A shit load of people make that claim, but reality has not backed it up. people are getting better coverage cheaper than before. A few are getting FAR FAR better coverage for a little more than before because they had the ripoff do-nothing scam coverage that was outlawed. They FEEL that they have been wronged because they never actually had to use the fake insurance plan they had before. being lucky thus far is not a valid argument against proper coverage.
There are also the self-inflicted medicare gap. The states who's GOp governors refused to implement the medicare expansion has hurt a lot of people. This is not a failing of Obamacare, this is the GOP manufacturing pain and suffering in their constituents to try and make Obamacare look bad.
I never understood why so many people are in favor of pre-existing conditions, price gouging, coverage caps, and all the reforms in this law.
the parts the GOP propaganda mill tell you are bad are the things they invented in the first place. the insurance mandate, medicare reform, and subsidies. (With raging irony that the people that wrote all that- the Heritage Foundation, are now the ones tagged with trying to repeal it) What they really hate are the reforms, but they can't tell you that because it exposes how evil they really are.
11.7M people who were uninsured now have healthcare coverage.
Goodbye doughnut hole. Medicare drug plans (Part D of Medicare) stop providing insurance to people after their claims for covered drugs hit a certain level ($2,970 in 2013), and coverage doesn't resume until spending hits another level ($4,750 in 2013). Health care reform is closing this doughnut hole in annual stages, and it will be totally closed by 2020. Savings to Medicare beneficiaries will be in the tens of billions of dollars.
Free Medicare preventive services. Health care reform greatly expanded the menu of free preventive services to Medicare consumers.
Free preventive services to all women. Health insurance plans have added eight women's health benefits because of the law, in areas including breastfeeding, contraception, domestic violence, gestational diabetes, HIV screening and counseling, sexual diseases and wellness visits. These benefits are free, meaning they involve no co-payment or co-insurance, and women don't need to meet their plan deductibles to use these free services.
Pre-existing conditions. No one can be denied health insurance because of a pre-existing medical condition.
Premium equity. Insurers can't gouge people with pre-existing conditions by forcing them to pay unreasonably high premiums. The law also limits insurers' ability to impose age-related premium increases for private coverage.
End of pre-existing restrictions on children's access to health insurance. The law has ended insurance denials based on pre-existing conditions for the roughly 20 million children under age 19.
Adult dependent insurance coverage. Adult children up to age 26 can now continue to get health insurance on their parent's policies.
Insurance payout limits. The law will end lifetime limits on insurance payouts. It also has been phasing out annual coverage limits, and these are completely outlawed for insurance plans.
9. Minimum medical loss ratio for insurers. Health insurers must spend at least 85 percent of their premium dollars on health care (80 percent for smaller group plans) or rebate shortfalls to consumers.
10. New consumer health coverage reports. Consumers have begun receiving a standardized report explaining their health insurance. This seemingly modest accomplishment is actually a big deal. For the first time, different health insurance plans have to present their coverage details in the same format, using the same language. Consumers can now accurately compare different health insurance plans.
There ya go. The good stuff that the GOP does not want you to know about.
Its not the regulations killing materials costs. Pharmacy costs are pretty obviously the pharmaceutical companies. Materials is a self inflicted wound. multiple hospitals tried to get better pricing by forming GPO companies. A good idea, but somewhere down the line the majority of them wound up in just a few dozen GPOs. Many of those merged and talked them in to long term contracts. Like 99 year contracts. In short order, everyone had to buy through a very small number of middlemen because they can control supply (Sell to anyone independent and we stop buying from you. Capiche?). And those middle men drove up the costs to incredible levels. Buy a syringe for 3 cents, sell it to the hospital for $56.35.
In a sealed room with only one way in or out, you have a corpse, you have a person standing over the corpse covered in blood and holding the murder weapon. A camera outside shows that both entered the room together and no one else has been in to or out of the room. However, you did not see them drive the knife in to the person causing death. You have all but confirmed this is the killer.
The information needs to be correct when addressing a societal wrong. Inflating numbers never works, people wind up focusing on the inflation and ignoring the issue.
Any number above 0% in any state that is privately run is an outrage.
Be happy it is only that much. When I was in Denver they outlawed them entirely and sent animal control around to snatch any they find in a yard and put it down.
Perhaps distributed storage IS the better solution. If each node has its own storage to contribute to that node's peak needs, there is no peak draw on the network.
I had to build a small datacenter (about 25 1u servers and some routing/switching hardware) that the client needed 5 days of reserve power. The battery unit for this was surprisingly small. It was about 5 foot cube, and packed full of lead acid batteries. This was in early 2003. I imagine today's battery technology can make that even denser. Tesla's battery technology has been released in to the wild, and it is light years beyond lead acid technology.
