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Cha

(295,899 posts)
Sat May 11, 2013, 05:56 PM May 2013

THANKS TO OBAMACARE~



http://theobamadiary.com/2013/05/11/rise-and-shine-497/

Obamacare Is Already Forcing Private Insurers To Lower Their Premiums


Looks like Obamacare is more “on track” than “train wreck.”

In a striking illustration of the promise that the health law holds for consumers, two Oregon private insurers vying to sell coverage on the state’s Obamacare insurance marketplace this October are reevaluating their opening bids for the plans’ monthly premiums. The reason? A side-by-side regional comparison of all proposed 2014 premiums for Oregon marketplace plans became public on Oregon’s marketplace website Thursday, and showed that the two insurers’ planned monthly premiums were far higher than other proposals. That raised fears among the companies’ officials that their plans wouldn’t be competitive on the market later this year, leading them to proactively request a rate reduction — and as more of Obamacare is implemented, state insurance commissioners expect that trend to continue:

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/10/1994331/obamacare-forcing-insurers-lower-premiums/

BOG

FYI: This is posted in the Barack Obama Group
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THANKS TO OBAMACARE~ (Original Post) Cha May 2013 OP
THRILLED to be rec #5! Number23 May 2013 #1
Pretty good stuff, 23.. slowly slowly Cha May 2013 #2
Ten to one that when the exchanges open, the GOPricks {stealing that from you ;-)} will call it the BlueCaliDem May 2013 #26
Good post. I think the exchanges will work well to rein in premiums. Hoyt May 2013 #3
thanks Hoyt.. hopefully, it will keep getting more and more affordable. Colorado Cha May 2013 #6
This is great; but ... 1StrongBlackMan May 2013 #17
Dunno, 1StrongBlackMan, but sounds like it would Cha May 2013 #18
And more! gateley May 2013 #4
thanks gately! Cha May 2013 #7
Hurray for the First Feminist President! I feel good! freshwest May 2013 #5
So true, fresh.. Cha May 2013 #8
Though the bill may not be perfect it is much better than no bill at all. Thinkingabout May 2013 #9
Shout it out!!!!!!! sheshe2 May 2013 #10
Happy to see you so enthused Cha May 2013 #11
Tired right now, but oh yeah, enthused! sheshe2 May 2013 #12
You too, she! Cha May 2013 #14
More states need to take Colorado's lead. Lady Freedom Returns May 2013 #16
B.O.G.! NYC_SKP May 2013 #13
Yeah.. Cha May 2013 #15
I went to the doctor recently because I still have insurance thanks to the ACA. Counterpoint PA May 2013 #19
Good to know, Counterpoint PA Cha May 2013 #20
Thanks. :) n/t Counterpoint PA Jun 2013 #27
I Love Obamacare! Kath1 May 2013 #21
An otherwise intelligent and decent person I know IrishAyes May 2013 #22
Hi IrishAyes! It seems otherwise intelligent people allow part of their Cha May 2013 #23
Yep IrishAyes May 2013 #24
And being of the female gender will no longer be a "pre-existing" condition. Kath1 May 2013 #25

Cha

(295,899 posts)
2. Pretty good stuff, 23.. slowly slowly
Sat May 11, 2013, 06:30 PM
May 2013

Obamacare is being revealed to being a good thing for many many people.

No wonder the Insurance companies fought it and the gopricks want to repeal it.

As Thursday’s development shows, that public information empowers consumers by forcing insurers to compete with one another to attract customers. Or to put it another way — and contrary to conservative fear-mongering about the law — Obamacare is working exactly as it was intended to. And with 24 million Americans expected to gain coverage through the marketplaces by 2016, that’s great news for Americans’ pocketbooks — as well as their health.


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BlueCaliDem

(15,438 posts)
26. Ten to one that when the exchanges open, the GOPricks {stealing that from you ;-)} will call it the
Sun May 26, 2013, 10:42 AM
May 2013

ACA so that people won't think fondly of Obama.

