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President Obama used a campaign-style trip to Texas on Wednesday to rally liberals on his sputtering health care law, calling it a system of “universal health care” and calling out Texas Republicans for, he said, denying health insurance to 1 million state residents. Read more: www.washingtontimes.com... Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter
TheWrightWing
Remember kids: It's "Affordable" because that's what it says on the tin!
Repeat after me: Affordable Care Act.
Why, it's easy enough to chant mindlessly, so you know it's good!
"And eventually sacrifice from everyone?" I asked.
"Everybody’s going to have to give. Everybody’s going to have to have some skin in the game," Obama said.
“Their new options were indeed more expensive,” Ornstein learned, however, and the plans would involve benefits that “didn’t seem any better.”
xuenchen
Watch for the next big tease.
There's been some "whispers" about something new called a "Medical Loan".
Word is it will work similar to "Student Loans".
The victims will be the ones who can't cough up the deductibles.
I bet the banks start it and the government somehow "guarantees" the total, and like a student loan, you will not be able to "Bankrupt" the thing.
Imagine somebody on the hook for a few thousand dollars late in the "Policy Year" and then getting in deeper when the policy year starts over. It's like the deductible never goes away.
Big damage coming.
jimmyx
TheWrightWing
jimmyx
ok...1st, the woman's story, if you read it, says that she hasn't been able to sign onto the website... it said she called "other insurance companies" and they gave her quotes....she has NOT CONTACTED the website or called the helpline...2nd, we don't know what her income is, and 3rd, we don't know what subsidy she might receive.....
this is all important information....and it is (shocker!!) left out of the Hannity report....rolls eyes
So you are saying she deserved to lose her insurance, and be forced to pay $900 a month with a $5k deductible, for the greater good?
She is an Obamacare Statistic.
Hey, as long as Sandra Fluk is provided with abortion pills on demand, it's worth it, right?
what's wrong with you?….how does your question make any sense out of what I said?....this is all hearsay, with none of the important info I mentioned above. and, it's obvious that the lady in question hasn't even contacted the website or the ACA helpline, so she doesn't have a clue about what coverage she would get with the ACA. geez, my wife and I had our insurance canceled too, but, we did the research and spent a little time, and now we are signed up.
LDragonFire
xuenchen
Watch for the next big tease.
There's been some "whispers" about something new called a "Medical Loan".
Word is it will work similar to "Student Loans".
The victims will be the ones who can't cough up the deductibles.
I bet the banks start it and the government somehow "guarantees" the total, and like a student loan, you will not be able to "Bankrupt" the thing.
Imagine somebody on the hook for a few thousand dollars late in the "Policy Year" and then getting in deeper when the policy year starts over. It's like the deductible never goes away.
Big damage coming.
? Are you making this stuff up?
Your republican lawmakers are signing up have you?
? Are you making this stuff up?
Your republican lawmakers are signing up have you?
LDragonFire
As of today over 365k people have signed up and have purchased a plan.
Over 800k are now eligible for medicaid.
1.9 million have signed up but haven't chosen a plan yet.
These numbers are lower than expected, but as they continue to make improvements to the website this number will skyrocket.
Obamacare stats
In her testimony before Congress today, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius provided an updated dollar amount for the cost of HealthCare.gov: $677 million. In addition to the $677 million spent on the federal Obamacare website, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) has shoveled $4.5 billion of taxpayer money to promote Obamacare on the state level.
HHS also released updated “enrollment” figures for Obamacare. According to the agency 364,682 people have “selected a plan” – the equivalent of putting an item in your online shopping cart and leaving it there.
That means the taxpayer cost per “enrollee” is over $14,000.
($4.5 billion + $677 million = $5,177,000,000 ÷ 364,682 = $14,196)
The new earned income tax to help fund Obamacare is 0.9%. "Earned income is compensation from participation in a business, including wages, salary, tips, commissions and bonuses," Studnick explained. This tax will be placed on any income earned over $200K for those who are single and any income earned over $250K for those who are married and filing jointly.
