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DC Insurers May Sue Over Obamacare Exchange Tax

Washington, D.C. insurers that aren’t participating in the district’s Obamacare exchange are threatening to sue over a city council-approved plot to tax all city insurers to fund the exchange.

 

The struggling city-run Obamacare exchange proposed the tax on all insurance companies that sell products in D.C., whether or not they sell coverage in the health-reform exchange, in order to fund ongoing operations for the marketplace.

 

The D.C. exchange’s director, Mila Kofman, told Kaiser Health News that companies that oppose the tax have threatened legal action, but did not name names.

 

The D.C. City Council approved a plan to tax insurers 1 percent on customers’ annual premiums for a laundry list of health insurance offerings, including not only traditional medical coverage but supplemental insurance products that Obamacare exchanges won’t offer.

 

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74% already had insurance! So we've f'd up our entire healthcare system and spent 5B on setting up exchanges for 1.5 to 2 million uninsured...

 

Also we are now paying for at least 1/2 of those getting insurance in subsidies I suppose.

 

 

Why? Because it is

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Obamacare Myth-Making

Five phony success stories.

JAY COST

May 19, 2014, Vol. 19, No. 34

 

With enrollment in the Obamacare exchanges now closed, Democrats and their friends in the media are ebullient. Obamacare is an enormous success, they say, and conservatives have been humiliated. On closer inspection, however, things seem decidedly less bullish for President Obamas signature achievement.

 

Among the many exaggerations and inaccuracies the laws defenders are touting, five stand out.

 

 

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The funny thing is that, for all the myth-making about Obamacare, the left still cannot sell it to the American public. Even after a month of glowing coverage, polls from the major media outlets show that support for the law is basically flat, stuck in the low 40s, well below the level of opposition.

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California consumers say duped by Blue Shield's limited Obamacare plans
Terry Baynes
Thu May 15, 2014

(Reuters) - Consumers who purchased new health plans from Blue Shield of California have sued the insurer, claiming they were misled into thinking the insurance would cover their desired doctors and hospitals.

In their complaint filed in California state court on Wednesday, San Francisco residents John Harrington and Alex Talon accused Blue Shield of misrepresenting that their plans, sold on California's health exchange, would cover the full provider network advertised on the company's website.

They sued on behalf of a class of people who had purchased so-called "preferred provider organization" plans from the insurer only to realize that the doctor and hospital networks for their plans were limited.

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The lawsuit alleged claims of false advertising, unfair business practices and breach of contract under California law.

The case is Harrington et al v. Blue Shield of California et al, San Francisco Superior Court, No. 14-539283.

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The mutual lies of Obamacare
Paul Mirengoff
May 17, 2014

During last year’s budget negotiations, Senate and House Republicans warned that many Obamacare enrollees would provide false information about their income in order to obtain subsidies to which they are not entitled. In response, HHS Secretary Sebelius (remember her?) promised to put in place a system through which the government would thoroughly vet the salary information submitted by applicants for coverage. That promise was a predicate — or if you’re cynical like me, a fig leaf — for the bargain Congress reached.

 

Consider Sebelius’ promise another lie of Obamacare. According to the Washington Post, hundreds of thousands of Americans are likely receiving bigger Obamacare subsidies than they deserve because they submitted incorrect salary information which the government did not properly vet before awarding subsidies.

 

It was assumed, surely, that the vetting system promised by Sebelius would be fully computerized. But the administration had enough trouble getting its Obamacare computer system up and running at all. It still lacks the ability to use computers to resolve inconsistencies between the information submitted by applicants and IRS records (e.g. by uploading applicants’ pay stubs).

 

Thus, when the government finally turns to this task, it will do so by hand. That work is not expected to begin until “sometime this summer,” according to the Post.

