Obamacare was instituted to make sure that every American had access to healthcare, especially low-income individuals and families. But Obamacare insurance premiums are set to go up yet again. For many, their families will be covered, but it could be a hardship.
In 2017, some of the most popular types of Obamacare health insurance plans want to jack up their prices by 10% or more in 14 major cities, an analysis published Wednesday reveals.
(ZHE) When last week ZeroHedge showed how much the average health insurance premium proposal would rise in a 14 select states…
by Gaius PubliusThanks to the Democratic primary, there's been a lot of discussion on the left about the benefits and ills of ACA, the Obamacare public health law, versus single-payer and "Medicare For All," which Bernie Sanders is advocating. Clinton is a strong defender of the ACA and a strong, if disingenuous, critic of Sanders' Medicare For All.
The poor are usually out of earshot and positioned out of sight in our bunker-like society; in other words, not on our immediate radar. It seems to be “shock and awe” or celebrity gazing. The former is reserved for things like mass killings or overblown pandemics. The latter is daily splashed on all news outlets: check-stand displays of yellow rags, magazine covers, billboards, TV news, and internet ads that overshadow, intercept, and sometimes annoyingly drive out, all your targeted interfaces.
With a Doonesbury bonus: The deep rootsof modern conservative policy-making"None of the leading Republicans," says E. J. Dionne Jr., is willing to offer a more fundamental challenge to the party’s rightward lurch over the past decade." "Unfortunately for the Republican Party and the country, [Wisconsin Gov. Scott] Walker’s careful parsing of shape-shifting counts as one of the cerebral high points of the debate among the party’s 2016 presidential candidates."-- E. J.
Some good news: last week I was back at City of Hope for tests after the interruption in my treatment caused by the broken ribs. Of course my oncologist is concerned about all the chemo side effects-- from the fainting that led to the broken ribs to the more mundane effects that plague patients in treatment, like constipation, weakness and fatigue, loss of appetite, neuropathy, etc.
Sooner or later, we all need health insurance. OK, maybe the 1% doesn't... but everyone else. When I was a divisional president of TimeWarner, I got the most platinum-plated health insurance money could buy. They took good care of their top executives. When my lawyer told me what they were giving me insurance-wise-- without even having to negotiate-- I was stunned. Even after I retired, they took incredibly good care of my insurance needs.
"What does it say about the richest country on earth that its citizens must depend upon raffles and spaghetti dinners to pay the medical bills-- a situation that exists in no other civilized country?
by KenThis evening I want to think about two major problems with the way Obamacare works -- one having to do with the way it's set up, which could probably be fixed fairly straightforwardly but won't be because it would require Congress to do the fixing, and one that requires only a change in the way health-care consumers shop for coverage which probably won't be solved because, well, it's just too difficult for shoppers.THE STRUCTURAL PROBELM FOR FAMILIESThis morning on the ra
John Kline is a right-wing extremist from southeast Minnesota. His district, MN-02, stretches from south of St. Paul through Eagan, Burnsville, Apple Valley, and Northfield all the way down to Wabasha and the Zumbro Bottoms State Forest. Although the PVI is still classified R+2, Obama took the district in both 2008 and 2012. Kline is the chairman of the House Workforce and Education Committee, where he has been able to do a great deal of damage to working families.
