Trump Doing His Best To Increase Cost Of Health Care

[LordBrownTrout]

Trump administration takes another major swipe at the Affordable Care Act

From the link:
The Trump administration took another major swipe at the Affordable Care Act, halting billions of dollars in annual payments required under the law to even out the cost to insurers whose customers need expensive medical services.


Trump is violating a requirement of a law. I guess this means Fox News et al. are screaming for his impeachment right now, right? Right?


More from the link:
Risk adjustment is one of three methods built into the 2010 health-care law to help insulate insurance companies from the ACA requirement that they accept all customers for the first time — healthy and sick — without charging more to those who need substantial care.

The other two methods were temporary, but risk adjustment is permanent. Federal health officials are required each year to calculate which insurers with relatively low-cost consumers must chip in to a fund, and which ones with more expensive customers are owed money. This idea of pooling risk has had significant practical effects: encouraging insurers to participate in the insurance marketplaces the ACA created for Americans who cannot get affordable health benefits through a job.


Those two paragraphs are longer than a tweet, and have a lot of words bigger than one syllable. So 90 percent of pseudocons probably fell asleep by the second sentence.

But this is serious stuff. It will have a devastating impact on the cost of health insurance. Then Trump will try to blame Obama, and the rube herd will bleev what they are told to bleev, and parrot what they are told to parrot.


More from the link:
“Risk adjustment is a mandatory program under federal law,” said Scott Serota, president of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association. “Without a quick resolution . . . this action will significantly increase 2019 premiums for millions of individuals and small business owners. . . . It will undermine Americans’ access to affordable coverage, particularly for those who need medical care the most.”

Matt Eyles, president of America’s Health Insurance Plans, noted in a statement that the timing of this latest move could be particularly disruptive, because this is the season during which insurers around the country decide whether to take part in ACA marketplaces for 2019 and, if so, what rates to charge. “This decision . . . will create more market uncertainty and increase premiums for many health plans,” Eyles said.

It's named after a black guy, it must be destroyed!!!

So Trump's people can come up with a similar plan 20 months later and name it after him and thus save America!!!

The whole black thing is tired and old. Get some new material. Jeez you people are pathetic.

Notice how libs always make contemptuous slaps, "black guy", at races and minorities.

 

[WillowTree]

Well duh! We told you weasels it was unaffordable before Trump ever came on the scene! But did you listen? No you democrats rammed it through without a single Republican vote! Now, eat it.

 

[BluesLegend]

Well duh! We told you weasels it was unaffordable before Trump ever came on the scene! But did you listen? No you democrats rammed it through without a single Republican vote! Now, eat it.

Democrats own Obamacare 100% and it cost them control of congress and the White House.

 

[MarcATL]

Regressives didnt like ocare? Could have fooled me.

This palooka has vowed to never let a single, solitary fact, ever into that skull of his.

Must be nice...

 

[BluesLegend]

Obamacare is so awesome, Democrats screamed at Obama to go on national tv and take the blame for Obamacare.

 

[TNHarley]

Regressives didnt like ocare? Could have fooled me.

This palooka has vowed to never let a single, solitary fact, ever into that skull of his.

Must be nice...

What?

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

Trump Doing His Best To Increase Cost Of Health Care

LOL okay libtard why would Trump do that? $100 bucks says this moron can't answer.

Because he knows his supporters would blame libs -- because most Trump supporters don't read -- they just believe whatever Trump tweets is a policy..

But here is their actual policy in action:

Failure to pay these subsidies would be damaging to insurance markets. Insurers would still be required to make the payments for qualified individuals. However, they would not receive federal reimbursements. This would likely lead to massive premium increases as insurers are seeking to recover their payments. It could also potentially trigger an exodus by insurers.

Trump Aims to Actively Sabotage Affordable Care Act

 

[BluesLegend]

Trump Doing His Best To Increase Cost Of Health Care

LOL okay libtard why would Trump do that? $100 bucks says this moron can't answer.

Because he knows his supporters would blame libs -- because most Trump supporters don't read -- they just believe whatever Trump tweets is a policy..

But here is their actual policy in action:

Failure to pay these subsidies would be damaging to insurance markets. Insurers would still be required to make the payments for qualified individuals. However, they would not receive federal reimbursements. This would likely lead to massive premium increases as insurers are seeking to recover their payments. It could also potentially trigger an exodus by insurers.

Trump Aims to Actively Sabotage Affordable Care Act

I thought you people said Trump was a complete moron, now Trump is a genius?

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

What?

It is ok to read -- and this article is from a conservative source but even it admits that progressives were pushing for single payer but Obama capitulated to Republicans -- from the article:

"Obamacare is a compromised, Heritage Foundation-inspired retread that fails to achieve progressive goals: “It’s a half-baked measure that falls short of what is needed and of what was politically possible. Its main provision is to force people to buy health insurance from a private insurer if they’re not already insured by their employer. That is certainly not a progressive idea."


Why Obama Disappointed Progressives

 

[WillowTree]

Trump Doing His Best To Increase Cost Of Health Care

LOL okay libtard why would Trump do that? $100 bucks says this moron can't answer.

