Thursday, March 13, 2014

Obamacare and GOP responses

++Brainwrap continues his search for the definitive numbers for Obamacare. Now about 4.5 million on the exchanges and 5.5 million on Medicaid expansion. The illusive number is the large enrollments with insurance companies that bypassed the exchanges. While the Washington Post says that the number of young enrolling is far less than the Obama Administration hoped,it still is not demographically fatal. At the end of the day, the numbers will be too complicated to explain to the layperson.

++Democrats are on the defense on Obamacare. The GOP is hellbent on destroying it. Why don't Democrats run ads against Republicans for their crazy  votes on healthcare? 

++The House Republicans want to postpone the individual mandate for five years and their hostage is refusing to pass the Medicare Doctors Fix to alleviate the shortfall in payments to doctors handling Medicare patients. This genius idea has been scored by the CBO. It increases the debt,increases the uninsured by 13 million, premiums on the rest of us by 10-20%. 1 million Americans with employer-granted insurance will lose theirs,5 million on Medicaid and the CHIP program will be kicked off, and 7 million from individual exchanges will lose their insurance.

++And Obamacare is worse than that! There are real people voting form this nonsense. All the House members are up for election this year. Where are the ads against Republicans who systematically want to deprive millions of their existing health insurance? The baloney about millions losing their healthcare from Obamacare has nothing on this reality.


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