son of witless

Now listen up Obamabots. You keep blaming Republicans for Obama Care collapsing. Those mean ole Republicans di-int help your hero out. Just cause he screwed them over every chance he got, like shutting down the government and blaming it all on Republicans, is no reason why they shouldn't bail out the first African American President. Well folks, Republicans are not responsible for your guy's mistakes. If you want to know the truth it was your buddies the Millennials who collapsed Obama Care. Let me splain it to you.

Now think about it. You can't blame your mighty President Obama for believing in the stupidity of the younger generation. I mean after all, they voted for him twice. How much more stupid could ya get? So it was logical that the great Obama would think they would be stupid enough to sign up in their millions for ObamaCare. Obama Care needs healthy young strapping adults to sign up and then over pay on their premiums to cover the old and sick and tired, and the deadbeats who deserve free doctoring.

Now there is stupid and there is crazy. Voting for Obama was stupid, but to sign up for Obama Care and subsidize the high riskers is crazy. Those Millennials are stupid, but they ain't crazy. So they don't sign up and they don't over pay. Well that means the pools of insured in Obama Care exchanges are filled with high cost sickies. And that kiddies is why Obama care is self destructing!!!!!

As Rush might say, I make the complex understandable. This ain't rocket science. It was predicted.

3jack

As much as you would like to see it happen, Obama Care has not collapsed. It’s here to stay and will be here when you’re gone. Just because there will be a rise in premiums doesn't mean the ACA is failing. It takes the thinking and lack of empathy of right wing "religious" idiots to keep rooting for failure of one of the most basic necessities of life...health care. As far as the rise in premiums, take a look at this chart and wipe that gloat off your face. Premiums are controlled by the insurance companies and have been rising every year for ages.


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son of witless

Your LAD promised different. Yes it is collapsing. Rationalize it all you want. The Hitler youth fighting on as the Russians entered Berlin were not half as committed to a lost cause.

Worried for our children Loc: Massachusetts

By: ANDREW OGLES and LUKE HILGEMANN
Oct. 6, 2016


Tennessee is ground zero for ObamaCare’s nationwide implosion. Late last month the state insurance commissioner, Julie Mix McPeak,approved premium increases of up to 62% in a bid to save the exchange set up under the Affordable Care Act. “I would characterize the exchange market in Tennessee as very near collapse,” she said.

Then last week BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee announced it would leave three of the state’s largest exchange markets—Nashville, Memphis and Knoxville. “We have experienced losses approaching $500 million over the course of three years on ACA plans,” the company said, “which is unsustainable.” As a result, more than 100,000 Tennesseans will be forced to seek out new coverage for 2017.

BlueCross is only the latest insurer to head for the exits. Community Health Alliance, the insurance co-op established under ObamaCare, is winding down due to financial failure, leaving 30,000 people without coverage. UnitedHealthcare said in April it is departing Tennessee’s exchange after significant losses. That’s another 41,000 people needing new plans.

All told, more than 60% of our state’s ObamaCare consumers will lose their coverage heading into 2017. When they go in search of a replacement plan, they will confront two unfortunate realities: a dearth of options and skyrocketing costs.

Seventy-three out of Tennessee’s 95 counties will have only one insurer on the exchange, meaning no meaningful competition whatsoever. In regions where BlueCross BlueShield is pulling out, there will be two remaining major carriers, Cigna and Humana.The only large metro area with more options will be Chattanooga.

Then there are the premiums. State regulators have already approved the highest annual rise in the nation, a weighted average of nearly 56%, according to data at ACASignups.net. The rate increases authorized in late August include an average of 62% for BlueCross BlueShield, 46% for Cigna and 44% for Humana. The latter two companies could ask to revise their rates upward depending on how many former BlueCross consumers they pick up.

The bottom line is that Tennesseans on ObamaCare must choose from fewer, and increasingly unaffordable, options. Some exchange buyers, those covered by subsidies, will bear only part of this additional cost. For the roughly 30,000 Tennesseans who are ineligible for subsidies, the higher price will come completely out of their own pockets. Not to mention that all ObamaCare consumers face rising deductibles, which aren’t covered by subsidies and can range up to $6,850 for the most “affordable” family plans.

It’s easy to imagine Commissioner McPeak’s fear of an outright exchange collapse coming true in the near future. The more unaffordable plans become, the angrier consumers will get. BlueCross BlueShield’s $500 million losses won’t disappear when the company leaves the market. Instead, the red ink will flow toward the remaining insurers as they pick up those customers. Cigna and Humana have not publicly said whether their exchange plans have turned a profit.

