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reply from roy blunt on topic of obamacare

Thank you for contacting me regarding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, also known as ObamaCare. 

When President Obama signed this bill into law, he assured Americans that they would be able to keep their plans and doctors, while promising choice and affordability.    Since the law has gone into effect, I have heard from countless Missourians who were unable to keep their insurance plans and/or providers.

By the end of 2013, over 4.7 million Americans had their healthcare plans cancelled.    This year, Missourians who purchase health insurance on the ObamaCare exchanges will see an average of a 25 percent increase on their premium.   In addition to increased costs, families in Missouri and across the nation have lost the ability to choose a plan that best suits their healthcare needs.   Missourians in 97 of 114 counties and the city of St. Louis will only have one option on the exchange. 

I have continually supported repealing and replacing this law with policies that make health care more affordable and accessible, while upholding the importance of individual choice and privacy.   I will make sure to keep fighting for Missourians and common sense health reform in the Senate.   Real health reform should lower, not raise costs; expand, not ration care; and protect today's seniors, not cut their Medicare.    We need to keep what is working and fix what is broken in health care.

Again, thank you for contacting me. I look forward to continuing our conversation on Facebook   and Twitter about the important issues facing Missouri and the country.   I also   encourage you to visit my website to learn more about where I stand on the issues and sign-up for my e-newsletter.

Sincere regards, 

Roy Blunt 
United States Senator

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Another Obamacare setback

Another Obamacare setback

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A federal loophole will enable insurers to set higher limits on healthcare costs until 2015, the New York Times reported Tuesday, noting yet another setback for the implementation of Obamacare. Via the NYT:

The limit on out-of-pocket costs, including deductibles and co-payments, was not supposed to exceed $6,350 for an individual and $12,700 for a family. But under a little-noticed ruling, federal officials have granted a one-year grace period to some insurers, allowing them to set higher limits, or no limit at all on some costs, in 2014.
… [But owing to the delay] a consumer may be required to pay $6,350 for doctors’ services and hospital care, and an additional $6,350 for prescription drugs under a plan administered by a pharmacy benefit manager.

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Revealed: Letters From Republicans Seeking Obamacare Money | The Nation

Revealed: Letters From Republicans Seeking Obamacare Money | The Nation:

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The Affordable Care Act authorizes an array of grants to local hospitals, community health clinics and doctor training programs, as well as public health initiatives to improve health and access to care. The billions of dollars in grants are awarded on a competitive basis, and lawmakers on the state and federal levels have sent letters endorsing applicants.

Texas Senator John Cornyn, the Republican whip, wrote to the Centers for Disease Control to recommend a grant for Houston and Harris County. Congressman Michael McCaul, a Republican and the chair of the Homeland Security Committee, wrote a letter praising the same grant request, calling the effort a “crucial initiative to achieve a healthier Houston/Harris County.” Senators Johnny Isakson and Saxby Chambliss of Georgia, Mark Kirk of Illinois and Thad Cochran of Mississippi also recommended grant request approval for public health or health clinic funding.

House Republicans and the Senate Republican Policy Committee have trashed the ACA’s Community Transformation grants as an Obamacare “slush fund.” In the letters seeking these grants, however, GOP lawmakers have heaped praise on their potential. Cornyn writes in his letter that the grant would help “improve the health and quality of life of area residents.” Congressman Aaron Schock, a Republican from Illinois, congratulated a local nonprofit for winning a Community Transformation grant, noting that the program will give “people the tools to live healthier and longer lives.”

Max Baucus, Obamacare's Lead Author, Sees "Huge Train Wreck Coming"

I would be concerned too my buddy Max.  after all, you sabotaged single payer and the public option and sold out folks to insurance companies and more.

enjoy the cash and watch the wreck you help make

Rise of The Stupids: SuperNews!---comments on healthcare

old one and comment on obama healthcare

Insurance Companies Seek To Bypass Obamacare To Make Americans Pay More For Their Coverage

Insurance Companies Seek To Bypass Obamacare To Make Americans Pay More For Their Coverage: pMany Obamacare provisions are intended to protect Americans from the private insurance industry, such as measures to prevent insurers from denying coverage to Americans with pre-existing conditions and to keep rising insurance premium rates in check. Nevertheless, as the New York Times reports, some of America’s largest insurers are exploiting a lack of stringent oversight [...]/p

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While Obamacare does require state regulators to review any rate increase request above 10 percent, it does not endow those regulators with any meaningful veto power. Such rate-setting policies are left to states’ discretion, and although 37 states may currently negotiate or reject insurers’ desired hikes, some states with large markets — such as California — do not have this ability.

Large insurers claim that the hikes are necessary in order to keep up with general medical inflation. But since medical inflation has actually been relatively low in recent years, this claim falls flat. Insurers may actually be raising their rates in an attempt to counteract other Obamacare consumer protection measures such as the “80/20 rule” that requires insurance companies to spend at least 80 percent of the premiums they charge on actual care rather than their profits or overhead. In 2014, Obamacare will also end the practice of medical “underwriting” — taking a consumer’s current health into consideration when setting his or her premium rates — so insurance companies may be trying to lock in higher rates on sicker Americans while they still can.

Fortunately, the 80/20 rule — which has already put over $1.5 billion in insurance rebates back in consumers’ pockets — will help ensure that Americans are refunded some of their money if the latest round of rate hikes are excessive. But the only way to ensure that Americans are not held hostage to the whims of private insurers is to expand state regulators’ ability to negotiate and control premium rates.

And lawmakers are quite aware of the discrepancy. Three years ago, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) introduced the Health Insurance Rate Authority Act of 2010 in an effort to give regulators more control over insurance rate hikes, but the bill died in committee. President Obama has also called for greater federal oversight of insurance rates.

Liz Fowler the Destroyer of the Public Option----redo

Liz continues to make tons of loot in private insurance industry.