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A new analysis finds the nation's health care overhaul deserves a place in advertising history as the focus of extraordinarily high spending on negative political TV ads that have gone largely unanswered by the law's supporters.
The report, released Friday by nonpartisan analysts Kantar Media CMAG, estimates that $445 million was spent on political TV ads mentioning the law since the enactment of the Affordable Care Act in 2010. Spending on negative ads outpaced positive ones by more than 15 to 1.
This wasn't supposed to happen.
Before anyone gets into a lather about this first read the link.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) The Obama administration has given the go-ahead for insurers and employers to use a new cost-control strategy that puts a hard dollar limit on what health plans pay for some expensive procedures, such as knee and hip replacements.
The new strategy works like this:
Your health insurance plan slaps a hard limit on what it will pay for certain procedures, for example, hospital charges associated with knee and hip replacement operations. That's called the reference price.
Say the limit is $30,000. The plan offers you a choice of hospitals within its provider network. If you pick one that charges $40,000, you would owe $10,000 to the hospital plus your regular cost-sharing for the $30,000 that your plan covers.
The extra $10,000 is treated like an out-of-network expense, and it doesn't count toward your plan's annual limit on out-of-pocket costs.
That's crucial because under the health care law, most plans have to pick up the entire cost of care after a patient hits the annual out-of-pocket limit, currently $6,350 for single coverage and $12,700 for a family plan. Before the May 2 administration ruling, it was unclear whether reference pricing violated this key financial protection for consumers.
"The problem ... from the patient's perspective is that at the end of the day, that is who gets left holding the bag," said Karen Pollitz of the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. Previously she was a top consumer protection regulator in the Obama administration.
What is this, the left's response to recent allegations that the firm hired by the administration is completely corrupt and we spend more on the Canadian/British screwed up internet firm designed to register insurance than the ironically named "AFA" spends on care? The mainstream media still has the wagons circled around the administration but the entire system is collapsing with hospitals and health care facilities going under not to mention medical doctors retiring early and people struggling with bureaucratic nightmares that make a trip to the Motor Vehicle bureau look like a walk in the park.
If its really so bad, the marketplace will let us know.
So far, the only ones who hate it are the Obama haters.
Gee, I wonder why that is.
So far, the only ones who hate it are the Obama haters.
If its really so bad, the marketplace will let us know.
So far, the only ones who hate it are the Obama haters.
Gee, I wonder why that is.
If its really so bad, the marketplace will let us know.
So far, the only ones who hate it are the Obama haters.
Gee, I wonder why that is.
If its really so bad, the marketplace will let us know.
So far, the only ones who hate it are the Obama haters.
Gee, I wonder why that is.
True that!
With the majority of the media carrying the torch for ObamaCare, who needs to spend much $$ spreading ObamaCare lies?
And then there's this:
This wasn't supposed to happen.
Before anyone gets into a lather about this first read the link.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) The Obama administration has given the go-ahead for insurers and employers to use a new cost-control strategy that puts a hard dollar limit on what health plans pay for some expensive procedures, such as knee and hip replacements.
The new strategy works like this:
Your health insurance plan slaps a hard limit on what it will pay for certain procedures, for example, hospital charges associated with knee and hip replacement operations. That's called the reference price.
Say the limit is $30,000. The plan offers you a choice of hospitals within its provider network. If you pick one that charges $40,000, you would owe $10,000 to the hospital plus your regular cost-sharing for the $30,000 that your plan covers.
The extra $10,000 is treated like an out-of-network expense, and it doesn't count toward your plan's annual limit on out-of-pocket costs.
That's crucial because under the health care law, most plans have to pick up the entire cost of care after a patient hits the annual out-of-pocket limit, currently $6,350 for single coverage and $12,700 for a family plan. Before the May 2 administration ruling, it was unclear whether reference pricing violated this key financial protection for consumers.
"The problem ... from the patient's perspective is that at the end of the day, that is who gets left holding the bag," said Karen Pollitz of the nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation. Previously she was a top consumer protection regulator in the Obama administration.
What is this, the left's response to recent allegations that the firm hired by the administration is completely corrupt and we spend more on the Canadian/British screwed up internet firm designed to register insurance than the ironically named "AFA" spends on care? The mainstream media still has the wagons circled around the administration but the entire system is collapsing with hospitals and health care facilities going under not to mention medical doctors retiring early and people struggling with bureaucratic nightmares that make a trip to the Motor Vehicle bureau look like a walk in the park.
No, its a thread about the R spending $445 million lying to Americans who need, want and deserve affordable health care insurance.
In spite of throwing all that money at it and in spite of their constant phony votes to repeal it, people are benefiting from ACA.
Well, except for the RWs who are paying more and getting less while the Ds are paying less and getting more.
