- Expanding a program that one in three doctors wont accept.
Meaning that two out of three will accept. Coincidentally that's the number of doctors that currently accept medicare/medicaid patients.
- Giving Medicaid doctors a pay raisefor two years.
Obamacare increases the payment rate for Medicaid primary care doctors up to Medicare payment levels in 2013 and 2014. After those two years, Medicaid doctors will face about a 22 percent payment cut.
Why give raises for 2 years then have a pay cut? I'm calling bullshit.
- Giving more government money to low-income Americans in the exchanges than to those in Medicaid
. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that every low-income individual who chooses to enroll in the new exchanges instead of Medicaid will increase federal spending by roughly $3,000 in 2022, because exchange subsidies will be more generous than the cost of coverage in Medicaid.
There should be fewer unemployed and low-income workers by 2022.
- Using Medicare money to pay for Obamacare.
Medicares finances are in serious trouble, facing a long-term unfunded obligation of $37 trillion and a bankrupt trust fund by 2024. Despite these facts, Obamacare cuts Medicare by $716 billion and then uses that money to pay for new spending rather than putting the money back into a struggling Medicare program.
Straight up lie. Obama SAVED medicare $716B by cutting subsidies to rich insurance companies and by cracking down on fraud. NOTHING WAS CUT FROM THE PROGRAM.
- Forcing religious organizations to provide birth control coverage.
The Obama Administration refuses to exempt all religious employers from its mandate to provide coverage and pay for contraception, sterilization, and abortion-inducing drugs despite religious or moral objections to doing so.
Because the right to freedom of religion comes down in favor of the 300 million individual citizens instead of a few corporate religions.
- Spending $1.68 trillion on a health care law that will leave 30 million Americans uninsured.
Obamacares coverage expansion provisions alone will cost $1.68 trillion over the next 10 years, but even after all that additional health spending, 30 million Americans will be uninsured.
Just imagine how many young adults, pregnant women, people with pre-existing conditions, and underpaid workers would be uninsured if it hadn't passed.
- Overpricing premiums for young adultsso the government can subsidize them.
Obamacares age rating system forces insurers to charge unnaturally high premiums for younger adults. This will result in more subsidies going to healthy young people in the exchanges than would otherwise be necessary if insurers were allowed to continue charging lower premiums that more accurately reflect younger adults lower health care costs.
This was the republicans' part of the plan. See, young adults are generally healthy, so they contribute to the pool and help subsidize the less healthy insured.
- Fixed revenue from a tax.
Obamacares annual fee on health insurers acts like a traditional excise taxwith one unique difference: The revenue collected from the fee will be fixed in any given year, meaning the amount going to the government will remain the same with no relation to how many consumers are actually purchasing coverage, totaling over $100 billion from 20142022. Thus, the fewer people that buy insurance, the higher the tax rate will be for those who do.
The idea is for more people to get insured. That's what Obamacare's all about, remember?
- Obamacare gives $3.8 billion to fund CO-OPsan insurer that is designed to fail.
It is uncertain whether any CO-OP insurers will actually be created, because there is no obvious market demand, the statute imposes restrictions that make it difficult to establish and operate one, and the law prohibits the most likely and sensible path to setting one upa divestiture or conversion by an existing health insurer.
Are you sure about that?
- Obamacare has two types of health exchangesthe law just didnt describe the second one.
It includes the American Health Benefit (AHB) and Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP). For the AHB exchange, the law contains requirements for structure, functions, and operations. The law provides no such detail for the SHOP exchange, and thus it is irrelevantyet its in the law.
Link to that section of the law please.
Finally, creating a new entitlement when Americas existing entitlements (Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security) are in desperate need of reform, and the country is running annual trillion-dollar budget deficits, doesnt make much sense either.
It's not an "entitlement."
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