the insurer would have had 17-20% (+/-) for overhead and profit. They lost a safe bet through poor management! Edited by kbp, Aug 27 2015, 11:15 PM.



kbp	Aug 28 2015, 11:23 PM Post #2179
Posts: 52,052 Group: Tier1 Member #20 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	http://www.wsj.com/articles/insurers-win-big-health-rate-increases-1440628848 Insurers Win Big Health-Rate Increases Louise Radnofsky and Stephanie Armour Updated Aug. 27, 2015 1:19 p.m. ET At a July town hall in Nashville, Tenn., President Barack Obama played down fears of a spike in health insurance premiums in his signature health law’s third year. “My expectation is that they’ll come in significantly lower than what’s being requested,” he said, saying Tennesseans had to work to ensure the state’s insurance commissioner “does their job in not just passively reviewing the rates, but really asking, ‘OK, what is it that you are looking for here? Why would you need very high premiums?’” That commissioner, Julie Mix McPeak, answered on Friday by greenlighting the full 36.3% increase sought by the biggest health plan in the state, BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee. She said the insurer demonstrated the hefty increase for 2016 was needed to cover higher-than-expected claims from sick people who signed up for individual policies in the first two years of the Affordable Care Act. Several regulators around the country agree with her, and have approved all or most of the big premium increases sought by the largest health plans in their states for the new sign-up season that begins Nov. 1. Not all states have made their rate decisions, and some have approved relatively modest increases. A number of the states with lower average increases this year had higher rates to begin with. Some also fared better with enrollment under the law. Insurance premiums vary from state to state, for a number of reasons including regional disparities in the costs of care. Still, the upsurge is likely to be a big talking point not only during the three-month enrollment season, but through the 2016 campaigns, where GOP opponents of the law are expected to use it as a defining issue against their Democratic rivals. [...]



kbp	Aug 31 2015, 07:18 AM Post #2180
Posts: 52,052 Group: Tier1 Member #20 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	...some are more equal http://blogs.wsj.com/cfo/2015/08/28/writers-union-seeks-cadillac-tax-exemption/ Writers Union Seeks ‘Cadillac Tax’ Exemption The union representing thousands of film, television and digital media writers is seeking an exemption for all unions from the Affordable Care Act’s “Cadillac tax” on high cost health plans. In a letter to the Department of Treasury and Internal Revenue Service on Thursday, the Writers Guild of America East argued that health care plans negotiated under collective bargaining agreements should be exempted from the tax on high cost plans, which takes effect in 2018. Under the Affordable Care Act, employers will be subject to a 40% excise tax, or “Cadillac tax” on employee plans that exceed government thresholds, starting at $10,200 for individuals in 2018. “The Cadillac tax would strip away benefits from the basic package of compensation Guild members have struggled for decades to win for themselves and their families,” the Writers Guild said in a statement. The union argued that plans negotiated under collective bargaining agreements have historically been exempted from other benefit plan regulations. The tax is meant to help fund insurance for previously-uncovered Americans, and to help control the cost of healthcare plans. Employers already receive deductions for providing health benefits to workers. Thus, the Cadillac tax would essentially end that tax break for the highest cost plans. But unions have some of the highest cost plans, after years of collective bargaining with employers for better benefits. About 26% of employers, and particularly large employers, will have at least one health plan at risk of triggering the excise tax when it takes effect in 2018, according to an analysis this week by the Kaiser Family Foundation. The Writers Guild is not the first union to speak out against the excise tax. A group of unions, including the Teamsters, wrote a letter to Congressional leaders in July 2013 that the Cadillac tax “will destroy the very health and well-being of our members along with millions of other hardworking Americans,” by prompting employers to reduce the level of employee health benefits.



LTC8K6	Aug 31 2015, 09:26 AM Post #2181
Assistant to The Devil Himself Posts: 28,896 Group: Tier1 Member #15 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	The Latest Frontier in Total Regulation http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/08/the-latest-frontier-in-total-regulation.php Personal trainers fall under the gaze of Obamacare.



kbp	Aug 31 2015, 06:39 PM Post #2182
Posts: 52,052 Group: Tier1 Member #20 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	LTC8K6 Aug 31 2015, 09:26 AM The Latest Frontier in Total Regulation http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2015/08/the-latest-frontier-in-total-regulation.php Personal trainers fall under the gaze of Obamacare. Quote: ...Yup—another anti-competitive, rent-seeking effort parading under the banner of “protecting the public.”