Because he knows his supporters would blame libs -- because most Trump supporters don't read -- they just believe whatever Trump tweets is a policy..

But here is their actual policy in action:

Failure to pay these subsidies would be damaging to insurance markets. Insurers would still be required to make the payments for qualified individuals. However, they would not receive federal reimbursements. This would likely lead to massive premium increases as insurers are seeking to recover their payments. It could also potentially trigger an exodus by insurers.

Trump Aims to Actively Sabotage Affordable Care Act

Well, that’s what happens to leeches. Once in awhile the taxpayers catch a break!

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

Trump Doing His Best To Increase Cost Of Health Care

LOL okay libtard why would Trump do that? $100 bucks says this moron can't answer.

Because he knows his supporters would blame libs -- because most Trump supporters don't read -- they just believe whatever Trump tweets is a policy..

But here is their actual policy in action:

Failure to pay these subsidies would be damaging to insurance markets. Insurers would still be required to make the payments for qualified individuals. However, they would not receive federal reimbursements. This would likely lead to massive premium increases as insurers are seeking to recover their payments. It could also potentially trigger an exodus by insurers.

Trump Aims to Actively Sabotage Affordable Care Act

I thought you people said Trump was a complete moron, now Trump is a genius?

A moron would be the one who believes this is Trump's policy -- Trump does not make policy decision because Trump knows nothing about policy -- this is the same ole GOP policy proposals

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

Trump Doing His Best To Increase Cost Of Health Care

LOL okay libtard why would Trump do that? $100 bucks says this moron can't answer.

Because he knows his supporters would blame libs -- because most Trump supporters don't read -- they just believe whatever Trump tweets is a policy..

But here is their actual policy in action:

Failure to pay these subsidies would be damaging to insurance markets. Insurers would still be required to make the payments for qualified individuals. However, they would not receive federal reimbursements. This would likely lead to massive premium increases as insurers are seeking to recover their payments. It could also potentially trigger an exodus by insurers.

Trump Aims to Actively Sabotage Affordable Care Act

Well, that’s what happens to leeches. Once in awhile the taxpayers catch a break!

No they don't catch a break if their premiums are rising -- but like most conservatives, they don't much care as long as they think someone is being punished

 

[WillowTree]

The Republicans removed the fucking mandate. We did catch a break.

 

[g5000]

Trump Doing His Best To Increase Cost Of Health Care

LOL okay libtard why would Trump do that? $100 bucks says this moron can't answer.

Because he knows his supporters would blame libs -- because most Trump supporters don't read -- they just believe whatever Trump tweets is a policy..

But here is their actual policy in action:

Failure to pay these subsidies would be damaging to insurance markets. Insurers would still be required to make the payments for qualified individuals. However, they would not receive federal reimbursements. This would likely lead to massive premium increases as insurers are seeking to recover their payments. It could also potentially trigger an exodus by insurers.

Trump Aims to Actively Sabotage Affordable Care Act

I thought you people said Trump was a complete moron, now Trump is a genius?

Trump's one and only genius is hucksterism. Other than that, he's dumber than a box of rocks.

The complete morons are the ones who drink his piss.

 

[g5000]

My insurance costs and premiums have gone down along with several of coworkers and friends. Ocare should die next year when the penalty is dropped .

Anecdotes don't mean shit.

On average, employer health insurance costs have increased.

TrumpCare sure as shit isn't "great health care at a tiny fraction of the cost".

 

[g5000]

Remember when Obama extended the time period for the employer mandate and how the pseudocon propadandists screamed for his impeachment? Remember how all the parroting rubes screamed for his impeachment?

Isn't it curious they aren't screaming for Trump's impeachment right now? He is violating the law, after all.

Yeah. Curious.

Not really. They have long been covered in the stench of hypocrisy.

 

[WillowTree]

Premium s were going to rise with or without Trump. Obama planned it that way. The biggest spikes were set to rise after he left office! The democrats after all their bellyaching about corporations climbed in bed with the insurance companies. They guaranteed the insurance companies that they would not lose money by making the taxpayer pay his own premiums and pay subsidies for the leeches! To top it off the democrats stole 750 billion dollars from Medicare to fund obummercare! Are you happy now with your fucking results?

 

[Biff_Poindexter]

The Republicans removed the fucking mandate. We did catch a break.

So people losing their coverage is catching a break for you?

 

[WillowTree]

The Republicans removed the fucking mandate. We did catch a break.

So people losing their coverage is catching a break for you?

People should learn to take care of themselves! Right! Are Americans too poor to afford health insurance? Evidently not cause ewe numbskulls keep importing millions more poor people. Enjoy your premiums, you brought it on yourselves!

 

[AntonToo]

You also said this last year and my insurance costs went down a month or so ago.
My deductible went down 1500 big ones and my co insurance went down 20%

...Trump musta helped you out

How? Well he ummmm....

What?

Why do you think YOUR insurance went down?

Because my insurance lady is a badass.

So how is that relevant to the discussion in this thread? Or did you just want to talk back?