Seriously, this headline from the UK Guardian is reminiscent of wacko full moonbat bloggers during the Buuuuuuush admin (if they could even write his name, it was often like *ush), utterly hyperventilating, not a high end news outlet (which does admit they are leftists)
In latest blow to Obamacare, Trump is threatening the entire US health system
The Trump administration is removing 760,000 people enrolled in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplace on allegations of fraud, officials said on Tuesday – adding to previous efforts to chip away at federally subsidized insurance programs and likely causing some of the lowest-income Americans to forego healthcare, experts said.
The US government is also investigating about 420,000 people whom they suspect of fraud, and they are putting a six-month enrollment moratorium on new agents and brokers selling Obamacare policies, officials said at a press conference.
The removed enrollees are a mixture of “phantoms” and “ghosts” as well as people who don’t meet the eligibility requirements of Obamacare, said Mehmet Oz, the administrator for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS).
Um, yeah, looks like they shouldn’t be on Ocare, and fraud means money diverted from people who actually need it. But, apparently, this is Bad in Liberal World.
“These are not real people,” he said, claiming that expelling them from the ACA marketplace would save the federal government $2.2bn.
That could go a long way towards helping real people, right? Oh, wait, sorry, Orange Man Bad.
“There’s no transparency about who these people are and why they’re being disenrolled, but I think it’s a reasonable concern that some number are being disenrolled inappropriately,” said Edwin Park, a research professor at the Center for Children and Families at Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. “A common theme here is to make it incredibly burdensome for individuals to enroll and stay enrolled in their health coverage.”
He has zero proof, but, hey, why not give him time because Orange Man Bad.
Officials followed an unusual path to verify ACA enrollment, experts said. The administration sent to insurers a list of more than a million people suspected of being fraudulently enrolled in the ACA marketplace, also known as Obamacare. Officials said on Tuesday that they used AI tools to identify the enrollees.
The people were identified by three factors: they’d been enrolled by a broker or agent, had all of their ACA premium paid by the tax credit, and they had not supplied social security numbers or immigration documents.
Um, aliens, legal or not, are not supposed to get Ocare.
These disenrollments are happening in the context of major cuts to the marketplace. Premiums skyrocketed, doubling or tripling for some enrollees, after Republicans opposed extending the enhanced tax credits at the end of last year. Alongside other financial pressures, like higher energy and food costs, “there’s going to be an increasing number of people who can no longer afford their share of the premium”, Park said.
So, what you’re saying is that Ocare failed to bend the curve, and, in fact, increased costs all around? Huh. Sorry, Orange Man Bad.
Obamacare is imperfect.
60% of polled Americans have a favorable view of it.
Trump promised us TrumpCare again he lied.
Remember how we were told Obysmalcare would cut costs and lower premiums? We should simply repeal Obaminablecare and revert to the status quo ante of 2008. Our health care system was not broken in 2008, but the idiotic Democrats fixed it anyway.
Mr Dana typed, apparently unironically!!!: “Our health care system was not broken in 2008…”
He may believe that human health and well being have little impact.
Before the ACA, some 50 million Americans (15%) had NO healthcare coverage. But EVERY advanced nation on this Earth pays much LESS on healthcare than we do – and COVERS ALL their residents. How do they do it?? What a mystery. Maybe we should ask them.
Mr Dana ignores that Republics in general, and Donny specifically, have undermined the PPACA program since 2017.
Enrollment in PPACA was 5% Lower in 2018 than 2017 as subsidies were cut. Since day 1, enrollment is down about 10%.
HHS, which manages healthcare.gov enrollment, reduced consumer outreach for the 2018 open
enrollment period. (Of course).
HHS reduced funding by 42 percent for navigator organizations — which provide in-person enrollment assistance for consumers. (Much mo’ money for golf!).
see https://www.commonwealthfund.org/blog/2018/affordable-care-act-under-trump-administration
https://www.gao.gov/assets/gao-18-565.pdf
As an SCL (selective Catholic libertarian), does Mr Dana agree that we should immediately end Medicare, Medicaid, ACA and ALL gov’t healthcare (e.g., rural hospitals etc)?
The Kenyan told Americans “if you like your insurance you can keep your insurance. If you like your doctor you can keep your doctor.”
How’d that work out for ya?
MAGA47Motherfucker!
And no mention of Trump’s success in lowering prescription drug prices, saving Americans billions.
LOL. By all means lead the discussion!
Fat jeff loves to go on about how bad our health care system is. He compares it to the great social medicine systems of Europe and Canada. Before Obama only a small portion did not have medical insurance. The 15% he mentions were mostly small business owners who chose to not have a plan. Most poor people had a plan or could get one on entering the hospital. In otherwise, as usual, he is lying. Following the socialized plans in Europe and Canada, they are going broke and the governments are trying to get out of the deal. And they are spending their money on health and not defense. As to Obamacare, he greatly increased the cost of care and has put medical care in a dangerous situation.
Deadly Davy, Donny’s Denier, got wealthy from Medicaid and Medicare, all the time calling his patients stupid, lazy n*ggers. He is ignorant and dishonest.
He lies to us.
When Rimjob is caught in one of his many lies he falls back onto his inbred bigotry and racism to reply…
Bwaha! Lolgfy Loser!
MAGA47 Motherfucker!