{"id":12477,"date":"2016-04-27T09:44:14","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T13:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/?p=12477"},"modified":"2016-04-27T09:44:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-27T13:44:14","slug":"how-obamacare-is-destroying-healthcare-access","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2016\/04\/27\/how-obamacare-is-destroying-healthcare-access\/","title":{"rendered":"How Obamacare is Destroying Healthcare Access"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ongoing cluster-you-know-what of Obamacare<\/a> is a source of unhappy satisfaction.<\/p>\n

Part of me is glad the law is such a failure<\/a>, but it\u2019s tragic that millions of people are\u00a0suffering adverse consequences<\/a>. These are folks who did nothing wrong, but now are paying more<\/a>, losing employment<\/a>, suffering income losses<\/a>, and\/or being\u00a0forced to find new plans and new doctors<\/a>.<\/p>\n

And it seems we get more bad news every day, as noted in a new editorial<\/a>\u00a0from\u00a0Investor\u2019s Business Daily<\/em>.<\/p>\n

ObamaCare rates will skyrocket next year, according to its former chief. Enrollment is tumbling this year. And a big insurer is quitting most exchanges. That\u2019s what we learned in just the past few days.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why do we know these three bad things are happening? Because that\u2019s what we\u2019re being told by Mary Tavenner, the former head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services for the Obama administration, who has now cashed out and is pimping for the health insurance companies that got in bed with the White House<\/a>\u00a0to foist Obamacare on the American people.<\/p>\n

IBD<\/em> gives us the sordid details.<\/p>\n

Why will 2017 rates spike even higher? In addition to the cost of complying with ObamaCare\u2019s insurance regulations and mandates, there\u2019s the fact that the ObamaCare exchanges have failed to attract enough young and healthy people needed to keep premiums down. Plus, two industry bailout programs expire this year, Tavenner notes.<\/p>\n

Oh, and she admits that people are gaming ObamaCare just like critics said they would: buying coverage after they get sick \u2014 since insurance companies can no longer turn them down or charge them more \u2014 then dropping it when they\u2019re done with treatments. \u201cThat churn increases premiums. So you have to kind of price over that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And that\u2019s just one slice of bad news.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s more.<\/p>\n

ObamaCare enrollment has already dropped an average of more than 14% in five states since February \u2014 a faster rate of decline than last year \u2014 as people get kicked off for not paying premiums. Finally, we learned on Tuesday that UnitedHealth Group (UNH) is planning to drop out of almost every ObamaCare market it currently serves after losing $1 billion on those policies. \u2026<\/p>\n

Skyrocketing premiums, fewer choices in the marketplace, and people fleeing ObamaCare in droves after signing up. This isn\u2019t exactly what Obama promised when he signed ObamaCare into law.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For those who were paying attention, none of this is a surprise. It was always a fantasy to think that more government intervention was going to improve a health care system that already was cumbersome and expensive because of previous government interventions.<\/p>\n

By the way, IBD<\/em> isn\u2019t the only outlet to notice the ongoing disaster of Obamacare.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s look at some other recent revelations.<\/p>\n

Chris Jacobs writes<\/a>,\u00a0\u201cFor millions of Americans, the Left\u2019s insurance utopia has rapidly deteriorated into a bleak dystopia,\u201d while\u00a0\u201cthe \u2018cheaper prices\u2019 that the president promised evaporated as quickly as the morning dew.\u201d<\/p>\n

John Graham explains<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0\u201cCBO estimates Obamacare will leave 27 million uninsured through 2019\u00a0\u2013 an increase of almost one quarter\u201d and that \u201cCBO estimates 68 million will be dependent on the [Medicaid] program this year through 2019 \u2013 an increase of almost one third in the welfare caseload.\u201d<\/p>\n

Betsy McCaughey opines<\/a>, \u201cObamacare is already hugely in the red. \u2026 Over the next ten years Obamacare\u00a0will add $1.4 trillion to the nation\u2019s debt,\u201d and \u201cInsurers struggling with Obamacare are already drastically reducing your choice of doctors and hospitals to cut costs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Devon Herrick reveals<\/a> that \u201cObamacare has caused more people to reach for their wallets after a medical encounter \u2014 not less\u201d and that \u201call but the most heavily subsidized Obamacare enrollees would be better off financially if they skipped coverage and pay for their own medical care out of pocket.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jeffrey Anderson observes<\/a> that \u201cit seems possible that Obamacare has actually\u00a0reduced<\/em> the number of people with private health insurance\u201d and that \u201cObamacare is basically an expensive Medicaid expansion coupled with 2,400 pages of liberty-sapping mandates.\u201d<\/p>\n

John Goodman notes<\/a> that \u201cPrior to Obamacare, many employers of\u00a0low-wage workers offered their employees a \u201cmini med\u201d plan, covering, say, the first $25,000 of expenses\u201d and that \u201cThose plans are now gone\u2026 employees\u2026are\u2026completely uninsured\u201d<\/p>\n

The CEO of CKE Restaurants warns<\/a> that \u201cfewer people buying insurance through the exchanges, the economics aren\u2019t holding up\u201d and that \u201cTen of the 23 innovative health-insurance plans known as co-ops \u2014 established with $2.4 billion in ObamaCare loans \u2014 will be out of business by the end of 2015 because of weak balance sheets.\u201d<\/p>\n

Critics of Obamacare now get to say \u201cwe told you so.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the Washington Examiner<\/em> editorialized<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Conservatives screamed a simple fact from the rooftops: Obamacare will not work. No one wanted to listen then, but their warnings are now coming into fruition.<\/p>\n

Obamacare, as constructed, attempted to fix a dysfunctional health care payment system by creating an even more complicated system on top of it, filled with subsidies, coverage mandates, and other artificial government incentives.\u00a0But its result has been a system that plucked Americans out of coverage they like and forced them to pay more for less. \u2026<\/p>\n

Taxpayers and insurance customers alike should demand replacing Obamacare with a system that reduces costs and improves quality by injecting actual choice and competition into the insurance market.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I especially like the last part of that excerpt \u2014 which is why we need to go well beyond simply repealing Obamacare<\/a> if we want to restore market forces to the health care sector.<\/p>\n

Source: How Obamacare is Destroying Healthcare Access | Foundation for Economic Education<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The ongoing cluster-you-know-what of Obamacare is a source of unhappy satisfaction. Part of me is glad the law is such a failure, but it\u2019s tragic that millions of people are\u00a0suffering adverse consequences. These are folks who did nothing wrong, but now are paying more, losing employment, suffering income losses, and\/or being\u00a0forced to find new plans and new doctors. And it seems we get more bad news every day, as noted in a new editorial\u00a0from\u00a0Investor\u2019s Business Daily. ObamaCare rates will skyrocket next year, according to its former chief. Enrollment is tumbling this year. And a big insurer is quitting most exchanges. That\u2019s what we learned in just the past few days. Why do we know these three bad things are happening? Because that\u2019s what we\u2019re being told by Mary Tavenner, the former head of the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services for the Obama administration, who has now cashed out and is pimping for the health insurance companies that got in bed with the White House\u00a0to foist Obamacare on the American people. IBD gives us the sordid details. Why will 2017 rates spike even higher? In addition to the cost of complying with ObamaCare\u2019s insurance regulations and mandates, there\u2019s the fact […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[128,1252],"class_list":["post-12477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-politics","tag-aca","tag-obamacare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.megalextoria.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}