Health Insurance "Barons"?

[S]ince the Affordable Care Act was enacted in 2010, the relationship between the Obama administration and insurers has evolved into a powerful, mutually beneficial partnership that has been a boon to the nation’s largest private health plans and led to a profitable surge in their Medicaid enrollment.
NYTs

There's another name for this travesty.




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That street goes both ways....

Here to Stay: Why the New Republican Congress Can't Gut Obamacare

They like it.

Republicans actually like a lot about Obamacare. It’s great business for health insurance companies, which in turn give plenty of money to Republicans. Republicans have also always agreed that more Americans need to be covered by health insurance. They just haven’t always agreed on how to get there.

“The five major national health insurers have all seen their stock price at least double — one has almost tripled — since the ACA was enacted, and they’ve all been raising their earnings estimates,” says Jay Angoff, who helped construct health reform at the Health and Human Services department before returning to private law firm Mehri & Skalet. "Republicans are not going to try to repeal a law that has been such a boon to insurers: They are still a Republican constituency group."
http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/here-stay-why-new-republican-congress-cant-gut-obamacare-n243711

Truth in all it's reality!!

News Buzzard wrote:Truth in all it's reality!!  

Tell us what part "Jon" Gruber had in foisting this "reality" on American citizens.




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It occurs to me that if you are so GD opposed to government healthcare, why don't you drop your Medicare?? Or are you just another "greedy taker"?

News Pigeon wrote:It occurs to me that if you are so GD opposed to government healthcare, why don't you drop your Medicare?? Or are you just another "greedy taker"?

Government programs are for him, and him alone. People are getting pretty tired of this never ending hissy-fit by the Republicans over Obamacare!

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/white-house-people-pretty-tired-191400915.html

Yep, people expect their "leaders" to actually lead....isn't that a novel concept??
These clowns act like it's Romper-Room, remember that show?

News Pigeon wrote:Yep, people expect their "leaders" to actually lead....isn't that a novel concept??
These clowns act like it's Romper-Room, remember that show?

Sure do!  It's very difficult to lead with "No"!

News Buzzard wrote:

News Pigeon wrote:Yep, people expect their "leaders" to actually lead....isn't that a novel concept??
These clowns act like it's Romper-Room, remember that show?

Sure do!  It's very difficult to lead with "No"!

"Jon" (as Obama phrases the name) Gruber leads "stupid people" who think they "KNOW" what's good for Americans.

Former White House press secretary Jay Carney told CNN that Gruber's remarks in general were "very harmful politically to the president."

Gruber "speaks from the Ivory tower with remarkable hubris about the American voter and by extension the American Congress," Carney told The Lead with Jake Tapper. "Any health care reform that sought to control costs and expand insurance would involve winners and losers. And that's always going to be the case."

Many of the videos were discovered by a Philadelphia-area financial adviser named Rich Weinstein who has spent the last year researching Obamacare after his family insurance premiums doubled.

Weinstein told CNN that he had assumed, incorrectly, that since he liked his health insurance plan and he had insurance, he wouldn't be much impacted by the new law.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/11/14/politics/gruber-update-friday-white-house-obamacare/

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