The Affordable Care Act

[Boreas]

Originally Posted by MrPots

Mind if I use that?

Feel free. Just be sure not to resurrect Boris.

[BlueStreak]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Never interfere with an enemy when they are making a mistake.

There's a huge percentage of GOTPers who fervently believe that if they were only a bit more conservative, the rest of the country would fall in line behind their ideas.

Crackpots on crack is what they sound like to me.

"My only regret is that I have been far too lenient with the Jews."----Adolph Hitler

[Tom Joad]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Never interfere with an enemy when they are making a mistake.

Exactly, which is why I wish all you lefty's would stop bashing Trump.

[bobabode]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/...mepage%2Fstory

Online enrollment reaches 6 million.

[MrPots]

Originally Posted by Tom Joad

Exactly, which is why I wish all you lefty's would stop bashing Trump.

I think it's mostly the media..... and other republicans....

[bobabode]

Update ...

'New Obamacare surprise: New customers look just like average Americans' LA Times
http://www.latimes.com/business/hilt...htmlstory.html

"Blue Cross/Blue Shield, which is the largest player in the individual exchange market under the Affordable Care Act, has taken a close look at its enrolled population since the exchanges opened for business on Jan. 1, 2014. For some reason the Blues seem to be surprised at this finding:

Members who enrolled in 2014 and 2015 "have higher rates of certain diseases such as hypertension, diabetes, depression, coronary artery disease, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and Hepatitis C than individuals who already had BCBS individual coverage....received significantly more medical services in their first year of coverage, on average..., (and) used more medical services across all sites of care—including inpatient hospital admissions, outpatient visits, medical professional services, prescriptions filled and emergency room visits."" Mike Hiltzik

Thanks President Obama.

[donquixote99]

The surprising finding is people getting insurance under the ACA have greater health care needs than people who were able to buy their own BCBS individual policies?

In other words, the group of people who can afford their own expensive insurance contains fewer sick and disabled people than the group of people who can't?

Anyone surprised by this would be shocked to hear there's gambling in Casablanca.

[bobabode]

more...

"Here's the money quote: "Medical costs associated with caring for the new individual market enrollees were, on average, 19 percent higher than employer-based group members in 2014 and 22 percent higher in 2015."

The Blues are implying that these costs are higher than they expected, but the report actually tells a very different story: It demonstrates exactly why the Affordable Care Act was a necessity.

The reason that new enrollees tend to be sicker than the previous pool of patients in the individual market, and consequently are using more services and costing insurers more, is that sick people were systematically excluded from the individual insurance market prior to 2014. The mechanism was exclusions for pre-existing conditions, which were outlawed by the ACA."

http://www.latimes.com/business/hilt...htmlstory.html

[barbara]

In time, with preventative care which is a big component in Obamacare, this will even out and in the long run, costs will go down.

[merrylander]

Since we had our own BCBS policies the ACA did not affect us. Florence's illness only cost me for prescription drugs. My greatest regret is that I did not get her into the car and head to Canada. The hospital and the doctors here gave up on her too early.