good news for republicans

[Yuri Zhivago]

Some important news on Exchange enrollment from the Health and Human Services blog:

[Since the beginning of open enrollment, millions of Americans are gaining access to health coverage–many for the very first time—thanks to the Affordable Care Act. The most recent data indicates that approximately 3.0 million people have now enrolled in a private health insurance plan through the Federal and State-based Marketplaces since October 1.

This data strongly implies one million people enrolled for the February 1st coverage start date during the month of January. That is a minimal pressure deadline as someone who was healthy enough to not get in on the December rush is probably healthy enough to not really need to get in on February. Procrastination is only so much fun. I am projecting the same number of people will sign up for the March 1, 2014 coverage start date by February 15th. That pushes the number to roughly 4 million private policies.
/I]
Milestone: 3 Million in Marketplaces | HHS.gov/healthcare
This explains why the GOP is getting ready for a new, aggressive wave of national level sabotage efforts (like some more debt ceiling brinksmanship in Congress).

Plainly, the state-level failures and chaos that the GOP created, and the bonfires they ignited (over the website issues, discouraging young people from enrolling, trying to scare older people over data security) haven’t done enough damage to slow down the larger successes of the ACA.

 

[NightSwimmer]

Progress for the American people is a nightmare for the RNC.

Just as the Republican base refused to believe the polling data indicating that Mitt Romney would lose the 2012 election, they now refuse to believe the data indicating that more and more previously uninsured Americans are now acquiring health-care insurance. Sometimes, the truth is simply too hard to swallow.

 

[Yuri Zhivago]

Progress for the American people is a nightmare for the RNC.

Just as the Republican base refused to believe the polling data indicating that Mitt Romney would lose the 2012 election, they now refuse to believe the data indicating that more and more previously uninsured Americans are now acquiring health-care insurance. Sometimes, the truth is simply too hard to swallow.

but imagine how many brain transplants repub will be able to get, previously unavailable to them ...!!!!

 

[Bo-4]

but imagine how many brain transplants repub will be able to get, previously unavailable to them ...!!!!

Yep, preexisting conditions such as vegetative brains will be covered.

I believe that the 7 million goal is entirely within reach!

 

[Sgt Staples]

Some important news on Exchange enrollment from the Health and Human Services blog:

[Since the beginning of open enrollment, millions of Americans are gaining access to health coverage–many for the very first time—thanks to the Affordable Care Act. The most recent data indicates that approximately 3.0 million people have now enrolled in a private health insurance plan through the Federal and State-based Marketplaces since October 1.

This data strongly implies one million people enrolled for the February 1st coverage start date during the month of January. That is a minimal pressure deadline as someone who was healthy enough to not get in on the December rush is probably healthy enough to not really need to get in on February. Procrastination is only so much fun. I am projecting the same number of people will sign up for the March 1, 2014 coverage start date by February 15th. That pushes the number to roughly 4 million private policies.
/I]
Milestone: 3 Million in Marketplaces | HHS.gov/healthcare
This explains why the GOP is getting ready for a new, aggressive wave of national level sabotage efforts (like some more debt ceiling brinksmanship in Congress).

Plainly, the state-level failures and chaos that the GOP created, and the bonfires they ignited (over the website issues, discouraging young people from enrolling, trying to scare older people over data security) haven’t done enough damage to slow down the larger successes of the ACA.

You really eat up the Obama media propaganda don't you.

Meanwhile the reality and facts of Obamcare destruction can't be covered up as it is directly effecting too many people.

Moody’s downgrades health insurers, citing Obamacare
Warns of ‘unstable and evolving regulatory environment’

AIN'T IT THE TRUTH.

>>>The nation’s health insurers have been damaged by the shaky Obamacare rollout, a top credit-rating agency said as it downgraded the industry’s outlook Thursday<<<

Specifically, Moody's said it was disconcerting that only 24% of enrollees so far have been between the ages of 18-34, when the original target for this group was around 40%. If the trend continues without enrollment from the young and healthy to balance out the older and sicker, it could lead insurers to increase rates.

Moody's also cited a concern that insurers' premium calculations could be insufficient to cover the industry assessment tax — the new tax on medical devices that begins in 2014.

"These changing dynamics will have an uneven effect on insurers, as the impact of these factors will vary by market segment and geography," the agency said in its announcement.

The White House has changed the playing field on the fly in recent weeks to ameliorate the consequences of the law, after an estimated 4 million to 5 million Americans lost existing plans that did not comply with Obamacare standards. The move came on top of other last-minute changes, such as a decision in July to delay the so-called employer mandate from 2014 to 2015, or after the midterm elections.

