The Affordable Care Act

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by BlueStreak

O'Rourke is such a moron, sometimes.

Dave

Personally, I think he's a gifted writer. Back 20 years ago, I found his books on politics and world affairs were all great. I think he's kinda running out of material now that the leaders of his movement (he's affiliated with Cato) have gone off the deep end and look even more foolish than the Dems. A Parliament of Whores and the 4-5 books that followed it were all great reading though - often laugh-out-loud funny.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by barbara

A good article about the ACA that I ran across this morning.

http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1.../p2p-78681350/

Another one from the Post.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/nation...y.html?hpid=z2

[icenine]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/1...n_4514882.html

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by icenine

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/1...n_4514882.html

Rubbing it in, eh?

"Of the more than 1.1 million people now enrolled, nearly 1 million signed up in December, with the majority coming in the week before a pre-Christmas deadline for coverage to start in January."

and...

"The figures tell only part of the story. The administration has yet to provide a December update on the 14 states running their own exchanges."

HuffPost

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by whell

Stick to the talking points even when they've been countered numerous times. Gotta give you credit for tenacity.

High praise from the master...

[icenine]

I imagine everyone will be cursing Obamacare until the day I die or single payer kicks in

and they will curse that too lol

might as well be a cheerleader

[bobabode]

More good news locally. 25k enrolled in one day.

http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...#axzz2ovjnCW51

[bobabode]

From a historical perspective.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-f...#axzz2jkZfNf5f

[Ike Bana]

Originally Posted by Rex E.

I see what you are saying and can agree with some.

What Ike listed is, for the most part, the GOP party platform. It's not just the most extreme or cherry picked. It is the very platform they roll out at their conventions when election time comes around.

That party platform is exactly why so many of us have dropped the "R" from behind our name.

Absolutely. To suggest that these mostly social issues that I listed, are not all part of what the GOP, in it's totality, stands for these days is just being as flat out disingenuous as it gets.

PS - I forgot one...one of the most important ones...the GOP continues to stick their noses into who can marry who and what constitutes a family.

[whell]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Rubbing it in, eh?

"Of the more than 1.1 million people now enrolled, nearly 1 million signed up in December, with the majority coming in the week before a pre-Christmas deadline for coverage to start in January."

and...

"The figures tell only part of the story. The administration has yet to provide a December update on the 14 states running their own exchanges."

HuffPost

Originally Posted by bobabode

High praise from the master...

Sticking to the only talk track that really matters: 1.1 Million now enrolled, and those enrollments do not represent polices that have been bought and paid for, so I'm not confident that those 1.1 Million will actually end up being insured. But lets stick with those numbers for a minute. And let's also assume that the state exchanges kick in another 1.1 Million, which seems far from likely.

That gives us an optimistic number of 2.2 million enrolled, with the objective of having 7 million enrolled by March 31, 2014. I suspect that by the middle of January, we'll have some feedback from the carriers about the total number of folks that have actually paid their premiums for coverage. January 10th is the deadline for paying the premium for coverage for January 2014. At least one source suggests that only about 10 - 15% of folks have actually paid anything for January 2014 premium.

Any takers on a bet that we'll end up pretty far short of 2.2 million paid policies for January 2014 coverage?