The chart says it all!
This part bears repeating:The cancellations should never have happened. There were grandfather rules in the ACA law that were put there so that old policies that did not meet the new standard ( the 10 minimum benefits) could be continued and not cancelled. The health insurance companies ignored this part of the law and sent the out the cancellation letters. It was much easier for the I/T department of each health insurance company to program cancellation letters than maintain two types of policies. The health insurance companies took the cheapest way out.
"The stated goal of Obamacare was not to move millions of privately insured Americans into taxpayer-subsidized health coverage. The goal was to cover the uninsured. That is the standard by which the administration should be judged.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...9dd_story.html Originally Posted by I B Hankering
The cancellations should never have happened. There were grandfather rules in the ACA law that were put there so that old policies that did not meet the new standard ( the 10 minimum benefits) could be continued and not cancelled. The health insurance companies ignored this part of the law and sent the out the cancellation letters. It was much easier for the I/T department of each health insurance company to program cancellation letters than maintain two types of policies. The health insurance companies took the cheapest way out.No matter how you twist it and deflect, Flighty, Odumbo knew he was lying when he claimed: "If you like the plan you have, you can keep it. If you like the doctor you have, you can keep your doctor, too. The only change you’ll see are falling costs as our reforms take hold." Odumbo, June 6, 2009.
In the state of Kentucky a state which excepted the Expanded Medicaid the percentage of uninsured citizens did go down. Clearly the ACA law worked for the State of Kentucky.
It is safe to say that the health insurance companies will sell policies on the government exchanges in 2015. The ultimate test is will the projection that the CBO makes in year 2017 be realized, that the percentage insured increases from 83 to 93 percent.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewir...ate-40-percent Originally Posted by flghtr65
No matter how you twist it and deflect, Flighty, Odumbo knew he was lying when he claimed: "If you like the plan you have, you can keep it. If you like the doctor you have, you can keep your doctor, too. The only change you’ll see are falling costs as our reforms take hold." Odumbo, June 6, 2009.1. The grandfather rules would have allowed people to keep their old plan, if the insurance companies did not ignore the grandfather rules.
Built into Odumbocare were plans to cause:
Seniors to Lose Benefits and Choices as a Result of CMS' Proposed Cuts to Medicare Advantage
On February 21, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), released the 2015 advance notice, which include proposed changes to Medicare Advantage payments for next year. According to a new report from Oliver Wyman, these changes, if finalized, would result in a 5.9 percent cut to Medicare Advantage payments in 2015. This would result in seniors facing benefit reductions and premium increases of $35-$75 per month, or $420-$900 for the year, according to the report.
If the new changes proposed by CMS are implemented, the program would be hit by a double-digit cut over just a two-year period, causing cost increases and benefit reductions for seniors of $65-$145 per month, or as much as $1,740 over two years, according to the Oliver Wyman analysis.
Cuts of this magnitude could result in a “high degree of disruption in the MA market,” including the “potential for plan exits, reductions in service areas, reduced benefits, provider network changes, and MA plan disenrollment,” the report stated.
https://www.ahip.org/Issues/Medicare-Advantage.aspx Originally Posted by I B Hankering
1. The grandfather rules would have allowed people to keep their old plan, if the insurance companies did not ignore the grandfather rules. Originally Posted by flghtr65The authorizations built into the ACA allow the Secretary of HHS to issue "exemptions" from the "mandatory requirements" of the ACA ... she did ...
1. The grandfather rules would have allowed people to keep their old plan, if the insurance companies did not ignore the grandfather rules. You're not reading Flighty, it didn't "grandfather" anyone. It was a pre-planned measure built into Obamacare to change the coverage, and that change is likely to require people on a fixed income to go to other doctors and clinics for healthcare..
2. The ACA does not dictate which doctors are kept in a particular heath insurance companies NETWORK. The health insurance company decides which doctors it keeps in its NETWORK. Odumbocare did dictate that there would be an increase in cost for these patients.
3. Your guy Paul Ryan wants to cut every single entitlement and INCREASE military spending. Paul Ryan didn't cram Odumbocare through Congress, Flighty.
4. You want to solve the issue with the Medicare? Increase the FICA TAX. So that's your back-handed way of admitting Odumbocare fucked-up healthcare coverage for millions of Americans, Flighty, after Odumbo lied and promised there would be no increase in costs; after Odumbo lied and promised you can keep your doctor; after Odumbo lied and promised you could keep your health insurance plan?
5. The individual market old system did not work. That is why we have 40 million who are uninsured ( it would be 50 if you include illegal immigrants). The health insurance companies were not going to insure high risk people in the individual "Free" market. See table 3 in the link below for the number of uninsured people. All of that was "supposed" to happen without any increase in costs and without disruption of service and providers for the Americans who had healthcare, Flighty.
6. The republicans have no alternative plan, other than let the uninsured remain uninsured. Many are still uninsured, Flighty.
7. If you had an alternative plan, you should have sent it to the committee that was chaired by Senator Baucus. That's nothing but deflection, Flighty.
8. The ACA is moving forward and that is a good thing. It's an abomination, and it will collapse under its own weight, Flighty. .
Originally Posted by flghtr65