Moody's said those changes have unsettled the marketplace.

“While all of these issues had been on our radar screen as we approached 2014, a new development and a key factor for the change in outlook is the unstable and evolving regulatory environment under which the sector is operating,” Moody's said. “Notably, new regulations and presidential announcements over the last several months with respect to the [Affordable Care Act] have imposed operational changes well after product and pricing decisions had been finalized.”

Republicans opposed to the new national health care law seized on the report.

“Moody's latest downgrade is further evidence that the president’s health law is not the right prescription for reform,” said House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Rep. Fred Upton, Michigan Republican.
“Health care should be about providing peace of mind, not generating costly rules and regulations that foster an environment of tremendous uncertainty and confusion.”



Read more: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/jan/23/moodys-downgrades-health-insurers-citing-obamacare/#ixzz2rQfpQ9Pf
Follow us: @washtimes on Twitter

 

[Bo-4]

You really eat up the Obama media propaganda don't you.

Meanwhile the reality and facts of Obamcare destruction can't be covered up as it is directly effecting too many people.

Millions of young people 18-26 are already benefitting from Obamacare as they are allowed to stay on parent's policies.

Young people tend to be procrastinators.. tens of thousands will come in before the bell.

Your panic however is noted. ;-)

 

[Sgt Staples]

Millions of young people 18-26 are already benefitting from Obamacare as they are allowed to stay on parent's policies.

Young people tend to be procrastinators.. tens of thousands will come in before the bell.

Your panic however is noted. ;-)

Hey, keep living in our dream world. I hope all the Democrats are as adverse to reality as you are.

But if you are interested, those on their parents' plan; They ain't paying the freight. Another government wiz kid forgot about that one I guess.

And if you want to think I'm panicking? Go right ahead.

Here's more Obamacare News. It's effecting a lot of voters. So many, in fact, that the Democrats may not be able to steal the next election.

>>>Target to drop health insurance for part-time workers<<<<

Target Human Resources executive vice president Jodee Kozlak wrote that Target will discontinue part-time health insurance coverage for 36,000 part time workers.
http://www.kvue.com/news/Target-to-drop-health-insurance-for-part-time-workers-241483981.html

>>>>UPS won't insure spouses of many employees<<<<
Partly blaming the health law, United Parcel Service is set to remove thousands of spouses from its medical plan because they are eligible for coverage elsewhere.

Many analysts downplay the Affordable Care Act's effect on companies such as UPS, noting that the move is part of a long-term trend of shrinking corporate medical benefits. But the shipping giant repeatedly cites the act to explain the decision, adding fuel to the debate over whether it erodes traditional employer coverage.

Rising medical costs, "combined with the costs associated with the Affordable Care Act, have made it increasingly difficult to continue providing the same level of health care benefits to our employees at an affordable cost," UPS said in a memo to employees.

The company told white-collar workers two months ago that 15,000 working spouses eligible for coverage at their own employers would be excluded from the UPS plan in 2014. The Fortune 100 firm expects the move, which applies to non-union U.S. workers only, to save about $60 million a year, said company spokesman Andy McGowan.

Insurance companies around the country are already dropping policies like mad and it’s all due to Obamacare. Here is a list of some of those companies and what they are dropping:

• Blue Cross in New Jersey dropping 800,000 policies.
• Aetna in New Jersey reporting that 1.1 million policies are at risk.
• Blue Cross in Florida dropping 300,000 policies.
• California has around 500,000 people with catastrophic plans that don’t comply with Obamacare.
• Blue Cross in Louisiana dropped Medicare D prescription plan, affecting 13,000 senior citizens.
• Excellus Blue Cross Blue Shield dropping Medicaid and Family Health Plus programs, affecting 13,000 people.
• Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield sent letters to all of their policy holders warning them that any policies that don’t meet the Obamacare grandfathering requirements will be cancelled in 2014. Numbers were not released.
• Medical Mutual of Ohio has completely pulled out of South Carolina, dropping 28,000 policies.

Read more at http://lastresistance.com/3485/16-million-private-insurance-plans-cancelled-due-obamacare/#qkKFG0M3qxyB235A.99

Due to ObamaCare, Nation's Largest Movie Theater Chain Cuts Employee Hours

Monday, Regal Entertainment Group, the largest movie theatre chain in the country, announced that thousands of employees will have their work hours cut -- as a direct result of the added cost of the new ObamaCare mandates that become effective later this year.
In a memo to employees, management was blunt: “To comply with the Affordable Care Act, Regal had to increase our health care budget to cover those newly deemed eligible based on the law's definition of a full-time employee.”