In about a decade, the GOP will do a 180 and suddenly be supreme defenders of the PPACA - as they're doing with Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, in order to win elections.

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
3. Good post. I think the exchanges will work well to rein in premiums.
Sat May 11, 2013, 07:18 PM
May 2013

That's not to say, health care will be inexpensive.

Cha

(295,899 posts)
6. thanks Hoyt.. hopefully, it will keep getting more and more affordable. Colorado
Sat May 11, 2013, 08:56 PM
May 2013

is going all out...

Colorado Launches $2 Million Public Education Campaign To Spread The Word About Obamacare



Colorado is bringing health care reform to a TV ad near you.

With over 40 percent of Americans still unsure whether or not Obamacare is even the law of the land, and an open enrollment period for its statewide insurance exchanges that begins in less than five months, Colorado is pumping $2 million into an outreach effort aimed at preparing consumers for upcoming changes under the health law. This makes Colorado the first state to mount an aggressive push to raise awareness of one of Obamacare’s most important provisions for uninsured individuals and small businesses — although Oregon and Kentucky aren’t far behind with their own PR campaigns planned for next month.

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/05/09/1985901/colorado-obamacare-public-education-campaign/

I don't know what's gotten into Colorado in the last few years but I'm loving my home state's attitude!
 

1StrongBlackMan

(31,849 posts)
17. This is great; but ...
Sun May 12, 2013, 03:17 PM
May 2013

maybe someone can answer my simple question ...

I those states that the Governor refuses to set uo an exchange, Arizona being one of them, why can't the Federal Government come in and set up the exchange to include a public option, such as allowing residents of the refusing state to purchase into Medicare at any age?

If they were to do that ... I'd be one of the first to tell UnitedHealthcare to KMBA.

Cha

(295,899 posts)
18. Dunno, 1StrongBlackMan, but sounds like it would
Sun May 12, 2013, 05:44 PM
May 2013

be ideal. I thought Brewer had decided to do the exhange? Guess not.

Cha

(295,899 posts)
8. So true, fresh..
Sat May 11, 2013, 08:58 PM
May 2013

that's why the rw try to attack him on this.. thinking of jodi kantor's book. Because they know it's one of his strong points.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
9. Though the bill may not be perfect it is much better than no bill at all.
Sat May 11, 2013, 10:35 PM
May 2013

BTW, I have not heard anything about Massachusetts falling off the earth.

sheshe2

(83,319 posts)
10. Shout it out!!!!!!!
Sat May 11, 2013, 10:42 PM
May 2013
“Posting rate comparisons company-by-company is a taste of what is to come,” says Cheryl Martinis of the Oregon Insurance Division.

Judging by the reaction, there’s already an impact.
Providence Health Plan on Wednesday asked to lower its requested rates by 15 percent. Gary Walker, a Providence spokesman, says the “primary driver” was a realization that the plan’s cost projections were incorrect. But he conceded a desire to be competitive was part of it.

A Family Care Health Plans official on Thursday said the insurer will ask the state for even greater decrease in requested rates. CEO Jeff Heatherington says the company realized its analysts were too pessimistic after seeing online that its proposed premiums were the highest.

“That was my question when I saw the rates was, ‘Can we go in and refile these?’” he said. “We’re going to try to get these to a competitive range.”


Yes yes yes yes yes

Drum roll please Take that GOP!!!!

How sweet it is , Cha!!!

BOG

Rec + 10000000000000000000000

sheshe2

(83,319 posts)
12. Tired right now, but oh yeah, enthused!
Sat May 11, 2013, 11:23 PM
May 2013

I forgot to mention Colorado, I saw your post. I love what they are doing!

Colorado Launches $2 Million Public Education Campaign To Spread The Word About Obamacare


This is going forward, Cha. At great speed right now. The message is clear...We can do this! The President is pushing this, Colorado is advertising it. People are going to be educated on the facts, not the fiction that the GOP spews.

Action and Awareness. Take it to the people! YES!

to the BOG for bringing this news in front of the cameras so to speak.

