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Health Care Spending up 9.9%
Posted: May 1, 2014
This is the biggest spike in health care spending since 1980 and not just reported by "Faux" News (hate to disappoint y'all)...
Take your pick of links:
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Your guide to latest freakout over - healthcare spending
[ In Reply To ..]Every single link you provide are right wing propaganda organs!
So below is a counter-link to a left wing organ, Huffpo.
Money quote:
"Who could have predicted that a recovering economy, higher incomes and a rise in the number of people with health coverage brought about by Obamacare would increase how much Americans are spending on medical care?
Well, pretty much anyone. And they did. Here's the Medicare and Medicaid actuaries in January, illustrating that spending would spike this year after several years of low growth, after which the rate of increase goes back down closer to historical levels."
Please the last thing we want is a - balanced view
[ In Reply To ..]Please don't burst the data miners' balloon. They only want (and search for) that which is negative regarding anything Obama.
Looking at the big picture is a very frightening and difficult concept for some to understand.
"We report. You decide." - It's good to have a balance.
[ In Reply To ..]If there was no balance, one side would run roughshod over the other. Our forefathers got it right.
Yes, but the left doesn't want to hear anything - from those who are right.
[ In Reply To ..]NM
How do you figure that? - you could say the same
[ In Reply To ..]About the right. In fact, that is the problem with this board.
We never make a dent in the opinion of the other side, and "truth" seems to be something you are allowed to believe because you can come up with a bunch of links to say it's so.
All I see is that Republicans are against the minimum wage, they want to abolish Social Security and Medicare, they are against fair pay for women, against affordable health care, against everything that could possibly help people in our income bracket, so when I listen to what the right has to say, I am aware they are trying to convince me to believe something that goes against my own interests in many ways.
A lot of pro-life people blindly follow the right wing because they are trying to make abortion illegal and that seems to be the be all and end all, and everything else seems to not get much scrutiny.
But, honestly, to see people struggling to explain why we DON'T deserve the minimum wage to go up (when we MTs are now mostly making it, despite doing a highly skilled job and despite having done nothing to deserve the diminution of our pay!!!), OR women don't deserve the same pay as men for the same job, OR why Paul Ryan's budget guts programs for the poor and gives massive tax cuts to corporations and wealthy.
Well, good luck with that, I do not know how you can convince yourself to be for that, much less anyone else!
Well said! - In order for us to come together
[ In Reply To ..]based on what we have in COMMON, both sides have to put down their 'dukes' and agree not to be manipulated by the power structure.
BOTH sides are being used.
Want an example? WEDGE issues - they use wedge issues to keep us from UNITING to fight what we agree on and then its just business as usual with mud slinging etc.
they have TONS of think tanks figuring this stuff out. Think about it.
Republicans don't want to abolish SS and Medicare - Truthhurts
[ In Reply To ..]I wish people would stop saying that. It's a lie put out by the DNC.
The Republicans want to REFORM the systems so they last. They want to correct the waste and fraud perpetuated by individuals.
Reforms like Clinton did back in the '90s with the welfare system that was working until it was disabled it in 2012.
I don't know anyone that wants to make abortion illegal. I do know people that want the amount of weeks where you can get an abortion to be lowered because a fetus is alive and "kicking" at the present allowable abortion weeks and it brings Gosnell's murdering all those babies to mind.
There is too much fraud in ALL government programs. Oversight is very important and lacking.
I am against what the MT companies are doing to MTs. I don't know how many times I wrote letters and sent emails to government agencies and representatives about what these companies are doing. It didn't go anywhere but I tried. I tried to get others in this business to do it too, but....and maybe you can explain why they wouldn't go along with it, because for all the griping by MTs, no one wanted to do anything about it. One MT kept calling for union. Why pay a union for something the MTs could do themselves.
That's it. Good night. Time to go. Have a nice evening.
Being on the right does not make - you right
[ In Reply To ..]even though it was a clever play on words...
Speaking for THIS leftie, I'm all ears to information that is not pure opinion, or regurgitation from talking heads.
