More Obamacare fuckups

[Atlanteax]

Here, I was blaming Obamacare for him being in the hospital getting care ... vs suffering in misery.

[cwolff]

And more good news for PPACA

Though it may take weeks or months for the final payment figures to be calculated, rates are running in the 80% to 90% range, several major insurers said.

About 83% of the more than 600,000 members who signed up for Aetna (AET, Fortune 500) plans have paid, a company executive told the representatives.

At WellPoint (WLP, Fortune 500), up to 90% have sent in payments, depending on the state, said an executive from the insurer, which is the largest participant in the exchange arena.

Health Care Service Corp. has seen payment rates in the 80% range for the 600,000 applications received on the exchanges.

[Atlanteax]

And more good news for PPACA

So 17% have not paid? How is this good? That is 102,000 getting a 'free ride'.

[Parkbandit]

So 17% have not paid? How is this good? That is 102,000 getting a 'free ride'.

They will just be dropped.. because the "number" would be 17 million, 900 thousand who have either been saved or signed up for ACA and that is over the goal of 7 million which means the ACA is a gigantic success story.

The Dems really need to run on this and the economy this year during the midterms. Both are huge success stories which will no doubt propel them to victory come November.

[Parkbandit]

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stor..._hsmi=12710185

Let's get the sickest ones on ACA. I'm sure with 18 million people, they can afford to carry them.

[cwolff]

Even more Good News

"So far and as expected, the new health care law has been a net positive for LifePoint with respect to Medicaid expansion," CEO Bill Carpenter said during the call. "In the seven states where we operate that have expanded coverage, we saw increasing Medicaid and decreasing self-pay volumes. Increases in Medicaid membership and health insurance exchange participation contributed measurably to our results in the quarter. While we don’t expect additional states to expand coverage in 2014, we’re optimistic that more conversions will occur over time."

Another hospital group, HCA said that in the four states in which it operates that have expanded Medicaid, they'd seen a 29 percent decline in admissions of people without insurance, but a 5.9 increase in the non-expansion states.

A 29 percent decrease is pretty huge, meaning big savings for the hospitals, but also big savings for the local and state governments that won't have to figure out how to help the hospitals pay for all that uncompensated care. That's the big argument hospitals in all the states that didn't expand have been trying to make—Medicaid expansion makes sense not just because it means saving lives, because it also saves money. Hospitals see Steep Drop

So 17% have not paid? How is this good? That is 102,000 getting a 'free ride'.

You don't pay you don't get covered. You never had insurance?

[Methais]

Even more Good News


You don't pay you don't get covered. You never had insurance?

I like how it's ok for you to go off about Fox News and any other right leaning news source, but you have no issues at all linking stuff from dailykos.

EDIT: In before he responds with a diversion and not actually addressing anything I just said.

[cwolff]

I like how you're always going off about Fox News and all that, but you have no issues at all linking stuff from dailykos.

EDIT: In before he responds with a diversion and not actually addressing anything I just said.

Because I linked not only the article but also a quote from a CEO. I'm confident that he's not a writer for Daily Kos. If he is moonlighting, I apologize.

[waywardgs]

Just sayin'.

[Tgo01]

What's the chart proving? That when there is less green it leads to an increase in red?