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DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
Fri May 26, 2017, 01:44 PM May 2017

*****Blue Cross CEO-Trump is sabotaging the Affordable Care Act*****






We now have our first clear evidence that President Trump’s threats to blow up Obamacare — whether or not he actually intends to make good on them — are going to hurt a lot of people here in the real world. In Trump’s mind, these threats are supposed to force Democrats to make a deal on repeal, but minimal logic reveals that this is extremely far-fetched — meaning the only impact his threats will likely have is a destructive one, for no evident purpose whatsoever.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina has announced that it intends to try to raise premiums by 22.9 percent next year. The company says it would have tried to raise them by only 8.8 percent, but it is going for the larger increase because the Trump administration has not said whether it will continue paying the law’s so-called “cost-sharing reductions” (CSRs) to insurance companies, which subsidize out-of-pocket costs for lower-income people who get insurance on the individual markets. Democrats in Congress want to appropriate money to cover these subsidies, but Republicans have not done so.

In an interview with me this morning, Brad Wilson, the president and chief executive of Blue Cross Blue Shield North Carolina, said flat-out that the failure of the Trump administration and Congress to guarantee that these subsidies will continue is why rates are going to soar for hundreds of thousands of people in his state.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2017/05/26/trumps-latest-tantrum-will-hurt-hundreds-of-thousands-of-people-heres-how/?utm_term=.0948057195de
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*****Blue Cross CEO-Trump is sabotaging the Affordable Care Act***** (Original Post) DemocratSinceBirth May 2017 OP
This prick has sabotaged the welfare of the American people. world wide wally May 2017 #1
. DemocratSinceBirth May 2017 #2
We'll be lucky to make it another 24! nt tblue37 May 2017 #15
The Dems Need To Put The Onus Of ACA's Failings On Trump And The Repugs..... global1 May 2017 #3
Makes me spitting mad. wildeyed May 2017 #4
I like Claire McAskill's plan. DemocratSinceBirth May 2017 #5
My plan: Make congress buy healthcare on the open market. wildeyed May 2017 #7
How the G.O.P. Sabotaged Obamacare spanone May 2017 #6
Trump is working for Putin. lpbk2713 May 2017 #8
The good news in what you're saying madokie May 2017 #13
Finally the insurers step up flamingdem May 2017 #9
republicans and their Draft-Dodger-in-Chief are pisssing on... Achilleaze May 2017 #10
He's not just sabotaging Obamacare dreamland May 2017 #11
K&R smirkymonkey May 2017 #12
Yep. Hugin May 2017 #14

world wide wally

(21,744 posts)
1. This prick has sabotaged the welfare of the American people.
Fri May 26, 2017, 02:01 PM
May 2017

He blatantly lied to them about it during his campaign.
He has colluded with the Russians and passed them classified materials given to us by a friendly nation and then exposed the nation.
He has offended our allies at Putin's bidding.
This doesn't even begin the list of reasons we have to remove hm from the highest office in the land.

Yet America is too impotent. to even protect itself from this buffoon.
We suck. How the fuck did we survive for 240 years?.... I am quite sure we won't make it another 240

global1

(25,253 posts)
3. The Dems Need To Put The Onus Of ACA's Failings On Trump And The Repugs.....
Fri May 26, 2017, 02:14 PM
May 2017

It is clear that they are sabotaging ACA. The Dems need to make Trump and the Repugs own it now that they are in power. They have the ability and more than that the responsibility to keep ACA in tact until they do (if they do pass their own version). If they fail to maintain ACA as it was intended - then it is their fault and their fault only that it is failing.

Now any increases in premiums, any drop-outs by insurance companies - needs to be thrust upon the backs of Trump and the Repugs. It is their fault as they have the platform to continue supporting it and if they don't choose to - then they saddle the blame for it's demise.

We all know if it was a Dem President - the Dems would keep it solvent and improve upon it as it would be their responsibility to do just that.

We must immediately begin calling the current system of health care - Trumpcare or Republicare and have to immediately stop calling it Obamacare. Obama is no longer the President. The Dems are no longer the majority in Congress.

