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In reply to the discussion: Krugman: Obamacare Will Be A Debacle — For Republicans [View all]"Too bad overpriced underinsurance is the new normal That kind of insurance actively prevents people from getting health care. The money they might spend on a doctor visit to check out a worrying symptom goes to the insurance companies instead.'
...is what the law addressed in two ways: 1) Defining essential health benefits that are an improvement on existing good plans. 2) Adjusting the MLR.
Expanding Medicaid helps low-income Americans, and free preventive care makes the doctor visits less worrisome.
EXPANDING COVERAGE Starting in 2010, all insurers and employers that offer dependent coverage were required to offer coverage to dependent children up to age 26. An estimated 6.6 million people ages 19 through 25 have been able to stay on or join their parents plans as result, with more than 3 million previously uninsured young adults getting health insurance. The law requires private health insurers to provide free preventive care, without co-pays or deductibles. Some 71 million Americans have received at least one free preventive service, like a mammogram or a flu shot, and an additional 34 million older Americans got free preventive services in 2012 under Medicare.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/opinion/sunday/report-card-on-health-care-reform.html?_r=0
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/24/opinion/sunday/report-card-on-health-care-reform.html?_r=0
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President Obama roped the dopes yet again. Krugman is 100% correct on this.
graham4anything
May 2013
#1
Our right wing newspaper has been doing at least one anti-Obamacare front page story since
doc03
May 2013
#2
For some strange reason, Floridian Democrats act and support Republicans in their state.
BlueCaliDem
May 2013
#45
I agree. Kaiser is already implementing many of ACA rules. First, no co pay for colonoscopies,
demosincebirth
May 2013
#13
The ACA, also, helps seniors on medicare who used to pay for preventive care (co-pays) such as
demosincebirth
May 2013
#63
I worked with a couple of guys for years in the union trucking industry, and they were staunch
demosincebirth
May 2013
#14
That was their Mantra...dems will take away their arsenals. Pretty f***ing stupid
demosincebirth
May 2013
#53
Future generations are going to study this era as the fall of conservatives.
Spitfire of ATJ
May 2013
#21
if they survive their current agenda of mean-spirited idiocy and obstruction
noiretextatique
May 2013
#23
And ultimately it will make a good number of liberals posting on forums like this look like the
KittyWampus
May 2013
#35
No- not realizing that making the perfect the enemy of the good gets us nowheres. Social Security
KittyWampus
May 2013
#59
I'm a Democratic Socialist. And the Reactionary Screamers would have likewise been against Social
KittyWampus
May 2013
#58
That's a republican for you. Always underestimating the right thing to do. Shame on them.
southernyankeebelle
May 2013
#46
A Once in a Generation Opportunity for the Democratic Party in Red States in 2014.
ProSense
May 2013
#49