Obamacare To Increase Individual-Market Premiums By Average Of 41%

Yah. That's what I like about propublica they seem interested in two things, getting their facts straight and reporting both sides of an issue. I like that. Their style of in-depth investigative reporting has almost vanished from the mainstream media, making them an important source.

 

I thought it was a no no to edit quoted posts.

 

Can you link to an article where they go after the left for something?

 

Oh look, more good O-bomb-a-care news.





The Obama administration exempted the federal exchanges and subsidies in ObamaCare from federal health laws against kickbacks, fraud, and bribery, the New York Times reported last week. CNN has ignored this story, however.

The Times stated: "The surprise decision, disclosed last week, exempts subsidized health insurance from a law that bans rebates, kickbacks, bribes and certain other financial arrangements in federal health programs." Commentary magazine noted that "it encourages precisely the kickback schemes this statute was put in place to prevent."

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz2kNFmAEmK

Why pray tell would O-bomb-a-care need to be exempt from federal kickbacks, fraud, and bribery laws?

I mean, you thought that would be a good idea?

 

Last week: If you like your insurance plan you can keep it...maybe not.
This week: If you like your doctor you can keep them...maybe not

Blame game as insurers dump doctors
http://nypost.com/2013/11/09/blame-game-begins-over-obamacare-debacle/

 

They’re shooting for 1.4 million to enroll in Obamacare exchanges by the end of the enrollment period but only 49,100 have signed up so far. That comes out to a whopping three and a half percent of the target. To say that things aren’t going so well for the Obama team might be an understatement.

From Reuters:

President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform has reached only about 3 percent of its enrollment target for 2014 in 12 U.S. states where new online health insurance marketplaces are mostly working smoothly, a report released on Monday said.

States with functioning exchanges have signed up 49,100 people compared with the 1.4 million people expected to be enrolled for 2014, according to the report by healthcare research and consultancy firm Avalere Health.

With enrollment in the federal HealthCare.gov website serving 36 states stalled by technical failures, the weak sign-ups for functioning insurance exchanges could be due to the administration’s difficulty to promote the program as a success, Avalere said.

The government is due to release national enrollment figures for the month of October this week. Open enrollment ends March 31, 2014.

Supporters of Obamacare and health insurers fear that scant participation in the private insurance exchanges will prevent them from becoming a sustainable new individual market, including the right mix of young and healthy members to offset coverage for older, sick people...

 

The CBO has stated that it will require 7 million enrollments to make Obamacare financially feasible. So the new target figure of 1.4 million is already a step down from the 7 million they originally touted.