Studnick says it’s important to understand these taxes and how they work.
“That way there’s no surprises when you go to file your tax return and now you have an extra 3.8 or 0.9% tax to pay,” Studnick says.
LDragonFire
reply to post by guohua
What do they have to do with obamacare? Obamacare doesn't cover cosmetic surgery the links you provided do.
Here’s something your orthodontist is not smiling about: a new tax rule raised the cost of braces this year.
Thanks to a change from the Affordable Care Act that places an annual $2,500 contribution cap on flexible spending accounts, which let workers set aside pre-tax dollars to cover medical expenses, some consumers may be spending more on braces, expensive eyewear and other medical supplies they would typically buy with the accounts. Before the new rule, there was no official cap on how much taxpayers could stash into the account, though many companies typically set their own limits of $5,000. For a person in the 25% tax bracket, the cap cuts the maximum tax break in half to $625 from $1,250.
So while more Americans will likely gain access to medical care when the law goes into effect next year, the number that can afford a visit to the dentist for a filling, root canal or checkup may actually decrease, industry officials say.
The health reform law requires consumers to buy a health plan that covers everything from seeing a psychologist to the full cost of breast pumps—but there are no such mandates for dental coverage, or requirements that insurers pay for the care of most Americans’ pearly whites.
The law’s rules about children’s dental coverage seem to be backfiring in other ways, oral health experts say. On some insurance exchanges, dental plans will be sold separately, so consumers who purchase a health plan can decline to add dental for their kids without facing a penalty.
LDragonFire
As of today over 365k people have signed up and have purchased a plan.
Over 800k are now eligible for medicaid.
1.9 million have signed up but haven't chosen a plan yet.
These numbers are lower than expected, but as they continue to make improvements to the website this number will skyrocket.
Obamacare stats
Most of Washington seems to have bought the White House claim that the 36 federal exchanges are finally working, and glory, glory, hallelujah. But if that's really true, then what explains the ongoing secrecy and evasion?
A charitable reading suggests that ObamaCare's net enrollment stands at about negative four million. That's the estimated four million to five and a half million people who had their individual health plans liquidated as ObamaCare-noncompliant—offset by the 364,682 who have signed up for a plan on a state or federal exchange and the 803,077 who have been found eligible to receive Medicaid.
The larger problem is that none of these represent true enrollments. HHS is reporting how many people "selected" a plan on the exchange, not how many people have actually enrolled in a plan with an insurance company by paying the first month's premium, which is how the private insurance industry defines enrollment. HHS has made up its own standard.
Insurers know that the hardest part of doing business in the individual market is getting customers to write a check.Insurers know that the hardest part of doing business in the individual market is getting customers to write a check.
People are accustomed these days to automatic payroll deductions and the unseen lost wages of employer-sponsored insurance. Many Americans may enroll on the exchange but then fail to pay once they see monthly costs that could range from the equivalent of a cellphone bill if they qualify for subsidies (President Obama's favorite comparison) to premiums that can exceed $1,000 or huge deductibles for the unlucky who must overpay to finance the insurance of others.
Xtrozero
I'm curious, has anyone on ATS received a "good deal"? I on the other hand have two plans. One went up 400% in cost and the other one increased copays by 50%. So in both cases, as long as I stay healthy all is good, but if I get sick I will pay a hell of a lot more now than before Obamacare.
For those who have received a good deal can you explain why it is one? Is it the yearly cost, copay, availability etc? I’m hearing some real horror stories about the bronze plan where copays can be 1000s of dollars, might as well not be a plan at all if that is the case. I’m thinking that people are just saying now that they have insurance without really understanding what insurance they have. I guess they will figure it out when they actually need it.
It is funny that poor people will get the bronze plan and then are expected to write a check for a few 1000s when they need to use it…. Is that about as unrealistic as it can get? So if a person is poor and they use a lot of care and then are expected to pay 1000s but never do, is their insurance cut off? Or do they continue to get care and just endless bills. There will be zero poor people able to afford copayments so what happens when none pay?