 

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Obamacare: Who Could Have Seen This Coming?
Steven Hayward
May 21, 2014

Really, who could have seen this coming? From today’s *Wall Street Journal:


ER Visits Rise Despite Health Law



Health Act Isn’t Cutting Emergency Volume So Far; Government Says It’s Too Early to Draw Conclusions

 

 

The only thing wrong with the main headline is its accuracy; it should of course read “ER Visits Rise Because of Health Law.” Anyway:

 

 

Early evidence suggests that emergency rooms have become busier since the Affordable Care Act expanded insurance coverage this year, despite the law’s goal of reducing unnecessary care in ERs.

 

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Federal funds earmarked to offset Affordable Care Act insurer losses

May 21 2014

 

The Obama administration has quietly adjusted key provisions of its signature health care law to potentially make billions of additional taxpayer dollars available to the insurance industry if companies providing coverage through the Affordable Care Act lose money.

 

The move was buried in hundreds of pages of new regulations issued late last week. It comes as part of an intensive administration effort to hold down premium increases for next year, a top priority for the White House as the rates will be announced ahead of this fall's congressional elections.

 

Administration officials for months have denied charges by opponents that they plan a "bailout" for insurance companies providing coverage under the health care law.

 

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Video: Jay Rockefeller, Ron Johnson clash over charge that racism is driving opposition to ObamaCare
Allahpundit
May 22, 2014

I’m used to this by now but I can’t tell you how dispiriting I find it knowing that we’re in for four or even eight years of it under President Hillary, to whom all resistance will inevitably be dismissed as vestiges of sexism. (Hillary herself has already begun to feed that beast.) In fact, I think this sort of demagoguery will happen much more frequently under Clinton than it has under Obama. There’s more to be gained from it politically: Electoral returns from racism charges are marginal because Democrats already win 90+ percent of the black vote, but women’s votes are hotly contested. The gender gap has been crucial to Democratic gains over the past eight years; they have every incentive to cry sexism early and often in the interest of making that gap wider. Also, call me naive but I think there are some — some — Dems who recognize how grave the charge of racism is and tend to shy away from it. Inveterate race-baiters like Jim Clyburn, who can find a Reconstruction analogy in the Benghazi hearings, aren’t deterred, but not all Democrats are as quick to take the gloves off. I think they’ll be quicker on the charge of sexism, simply because it doesn’t carry quite the same stigma as an accusation of racism does. (Whether it should is a separate question.) Prepare for lots, lots more of this in years to come.

 

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ObamaCare A Bronze Trap For 1 In 4 Low-Income Insured

 

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Low income people just now realizing they can't afford the deductibles. Soon there will be news stories on people with O'care that can't pay deductible, or won't get surgery they need and a magic wand will be waved....

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AP POLL: ONLY 28% SUPPORT OBAMACARE

 

Last year, Reps. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) vowed that Obamacare would be so popular with voters that Democrats would run on the president's health care law leading up to the Nov. 4 midterm elections. A new Associated Press poll, however, may give Democrats pause, as just 28% of Americans now support Obamacare.

The AP poll's abysmal Obamacare support findings include all forms of support; just 17% of Americans said they "strongly support" Obamacare and 11% said they "somewhat support" the president's signature legislative achievement.Scissors-32x32.png

 

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/05/25/AP-Poll-Only-28-Support-Obamacare

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ObamaCare A Bronze Trap For 1 In 4 Low-Income Insured

 

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Low income people just now realizing they can't afford the deductibles. Soon there will be news stories on people with O'care that can't pay deductible, or won't get surgery they need and a magic wand will be waved....

 

Hospitals hiking cost on the poor due to … ObamaCare

Ed Morrissey

May 27, 2014

 

There are multiple levels of irony in this New York Times report on the impact of ObamaCare on poor patients in the nation’s hospitals. Congress demanded the power to revamp the health-insurance industry and expand Medicaid in order to help the poor get better medical care for less money. In reality, the opposite appears to be happening, as hospitals attempt to force the poor into ObamaCare:

 

 

Hospital systems around the country have started scaling back financial assistance for lower- and middle-income people without health insurance, hoping to push them into signing up for coverage through the new online marketplaces created under the Affordable Care Act.