Naturally, this chain of events has Tennessee lawmakers clamoring for change. One of the loudest demands—coming from Democrats like Nashville’s U.S. Rep. Jim Cooper—is that the state double down on ObamaCare by expanding Medicaid. But this is a cure worse than the disease, since it would force many Tennesseans into a second-class health-care system while jeopardizing state finances for years to come.

More important, ObamaCare’s unraveling shows the danger of a one-size-fits-all federal program. What’s happening in Tennessee is only a nationwide harbinger. Every single neighboring state will have less competition on its ObamaCare exchanges next year. The entire state of Alabama will have only one insurer. Almost all are facing double-digit premium increases: in Mississippi a weighted average of 16%; in Kentucky 25%; in Georgia 33%.

These problems aren’t confined to the Southeast. ObamaCare exchange buyers will have only one option in nearly a third of American counties, according to an August report from the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. That’s a 300% increase in single-option counties from last year. Twenty-five states and the District of Columbia have approved rates leading to average premium increases next year of over 26%.

If only Tennesseans were so lucky. Instead, the Volunteer State may be the first state where ObamaCare will collapse under its own weight—though if so, it won’t be the last.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/obamacares-meltdown-has-arrived-1475709560

Obama's signature legislation is, collapsing. But fear not, Jack, it was designed to fail.

Anigav6969

A Rush Ditto head...that explains a lot....nothing like following a flat blowhard drug addict....nice work

L8erToots

Confirmation: Arizona's Maricopa County (Phoenix area) has only ONE insurance option and they will raise their rates 74.5%. New, monthly premium (with no subsidy) for a single male aged 27 will be $422 a month

America Only Loc: From the right hand of God

Oh geez, you mean we should be following that murdering old hag Hillary? Hahahah OHOHheheheheheeheh

TRUMP...President Trump....COUNT on it!

Worried for our children Loc: Massachusetts

Whoa!!! I feel for ya, Toots. It's the mad push for single payer, it's insanity.

3jack

Let me clue you in on a fact....Obamacare is here to stay because, when it passed congress, it was fully funded for the life of the law no matter how much the premiums increase or how many companies opt out of the exchanges.

America Only Loc: From the right hand of God

You know NOTHING so why do you even bother to post on this website?

"Premiums are controlled by the insurance companies and have been rising every year for ages"....your quote and it is straight BULL droppings, just like YOU!

I have had insurance for over 35 years and have had additional to my own personal insurance, a group policy for employees....you dip stick. The health insurance was about the same for the past 15 years until your Black Queer Boy Lover, your Gay Wifey Pooh, decided to screw the American Public with this garbage known as Obama Care.

You are once again, showing the entire world how your brain is less intelligent then a rotten carrot buried back at your home Planet, Uranus!

America Only Loc: From the right hand of God

Idiot stick you don't pay much attention do ya? Your queen of lies already stated she is going to make a new health care plan....what a moron you are...what you have made is the "top ten" list of idiot things to post on this website...keep going we would like to see the other 9 you have to post,. so we can get some more laughs and chuckles out of your comic book mentality! Hahheheeheheheh ahahahahaha HAR HAR HAR, idiot stick!

And President Trump is going to shove Obama Care back up Barry's fanny...so what happened to your "Obamacare is here to stay" now?

Heheheheheh ahahahahahhohoholalalalalall Yes sir, step right up folks and read the punky boy idiot sticks latest jokes....hehehehe Obama care here to stay...hehehehehhahahahahahhohohohohehehhehehelalalalalal!

Worried for our children Loc: Massachusetts

Let me clue you in on a fact. The federal government doesn't generate a profit but through the taxpayer, you keep hitting them in the pocket and you become unpopular real quick. Let this sink in, socialism is a failure.

America Only Loc: From the right hand of God

3 jack....hohoh hehehehe har har har...

One jack=bad gas from too many tacos...
Two jack=sewer smell....
Three jack= One and Two jacks with an extra queer tossed in to be the pivot boi on their circle jerk!

America Only Loc: From the right hand of God

But WAIT!!! That is COMMON sense...ya know those commies have none!

Worried for our children Loc: Massachusetts

If insanity should strike, and Hillary becomes POTUS, she shouldn't be allowed anywhere near healthcare, she tried her hand at it once and it was an abject failure.