BOG to you, Cha!

Cha

(295,899 posts)
14. You too, she!
Sat May 11, 2013, 11:40 PM
May 2013

I was born and raised in Colorado and when I first got on DU and paid attention to politics.. Colorado had this repub Senator and this other one who was a Dem but switched to Repub.. and a repub Gov! My home state has come so far since then!


BOG

Lady Freedom Returns

(14,120 posts)
16. More states need to take Colorado's lead.
Sun May 12, 2013, 04:16 AM
May 2013

We need to get more of the facts out. Far to many people still believes in what the repukes put out.

I know here in AZ that we could use more education on it. I have seen people still protesting it and handing out fliers with false info. Still a lot of work to do. As I keep saying, the work STARTS at the ballot box.

Counterpoint PA

(275 posts)
19. I went to the doctor recently because I still have insurance thanks to the ACA.
Wed May 22, 2013, 09:55 PM
May 2013

If I didn't have insurance with a reasonable copay I highly doubt I would have gone. I said thanks, President Obama!

Kath1

(4,309 posts)
21. I Love Obamacare!
Fri May 24, 2013, 08:32 AM
May 2013

GOP lies be damned! We are moving FORWARD! Very excited! Thank you, Colorado! Let's spread the word!

IrishAyes

(6,151 posts)
22. An otherwise intelligent and decent person I know
Sat May 25, 2013, 07:06 PM
May 2013

... wrote a letter to the editor of our local ragsheet, all terrified that she'd have to drop her additional coverage because her health insurance company had sworn on a stack of bibles that the rates would skyrocket.

When they don't, I hope she can at least admit her error to herself. She would never tell me I was right, that's for sure. And I won't point it out to her or even ask, "How's your insurance coverage lately?" These people have to see for themselves; they're too smart to listen to any little damnedYankee-invader-outside-agitator that ain't nobody and don't know nothin' 'bout nothin'.

Although I do hope some of them suspect just a little why my happy grin broadens by the day. Well, I'd die from shock if anyone ever did approach me and express any regret, so maybe it's just as well they don't.

Cha

(295,899 posts)
23. Hi IrishAyes! It seems otherwise intelligent people allow part of their
Sat May 25, 2013, 07:43 PM
May 2013

brains to be over taken by too much propaganda. That's really sad.. especially with something like Health Care.



The shared interest in making the new health care law work was clear to anybody watching or listening to the press conference on Thursday. Lee spoke about the day as a “historic” occasion, likening it to the launching of Medicare, when government made insurance available to millions of people who couldn’t get it before. Health care industry officials made similar statements, boasting of their collaboration with politicians and describing universal coverage as a “moral imperative.”

Unfortunately, millions of uninsured and under-insured Americans live in places like Florida and Texas, where there is far less sympathy—and a great deal more hostility—to the idea of Obamacare. It’s entirely possible that the insurance bids in those states will be a lot higher, precisely because state officials there are doing nothing to help and quite a bit to hurt implementation. But if that happens, blame won’t belong with the heath care law or the federal officials in charge of its management. It will belong with the state officials who can’t, or won’t, deliver to their constituents the benefits that California’s officials appear to be providing theirs.

http://www.newrepublic.com/article/113289/obamacare-california-no-sticker-shock-here#

http://www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/print-edition/2013/01/04/2013-executive-peter-lee-covered-cali.html?page=all

h/t http://theobamadiary.com/2013/05/25/rise-and-shine-509/

IrishAyes

(6,151 posts)
24. Yep
Sat May 25, 2013, 08:18 PM
May 2013

That's why I specify 'otherwise intelligent persons'. This lady's good and decent and I've seen her put herself out for other people more than most I've ever met. But when it comes to politics, as a hardshell fundie, she absolutely takes leave of her senses.

Hopefully some day she'll rise to her full potential for good. She never tried to nail me.

Actually the one place in town where at least most of the staff have always been incredibly kind and gracious to me is, surprisingly, the hospital. Go figure!

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