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The US Healthcare Mass Debate
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GOP efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act were repeatedly thwarted in the Senate last year, even though Republicans used a parliamentary move that would have allowed them to pass a bill with a simple majority. The Trump administration has tried to undermine the ACA in a variety of ways: shortening the enrollment period, discontinuing advertising to promote signing up, temporarily halting cost-sharing subsidies to insurance companies, and effectively ending the “individual mandate” that requires most Americans to obtain health insurance. Despite those efforts, the Kaiser Family Foundation found individual insurance markets stabilizing in most of the country. And despite the truncated enrollment period, nearly 9 million people signed up for Obamacare coverage in 2018.
Scott Horsley
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GOP efforts to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act were repeatedly thwarted in the Senate last year, even though Republicans used a parliamentary move that would have allowed them to pass a bill with a simple majority. The Trump administration has tried to undermine the ACA in a variety of ways: shortening the enrollment period, discontinuing advertising to promote signing up, temporarily halting cost-sharing subsidies to insurance companies, and effectively ending the “individual mandate” that requires most Americans to obtain health insurance. Despite those efforts, the Kaiser Family Foundation found individual insurance markets stabilizing in most of the country. And despite the truncated enrollment period, nearly 9 million people signed up for Obamacare coverage in 2018.
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How many are still without health care?
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The usual number given is 28 million
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Still a fair number then. You have a total of 350 million. So roughly 8% with totally none.
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Is it now?Forty Two wrote:insurance premiums never went up as fast as they have in the last 3-4 years. That's a fact.
I looked up the 2015 Employer Health Benefits Survey undertaken by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. At the bottom of that page is a button, which, if you click on it, gives you the full 254 page report (unfortunately in PDF format). It's chock-a-block with data.
On pages 88-90 the following charts can be found:
- Average Monthly Worker Premium Contributions Paid by Covered Workers for Single and Family
Coverage, 1999–2015 - Average Annual Worker and Employer Contributions to Premiums and Total Premiums for Single
Coverage, 1999–2015 - Average Annual Worker and Employer Contributions to Premiums and Total Premiums for Family
Coverage, 1999–2015
Average Monthly Worker Premium Contributions Paid by Covered Workers for Single and Family Coverage
2000-2009: 9.4% for single, 8.7% for family
2010-2015: 4.7% for single, 5.1% for family
Average Annual Worker and Employer Contributions to Premiums and Total Premiums for Single Coverage
2000-2010: 8.2% Total
2010-2015: 3.7% Total
Average Annual Worker and Employer Contributions to Premiums and Total Premiums for Family Coverage
2000-2010: 8.8% Total
2010-2015: 4.0% Total
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Obamacare premiums have fluctuated. This came about by insurance companies having to insure actual sick people.
The employee based system allows the employer to fire someone who is off sick for more than 6 months. Problem removed. In the old days they had nowhere to go. Now they can go to Obamacare.(With no income they can’t afford Cobra).
The employee based system allows the employer to fire someone who is off sick for more than 6 months. Problem removed. In the old days they had nowhere to go. Now they can go to Obamacare.(With no income they can’t afford Cobra).
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Unable to edit my previous post, here it is again. This time I used a more up do date report from the same source and fixed a mistake in a spreadsheet formula I used in four cells.
I looked up the 2015 2016 Employer Health Benefits Survey undertaken by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. In the top right corner of that page is a button, which, if you click on it, gives you the full 274 page report (unfortunately in PDF format). It's chock-a-block with data.
On pages 88-90 the following charts can be found:
average year-on-year increases:
Average Monthly Worker Premium Contributions Paid by Covered Workers for Single and Family Coverage
2000-2009: 9.4% for single, 8.7% for family
2010-2016: 5.5% for single, 6.0% for family
Average Annual Worker and Employer Contributions to Premiums and Total Premiums for Single Coverage
2000-2010: 8.2% Total
2010-2016: 4.2% Total
Average Annual Worker and Employer Contributions to Premiums and Total Premiums for Family Coverage
2000-2010: 8.8% Total
2010-2016: 4.5% Total
Is it now?Forty Two wrote:insurance premiums never went up as fast as they have in the last 3-4 years. That's a fact.
I looked up the 2015 2016 Employer Health Benefits Survey undertaken by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. In the top right corner of that page is a button, which, if you click on it, gives you the full 274 page report (unfortunately in PDF format). It's chock-a-block with data.
On pages 88-90 the following charts can be found:
- Average Monthly Worker Premium Contributions Paid by Covered Workers for Single and Family
Coverage, 1999–2016 - Average Annual Worker and Employer Contributions to Premiums and Total Premiums for Single
Coverage, 1999–2016 - Average Annual Worker and Employer Contributions to Premiums and Total Premiums for Family
Coverage, 1999–2016
average year-on-year increases:
Average Monthly Worker Premium Contributions Paid by Covered Workers for Single and Family Coverage
2000-2009: 9.4% for single, 8.7% for family
2010-2016: 5.5% for single, 6.0% for family
Average Annual Worker and Employer Contributions to Premiums and Total Premiums for Single Coverage
2000-2010: 8.2% Total
2010-2016: 4.2% Total
Average Annual Worker and Employer Contributions to Premiums and Total Premiums for Family Coverage
2000-2010: 8.8% Total
2010-2016: 4.5% Total
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops. - Stephen J. Gould
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The thought is just horrifying.Tero wrote:Amazon ready!
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I had a physical at Kaiser health in CA in 1080. You were herded in a line with a number in hand to do the various tests. "Pee in a cup over there, bring it to the desk capped".
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Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
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In 1080? God how old are you?
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1980
In 1080 they just gave us leeches for ailments.
In 1080 they just gave us leeches for ailments.
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And they weren't even decent English leeches, not since 1066.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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Dr of 1080: Are you eating enough red meat?Tero wrote:
In 1080 they just gave us leeches for ailments.
Yes
Onions?
Yes
Well then, take these leeches and use them on in the morring and one at bedtime to suck out bad blood.
https://esapolitics.blogspot.com
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
http://esabirdsne.blogspot.com/
Said Peter...what you're requesting just isn't my bag
Said Daemon, who's sorry too, but y'see we didn't have no choice
And our hands they are many and we'd be of one voice
We've come all the way from Wigan to get up and state
Our case for survival before it's too late
Turn stone to bread, said Daemon Duncetan
Turn stone to bread right away...
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