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SHRED

(28,136 posts)
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 01:49 PM Mar 2017

Two big reasons "Obamacare is collapsing"


Republicans removed Medicaid expansion and they are underfunding the risk corridors.

They are killing the ACA with a "thousands cuts" and then telling the public it's the sole fault of Obamacare itself.

I hate these liars.
They are killers...murderers.
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Two big reasons "Obamacare is collapsing" (Original Post) SHRED Mar 2017 OP
Insurance Corps are also fighting it at every chance randr Mar 2017 #1
And that is why we need to get insurance companies madokie Mar 2017 #3
"She's losing a lot of blood!" PsychoBabble Mar 2017 #2
We can blame Marco Rubio for the underfunding Nictuku Mar 2017 #4
I hear ya...me too...I get pissed when I hear that SHRED Mar 2017 #5
It's what killed Oregon Health Co-op MurrayDelph Mar 2017 #7
Obamacare isn't yet collapsing despite Republicans' efforts to destroy it. subterranean Mar 2017 #6

madokie

(51,076 posts)
3. And that is why we need to get insurance companies
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 01:56 PM
Mar 2017

out of Health Care. Medicare type health care for all is the only solution.

Nictuku

(3,616 posts)
4. We can blame Marco Rubio for the underfunding
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 02:18 PM
Mar 2017

It was Marco Rubio who introduced the amendment to a huge (must pass) budget bill that removed the promise to fund insurance companies if they were losing money due to taking in people with pre-existing conditions. There is a tax that is still being paid, but congress voted to stiff the insurance companies, and therefore they are pulling out of the exchanges in the ACA.

So all the while the republicans are saying that the ACA is collapsing, it is because of their own deeds.

I never see this point made by MSM when discussing the topic. Pisses me off.

MurrayDelph

(5,299 posts)
7. It's what killed Oregon Health Co-op
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:57 PM
Mar 2017

which was the only insurance in the state that covered bariatric services.

subterranean

(3,427 posts)
6. Obamacare isn't yet collapsing despite Republicans' efforts to destroy it.
Wed Mar 8, 2017, 03:48 PM
Mar 2017

But yeah, that's been their plan all along. And it probably will collapse in the next year or two if they don't repeal it this year, simply because of the uncertainty they've created.

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