Wednesday, June 18, 2014

Obamacare's very good week


http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/06/13/1306811/-Obamacare-s-very-good-week?detail=email

President Barack Obama smiling and holding
We knew that New Hampshire and some other states are going to get new insurers in their exchanges next year. Now we know that's true in every state that's reported so far. Here's what it looks like.

Chart showing surge of insurers joining exchanges in several states.


More insurers means, as Kaiser Family Foundation President Larry Levitt says, potentially lower premiums and thus lower costs overall—less the government is paying in subsidies, more consumer choice, and "marketing muscle" from big insurers that will help boost enrollments. More insurers being willing to enter the market helps prove another point which was reinforced this week—these are paying customers. If there was a huge problem with people paying their premiums, insurers would be staying away.
But there's not a problem with people paying up, the last in our roundup of very good Obamacare news. Charles Gaba (aka brainwrap) has stayed on top of the numbers, and is "quite confident that at least 90% of the original 8.02 million exchange QHP enrollees have paid their first premiums."

my fellow Americans if nothing else the republicans have done moves you to disconnect with them this should do it, they have lied to you, misled you, given you misinformation, created a boogeyman scenario and if that wasn't enough they tried hard to deny you health care that now by denying gov't funds or expanding Medicaid and Medicare even when the gov't was willing to foot 100% of the cost, that my friends is an unforgivable sin against fellow Americans no fellow human beings.