kbp	Sep 1 2015, 06:21 AM Post #2183
Posts: 52,052 Group: Tier1 Member #20 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	March For Life does not have to participate in abortions ...but they had to go to court to avoid it! Quote: http://dailycaller.com/2015/08/31/march-for-life-defeats-obama-administration-in-court/ March For Life Defeats Obama Administration In Court A federal court prohibited the Obama administration from forcing a pro-life nonprofit to insure “abortion-inducing” contraceptives Monday, in what is the first exemption from the mandate granted to a secular organization. [...] “If the purpose of the religious employer exemption is, as HHS states, to respect the anti-abortifacient tenets of an employment relationship, then it makes no rational sense-indeed, no sense whatsoever to deny March for Life that same respect,” the decision states.



kbp	Sep 2 2015, 07:28 AM Post #2184
Posts: 52,052 Group: Tier1 Member #20 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	Quote: http://www.wsj.com/articles/public-or-private-health-benefits-face-strategic-pruning-1441068538 Public or Private, Health Benefits Face Strategic Pruning Finance chiefs at companies ranging from Cisco Systems Inc. CSCO -2.94 % to Westmoreland Coal Co. WLB 0.00 % are scrutinizing employee health benefits as they face the Affordable Care Act’s looming “Cadillac tax” on generous health plans. They aren’t the only ones. Across the country, cities and states are also scrambling to figure out how many millions the tax will cost them. The ferment underscores how all employers stand to be pinched if they can’t reduce employee health-care costs below government-set thresholds. Starting in 2018, both public and private employers will have to pay a tax of 40% on the amount by which the cost of their health-care plans exceed $10,200 for individuals and $27,500 for families. Those sums include premiums paid by both employers and employees. The Congressional Budget Office predicts the nation’s employers will have to fork over $3 billion for the Cadillac tax in 2018. But, with health-care costs likely to grow faster than inflation, it expects the burden on employers to rise, doubling to $6 billion in 2019. [...] Cutting back on health coverage, slowly More than a quarter of U.S. companies are likely to face the Cadillac tax on at least one of their health plans if they don’t make sweeping benefits changes, and 42% will be hit by the tax a decade later, according to a report last week from the Kaiser Family Foundation, a nonprofit health-policy think tank. Many of them will be able to avoid that fate, but only if they reduce or eliminate spending on insurance premiums and stop offering popular benefits, such as flexible spending accounts, which allow employees to use pretax dollars to pay for their health-care expenses. Most employers are expected to shift employees to high-deductible plans that require them to pay more out of pocket for doctor’s visits and prescriptions. [...] The 'slow death' approach to health care redistribution! .



Baldo	Sep 2 2015, 09:14 AM Post #2185
Posts: 59,988 Group: Global Moderators Member #45 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	Unfortunately I have had to spend hours lately around a hospital over the illness of another. I know my way around this place. I had discussions with staff and experienced the workings. If Obamacare was designed to lessen the flow of ER patients it is a failure. The lines & waits are long. I found out yesterday they will be expanding the ER rooms from 27 to 61 due to the increase in work load. This despite Obamacare and the many public clinics and local county hospital in the area. So one of the justifications/solutions for Obamacare is a failure in this instance.



kbp	Sep 2 2015, 05:05 PM Post #2186
Posts: 52,052 Group: Tier1 Member #20 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	The solution that creates failures will be due new solutions!