And is water and gas not available in some neighborhoods? Can they choose to throttle back your water because they sell Coke? Can your gas be cut off to promote their propane business?
And applying title II will invalidate these local rules and regulations. The FCC is already investigating them because the FCC has the authority to make such things, not local governments.
Works beautifully here. The government put in a large fiber network reaching businesses and homes all over. They will run it to your house for a 2 year contract at a low fee ($30 for me. Fee is based on income)
The network is open to any ISP that wants to use it. Actual service is decided by the market- which is by nature of this network, now an actual free market with no bullshit laws and high bar entry costs. there are, as of right now, 12 providers on it. it started with 5. Their prices are low, none have ANY caps or limits, and customer service falls just shy of fellatio. Several provide TV over fiber as well, and I hear that service is also great, with much smaller and cheaper bundle tiers than Comcast has.
Because they have to actually compete with each other.
Note: Comcast was also invited to use it. They refused. They are hurting bad out here now, really only servicing the pockets that fiber has not reached yet. they pour millions every year in to ad campaigns to oppose the annual fiber expansion proposals. They get laughed at a lot.
get in a job with a clearance. Any job, even if it is cleaning the urinals. Once you have that clearance you are golden. The jobs come to you. I never worry about my current job, my inbox is full of offers that I can step in to on a moment's notice.
This is what an unregulated market looks like. Human nature, no matter how well intended 99.99999% of the participants may be, one bad apple will put greed over doing whats right. And then, in order to compete, the rest have to start following suit.
Slashdot Mirror
the employer mandate has not gone in to effect yet.
Who's the dumbfuck, again?
Let us all look at this and note-
THE EMPLOYER MANDATE HAS NOT GONE IN TO EFFECT YET.
Oops. Looks like your employer decided to screw you and blame it on Obamacare. This has happened a lot. Time to confront your boss, eh?
A shit load of people make that claim, but reality has not backed it up.
people are getting better coverage cheaper than before. A few are getting FAR FAR better coverage for a little more than before because they had the ripoff do-nothing scam coverage that was outlawed. They FEEL that they have been wronged because they never actually had to use the fake insurance plan they had before. being lucky thus far is not a valid argument against proper coverage.
There are also the self-inflicted medicare gap. The states who's GOp governors refused to implement the medicare expansion has hurt a lot of people. This is not a failing of Obamacare, this is the GOP manufacturing pain and suffering in their constituents to try and make Obamacare look bad.
I never understood why so many people are in favor of pre-existing conditions, price gouging, coverage caps, and all the reforms in this law.
the parts the GOP propaganda mill tell you are bad are the things they invented in the first place. the insurance mandate, medicare reform, and subsidies. (With raging irony that the people that wrote all that- the Heritage Foundation, are now the ones tagged with trying to repeal it) What they really hate are the reforms, but they can't tell you that because it exposes how evil they really are.
11.7M people who were uninsured now have healthcare coverage.
Goodbye doughnut hole. Medicare drug plans (Part D of Medicare) stop providing insurance to people after their claims for covered drugs hit a certain level ($2,970 in 2013), and coverage doesn't resume until spending hits another level ($4,750 in 2013). Health care reform is closing this doughnut hole in annual stages, and it will be totally closed by 2020. Savings to Medicare beneficiaries will be in the tens of billions of dollars.
Free Medicare preventive services. Health care reform greatly expanded the menu of free preventive services to Medicare consumers.
Free preventive services to all women. Health insurance plans have added eight women's health benefits because of the law, in areas including breastfeeding, contraception, domestic violence, gestational diabetes, HIV screening and counseling, sexual diseases and wellness visits. These benefits are free, meaning they involve no co-payment or co-insurance, and women don't need to meet their plan deductibles to use these free services.
Pre-existing conditions. No one can be denied health insurance because of a pre-existing medical condition.
Premium equity. Insurers can't gouge people with pre-existing conditions by forcing them to pay unreasonably high premiums. The law also limits insurers' ability to impose age-related premium increases for private coverage.
End of pre-existing restrictions on children's access to health insurance. The law has ended insurance denials based on pre-existing conditions for the roughly 20 million children under age 19.
Adult dependent insurance coverage. Adult children up to age 26 can now continue to get health insurance on their parent's policies.
Insurance payout limits. The law will end lifetime limits on insurance payouts. It also has been phasing out annual coverage limits, and these are completely outlawed for insurance plans.
