Sick Drawn to New Coverage in Health-Law Plans
People enrolled in new plans under the health law are showing higher rates of serious health conditions than other insurance customers, according to an early analysis of medical claims, putting pressure on insurers around the country as they prepare to .
Study: young people better off not enrolling in Obamacare.
Millions of young Americans could save money by simply paying Obamacare penalties rather than buying insurance when the controversial health-care law is implemented in 2014, according to a new study. ���Millions of. If enough young people decline to buy insurance and take the penalty instead, the administrations fears of a rate-hiking ���death spiral��� would become a reality, according to Hogbergs findings. The White. The biggest GOP fear is that it will work.
Thursday, October 30, 2014 | Kaiser Health News
A fast-growing, short-term alternative to ObamaCare that allows customers to get cheap, one-year policies could put the government-subsidized plan into a death spiral. The plans. generally cost. The Wall Street Journal: Small Firms Start to Drop Health Plans.. The nations biggest health insurers entered last fall cautious about a major coverage expansion initiated by the health care overhaul, the federal law that aims to cover millions of uninsured people.. But a��.
Health Insurers Race to Complete Enrollments
Millions of new insurance policies purchased under the federal health-care law officially take effect on Wednesday, but many enrollees wont be able to use them to visit doctors or get prescriptions filled for days or weeks, insurers say. Because.
Koch brothers next victim: The Republican Party?
While AFP may be stalwart in its commitment to denying health coverage to the poor, Republican lawmakers from states that rejected the Medicaid expansion are starting to crack, reports the National Journal. Many of the. AFP called it ���Medicaid.
McConnell: Republicans cant repeal Obamacare, but the.
He does seem to have some concern for his legacy. He might not want that legacy to include being responsible for taking health insurance away from millions of people and gutting the law that is racking up successes and��.
No Fooling: ObamaCare Is Still A Disaster | GOP
Problems with the presidents health care law are part of a toxic mix as politicians must also grapple with Americans grousing about the job market and global instability presented by the Ukraine crisis... A Federal Actuarial Report Predicts That 65% Of Small Businesses Will See Their Health-Insurance Premiums Increase Under Part Of The Affordable Care Act. (Jennifer Corbett Dooren, Rising Premiums May Hit Small Firms, The Wall Street Journal, 2/24/14).
Court Decision Could Kill Obamacare in Wisconsin
With the headline, In Blow to Health Law, Appeals Court Limits Subsidies, the New York Times announced the decision in Halbig v. Burwell.. This could easily lead to a spiral of growing premiums and declining enrollment, resulting to the death of the.
PGandE Charged Over Fatal Blast; GM Apologizes; Apple and Samsung Clash in.
Law Blog rounds up the mornings news: Criminal explosion: In a rare criminal case against a utility, PGandE was charged over a fatal pipeline blast in 2010 near San Francisco. [WSJ]. Patent wars: Apple accused Samsung of copying the iPhone to remain .
Wonkbook: The number of Obamacare enrollments matters less than you think
The Wall Street Journal. Long read: Behind the Obamacare surprise. Edward-Isaac Dovere and Carrie Budoff Brown in Politico. Explainers: 5 questions about the 7 million enrollees. Christopher Weaver in The Wall Street Journal. In pushing Obamacare, the.
Report Card on ObamaCare - John C. Goodman - Page full
Over the next 10 years health reform will impose upon us about $1 trillion in new taxes and it will take another $716 billion out of Medicare, imperiling access to care for the elderly and the disabled according to Medicares Office of the. The Affordable Care Act continues in this tradition by imposing community rating on small group insurance ��� charging everyone the same premium, regardless of expected health care costs.. We could see a classic death spiral.
GOPs Obamacare spite means death toll for red states
A misinformation campaign about make-believe deficits, mythical death panels, a pretend government takeover of health care and a supposedly simultaneous insurance industry death spiral and bailout left. The impact, if not the death toll, of red state rejectionism even got the attention of the reliably Republican Wall Street Journal. Six months. In those states, generally the very ones where health care is the worst, the current reach of Medicaid is shocking.
Democrats to Offer Fixes for Health Law
And Mr. Warner said on Fox News earlier this week that he favors enabling the sale of health insurance across state lines, an idea that has garnered interest among House Republicans as well.. Write to Kristina Peterson at kristina.peterson@wsj.com.
Healthcare.gov Enrollments to Date a Pathetic < 50,000.
The Wall Street Journal reports that fewer than 50,000 people have enrolled in Obamacare through the Federal website to date.. And the fear, that the enrollees are skewing heavily towards the unhealthy, appears to be being borne out... Were health insurers aware of an ���actuarial death spiral��� that was sure to occur if those most motivated to sign up ��� those with pre-existing illnesses and other ���uninsurables��� ��� were allowed to flood the system without enough��.
Election Begins an Obamacare Negotiation
There will be separate votes forced on the individual and employer mandates, on making the insurance risk corridors budget-neutral, and on smaller issues like the medical device tax. But the real aspect that will change here will be the opening of.
Economists View: Paul Krugman: Death by Typo
The rest of the law, however, will have to stand - theres no basis to strike it down based on just the possibility of a health insurance industry death spiral meltdown. But heres the fun. To have four Soviet-level Republican judges, at least, on the Supreme Court of the United States is just breathtaking, and it really makes you fear for the rule of law in your country. That they. That would end up being his greatest legacy, after the Citizens United decision, imo. It is more��.
Will Government Software Be Able to Calculate Obamacare.
