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In reply to the discussion: The CBO's other bombshell: the Affordable Care Act isn't imploding [View all]Ccarmona
(1,180 posts)12. If Anything Knocked the Legs Out of Obamacare It Was This
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/10/us/politics/marco-rubio-obamacare-affordable-care-act.html?_r=0|
WASHINGTON A little-noticed health care provision slipped into a giant spending law last year has tangled up the Obama administration, sent tremors through health insurance markets and rattled confidence in the durability of President Obamas signature health law.
The attack stems from two years of effort by Senator Marco Rubio and others in Congress to undermine a key financing mechanism in the law. So for all the Republican talk about dismantling the Affordable Care Act, one Republican presidential hopeful has actually done something toward achieving that goal.
Mr. Rubios efforts against the so-called risk corridor provision of the health law have hardly risen to the forefront of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, but his plan limiting how much the government can spend to protect insurance companies against financial losses has shown the effectiveness of quiet legislative sabotage.
WASHINGTON A little-noticed health care provision slipped into a giant spending law last year has tangled up the Obama administration, sent tremors through health insurance markets and rattled confidence in the durability of President Obamas signature health law.
The attack stems from two years of effort by Senator Marco Rubio and others in Congress to undermine a key financing mechanism in the law. So for all the Republican talk about dismantling the Affordable Care Act, one Republican presidential hopeful has actually done something toward achieving that goal.
Mr. Rubios efforts against the so-called risk corridor provision of the health law have hardly risen to the forefront of the race for the Republican presidential nomination, but his plan limiting how much the government can spend to protect insurance companies against financial losses has shown the effectiveness of quiet legislative sabotage.
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applegrove
Mar 2017
OP
good points AND every Doctor should be allowed to take a persons insurance. only 4 or 5 Corps?
Sunlei
Mar 2017
#24
Unfortunately America only has 4? giant Insurance Corporations & they're 'for profit' corporations.
Sunlei
Mar 2017
#30
Republicans & their Insurance Corps pretend that a million a year to treat cancer breaks THEIR bank
Sunlei
Mar 2017
#25
I was told for emergency your insurance plan covers(pays for) any emergency clinic.
Sunlei
Mar 2017
#27
They didn't qualify the statement as such and made it sound like the whole thing was going under
uponit7771
Mar 2017
#17
The Insurance Corporations limit a persons coverage to a tiny area near their zipcode.
Sunlei
Mar 2017
#26
I'm on 3rd year of healthcareDOTgov.-decent blue cross insurance & I can afford it, I'm happy.
Sunlei
Mar 2017
#22
I noticed Humana pulled out of the DOTgov website and spammed TV ads for their insurance instead.
Sunlei
Mar 2017
#38
I'm fortunate to live near Houston, hundreds of hospitals/Doctors. Insurance is easier to use here.
Sunlei
Mar 2017
#41
I agree - and welcome to DU! ACA good Bad for the GOP so it is trash it all the time for them.
NRaleighLiberal
Mar 2017
#32
Insurance companies did a lousy job pricing policies and defining networks
raising2moredems
Mar 2017
#36