Soaring profits thanks to obameyObamey.

[westwall]

Accompanied an elderly relative to the doctor's office not long ago. He has Medicare. He signed in just like every other patient and, when his name was called, he went in for his checkup.

No, "Sorry, buddy. You've got Medicare? You need to wait until we see everyone else first."

Funny, that.

Not really.

But you claimed - without a shred of proof - that Medicare patients had to wait longer than everyone else.

So were you mistaken, or did you lie?

Because they do.

Prove it.

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You first.

 

[BluesLegend]

Deflect all you want silly boy. The fact remains that for all of the hype and propaganda you have been spewing you can't present 10 people out of over a hundred million who have benefited from the obummercare.

Talk about an epic fail. This ranks way up there with the worst fails of all....

Apparently you and froggy need others to participate in your "Let's make up cute names" game, but it has no appeal for me.

In the event you want to discuss the PPACA, I'll be happy to participate.

Now, indulge your need to get the last word. (You did say "good day" several posts up, yet here you are.)

Still waiting for you to support your claims......and waiting.......and waiting,.........and waiting....... Kind of like your Medicare patients waiting to see a doctor!

So you've changed your mind? What happened to "good day"?

I'm still waiting for you to support your claims silly boy. You shuck and jive with the best of them but still you present nothing but crap.

When you can prove your claim that Medicare patients wait longer than "regular" people like you, we can talk.

They don't wait longer, they come into the office and are told Medicare/Medicaid is not accepted and leave. They are in and out quick.

 

[Sun Devil 92]

Assuming that's bad, all the more reason to halt the attacks on the small, local nonprofit startup insurers.

Can you point to examples of these local start-ups ?

And who is attacking them.

 

[Greenbeard]

Can you point to examples of these local start-ups ?

And who is attacking them.

Nashco | Member CO-OPs

They're non-profit, locally grown, and member-owned. And, they're start-ups that have just entered the market in the last few years. They exist to offer new alternatives to the large for-profit national insurance carriers and inject some competition into markets. For a time, it was working (Lower Premiums in CO-OP states; ACA co-ops cut prices, heat up competition). Soon they may not exist at all.

They've been under attack by the GOP Congress since 2013 when their access to new capital was cut off, but what killed off most of those that have failed in the last six months was the crippling of the risk corridor program that was needed to support them during this startup phase.

Industry insiders say the co-op collapse could have been avoided had Congress not stymied those payments.

“I think most of them could've weathered through the other problems had it not been for the default on the risk-corridor payments,” said Barbara Smith, a principal at consulting firm Health Management Associates. Smith was the founding director of the co-op division at the CMS' Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, or CCIIO.

The short-term outlook remains bleak for many of the remaining co-ops and other small and mid-sized health insurers that sell exchange plans. The recently signed budget bill included the same risk-corridors provision (PDF) from last year's deal, which requires those payments to be budget-neutral. The ACA did not require the risk-corridor program to be budget-neutral.

Marco Rubio touts this as his greatest achievement in the Senate. The real result is that soon many markets will have only the large for-profit mega-insurers to choose from. Way to go, Marco!

 

[Sun Devil 92]

Can you point to examples of these local start-ups ?

And who is attacking them.

Nashco | Member CO-OPs

They're non-profit, locally grown, and member-owned. And, they're start-ups that have just entered the market in the last few years. They exist to offer new alternatives to the large for-profit national insurance carriers and inject some competition into markets. For a time, it was working (Lower Premiums in CO-OP states; ACA co-ops cut prices, heat up competition). Soon they may not exist at all.

They've been under attack by the GOP Congress since 2013 when their access to new capital was cut off, but what killed off most of those that have failed in the last six months was the crippling of the risk corridor program that was needed to support them during this startup phase.

Industry insiders say the co-op collapse could have been avoided had Congress not stymied those payments.

“I think most of them could've weathered through the other problems had it not been for the default on the risk-corridor payments,” said Barbara Smith, a principal at consulting firm Health Management Associates. Smith was the founding director of the co-op division at the CMS' Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, or CCIIO.

The short-term outlook remains bleak for many of the remaining co-ops and other small and mid-sized health insurers that sell exchange plans. The recently signed budget bill included the same risk-corridors provision (PDF) from last year's deal, which requires those payments to be budget-neutral. The ACA did not require the risk-corridor program to be budget-neutral.

Marco Rubio touts this as his greatest achievement in the Senate. The real result is that soon many markets will have only the large for-profit mega-insurers to choose from. Way to go, Marco!

These were start-ups that needed some kind of prop up to get going.

But, like most start ups, they needed help to get over the hump and get established.

The GOP cut that off.

No private investors are available ?