You the patient, at first, won’t know that you “belong” to the ACO. But the government has assigned you, if you are a Medicare recipient, to a specific ACO. The ACOs will then be held responsible for quality – as defined by government – and for cost containment. Here is how it will work. Step […]
Support for Obamacare has hit the lowest level since the bill was passed, the latest Kaiser Health Tracking Poll shows. Overall, just 35 percent have a favorable view of Obamacare while 40 percent have an unfavorable view, which ties an October 2011 poll for the lowest level ever. Twenty-four percent have no opinion on the law which, […]
Proposed premiums for new policies for individuals will rise by 25 percent on average next year due to the ironically named “Affordable” Healthcare Act. In the latest preview of prices for health coverage under the Affordable Care Act, Maryland’s dominant insurer says proposed premiums for new policies for individuals will rise by 25 percent on […]
Retired Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus declared to Newsmax TV in an exclusive interview that “Obamacare is going to kill off small business.” “If [employees] are thrown out of their medical plans now, where they’re covered in a good plan and thrown under the bus, they’re going to be destroyed,” Marcus said on Thursday. “If, […]
Cancer clinics nationwide are turning away thousands of Medicare patients due to the sequester budget cuts that Obama put in place in the summer of 2011. The Washington Post reported the reduced funding, “which took effect for Medicare on April 1, makes it impossible to administer expensive chemotherapy drugs while staying afloat financially.” If we […]
Because the mainstream media lobbied every bit as hard as Obama to win passage of ObamaCare, they are every bit as invested in doing whatever is necessary to see that it is perceived as a success. Unfortunately for Americans who expect truth from their media, this means the media are having to manufacture a false […]
Programs aimed at reducing employer health costs could become more common under Obamacare. Employees of the national pharmacy store chain CVS just got a hard pill to swallow. Workers who use the company’s health insurance plan were told to get a doctor’s assessment of their weight, blood pressure and other health indicators to turn over […]
Do you remember when President Obama promised: “if you’ve got health insurance, you like your doctors, you like your plan, you can keep your doctor, you can keep your plan. Nobody is talking about taking that away from you”? It turns out that the Affordable Care Act’s experts didn’t get the message. According to a […]
President Obama’s health care law will force over 7 million people out of their job-based insurance coverage, nearly twice the previous estimate, according to the latest estimates from the Congressional Budget Office released Tuesday. CBO said that this year’s tax cuts have changed the incentives for businesses and made it less attractive to pay for […]
Obamacare opponents warned that forcing companies employing 50 or more full-time workers to buy healthcare would prompt employers to slash jobs and worker hours. And that’s exactly what’s happening,says one of President Barack Obama’s favorite economists, Mark Zandi of Moody’s Analytics. “It will have a negative impact on job creation” this year, says Mr. Zandi. The Obamacare employer […]
