Kaiser’s August health tracking poll has the ACA in positive territory – 44% favorable, 41% unfavorable.
A federal judge just ruled that the House has standing to sue in House v. Burwell. Here’s Bagley’s take on it.
For those interested, ol’ Jebbie has just come out with health care plan. It’s absolutely awful, but represents conservatives’ (laughably) unrealistic thinking about health care policy at this stage of the ACA’s life.
It’s still an improvement on Trump’s “repeal it and replace it with something terrific”, at least.
More than 400,000 Americans are now without health coverage as the insurance cooperatives created under the Affordable Care Act continue to fail.
Two more co-ops closed their doors this weekend – the Kentucky Health Cooperative, which served 51,000 members, and Health Republic Insurance of New York, with 215,000. The announcements follow those of CoOportunity Health in Iowa and Nebraska, the Louisiana Health Cooperative and Nevada Health Co-Op.
Health Republic Insurance of New York was the largest of the ACA nonprofit cooperatives, and was shut down by regulators after losing roughly $52.7 million in the first six months of the year. That is on top of a $77.5 million loss in 2014, according to regulatory filings.
The news comes after a federal audit revealed in August that 22 of the 23 insurance cooperatives established under the ACA are losing money and facing difficulty repaying federal loans. Five of the 23 have now closed their doors, and 11 have received warning letters from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services placing them on "enhanced oversight.”
Seems to be working like a dream lol…
What’s a dream lol?
If this is true, this number is dwarfed by the number of previously uninsured who have gained insurance due to the ACA.
Well this particular dream entails making sure the health insurance companies collapse so the government can step in and socialize healthcare. Instead of losing 10’s of millions of dollars, the government will show those insurance companies how to lose 10’s of billions of dollars.
Sad thing is the Republicans are cool with this as well.
And yet the “socialized” healthcare we enjoy in Canada costs much, much less per person, and delivers superior results.
But then some rich people have to wait for elective joint surgery. So that makes it bad. Because money should buy me to the head of the line.
Not only are they cool with it, they caused the Kentucky Health Co-op to tank. From your cite:
So yeah, Republicans succeeded in strangling the Kentucky Co-op. Which says nothing about the states where the legislatures are committed to the success of insuring more of their citizens. I wonder what Kentuckians think when they hear about people in other states getting affordable, reliable health insurance, while their own representatives are doing everything they can to deny it to their own constituents?
Someone needs to remind all the Canadian patients who are tired of waiting for procedures in their country’s national health system to stop coming to our much, much more expensive inferior hospitals then lol.
Oh there is no doubt whatsoever that when Obamacare eventually fails like it was designed to do that it’ll all be blamed on the Republicans.
Just how will we know if Obamacare fails? It certainly won’t be the failure of the insurance companies who are reporting record profits:
So what are the signs of the healthcare apocalypse; the smiles on stockholder’s faces?
Except that the number of Americans travelling to Canada for healthcare is far, far greater than the number of Canadians coming to America for healthcare lol.
Could you perhaps go into slightly more detail about that?
It’s where his head is lolling around as he dreams.
I don’t need a cite, but I’d just note that that’s an assertion just crying out for one. Yet no one did.
So, tell us, adaher, is the Republican alternative you’ve been telling us about for so long going to be unveiled before *this *election?
Jeb Bush has an alternative for what it’s worth.
BTW, ACA, still not fully implemented yet.
And yet it’s still massively reduced the uninsured rate, which appears to be still dropping (you could say that it’s in free-fall, perhaps). 