Fox News reports that, as a result of cutting employees' work hours (which is, of course, the same as a pay cut), full-time Regal managers have resigned in "a wave" after their hours and pay checks were slashed by as much as twenty-five percent.

The manager told FoxNews.com ObamaCare has had the unintended consequence of taking food off his table.

“Mandating businesses to offer health care under threat of debilitating fines does not fix a problem, it creates one," he said. "It fosters a new business culture where 30 hours is now considered the maximum in order to avoid paying the high costs associated with this law.

“In a time where 40 hours is just getting us by, putting these kind of financial pressures on employers is a big step in a direction far beyond the reach of feasibility for not only the businesses, but for the employees who rely on their success," he said.

In order to avoid the added cost of providing health insurance for employees working 30 hours a week (as ObamaCare mandates), it only makes sense for companies to schedule employees for 29 hours. So anyone who was working full-time is now being hit with a 25% pay cut.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2013/04/16/ObamaCare-Regal-Employee-hours

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/08/20/ups-spouses-health-insurance/2651713/

There's a lot more but that's enough for now.

 

[Bo-4]

And if you want to think I'm panicking? Go right ahead..

Yes, you are panicking.

 

[SW48]

Yep, preexisting conditions such as vegetative brains will be covered.

I believe that the 7 million goal is entirely within reach!

3 million enrolled doesn't necessarily mean 3 million paid, and even at 1 million a month, it would only come out to 5 million by April 1.

But as we know it isn't the 7 million but the "mix" of young healthy vs old that can prevent a bailout.

The 19-26 year olds that get to stay on their parents policy is great, but that happened years ago, the 3 million only reflects new signups for private healthcare and or people that lost their policy that then signed up through ACA exchanges.

 

[Sgt Staples]

3 million enrolled doesn't necessarily mean 3 million paid, and even at 1 million a month, it would only come out to 5 million by April 1.

But as we know it isn't the 7 million but the "mix" of young healthy vs old that can prevent a bailout.

The 19-26 year olds that get to stay on their parents policy is great, but that happened years ago, the 3 million only reflects new signups for private healthcare and or people that lost their policy that then signed up through ACA exchanges.

Hey, don't burst their bubble. Let them keep on being ignorant; now I hear Wal-Mart, which has a better policy than Obamacare for their part timers and only charges them 40 bucks a month will probable cancel it and throw them on the excanges.

Only 300,000 or so have signed up that didn't previously have insurance.

It's going to go broke as they are going to have to bail out the insurers to keep them in the exchanges. I don't think that will go over big in an election year.

 

[Caroljo]

Hey, don't burst their bubble. Let them keep on being ignorant; now I hear Wal-Mart, which has a better policy than Obamacare for their part timers and only charges them 40 bucks a month will probable cancel it and throw them on the excanges.

Only 300,000 or so have signed up that didn't previously have insurance.

It's going to go broke as they are going to have to bail out the insurers to keep them in the exchanges. I don't think that will go over big in an election year.

This past week Target announced they may have to drop their insurance for all employees in all their 500 stores nation wide because of Obamacare.....that a LOT of people!

And I wonder what those 19 to 26 yr old are doing who's parents may have also lost their health insurance? I doubt if they all ran out and got their own! Libs think we are panicking...but it's them that are sweating it right now, they're just good at lying and covering it up.

 

[Sgt Staples]

This past week Target announced they may have to drop their insurance for all employees in all their 500 stores nation wide because of Obamacare.....that a LOT of people!

And I wonder what those 19 to 26 yr old are doing who's parents may have also lost their health insurance? I doubt if they all ran out and got their own! Libs think we are panicking...but it's them that are sweating it right now, they're just good at lying and covering it up.

I hope to god they lose the Senate, we keep the House and elect more conservative Republicans to both the House and Senate. It's getting to the point of no return, and I really don't care to live in the eventual Totalitarian pig sty with 'equal misery for all, except for the ruling class.

 

[NightSwimmer]

This past week Target announced they may have to drop their insurance for all employees in all their 500 stores nation wide because of Obamacare.....that a LOT of people!

The truth is never quite enough, is it?

Target announced plans to drop coverage only for part-time workers. The part-timers may well wind up with a better deal on their insurance, depending upon their financial status.

Target plans a one-time $500 payment to part-timers losing coverage and a consulting firm will help those workers sign up for new Obamacare plans. It said on its website that many part-time workers may prefer coverage from the health law’s exchanges, and that by offering them insurance, “we could actually disqualify many of them from being eligible” for subsidies.