 

The trend is troubling to advocates for the uninsured, who say raising fees will inevitably cause some to skip care rather than buy insurance that they consider unaffordable. Though the number of hospitals tightening access to free or discounted care appears limited so far, many say they are considering doing so, and experts predict that stricter policies will become increasingly common.

 

 

Why did this unintended consequence occur? In part, because ObamaCare penalizes hospitals for extending charitable assistance:

 

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Obamacare in the Blue States

The great coverup.

MICHAEL ASTRUE

Jun 9, 2014, Vol. 19, No. 37

 

One of the ironies of the Affordable Care Act is that many of the governors who zealously supported the bill failed spectacularly in its implementation. Oregon, Maryland, and Minnesota are among the most prominent failures. The Massachusetts exchange, the primary inspiration for the ACA exchanges, collapsed entirely, and state officials lack a plan for fixing it in time for this falls enrollments.

 

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President Obama is setting up his new HHS secretary for failure if he hesitates to hold his appointees accountable. As the VA scandals demonstrate, we cannot rely on investigations by an inspector general who has been a significant and longstanding part of the problem he is investigating. President Obama should fire Inspector General Levinson, and he should do so immediately. Next, he should direct Attorney General Holder to appoint a special counsel with broad powers to oversee an investigation into all the failed state exchanges in order to determine whether federal and state officials committed felonies. Finally, Congress needs to ask whether partisan considerationsor personal relationships such as the friendship between President Obama and Governor Patrickinfluenced decisions by CMS officials to continue funding completely nonfunctional systems.

 

As a student of American history and a scholar of constitutional law, President Obama should be well aware of how hesitation in the coming weeks could taint his legacy.

 

Michael Astrue is a former commissioner of Social Security and general counsel of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.....and a hate filled hating hater who hates that nice President Obama because he's black and what to see poor people die.

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Obamacare Enrollment Was Driven by Coercion
JEFFREY H. ANDERSON
Jun 4, 2014

Before President Obama took office, the federal government left Americans free to buy only those products or services they chose to buy. Under Obamacare, however, that has changed. For the first time in our nation’s 200-plus-year history, the federal government now compels private American citizens to buy a product or service of the government’s choosing — namely, Obamacare-compliant health insurance — merely as a condition of living in the United States. The question is, did this unprecedented level of coercion fuel enrollment in the Obamacare exchanges? Recent polling suggests that it did.

 

The polling in question was conducted for Enroll America by PerryUndem. Politico writes that Enroll America was “was dreamed up by liberal advocates of the health care law” and is “employing political campaign tactics” to spark Obamacare enrollment. It’s headed by Anne Filipic, a former White House official and Obama campaign staffer. In other words, this isn’t a right-wing poll.

 

The poll asked those who bought Obamacare-compliant insurance to list the reasons why they bought it, offering 15 potential responses. The first and third most-common responses were (first) “It’s the law” (36 percent) and (third) “I didn’t want to pay the fine” (34 percent). Comparatively, only 23 percent picked “I wanted insurance for my family,” and only 19 percent picked “I could afford a plan.”

 

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What Will Obamacares Future Look Like?

Alyene Senger

June 04, 2014

 

Obamacare is dramatically reshaping health care markets, especially the individual insurance market. The first results of the laws standardization of coverage and imposition of new government benefit mandates and regulations were increased premiumsquite substantial in many casesand the loss of existing coverage for several million Americans.

 

Obamacares longer-term consequences are still a topic of considerable debate among expertsin large part because it is hard to project what health insurance markets will look like if Obamacare remains in place. Thats because doing so requires making assumptions about how the laws numerous provisions will interact over time. Even so, here are some recent predictions:

 

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It just keeps getting better and better.....

Surprise! The Government Now Can’t Even Guess How Much Obamacare Ultimately Will Cost
Genevieve Wood
June 06, 2014

It’s no secret Obamacare is unaffordable. But now we also know that even the Congressional Budget Office can’t predict how much more this disastrous law will cost.

 

According to a footnote from a Congressional Budget Office report released in April but reported this week by Roll Call, the law’s true costs and long-term fiscal impact are simply impossible to track.