This is solely the Repugs disaster and we need to make sure that the American People realize and know this.

wildeyed

(11,243 posts)
4. Makes me spitting mad.
Fri May 26, 2017, 02:15 PM
May 2017

The eternally moronic and evil NC GOP already increased my rates when they refused federal Medicaid expansion. Now this. My insurance broker told me this was going to happen months ago. I feel like crying. We already pay whopping premiums for shit care because we own a small business. Now this. When are people going to hit bottom with GOP economic voodoo? How bad does it have to get before they finally buy a clue? Fuck.

DemocratSinceBirth

(99,710 posts)
5. I like Claire McAskill's plan.
Fri May 26, 2017, 05:50 PM
May 2017

Let people in areas with no providers buy into the plan members of Congress and their staff get.

wildeyed

(11,243 posts)
7. My plan: Make congress buy healthcare on the open market.
Fri May 26, 2017, 05:59 PM
May 2017

We have providers, but due to my employment and the state where I live, they gouge the crap out of me. I am deeply, profoundly tired of the BS. Fucking GOP needs to grow up and DEAL with this mess. Instead we have President Senile Pussy-Grabber, his side kick, Stone Cold Steve Austin (MT Edition) and The Granny Starver™. These clowns couldn't fix a toaster.

spanone

(135,844 posts)
6. How the G.O.P. Sabotaged Obamacare
Fri May 26, 2017, 05:52 PM
May 2017
Obamacare is not “collapsing under its own weight,” as Republicans are so fond of saying. It was sabotaged from the day it was enacted. And now the Republican Party should be held accountable not only for any potential replacement of the law, but also for having tried to starve it to death.

The Congressional Budget Office on Wednesday released its accounting of the House Republicans’ replacement bill for the Affordable Care Act, and the numbers are not pretty: It is projected to leave 23 million more Americans uninsured over 10 years, through deep cuts to insurance subsidies and Medicaid. The report underscores how the bill would cut taxes for the rich to take health care away from the less well-off.

The A.C.A. is not perfect, and improvements to it would be welcome. But it worked in many respects and would have worked much better had Congress been a faithful guardian of the law.

It is worth making a record of those Republican saboteurs’ efforts. The A.C.A.’s opponents brought a lawsuit against its requirement that people buy insurance — a Republican idea — the very day the statute was signed into law. The Supreme Court rejected that claim. But the court gave opponents a major victory on another front, ruling that Obamacare’s expansion of Medicaid was optional for states. Yet another lawsuit seized on some sloppy language in the law to make the implausible argument that Congress did not provide for the insurance subsidies on which the law depends. The Supreme Court also rejected that challenge.


https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/25/opinion/republicans-obamacare-aca.html

lpbk2713

(42,759 posts)
8. Trump is working for Putin.
Fri May 26, 2017, 06:04 PM
May 2017



He's sabotaging our country in so many ways it's hard to keep track. Right now he's in Europe creating as much ill will toward the USA as he possibly can. And he's not even bothering to appear discreet about it. Everywhere he goes he offends or annoys everyone he comes in contact with.

madokie

(51,076 posts)
13. The good news in what you're saying
Sat May 27, 2017, 08:34 AM
May 2017

is that most people even in Europe see tRump and company for what they are. Grifters supreme

flamingdem

(39,313 posts)
9. Finally the insurers step up
Fri May 26, 2017, 06:13 PM
May 2017

They took forever to weigh in, most of them hoping they'd be able to get their monster bonuses back.

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
10. republicans and their Draft-Dodger-in-Chief are pisssing on...
Fri May 26, 2017, 06:15 PM
May 2017

America's health care system, and the American people who depend upon it.

Deplorable.

dreamland

(964 posts)
11. He's not just sabotaging Obamacare
Sat May 27, 2017, 08:05 AM
May 2017

Insurance companies will lose millions too. This is going to cost the insurance companies jobs and profits. The insurance companies will revert back to the numbers of pre-Obamacare days where people will just not buy insurance.

Hugin

(33,164 posts)
14. Yep.
Sat May 27, 2017, 08:43 AM
May 2017

The Repugnants have been doing everything they can since the ACA was implemented to sabotage it (including selling out to the Kremlin for 30 Rubles). Because, President Obama and the Democrats are not allowed to have a success... Ever.

Why? Even though we are Americans... We are not the right kind of Americans. Rich. White. Male.

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