Obongocare rate increases cause 1.4 million to lose coverage

[Whitey Ford]

CBO Report: 1.4 Million Lost Health Insurance Since 2016 — And Obamacare Is To Blame (https://issuesinsights.com/2019/04/24/cbo-report-1-4-million-lost-health-insurance-since-2016-and-obamacare-is-to-blame/)
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The number of uninsured climbed by 1.4 million from 2016 to 2018, according to a report out last week from the Congressional Budget Office. Naturally, this led those on the left to blame the Trump administration for its Obamacare “sabotage.”

But the data in that report — which was released on the same day the Mueller report came out and largely ignored — tells an entirely different story.

All of the increase in the uninsured over the past two years — all of it — is the result of the massive rate increases Obamacare’s mandates and regulations caused. According to the Health and Human Services Dept., premiums in the individual insurance market doubled from 2013 to 2017. They shot up again in 2018.

For those eligible for Obamacare subsidies, the rate increases were meaningless. The amount they had to pay didn’t change much, and in many cases went down.

But for the millions of middle-class Americans who buy insurance coverage on the individual market and aren’t eligible for Obamacare subsidies, the result has been financially devastating.

[Tar Remover]

He did! He sabotaged it! Thank you again, President Trump!:trumpdance

[SC Anemia]

But the glaringly obvious problem is this:


For those eligible for Obamacare subsidies, the rate increases were meaningless. The amount they had to pay didn’t change much, and in many cases went down.

And those of you who actually work, pay taxes and the premiums for your health insurance, are still footing the bill for this.

Not unlike your phone bill and the Universal Service Fund. No matter how your carrier is wording it, you're funding Obongo phones every time you pay your monthly fee.

Here in CA, any asshole who has a Med-cal card or EBT card can spend ten minutes at a Kiosk and walk away with a new smart phone including wireless service.

Just a few days ago I was with a friend and passed a Dollar General (of course) and there were 4-5 kiosks out front on the sidewalk with people manning every single one of them.

It was my friend who told me what they were. I never really paid much attention before.

:bert

[Whitey Ford]

Here in CA, any asshole who has a Med-cal card or EBT card can spend ten minutes at a Kiosk and walk away with a new smart phone including wireless service.

Just a few days ago I was with a friend and passed a Dollar General (of course) and there were 4-5 kiosks out front on the sidewalk with people manning every single one of them.

It was my friend who told me what they were. I never really paid much attention before.

:bert

The "FREE" phones are provided air time and cheap cellphones by some subsidiary of Virgin Mobile under contract to the US gov. Their literature/website (which I looked into back in the day) even says the phones will "get you to where the jobs are." It's basically just the govt propping up the day labor industry. Which, I assume, is highly staffed by illegals with free phones. And the companies that benefit from all this cheap disposable labor can then take their profits and use it to bankroll the campaigns of the candidates that perpetuate this. And in the meantime we can all keep paying taxes so illegals can continue to undercut native born workers with free cell phones.