ACA (Obamacare) updates for 2014

Rick wrote: Whatever it takes to keep power, keep kicking that can you worthless Dems.

New ObamaCare delay to help Democrats in midterm elections

The Obama administration is set to announce another major delay in implementing the Affordable Care Act, easing election pressure on Democrats.

As early as this week, according to two sources, the White House will announce a new directive allowing insurers to continue offering health plans that do not meet ObamaCare’s minimum coverage requirements.
Prolonging the “keep your plan” fix will avoid another wave of health policy cancellations otherwise expected this fall.

The cancellations would have created a firestorm for Democratic candidates in the last, crucial weeks before Election Day.


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And Dems were squealing like stuck pigs when Cruz stood up and suggested this very thing.

http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/he ... dterm-dems

Surprise Surprise Surprise, as Gomer Pyle would say. Delay Obummercare until after the elections? BWAHAAHAHAHA... I really wonder sometimes if anyone really is paying attention.

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But none of these delays have anything to do with elections or politics in general, Barry just wants to be sure that everyone* gets healthcare...

* - Nearly everyone anyhow... There are going to be a few million "bumps in the road..."

Health insurance marketplaces signing up few uninsured Americans, surveys say

By Amy Goldstein, Updated: Thursday, March 6, 1:00 PM

The new health insurance marketplaces appear to be making little headway so far in signing up Americans who lack health insurance, the Affordable Care Act’s central goal.

A pair of surveys released on Thursday suggest that just one in 10 uninsured people who qualify for private health plans through the new marketplace have signed up for one — and that about half of uninsured adults has looked for information on the online exchanges or plans to look.

Taken together, the snapshots shown by the surveys provide preliminary answers to what has been one of the biggest mysteries since HealthCare.gov and separate state marketplaces opened last fall: Are they attracting their prime audience?

One of the surveys, by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co., shows that, of people who had signed up for coverage through the marketplaces by last month, just one-fourth described themselves as having been without insurance for most of the past year.

The survey also attempted to gauge what has been another fuzzy matter: how many of the people actually have the insurance for which they signed up. Under federal rules, coverage begins only if someone has started to pay their monthly insurance premiums.

And, the survey show, that just over half of uninsured people said they had started to pay, compared with nearly nine in 10 of those signing up on the exchanges who said they were simply switching from one health plan to another.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/ ... print.html

Harry Reid "Lies... all lies."

Speaking of Reid and his lying Nevada constituents...

Nearly 10,000 Las Vegas casino workers say they are considering going on strike over what the unpopular Obamacare program has done to their health care insurance.

If contract negotiations to keep their existing benefits go unsettled by March 20, Nevada's biggest union, the Culinary Union Local 226, says it will vote to grant the union the right to strike.

"The biggest hurdle to reaching settlements in Vegas is the new costs imposed on our health plan by Obamacare," Unite Here President Donald Taylor told Buzzfeed. "Even though the president and Congress promised we could keep our health plan, the reality is, unless the law is fixed, that won't be true."

The threat of an almost 10,000-person union strike is merely the latest example of unions' rebuke of Obamacare. Last September, Laborers' International Union of North America (LIUNA) President Terry O'Sullivan told AFL-CIO convention attendees, "We'll be damned if we're going to lose our health insurance because of unintended consequences in the law!"

Those lying SOBs!!!

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government ... -Obamacare

Only 10% of the uninsured signed up? Could ACA be more of a SNAFU?

Update per AP today. Despite ACA being three years old, this is the lowest rate of Americans having health insurance since 2008.

And there we have it. Proof that if you let the government do it, it won't work.
Looked for the link but couldn't find.

FredHayek wrote: Update per AP today. Despite ACA being three years old, this is the lowest rate of Americans having health insurance since 2008.

And don't forget there will still be about 31 million uninsured in 10 years according to the CBO.

No, what it said was this is the lowest rate of UNINSURED PEOPLE since 2008. Not quite the same thing. You better have that fact-free source-free echo-chamber repaired...Or improve your reading skills.

Uninsured Rate Drops, Thanks To Obamacare

I read it somewhere.

Heard the same here on the news, now, if some of you were ready to blame the ACA for Fred's bad news (which turned out to be wrong), will the conservative posters here be willing to credit the ACA with the good news of lowering the number of uninsured?