kbp	Sep 4 2015, 08:31 AM Post #2187
Posts: 52,052 Group: Tier1 Member #20 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	MUST READ! Start here recalling the Massachusetts health plan (Romney) is what was duplicated for O-care, using the famous mastermind for both plans, the person which is 110% certain he is smarter than all the voters! Quote: http://khn.org/news/health-care-spending-in-massachusetts-rises-faster-than-states-goal/ Health Care Spending In Massachusetts Rises Faster Than State’s Goal For years, Massachusetts has been out in front of other states, trying ideas to change the health system. It passed a state law extending health insurance coverage to almost all citizens four years ahead of the federal health law, and then the commonwealth tried to tackle rising health costs. But the latest numbers are disappointing: Massachusetts spent $632 million more on health care last year than it aimed to, according to a report from the state’s Center for Health Information and Analysis. If Mass care had a head start on O-care, is it not logical that O-care will follow with the same result? Quote: The goal, established by a 2012 law, is to keep health care spending in line with the rising costs of other goods and services. Every year the state sets a benchmark. In 2013 — the first year of accountability under the law — Massachusetts stayed well under the cap on health care cost growth. But last year, spending shot right past the 3.6 percent target and hit $54 billion, a 4.8 percent increase over the previous year. “It’s far above the rate of inflation that we’re seeing in the state. It’s far above what family incomes are going up at, and far above what small businesses are seeing in their increased sales,” said Jon Hurst, president of the 3,600-member Retailers Association of Massachusetts. And the cost is far above what they can sustain! Look at the numbers they use... 3.6% 4.8%... next (below) 6%. WTH is controlled here in the way of costs??? We've seen care cost rise faster than that, but it happened when the economy was inflating greater than the 2% or less we've seen under Barry and that expansion is imaginary. Realize that the cost control goal for Mass care is about twice as much as economic growth ...and they missed that goal by a long shot!! IOW, they set a goal for failure to control costs and failed worse than expected. That's an OMG program for the people! Quote: So what happened? The big jump was at MassHealth, the government insurance plan for low- and moderate-income residents. MassHealth added 379,000 members and saw spending rise $2.4 billion, or 19 percent. Some members became newly eligible through the Affordable Care Act, but most, about 325,000, were automatically enrolled in the months after the Health Connector website crashed. “Obviously the 19 percent growth in MassHealth is distressing to all of us,” said Marylou Sudders, the state secretary for health and human services. “And this administration is taking steps to redesign and restructure a MassHealth program that is sustainable for the long haul.” Is the state rep disappointed in the massive growth in redistribution? Quote: Sudders aims for a 6 percent budget increase this year. Someone remind me what the rate of inflation Barry's administration has been reporting! Quote: “There’s much more going on here that we don’t understand,” said Stuart Altman, who chairs the board of the state’s Health Policy Commission. “We need to dig deeper and find out.” The state doesn't understand a $632 million budget error many years after the program was put in place? Quote: [...] This report, with some troubling signs for health care spending, comes a week after small businesses learned that the base rate increase for premiums will rise more than 6 percent at the beginning of next year. That should make residents happy ...NOT! Quote: [...] So is the state’s health care cost law working? Does setting a yearly spending goal help? “This is just a never-ending battle,” said Hurst, of the retailers group.. “We cannot continue to drain money from our consumers, employers and taxpayers and shift it over to the health care industry.” But, health secretary Sudders said, “We’re not going to always hit the benchmark, but what this [law] does is it continues to put a very public spotlight on our need to control costs.” Sudders missed the "benchmark" by $632 million and wants those she works for to understand they may not hit the mark with their spending controls???? The "public spotlight" is exposing how NOT to control costs! Quote: [...] One last figure of note from the report: $8,010 is the average amount of health care spending for each resident of Massachusetts last year. The report’s authors say few, if any, states spend more. The bragging rights for the Massachusetts program to increase competition, establish preventive care, reduce emergency room expense.... is quite simply a failure. Imagine if someone was to try the same thing, tellin the people to anticipate different results... wait, Barry did do that! Edited by kbp, Sep 4 2015, 08:32 AM.



kbp	Sep 4 2015, 08:52 AM Post #2188
Posts: 52,052 Group: Tier1 Member #20 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	This one would be good to read for the sake of humor, were it not actually happening! http://khn.org/news/hhs-unveils-civil-rights-protections-for-transgender-patients-health-services/



Baldo	Sep 4 2015, 09:34 AM Post #2189
Posts: 59,988 Group: Global Moderators Member #45 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	kbp Sep 4 2015, 08:52 AM This one would be good to read for the sake of humor, were it not actually happening! http://khn.org/news/hhs-unveils-civil-rights-protections-for-transgender-patients-health-services/ Obama Government Pushes Transgender Healthcare Equality The Obama administration issued a sweeping proposal Thursday to bolster civil rights protections in health care, barring medical providers and insurers from discriminating based on gender, whether in treatments or access to facilities or services. The long-awaited rules from the Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Health and Human Services further define protections included in the Affordable Care Act, particularly broadening those for transgender Americans. The proposal also includes provisions requiring medical providers to bolster their communication efforts for people with disabilities or limited English proficiency. http://khn.org/news/hhs-unveils-civil-rights-protections-for-transgender-patients-health-services/



kbp	Sep 4 2015, 12:45 PM Post #2190
Posts: 52,052 Group: Tier1 Member #20 Joined: Apr 28, 2008	Baldo Sep 4 2015, 09:34 AM kbp Sep 4 2015, 08:52 AM This one would be good to read for the sake of humor, were it not actually happening! http://khn.org/news/hhs-unveils-civil-rights-protections-for-transgender-patients-health-services/ Obama Government Pushes Transgender Healthcare Equality The Obama administration issued a sweeping proposal Thursday to bolster civil rights protections in health care, barring medical providers and insurers from discriminating based on gender, whether in treatments or access to facilities or services. The long-awaited rules from the Office of Civil Rights in the Department of Health and Human Services further define protections included in the Affordable Care Act, particularly broadening those for transgender Americans. The proposal also includes provisions requiring medical providers to bolster their communication efforts for people with disabilities or limited English proficiency. http://khn.org/news/hhs-unveils-civil-rights-protections-for-transgender-patients-health-services/ Keep reading! ...and need to give transgender patients access to facilities, such as bathrooms, consistent with the gender with which they identify.



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