Pulfnick wrote:
Obamacare was not intended to reduce the number of uninsured.
It was intended to be a f*****t takeover of 1*6th the US economy and to destroy medical care to the point full blown socialized medicine would be accepted.
Obamacare is succeeding wildly!
Pulfnick I h**e to burst your bubble,
Obamacare is not succeeding wildly! Check out this headline
"Why About 35 Million Americans Remain Uninsured and the uninsured rates are rising in the United States. 5 Things About People Who Remain Uninsured Despite ObamaCare. http://blogs.wsj.com/briefly/2015/06/24/5-things-about-people-who-remain-uninsured-despit...
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But before I explain my position and argument.
I need to apologize for the length of this thread post and the blank cost figures on the remaining State-Healthcare exchanges.
I need to find those financial loss $$$ dollar figures, and I haven't the time to research this paper that I was writing.
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Here is why ?
And the reason for the Supreme Court Case King v. Burwell.
The lingering state financial and federal subsidies are going to bankrupt the individual states with healthcare exchanges. And the Federal Debt is not sustainable.
We are currently spending taxpayer dollars at 110 % of GDP. Which meaning we are spending more taxpayer dollars, than what we are taking in taxpayer dollars. We the United States are the next Greece, to default on our loans, unless we get control of our federal spending.
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e.g., A Federal balance budget Amendment.The Affordable Care Act was written under the assumption that most States would set up their own ACA insurance marketplaces, or exchanges.
14 States implemented their own insurance marketplaces, or exchanges and 39 states did not implement the ACA. These States citizens rely on the Federal Government HealthCare exchanges programs or Federal Medi-Care, Medic-Aid programs.
States have received nearly $5 billion in federal grants to establish the online marketplaces used by consumers to enroll in health plans under the ACA. The federal funding ended at the beginning of the year, and exchanges now are required to cover their operating costs. . . . . .
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Here are the statistics on the multiple States are losing millions of taxpayer dollars trying to implement the ACA HealthCare exchanges programs.
Of the 14 State exchanges,12 remaining States, are struggling and most of those States do not look much better.
What about the disastrous $600 million boondoggle that was Healthcare.gov. Because the federal government is too big to fail! Here is the list.
The only State success story: a. Connecticut $139 million dollar loss
Two States that have shut down insurance marketplaces, or exchanges:Quote:
a. Hawaii $205 million dollar loss. the Hawaii Health Connector released a plan to shut down the state health-care exchange after the federal government restricted grant money to the state because it was not compliant with Obamacare, despite having spent over $205 million from taxpayers.
This isnt the first time Hawaii has failed in its efforts to implement government health care. The state attempted to provide health care for children in 2008 and had to close the program down after only seven months.
b, Oregon $303 million dollar loss. Nor is it the first state to close an exchange. Oregon shut down its exchange and merged with the federal Healthcare.gov program after having spent $303 million on a system that never enrolled a single customer.
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Of the 12 remaining States: ACA insurance marketplaces, or exchanges programs.Quote:
a. Maryland $125.5 million shortfall opted to scrap its website. $50 million to implement, Connecticut. Maryland struggled to launch an exchange and is looking to purchase but a huge price tag.
b. Vermont a $20 million shortfall $172 million dollar loss $250 million costs $2.5 billion in new state expenditures. Vermont was facing a $20 million shortfall at the end of 2014.
c. Rhode Island $99.3 million dollar loss. Rhode Island admittedly does not have the funds to pay the expected costs.
d. Kentucky $146 million loan and $65 million emergency loan. Kentucky Health Cooperative had to get a $65 million emergency loan from the federal government at the close of 2014 to stay afloat; it has now borrowed over $146 million.
e. California, $200 million near-term deficit, facing a $80 million budget deficit. Covered California is running an $800 million budget deficit this year, and its director has expressed concerns about its long-term sustainability.
f. Massachusetts $118 million dollar loss $180 grant million dollar loss and a $116 million deficit, opted to scrap its website. signed a contract with GGI worth at least $69 million and forced to extend a $1.1 million contract.
Massachusetts Takes Worst Performing Exchange Title From Oregon.
Massachusetts which had a government-provided health-care system before the ACA was passed gives a better sense of the future. Launched in 2006, by 2010 the state was facing cost increases approaching 10 percent a year.
New Hampshire $7 million dollar loss
Maine $9 million dollar loss
Minnesota
Colorado.
New York
Pennsylvania
District of Columbia
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Did State public sector greed play a role ? The States lack total of legislative oversight before, during implementation, and State Leader with IT experience may be to blame. ObamCare continues to slouch its way along the same inevitable trajectory as most top-down government monstrosities. (speaking of derailed trains)
Connector staff members have admitted privately that the generous flow of federal dollars was the primary motivation to rebuild the entire website. The federal government was requiring additional functionality of the site under the ACA, but it is unclear if the Connector could have saved taxpayers millions by simply building off the foundation they already had in place.
The Affordable Care Act was written under the assumption that most states would set up their own insurance marketplaces, or exchanges. Only 14 states have done so. With Oregon and Hawaii gone, 12 are left. And most of those do not look much better.
What are states having to do, to balance the States healthcare exchanges budget deficits ?State government are responded by imposing price caps, costing the five largest insurance providers $116 million and throwing their ongoing financial viability into question.
Today, some State's exchanges have some of the highest insurance premiums and longest waits times, in the country and are having to scrapped their own exchange and go on the Federal exchange.
Healthcare experts and Insurance experts are warning of more bailouts and failed State healthcare exchanges. Because of the Obamacare regulations and mandates require state exchanges to be completely self-funded this year 2016.
Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock, Tick tock. Is there is a pattern here, and it is no coincidence. One federal ring to bind them all. Federal single payer Health Insurance. DUH ! ! !Quote:
There are those who continue to claim that Obamacare is less successful than it could be because what we really need is a complete federal takeover of health care. This is rubbish, and the proof is everywhere.
First, the government already provides health care for large groups of people in the United States. Perhaps youve heard the Veterans Affairs Department?
The publics ire was inflamed last year by the nationwide scandal of filthy conditions, dozens of deaths and over 120,000 veterans on secret waiting lists, many of whom never received any care. But the VAs problems go back much further.
Ditto for the Indian Health Services, with its unofficial motto, Dont get sick after June, the month the federal money runs out. The quality of care provided to Native Americans is as much a national disgrace as the VA.
If the federal government cannot provide adequate care for 2 million Native Americans or 7 million veterans, what makes anyone believe they can do it effectively for 330 million people ?
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Because Sweden! Sorry for my sarcasm here.The entire population of Sweden is less than that of Los Angeles County.
It's Because the feds have more money and a unlimited printing press, that magically creates money out of thin air.Quote:
And more money is what gave us the disastrous $600 million boondoggle that was Healthcare.gov. computer system.
Because the federal government is too big to fail! And every American taxpayer is a sucker to believe that Government is the answer to all our problems such as Health insurance, My bad, Healthcare, Lets call the kettle black. Because this is what the ACA was sold as Healthcare.
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http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecary/2014/01/29/surprise-massachusetts-is-home-to-am...
http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/hawaii-greece-and-the-obamacare-train-wreck/
http://kaiserhealthnews.org/
http://www.pottsmerc.com/health/20141125/doubts-raised-about-solvency-of-obamacare-health...
http://www.ssa.gov/oact/trsum/
http://ushealthpolicygateway.com/vii-key-policy-issues-regulation-and-reform/patient-prot...
http://www.businessinsider.com/obamacare-train-wreck-implementation-affordable-care-act-e...
http://reason.com/archives/2014/02/27/obamacares-failed-state-exchanges