9. Minimum medical loss ratio for insurers. Health insurers must spend at least 85 percent of their premium dollars on health care (80 percent for smaller group plans) or rebate shortfalls to consumers.
10. New consumer health coverage reports. Consumers have begun receiving a standardized report explaining their health insurance. This seemingly modest accomplishment is actually a big deal. For the first time, different health insurance plans have to present their coverage details in the same format, using the same language. Consumers can now accurately compare different health insurance plans.
There ya go. The good stuff that the GOP does not want you to know about.
I thought it was pretty obvious. Let me help you
And yet you post as Anonymous Coward.....
Its not the regulations killing materials costs. Pharmacy costs are pretty obviously the pharmaceutical companies.
Materials is a self inflicted wound. multiple hospitals tried to get better pricing by forming GPO companies. A good idea, but somewhere down the line the majority of them wound up in just a few dozen GPOs. Many of those merged and talked them in to long term contracts. Like 99 year contracts. In short order, everyone had to buy through a very small number of middlemen because they can control supply (Sell to anyone independent and we stop buying from you. Capiche?). And those middle men drove up the costs to incredible levels. Buy a syringe for 3 cents, sell it to the hospital for $56.35.
Fox does not talk about Putin, so they don't know who he is.
In a sealed room with only one way in or out, you have a corpse, you have a person standing over the corpse covered in blood and holding the murder weapon. A camera outside shows that both entered the room together and no one else has been in to or out of the room.
However, you did not see them drive the knife in to the person causing death. You have all but confirmed this is the killer.
The information needs to be correct when addressing a societal wrong. Inflating numbers never works, people wind up focusing on the inflation and ignoring the issue.
Any number above 0% in any state that is privately run is an outrage.
Be happy it is only that much. When I was in Denver they outlawed them entirely and sent animal control around to snatch any they find in a yard and put it down.
Yes, without reservation. Modern plants are safe. If there is a major issue, it does not matter if I am next door or 30 miles away.
Perhaps distributed storage IS the better solution. If each node has its own storage to contribute to that node's peak needs, there is no peak draw on the network.
I had to build a small datacenter (about 25 1u servers and some routing/switching hardware) that the client needed 5 days of reserve power. The battery unit for this was surprisingly small. It was about 5 foot cube, and packed full of lead acid batteries. This was in early 2003. I imagine today's battery technology can make that even denser. Tesla's battery technology has been released in to the wild, and it is light years beyond lead acid technology.
Utopia in Salt Lake City area.
And is water and gas not available in some neighborhoods? Can they choose to throttle back your water because they sell Coke? Can your gas be cut off to promote their propane business?
When you over-simplify you look like a fool.
And applying title II will invalidate these local rules and regulations. The FCC is already investigating them because the FCC has the authority to make such things, not local governments.
Works beautifully here. The government put in a large fiber network reaching businesses and homes all over. They will run it to your house for a 2 year contract at a low fee ($30 for me. Fee is based on income)
The network is open to any ISP that wants to use it. Actual service is decided by the market- which is by nature of this network, now an actual free market with no bullshit laws and high bar entry costs. there are, as of right now, 12 providers on it. it started with 5. Their prices are low, none have ANY caps or limits, and customer service falls just shy of fellatio. Several provide TV over fiber as well, and I hear that service is also great, with much smaller and cheaper bundle tiers than Comcast has.
Because they have to actually compete with each other.
Note: Comcast was also invited to use it. They refused. They are hurting bad out here now, really only servicing the pockets that fiber has not reached yet. they pour millions every year in to ad campaigns to oppose the annual fiber expansion proposals. They get laughed at a lot.
They are not enacting a decree. They are, under Executive direction, enforcing a law passed by Congress long ago that has been ignored previously.
How can you have existed and be on the net and not have heard of the throttling and net neutrality issues? You hide under some mighty deep rocks.
| It's about wireless only,
Why do people keep saying this? What right-wing propaganda mill is feeding you this total and complete bullshit of a lie?
get in a job with a clearance. Any job, even if it is cleaning the urinals. Once you have that clearance you are golden. The jobs come to you.
I never worry about my current job, my inbox is full of offers that I can step in to on a moment's notice.
I'm curious what Mr Hammond blew up to get him on this list.
|influence the policy of a government.
Damn, looks like all of the lobbyists and the poor "picked on" non-political 501(c) that are all about politics are terrorists.
This is what an unregulated market looks like. Human nature, no matter how well intended 99.99999% of the participants may be, one bad apple will put greed over doing whats right. And then, in order to compete, the rest have to start following suit.