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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBeware The GOP and Their Allies Are Out In Full Force Against the ACA
50th Times the Charm?
Think about that for a second a $33.9 billion jump in personal income in the first month of the laws full implementation.
The report also found a bigger than expected increase in consumer spending as well about $45.2 billion total for the month. The Wall Street Journal looked at the report and said that about three-quarters of this surprisingly positive growth came from those benefiting from the ACA.
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BOTTOM LINE: The Affordable Care Act is working, It is providing quality, affordable health coverage to millions of Americans and a boost to our economy. Even some red state Republicans are starting to see the light and understand the benefits of the law. With todays 50th vote to repeal the law, Congressional Republicans made clear once again that they are quite simply living on another planet.
Desperation...
Lying About Obamacare Not Working Out That Well For Republicans
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Im not surprised. Take away the lies, and the right wing has no argument left. The old system was such as disaster, harming both millions of people and causing harm to the economy. The Republicans have no meaningful alternative. Claims made by the right wing are repeatedly being shown to be false, as with the ads from Americans for Prosperity.
oh wait is that 51 votes to repeal now?
The SIMPLE Fairness Act is nothing more than another lamebrain gimmick that is designed to waste taxpayer money while House Republicans pretend that they have the ability to stop the ACA. Republicans understand that support for repealing Obamacare has hit an all time low, so they are trying to disguise their repeal attempts as fairness.
So much time and money wasted by the GOP throwing their tantrums.
As ACA Soars: Darrell Issa Launches a New Bogus Obamacare Investigation
The Real Numbers On 'The Obamacare Effect' Are In-Now Let The Crow Eating Begin
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2014/03/10/the-real-numbers-on-the-obamacare-effect-are-in-now-let-the-crow-eating-begin/
MAJOR VINDICATION FOR OBAMACARE: ACA INCREASING COVERAGE AND REDUCING COST
Including the expected surge of signups this month as the open enrollment period comes to an end on March 31, Healthcare.gov sign-ups are poised to surprise a lot of people when it's all said and done. While coverage is central to the ACA though, controlling costs is not only one of its essential promises but also critical to the success of the coverage related provisions. That is why the January drop in health insurance rates and health care costs are so important to consider.
The idea that the Affordable Care Act would control health care costs was poo-pooed by both ends of political spectrum. The far Right disingenuously argued that imposing basic requirements that insurance companies cover maternity and mental health care would drive insurance companies to raise prices. The ideological Left, angry at the President for accepting a bill without their venerated public option, posited that without a government insurance option to keep private insurance companies in check, the death-by-spreadsheets industry would have no incentive to control costs themselves.
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The Affordable Care Act has two premises and two purposes: to expand coverage and to rein in cost growth. The law has barely become fully effective, but it seems to already be succeeding in both (and succeeding rather wildly in reining in costs). In short: it is working exactly as it was intended to.
THE OBAMACARE COALITION: WHY THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT IS A HUGE ASSET FOR DEMOCRATS
Actual data, of course, points in the exact opposite direction, suggesting that the traction Sink got in a heavily Republican district in a low-turnout election was in part due to her opposition to Obamacare's repeal. If Obamacare is responsible for the results, then a more accurate reading would be that Obamacare closed an 11-point GOP registration gap to a 2-point voting gap on election day. That's the miracle here, and of course, the corpse of a national media isn't talking about it.
But how long they will be able to keep Obamacare's serious political advantage under wraps is in critical doubt. Last week, a Bloomberg poll showed that nearly two out of three Americans have a clear and convincing message for Washington on the issue of the Affordable Care Act: Keep your hands off my Obamacare. 64% of Americans don't just oppose a repeal of the ACA, they actually broadly support the law - in a poll that is heavily skewed to Republicans in its sampling (29-21 R-D gap, whereas most recent national registration data show a Democratic registration advantage of 4:3).
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And there you have the coalition that elected Barack Obama twice, in two landslides: women, young people, minorities, and the middle and working classes. The Bloomberg poll should worry Republicans, not simply because it indicates that their days of demagoging Obamacare are limited, but because the emerging Obamacare coalition isn't all that different from the already dominant Obama coalition.
ObamaCare Facts: Facts on the Affordable Care Act
ObamaCare Facts 2014 - We Tell you the Facts, Not The Talking Points
http://obamacarefacts.com/obamacare-facts.php
It looks as though the ACA is getting some good results and has been in the news lately. The more this happens, and it will...the louder the opposition to the ACA will become. Like I said...DESPERATION!
