<p>Huh? </p>
<p>The last time the House put up a bill to repeal was in early March. I wonder why there has been no repeal bills pt to a vote since. </p>
<p>They’re too busy getting other important work done.</p>
<p>^LOL Hunt!</p>
<p>I understand they have voted on names of several post offices! </p>
<p>“A new report from the Congressional Research Service, the nonpartisan research division of Congress, found that about 20 percent of laws passed in recent years were for naming post offices.”</p>
<p><a href=“One Area in Which Congress Excels: Naming Post Offices - The New York Times”>http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/28/one-area-in-which-congress-excels-naming-post-offices/</a></p>
<p>Or maybe 50 pointless votes was enough? Nah! I think it might have more to do with those polls saying that people actually like having insurance.</p>
<p>I thought July was the month we would start seeing what the premiums are going to be for 2015. All I see so far is Rhode Island.</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2014/07/17/rhode-island-commissioner-approves-premium-rates-for-health-insurance-plans/”>http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2014/07/17/rhode-island-commissioner-approves-premium-rates-for-health-insurance-plans/</a></p>
<p>Yo, Lil Rhody. 3 great things- the food, the stand on health insurance and the relative proximity to the Berkshires.
Of course, I am going to look for more than Fox reporting.</p>
<p>Let’s put this up again: <a href=“http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/files/publications/issue-brief/2014/jul/1760_collins_gaining_ground_tracking_survey.pdf”>http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/files/publications/issue-brief/2014/jul/1760_collins_gaining_ground_tracking_survey.pdf</a></p>
<p>BCBS increase 4.5%? No death spiral? </p>
<p>A lot of posters are giving us all kinds of numbers regarding obamacare, but the outfit (govt) running this atrocity hasn’t disseminated any information (paid enrollments, uninsured, etc) since the end of the enrollment period. Without a backend system and according to the latest GAO report, it is more likely than not that rampant fraud exists in the system or a least a tremendous amount of inaccurate tax subsidies are being given to people.</p>
<p>Of course, if you get very sick, the severely restricted networks could have a very real impact on trying to get high quality care. This LA Times article recounts some of the suffering people are experiencing with these plans.</p>
<p><a href=“Confusion over doctor lists is costly for Obamacare enrollees in state”>Confusion over doctor lists is costly for Obamacare enrollees in state;
<p>Ambiguity means a sentence can be read in two or more ways. There is nothing ambiguous about the subsidy language. The fact that a subsidy is available under the state exchanges but not under the federal ones is not an ambiguity, it is a difference. If it was a drafting error or maybe an incentive for states to reward states with exchanges does not make it ambiguous. The IRS isn’t entitled to deference when the wording of the statute is not ambiguous. Drafting errors should be corrected by congress not the courts or IRS.</p>
<p>I have no problem with the Feds paying subsidies on federal exchanges. But I want the law changed in the legislature. I want the irs out of the business of law making. The courts as well. I don’t trust the IRS. They aren’t elected. They have no authority to make laws. Let’s follow the laws and not give places like the IRS or NSA any more power. If it has an anocronym? Let’s make the laws elsewhere. ~O) </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.sfgate.com/news/medical/article/APNewsBreak-Medicaid-enrollees-strain-Oregon-5641407.php?cmpid=hp-hc-nationworld”>http://www.sfgate.com/news/medical/article/APNewsBreak-Medicaid-enrollees-strain-Oregon-5641407.php?cmpid=hp-hc-nationworld</a></p>
<p>Lots more Medicaid patients in Oregon. But more health insurance doesn’t mean more healthcare. They forgot to add more doctors, doh! </p>
<p>Razorsharp, your reasoning would carry more weight if that one sentence were the complete wording of the law. But it isn’t. It is not the single sentence that is ambiguous, but the sentence within the context of the larger whole. </p>
<p>I love that I misspelled acronym as anacronym. Really. It’s my favorite autocorrect of the year.</p>
<p>Gastroenterologist I know in my community is now telling patients they have to wait up to two months for an appointment. I agree with Tatin: Obamacare insurance is not equivalent to having medical care when you need it…</p>
<p>Avg. wait times all over the country: - survey based on 2013 data. </p>
<p><a href=“Article Search, Reports, Surveys, Whitepapers | Merritt Hawkins”>http://www.merritthawkins.com/uploadedFiles/MerrittHawkings/Surveys/mha2014waitsurvPDF.pdf</a></p>
<p>I need to have my annual physical. Made the appt, in January. 1st opening was for end of August. I could have gotten in earlier with the nurse practitioner, but I am in no rush, so. However, while I was dealing with the unknown medical issue, I was able to see my doctor that day since I was sick. </p>
<p>My Uro OTOH had nothing open until end of March but my gyno called and got me squeezed in. </p>
<p>There is nothing new about having to wait, sometimes months, to see a specialist. It has been like this for years. </p>
<p>Never had to wait more than a week or two for any medical care, including physical exams in the past.</p>
<p>Cracks me up. We dont know how many uninsured signed up. The mumbers are overstated. They are made up. All these surveys are bs. </p>
<p>The state of Oregon doesnt know how many people signed up for medicaid. The state of California is sitting on 600,000 applications for medicaid. There are so many applications, California is having trouble processing them all. Insurance companies all over the country are saying they have hundreds of thousands of new customers.</p>
<p>Everybody is lying. Nobody signed up. Those lines we saw the last few days of March were fake. The lines were filled with millions of extras filming a movie. </p>
<p>The movie is titled… Chipotle… Yum!</p>
<p>Oh wait! Wait! We cant find a doctor! We have too many patients and not enough doctors! </p>
<p>How did this happen? Real Americans would never sign up for Obamacare!</p>
<p>Aliens!!!</p>
<p>But you don’t know, GP, as we’ve said time and time again. Don’t plan on using that gastro, if you can’t wait. Here, I don’t have those issues, do have real experiences in 2014. So it is…hard to accept your word for it. </p>
<p>^ Is funny, no. They can’t seem to make up their minds. </p>
<p>I have always had to wait for well visits - both at my PCP and my gyno. You get a card in the mail that it is time to make an appt. and you call. Lots of time first available is in several months time. Has been this way as long as I can remember. </p>
<p>I have had to wait to see specialists, have elective surgery scheduled., mammagrams, colonoscopy scheduled for both initial appt and appt for the scope. You name it - unless it is an emergency. Then I have always gotten in immediately. </p>