Lol! Anyone want to take bets that searay will still keep his head firmly in the sand?
In a blow to the GOP, a federal judge orders the government to pay Molina Health $52 million in Obamacare funds.
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-molina-52-million-20170807-story.html
This is due to the rider that the repubs put in 2014:
"Then Congressional Republicans threw a wrench into the system. In 2014, the GOP decided to attack the risk corridor program as a “bailout” of insurers, even though the exact same provision was part of the GOP’s 2003 Medicare Part D prescription drug benefit (and still is). The Republicans slipped a rider into the 2014 spending bill decreeing that risk corridor payments could be made only from risk-corridor collections, not the general treasury."
"The consequences of the GOP rider were dire. With payouts limited to collections, HHS was able to pay only 12.6% of all claims for 2014—$362 million of the $2.87 billion in claims, and nothing for 2015. Several small insurers, including co-ops that were expected to serve lower-income exchange customers, were effectively starved out of existence. That left roughly a million co-op members high and dry, while reduced competition in their regions drove up costs for many others. Republican critics of the ACA such as House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., touted their shutdowns as evidence of Obamacare’s failure, without making much of the fact that they were responsible for the wreckage."
Lol! Anyone want to take bets that searay will still keep his head firmly in the sand?
Yup, that's the FYGM mindset.All he wants is cheap insurance for himself, the rest of us can be left to rot & die.
Lol! Anyone want to take bets that searay will still keep his head firmly in the sand?
Lol! Anyone want to take bets that searay will still keep his head firmly in the sand?
If it were strictly about the money our Repub Congress would have passed their so called "healthcare reform", screwed 20M Americans & cut taxes for their ultra wealthy donors.
They still need voters even if they wish they didn't. No protesters in Riyadh, right?
Yes, we are a nation of laws. I just have No Sympathy for MS13. Do you?
Maybe we just don't understand them...
Exaggerate and misrepresent what I said.
Yup, that's the FYGM mindset.
It's the ruling class, avoiding the looming revoltIt's classic divide & conquer strategy, just another wedge issue that prevents us from looking out for each other in a unified way. Building such attitudes has been the decades long effort of right wing propagandists.
It's the ruling class, avoiding the looming revolt
I saw that the other day, must be some good money in nursing homes that he and his cronies are willing to let elder abuse happen so they can fatten their bank accounts.I have a Brain MRI next week & a new Mass General Cardiologist incoming, better get all the treatment I can while I can & forget nursing home or out of home hospice care. Trump rolled back rules that allowed residents of those facilities & their families to sue for abuse, neglect or even death
I saw that the other day, must be some good money in nursing homes that he and his cronies are willing to let elder abuse happen so they can fatten their bank accounts.
you really do suck at this whole "America" thing, you know?
This is true. America wants no part of the beliefs and values of pcgeek11.The feeling is mutual.
This is true. America wants no part of the beliefs and values of pcgeek11.
"Both folks in the House and the Senate, on both sides of the aisle frankly, have said that Obamacare doesn't work, and it needs to be either repealed or fixed," Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price said on the Fox News program "Fox & Friends." "So the onus is on Congress," he said.
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders did not back away from Price's wording when asked whether the administration is serious about a plan to fix the law, rather than repeal it.
"We are always looking for best ways to improve and fix the broken Obamacare system," she said in an email.
They have finally realized that the only way they are going to win on this issue is to basically reinstate the ACA as it was original intended to work before the Republicans crippled it and then when insurance companies come back into the market and competition drives premiums down they will claim they fixed the Democrats broken system using the power of the Free Market!
Well, yeh, but that won't allow tax cuts for the uber Right uber Rich which is the whole point of the exercise. Those donors will just switch funding to the Teahadis instead of more mainstream Repubs, primary their asses out of power.
Meanwhile, during this supposed crisis, health insurers are reaping record profits and their stock prices are skyrocketing:
http://www.courant.com/business/dan...lth-insurer-profits-peril-20170809-story.html
https://www.axios.com/profits-are-booming-at-health-insurance-companies-2418194773.html
We are being played, pure and simple.
anyone spotted Sea Bray lately?