 

That’s a change in tune for the CBO, which originally reported in 2010 that Obamacare would pay for itself and over the course of a decade would decrease the deficit.

 

So what’s changed?

 

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FUBAR!

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"So what’s changed?"

 

As per Pelousy, after it was passed somebody must have read it.

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CBO Quietly Drops Forecast That Obamacare Will Cut the Deficit

 

By Eric Pianin,

The Fiscal Times

June 5, 2014

 

One of the Obama administration's major selling points in passing the Affordable Care Act in 2010 was a Congressional Budget Office forecast that the controversial legislation would reduce the deficit by more than $120 billion over the coming decade.

 

The CBO has consistently projected that President Obama's overhaul will reduce the deficit, and the agency estimated that the Republicans’ 2011 effort to repeal the legislation would increase deficits by $210 billion from 2010 to 2021.

 

In April, the agency quietly signaled that it can no longer make that projection; that the law had been changed and delayed so much that there is no longer a credible way to estimate the long-term effects on the deficit of all elements of the program taken together.

 

In a little noticed footnote to a report updating estimates of the effects of the insurance coverage provisions of the law, the agency headed by Douglas Elmendorf acknowledged that neither CBO nor the Joint Committee on Taxation could determine precisely how scores of provisions Scissors-32x32.pnghttp://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/06/05/CBO-Quietly-Drops-Forecast-Obamacare-Will-Cut-Deficit

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CBO Quietly Drops Forecast That Obamacare Will Cut the Deficit

 

By Eric Pianin,

The Fiscal Times

June 5, 2014

 

One of the Obama administration's major selling points in passing the Affordable Care Act in 2010 was a Congressional Budget Office forecast that the controversial legislation would reduce the deficit by more than $120 billion over the coming decade.

 

The CBO has consistently projected that President Obama's overhaul will reduce the deficit, and the agency estimated that the Republicans’ 2011 effort to repeal the legislation would increase deficits by $210 billion from 2010 to 2021.

 

In April, the agency quietly signaled that it can no longer make that projection; that the law had been changed and delayed so much that there is no longer a credible way to estimate the long-term effects on the deficit of all elements of the program taken together.

 

In a little noticed footnote to a report updating estimates of the effects of the insurance coverage provisions of the law, the agency headed by Douglas Elmendorf acknowledged that neither CBO nor the Joint Committee on Taxation could determine precisely how scores of provisions Scissors-32x32.pnghttp://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/06/05/CBO-Quietly-Drops-Forecast-Obamacare-Will-Cut-Deficit

 

Hmmmm. I thought the fact they projected a "profit" changed the way the bill was handled or some such.

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Draggingtree

 

CBO Quietly Drops Forecast That Obamacare Will Cut the Deficit

 

By Eric Pianin,

The Fiscal Times

June 5, 2014

 

One of the Obama administration's major selling points in passing the Affordable Care Act in 2010 was a Congressional Budget Office forecast that the controversial legislation would reduce the deficit by more than $120 billion over the coming decade.

 

The CBO has consistently projected that President Obama's overhaul will reduce the deficit, and the agency estimated that the Republicans’ 2011 effort to repeal the legislation would increase deficits by $210 billion from 2010 to 2021.

 

In April, the agency quietly signaled that it can no longer make that projection; that the law had been changed and delayed so much that there is no longer a credible way to estimate the long-term effects on the deficit of all elements of the program taken together.

 

In a little noticed footnote to a report updating estimates of the effects of the insurance coverage provisions of the law, the agency headed by Douglas Elmendorf acknowledged that neither CBO nor the Joint Committee on Taxation could determine precisely how scores of provisions Scissors-32x32.pnghttp://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Articles/2014/06/05/CBO-Quietly-Drops-Forecast-Obamacare-Will-Cut-Deficit

 

Hmmmm. I thought the fact they projected a "profit" changed the way the bill was handled or some such.

 

Well I do think what u said is correct, but ran across this and thought I’ll post – true or not but sounded good r like the truth.

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