���Theres a blanket acknowledgment that [insurance] rates are being calculated incorrectly,��� a senior health-insurance executive told The Wall Street Journal. ���Our tech and. The fear is that the first wave of insurance customers may have trouble purchasing plans and thus discourage other potential enrollees.. ���In the worst case, this could create what actuaries call a death spiral: Rising premiums prompt people to drop out, causing premiums to increase even more.
AP News in Brief at 7:58 pm EST
The proposed rule, which could be months away from actual implementation, has been the subject of intense behind-the-scenes lobbying, pitting major Wall Street firms and financial industry groups against a coalition of labor, consumer groups and.
Democratic Rifts Surface in Wake of Midterm Election Defeat
Long-muted tensions within the Democratic Party over policy and strategy are beginning to surface publicly, a sign of leaders looking beyond President Barack Obama s tenure in the aftermath of the partys midterm election defeat. A prominent example.
The Halbig Cases: Compendium Of News and Opinion Coverage
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, also known as ���ObamaCare,��� offers subsidies to qualified taxpayers who purchase insurance ���through an Exchange established by the State.��� Confounding expectations, 36 states failed or refused to .
Myth Busted: Republicans Wrong Again as Obamacare.
They deemed it a ���death spiral��� and insisted the program would be crushed under its own weight. For five years. As the good news continues to pour in, Democrats should hammer their opponents, and especially sitting members of Congress, for continually using fear and propaganda to deny their constituents health care... My nephew got very good health insurance thanks to the ACA.. Food stamp use is falling, and even the Wall Street Journal has noticed
Wonkbook: The early benefits of embracing Obamacare
Gallup pollsters cautioned that the data are preliminary but said it is increasingly clear the health law is responsible for the gains.. This would prompt insurers to raise prices, making healthy people even less likely to enroll (the dreaded death.
Obamacare enters the death spiral | Flopping Aces
Never fear, Ezekiel is here. The administrations Dr. Deathpanel has a solution for this obstacle- brainwashing, and if that fails, ostracization and ridicule! In a Wall Street Journal op-ed, the good Doctor prescribes three ways in which this could be accomplished:. In an interview on MSNBCs ���Hardball with Chris Matthews,��� the president said he understood why young people have been hesitant to enroll in the new laws insurance exchanges after the botched rollout.
Thoughts on a post-King market �� Balloon Juice
We get a death spiral where average premiums for a 30 year old would almost double in two years, and most reasonably healthy people who otherwise would have qualified for subsidies now sit out of the market because they cant afford the coverage.. And the true cynic would say if the Wall Street Journal is printing stories undermining the case, the establishment is saying very loud and clear ��� dont take our bogeyman story seriously ��� thats for the yahoos.
Peak Dream - The Death Of The Young American.
While there are numerous possible reasons, one professors worries about the systemic aspect as the fear of failure is the measure we should be most concerned about. Overall, the U.S. ���startup rate������new firms as a portion of all firms���fell by nearly half between 1978 and 2011, and as The Wall Street Journal reports, the share of people under age 30 who own private businesses has. http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/now-legal-declassified-documents-r.
Is hatred of Obama enough to make the SCOTUS gut.
Late last Friday, the Wall Street Journal published a report detailing how the lead plaintiff in the King v. Burwell challenge to. The existence of those subsidies, plaintiffs say, is what harms them because it makes insurance affordable and it subjects them to the laws mandate to have health insurance. Except, as... until theyre sick. This is the death spiral scenario - the rates are higher without the mandate, which is more burdensome and more people opt out, etc.
Only 28% of ObamaCare enrollees are 18-34
Why does this matter for the death spiral? Because so.. Can you say death spiral boys and girls? GarandFan.. Thats the ���one��� insurer that i quoted, who happens to be the biggest ocare insurer, and who happens to be the very source if the.
Better Dead and Red: How the GOP blocked health care for.
But with enrollment in the new health insurance exchanges set to start on Oct. 1, Republicans are running out of time and tactics to defund, delay or destroy the Affordable Care Act. And in what is the supreme irony of the GOPs... With the Congressional GOPs last gasp efforts to delay or derail the Obamacare rollout almost certain to fail, Republican water carriers like the Washington George Will and the Wall Street Journals Daniel Henninger are left to chant Let��.
Health Sign-Ups Skew Older, Raising Fears Over Costs
One-third of health plan enrollees in new insurance marketplaces are 55 or older, the Obama administration said Monday, a figure that insurers said makes the pool older than they would need to sustain their coverage at current premiums.. The health.
From Death Panels To Death Spirals: The Right-Wing.
The persistent lie that the health care law creates death panels began on July 16, 2009, when serial health-care misinformer Betsy McCaughey falsely claimed that the House health care reform bill would require end-of-life counseling for seniors to tell them how to end their life sooner.. In early 2010, right-wing media outlets like the Wall Street Journal argued that both the House and the Senate versions of the health care bill would increase the deficit: On health��.
GOP Lawmakers Weigh Contentious Tactic to Dismantle Health Law
. response to the court decision. ���I am looking forward to the Supreme Court decision because it looks like that may be a big part of it,��� he said. Write to Kristina Peterson at kristina.peterson@wsj.com and Michael R. Crittenden at michael.
Halbig Court Opinion: A Victory For The Rule Of Law, But Merely A Speed Bump.
Burwell, a federal court in D.C. dealt a ���lethal blow��� to Obamacare, by limiting the flow of the health laws insurance subsidies. The D.C. court made the right call, based on a strict reading of the. Judge Edwards, in his rabid D.C. Circuit dissent.