 

[Sgt Staples]

The truth is never quite enough, is it?

Target announced plans to drop coverage only for part-time workers. The part-timers may well wind up with a better deal on their insurance, depending upon their financial status.

Target plans a one-time $500 payment to part-timers losing coverage and a consulting firm will help those workers sign up for new Obamacare plans. It said on its website that many part-time workers may prefer coverage from the health law’s exchanges, and that by offering them insurance, “we could actually disqualify many of them from being eligible” for subsidies.

Right, keep telling your self that. When wal mart can offer a better policy f or 40 bucks a month?

Target is just trying to placate the administration; they don't want to be on their enemies list.

 

[Craig]

This past week Target announced they may have to drop their insurance for all employees in all their 500 stores nation wide because of Obamacare.....that a LOT of people!

And I wonder what those 19 to 26 yr old are doing who's parents may have also lost their health insurance? I doubt if they all ran out and got their own! Libs think we are panicking...but it's them that are sweating it right now, they're just good at lying and covering it up.

No, Target is not dropping insurance for all employees...


Target is the latest retail giant to drop health coverage for part-time employees, citing changes under the health care law and low participation in its company health plans.

The company Tuesday night announced a plan to transition employees working fewer than 30 hours a week onto Obamacare health insurance exchanges, where they can get subsidized coverage.

Target said Tuesday night that just fewer than 10 percent of its employees bought into its health plan for part-time workers, and it said that many employees could get financial help in the exchanges, also known as marketplaces...

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/target-health-care-plans-102471.html#ixzz2rQwf3mbw



Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/target-health-care-plans-102471.html#ixzz2rQwOvfr4

 

[Caroljo]

The truth is never quite enough, is it?

Target announced plans to drop coverage only for part-time workers. The part-timers may well wind up with a better deal on their insurance, depending upon their financial status.

Target plans a one-time $500 payment to part-timers losing coverage and a consulting firm will help those workers sign up for new Obamacare plans. It said on its website that many part-time workers may prefer coverage from the health law’s exchanges, and that by offering them insurance, “we could actually disqualify many of them from being eligible” for subsidies.

I admit when i'm wrong, and I was wrong about this....I didn't catch the "part time" part of it before. But, it said it was because of "low participation" so it sounds like few part timers even got the insurance to begin with. So, if they didn't want to pay for the insurance Target offered, what makes you think they'll buy the insurance that obama offers? They won't......

 

[Caroljo]

No, Target is not dropping insurance for all employees...


Target is the latest retail giant to drop health coverage for part-time employees, citing changes under the health care law and low participation in its company health plans.

The company Tuesday night announced a plan to transition employees working fewer than 30 hours a week onto Obamacare health insurance exchanges, where they can get subsidized coverage.

Target said Tuesday night that just fewer than 10 percent of its employees bought into its health plan for part-time workers, and it said that many employees could get financial help in the exchanges, also known as marketplaces...

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/target-health-care-plans-102471.html#ixzz2rQwf3mbw



Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/target-health-care-plans-102471.html#ixzz2rQwOvfr4

I just admitted to nightswimmer I was wrong...and i'll ask you the same thing. Since participation was so low, 10%? What makes you think all those part timers will purchase Obamacare? If most didn't want to pay for what Target offered, why would they want anything else?

 

[Renee]

Hey, don't burst their bubble. Let them keep on being ignorant; now I hear Wal-Mart, which has a better policy than Obamacare for their part timers and only charges them 40 bucks a month will probable cancel it and throw them on the excanges.

Only 300,000 or so have signed up that didn't previously have insurance.

It's going to go broke as they are going to have to bail out the insurers to keep them in the exchanges. I don't think that will go over big in an election year.

Why do you want it to fail? Why do you hate your fellow Americans? Why do you support the insurance companies who have been death panels for you...why do you vote against everything that goes against the interests of the poor and middle class.
How has this affected you?

 

[Sgt Staples]

Why do you want it to fail? Why do you hate your fellow Americans? Why do you support the insurance companies who have been death panels for you...why do you vote against everything that goes against the interests of the poor and middle class.
How has this affected you?

Why do I want it to fail? Because it's screwing up too damn many people's health care, that's why.

 

[Renee]

Why do I want it to fail? Because it's screwing up too damn many people's health care, that's why.

No it isn't.......it is helping millions and lowering premiums. Why not Focus on the positive? You can't focus on the positive, you can only focus on the negative because fear is your motivator