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)should be a bannable offense.
RC
(25,592 posts)We still need to get the useless, parasitic middle men out from between the patient and their doctors. Already they are finding loopholes to deny health care, to better their bottom line. The second verse (ACA) is nothing more than a modification of the first verse. The tune is the still same... Profiting from people's health problems and worse yet, finding new ways to deny coverage.
msanthrope
(37,549 posts)in reference to a thread here?
SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)it's amazing. It's become a frenzy with all the good reports and it is an election year.
Whisp
(24,096 posts)It's bad enough there are the GOPers and Baggers out there - but to hear that same kind of crazy Here, from members Here?
Atrocious. Vomitus.
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ProSense
(116,464 posts)reality.
ACA Tide Turns: Protesters Arrested In GA, GOPer Schools Scottie
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024695722
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)They'll say "F**k you Mr President" and almost anything else ... but they won't say "REPEAL" because they know THAT would give them away.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)"It's worse than slavery, it's a crime against humanity, it hurts me to my soul, but of course I don't favor repeal."
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)JI7
(89,249 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)Repukes throw away our money faster then we can print it! Then they cut aid to the poor! They make me sick to my stomach.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)of stuff! I swear, anyone that votes GOP in 2014 must HATE not only our way of government BUT also our way of life!
FSogol
(45,484 posts)randr
(12,412 posts)And another showing how much we are saving with the ACA
SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)I would love to see something like that
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)Republicans, business and even the unions don't like the ACA because the State exchanges offers freedom of choice to the worker. There once was a time when the hope of salting away a pension is what shackled employee to employer. Employers shed pension in lieu of cheaper potable 401k's. Since then, healthcare insurance has shackled employee to employer. The ACA will end that indentured servitude. Even unions, who haven't been able to hang their hats on wage increases the past 20 years, have used access to healthcare insurance as their chief selling point. The ACA represents a loss of power and control. The idea that corporate America can ship our jobs to third world labor markets in the blink of an eye but the worker must remain totally dependent on that same employer for health insurance is blatantly absurd. In a global economy, workers need flexibility and not codified indentured servitude.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)sendero
(28,552 posts).... If the "free market" mavens really believed in free markets, they would realize that worker mobility is an overall benefit to the economy. In fact they DO praise worker mobility in every other context.
But they studiously avoid acknowledging that benefit of the ACA because they are lying hypocrites whose only interest is in screwing employees.
I think if the ACA can just hang in for a couple more years without any major foulups, it will be impossible for the pukes to repeal it.
SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)"The idea that corporate America can ship our jobs to third world labor markets in the blink of an eye but the worker must remain totally dependent on that same employer for health insurance is blatantly absurd."
Agreed.
Trust Buster
(7,299 posts)JI7
(89,249 posts)after getting obamacare into something negative .
these people are the type of people you describe. those who have wanted to retire, start their own business, move on to another job etc. but they had to stay where they were because they could not risk losing their insurance .
now they have this flexiblity.
riqster
(13,986 posts)JNelson6563
(28,151 posts)Rather pathetic really.
Julie
JI7
(89,249 posts)being the key word
Those folks aren't lefties. They pretend to be, but they're really just right wingers.
Bobbie Jo
(14,341 posts)K&R
napkinz
(17,199 posts)SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)"Hell No You Can't" really should be their slogan.
Aerows
(39,961 posts)that I am a Democrat and I actually *CAN* vote in the US.
Sorry, it may be due to a lack of sleep..but what exactly do you mean by the declaration?
On first glance I was under the impression that you thought that I could not vote here. Maybe I've read your statement wrong.
Just stating that I'm a Democrat and I vote.
SunsetDreams
(8,571 posts)that is what I get for not getting a few more hours of sleep.
One_Life_To_Give
(6,036 posts)Seeing one of the Wife's meds discontinued from Insurance Coverage with the same corporate plan from year to year. I am not surprised that for some people there will be glitches in the system. How much is a glitch verses working as intended by the Insurance Companies is my question. The wife's med was eventually approved but it took additional paperwork from the Rheumatologist before it was authorized. During the time of uncertainty I suppose I could have claimed my prescription out of pocket might go from $3k/yr to $15k/yr.
While the pugs are spreading fear. For alot of people with serious medical issues are full of fear about what the changes mean. And I don't know that we have done a descent job at providing an effective means to ease the navigation of this small group of people who are incredibly dependent upon how and what their insurance covers. Really they almost need a regular full time patient advocate to navigate the ins co hurdles.