http://news.yahoo.com/gop-seeks-coverage-choices-health-120324381.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- At the prodding of business organizations, House Republicans quietly secured a recent change in President Barack Obama's health law to expand coverage choices, a striking, one-of-a-kind departure from dozens of high-decibel attempts to repeal or dismember it. Democrats describe the change involving small-business coverage options as a straightforward improvement of the type they are eager to make, and Obama signed it into law. Republicans are loath to agree, given the strong sentiment among the rank and file that the only fix the law deserves is a burial. *** go to the link for the full article.
Survey Estimates Net Gain of 9.3 Million American Adults with Health Insurance by Katherine Grace Carman and Christine Eibner "Using a survey fielded by the RAND American Life Panel, we estimate a net gain of 9.3 million in the number of American adults with health insurance coverage from September 2013 to mid-March 2014. "The survey, drawn from a small but nationally representative sample, indicates that this significant uptick in insurance coverage has come not only from enrollment in the new marketplaces established under the Affordable Care Act (ACA), but also from new enrollment in employer coverage and Medicaid. "Put another way, the survey estimates that the share of uninsured American adults has dropped over the measured period from 20.5 percent to 15.8 percent. Among those gaining coverage, most enrolled through employer-sponsored coverage or Medicaid. "Although a total of 3.9 million people enrolled in marketplace plans, only 1.4 million of these individuals were previously uninsured. Our marketplace enrollment numbers are lower than those reported by the federal government at least in part because our data do not fully capture the surge in enrollment that occurred in late March 2014. "Using the RAND American Life Panel, a nationally representative panel of individuals who regularly participate in surveys, we have conducted monthly surveys since November 2013 about insurance choices and public opinion. This particular survey workâwhich is ongoingâis known as the RAND Health Reform Opinion Study (RHROS)." More>>
so we spent a trillion dollars to sign up a few million already eligible people for medicade and a million to 2 million previously uninsured with massive subsidies. plus we also go our liberty sucked out, or doctors and our plans eliminated and premiums jacked 50 to 400 percent. You leftists don't seem to get how bad obamacare is. but you will.
Yeah, so? It's a new program. We're catching up to our peers when we should have been out front. Premiums will go up for the wealthier Americans, and have gone down for poorer Americans. The severity of the redistribution is a function of the degree of stratification in our society. Other, more egalitarian societies, will naturally see smaller and fewer transfers. For the shortage of doctors, I blame the AMA. They knew these boomer days were coming, 30 years ago. Anyway, we'll continue to improve it. Yankee ingenuity.
this is not what you claim it to be ricter. This program is designed to suck every last extra dollar out of the working class. they could have easily covered the poor with a 10th or less of the money they spent on this program. the medicaid people would have signed up eventually anyway.
Amen Ricter. Seems the reps are all gloom and doom and woe is me, anti American attitude if you ask me.
Uhhh, it is gloom and doom as fewer tax paying citizens are forced to support an ever increasing population of people who demand handouts. And in the end it will end badly as it's not financially sustainable. Those who pay taxes .. and who are not recipient of handouts .. cannot support a bunch of slackers forever.
I guess he and Ricter believe we should all hold hands and collectively "hope" that cold harsh reality will somehow be different this time.
I'm with you. I wonder why the rest aren't! Basic math skills PROVE this shit is unsustainable, and it boggles my mind to think these parasites will literally lay down their kids, and grandkids lives in order to get away with the financial MURDER they're sadly allowed to get away with thanks to our NO-BALLS Republicans who could have killed this sick animal long ago...