Sure it does. - sm
[ In Reply To ..]IMO, just looking over this board, there is more "information that is not pure opinion, or regurgitation from talking heads" generated by the left than the right.
Do those costs include the botched website costs - Truthhurts
[ In Reply To ..]in Oregon, Maryland, Massachusetts and Hawaii?
Oregon’s healthcare exchange cost $220 million site and wasn’t able to sign up one person. They had to hire 400 workers, at a cost of $4 million, to process 35,000 paper applications.
The cost to taxpayers of flaws in Maryland’s online health insurance exchange is coming into focus, with officials estimating at least $30.5 million in unnecessary Medicaid spending and conceding that they have no idea how much it will take to get a system that works.
The state has paid $65.4 million to the contractor hired to build the system and fired this week because of the protracted problems. Costs are likely to keep rising as Maryland figures out how to fix or replace the system.
In Minnesota, $160 million has been spent on MNSure. Problems there include informing applicants that “they’re eligible for the wrong tax credit or no credit at all, even if your income entitles you to it." There is also major under-staffing at the call center set up to answer applicant questions. An outside appraisal says it could take up to two more years before they are fixed.
In Massachusetts, Governor Deval Patrick announced that, “The website is still too cumbersome…Bottom line: The website that was supposed to make it easy has not worked well enough.” The governor also said that another $10 million has been added to the $68 million originally budgeted for the website. So far, Massachusetts has paid the prime contractor, CGI, only $15 million for its botched work, and the $10 million is going to another contractor, Optum, in hope of finally and quickly correcting the website’s problems.
http://spectrum.ieee.org/riskfactor/computing/it/uncover-oregon-states-healthcare-exchange-website-still-inoperable-four-months-after-planned-launch
It sounds like it is just killing some - people that Ocare MET
[ In Reply To ..]MET or exceeded its signup goal ON SCHEDULE despite the website fiasco.
They don't get a pass for screwing that up, but I give him a HIGH FIVE for FIXING IT AND STILL MEETING HIS GOAL!
The other side spends an INORDINATE amount of time trying to magnify the flaws, problems, while conveniently ignoring the successes.
Just one more reason that side is hard to take seriously.
I mean after all, ACA's goal is to HELP Americans, regardless of what party they belong to.
It may be the goal to "HELP Americans," - sm
[ In Reply To ..]...but that is not what is happening. It is costing this country dearly and the costs will be increasing exponentially over the years only to be passed onto to the younger generations all the while the quality of health care will decline just like every other country with socialized medicine. Intentions may have been honorable, but they were not well thought out. It's all been said many times over.
"It's all been said many times over" - But not proven even
[ In Reply To ..]ONCE.
Do you think that merely repeating one's own opinion makes said opinion fact?
It's not my opinion. It's fact. - sm
[ In Reply To ..]I'm not sure if you are new to this board or not, but the facts have been cited many, many times on this board. Perhaps check some archives? Sorry to disappoint, but I don't create the facts. Wish I did. I'd get paid the big bucks then.
It IS YOUR opinion - Half of what you wrote
[ In Reply To ..]as of THIS date ACA is no fiasco.
As to the future status of the successful or failure of ACA, which you reference in your comments, how do you make a "statement of fact" about something which has not even occurred yet?
Answer: You can't!
I believe you have answered the wrong person - once again.
[ In Reply To ..]You are using words in your post that I did not use. Please read archives to find the facts which posters reference.
And by the way, I do believe I've seen your opinion spread far and wide on this board, but that's okay. There is no rule on MTStars that we can't give opinions.
Have a nice evening.
While there WERE good intentions, it has become a fiasco - Truthhurts
[ In Reply To ..]Oregon deciding to turn their website over the the feds now.
All the money these 4 states sank into their websites for what?
Obama has made so many changes through EOs that healthcare companies, hospitals, and employers no longer know which side is up anymore. This is okay?
Plus the fact that once a bill becomes law, my understanding is that ONLY CHANGES CAN BE MADE BY CONGRESS because Congress makes and repeals law, not the President. So...basically Obama is breaking the law by making changes and that's according to the Constitution. So, how can he do it?
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