[nfb-talk] Why So Many Insurers Are Leaving Obamacare

Tue Jun 27 15:09:20 UTC 2017

Whoa! "If the Affordable Care Act was so good, so many people would not 
be discontented". That isnot true.  Even after the 2016 election, 35% of 
people didn't even know that Obamacare and the Affordible Care Act are 
the same thing. Republicans have been exaggerating the problems with the 
Affordible Care Act since day one and plenty of people, like our own 
Loren, have bought it hook line and sinker.

Again, the basic idea behind the ACA is really, really good, that the 
government should set up a level playhing surface for health care 
providers to compete on, providing subsidies where necessary, so people 
can buy their own health insurance. In fact, it was Republicans who 
originally came up with this idea.

I already posted a link to an article where Senator Ron Johnson of 
Wisconsin explains his reasoning for being against the ACA. He has a 
daughter who as an infant had a serious heart condition. Somehow in his 
mind that translates to being against a regulation that requires 
insurance companies to cover pre-existing conditions. Again, I don't 
even want to try to explain that. It's something about the free market. 
But I'll provide the link again below.

But that is what this debate is about. If you believe that the federal 
government has a place in trying to solve a problem like getting 
everybody in this country health care, then you're on one side. If you 
think it should be left to the free market, then you're on the other. 
Republicans don't want the federal government spending money and writing 
regulations to get everybody health care. Democrats do. It's pretty much 
that simple.

http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/sen-johnson-health-care-freedom-saved-my-daughter-s-life-obamacare-will-lead-rationing

On 06/27/2017 09:36 AM, Marianne Haas via nfb-talk wrote:
> Good Morning,
> Here is my take:
> 1. many people, especially, those who are hardly surviving, but make too
> much money to get Medicaid, dislike the individual mandate.  They feel that
> they are forced to buy something.
> 2. one way to work would be for the federal government to give block grants
> and have the states administer the health care.  Many people are afraid of
> huge impersonal bureaucracies.
>
> 3. there could be some tort reform.  I am absolutely not saying that we
> should not have the right to redress injustice.  However, the health care
> costs are so high because of malpractice insurance. Not every decision a
> doctor makes is wrong, even if a patient's condition does not improve.
> Again, Doctors could prevent many mistakes and should be held accountable.
> That same thing applies to medications and the pharmaceutical industry.  I,
> for instance, am blind and have other disabilities, because my Mother's
> doctor gave her a contaminated vaccine during her pregnancy.  There is
> nothing I can do as it is too long ago.
>
> 4.  Medications could and should be more affordable.  I, for my part am
> appealing to more moderate Republicans such as Susan Collins to get some of
> the more disabled friendly measures in.
>
> 5.  I do not  see Liberals come up with a better plan, just the same as
> before.  If the Affordable Care act or Obama Care were so good, so many
> people would not be so discontented.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Marianne
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: nfb-talk [mailto:nfb-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jack Heim
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> Subject: [nfb-talk] Why So Many Insurers Are Leaving Obamacare
>
> Here is a link to an article that does a good job of explaining the problem
> with the ACA and how it can be fixed.
> https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/05/why-so-many-insurers-are-
> leaving-obamacare/526137/#main-content
>
> The reason so many providers have pulled out of the ACA exchanges is that
> too many states chose not to expand Medicaid coverage and the subsidies
> aren't big enough.  So a state, like Iowa declines to take the federal money
> offered in the ACA to expand Medicaid. Now poor and sick people flood the
> ACA exchange in that state and the provider, seeing that while those people
> get subsidies, they're  not enough.  The solution is to get more of those
> states, most of them run by Republicans, to expand Medicaid and also to
> increase the subsidies.
>
> PS: The problems with the ACA are very much exaggerated. Sure, a lot of
> places have only one provider but that's not a *disaster*.
> --
> John Heim
> john at johnheim.com
> * The Electoral College is like giving one team 6 points for a touchdown and
> the other team 4. *
>
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