Trump, Appropriately, Calls Out McCain

WATCH: Trump Call Out McCain At Rally

• 05/29/2018 
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President Trump held a rally Tuesday night in Nashville where he campaigned for Rep. Marsha Blackburn who is running for Senate. During the speech he called out the Senator who caused the Obamacare repeal vote to fail. But we all know who it is, Senator John McCain from Arizona.

According to The Daily Wire:

On Tuesday, President Donald Trump slammed Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) during a rally in Nashville, Tennessee, for his vote against repealing Obamacare, something that the president highlighted was a campaign promise from the Arizona senator.

Without using McCain's name, Trump said, "Then, of course, repeal and replace Obamacare. We had it done, folks. It was done. Then early in the morning, somebody turned their hand in the wrong direction. That cost our country a lot. That was a very, very terrible thing that happened that night."

"That was a very terrible thing that cost our country $1 trillion in entitlement saving that nobody would have known," Trump continued.

"It would have given us a good health care plan, and that cost us a lot," Trump recalled. "Nobody knew that was going to happen, because we had it done. Repeal and replace! And the person who voted that way not only talked repeal and replace! He campaigned on it!"

Trump pointed out how Senator McCain ran for office on repealing Obamacare and how his failure to do so cost the American people greatly.

Read more at http://trumptrainnews.com/articles/watch-trump-call-out-mccain-at-rally#K6MDlRWefmbmkzMK.99

Any Republican Who Will Not Vote For Repeal Should Be Defeated In Future Elections

LIARS: 'Moderate' Republicans Reject Obamacare Repeal Outright — After Voting For It When Obama Was President

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ByBEN SHAPIRO

@benshapiro

July 18, 2017

Just hours after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced that he would attempt to bring a plain repeal of Obamacare to the floor of the Senate, the so-called “moderates” in the Senate moved to kill such a move. Senator Rob Portman (R-OH), who voted for repeal in 2015, said, “If it is a bill that simply repeals, I believe that will add to more uncertainty.”

Senator Susan Collins (R-ME), who opposed the Trumpcare Senate bill, said she wouldn’t vote to advance a pure repeal. Senator Shelly Moore Capito (R-WV) also says she won’t vote for such a bill; she voted for precisely such a bill in 2015. She issued this statement:

As I have said before, I did not come to Washington to hurt people. For months, I have expressed reservations about the direction of the bill to repeal and replace Obamacare. I have serious concerns about how we continue to provide affordable care to those who have benefited from West Virginia’s decision to expand Medicaid, especially in light of the growing opioid crisis. All of the Senate health care discussions drafts have failed to address these concerns adequately. My position on this issue is driven by its impact on West Virginians. With that in mind, I cannot vote to repeal Obamacare without a replacement plan that addresses my concerns and the needs of West Virginians.

They won’t be the only ones.

This is an excellent opportunity for conservatives to find out who was serious about Obamacare repeal, and who wasn’t. This should be a litmus test for conservative primary challengers. While President Trump is focusing, laser like, on offing Senator Jeff Flake (R-AZ) for the crime of not being sufficiently deferential to Trump himself, Republicans should focus on whether they need Senators who vote to keep in place bad Democratic legislation out of a desire to expand government.

So, where is President Trump?

This would be the time for him to exert some pressure. But so far, it’s just been Vice President Pence, stating that “inaction is not an option.” Except that it is obviously, most assuredly an option. For most senators, it may be the most useful option. This is the problem with a president who seems to care only when his ego is slighted, not about his policy prescriptions. 

ObamaCrapCare Is Far From The Successful Program The President Wants To Portray It As.

Did Obamacare Really

 Insure 20 Million?

Jared Hatch / Alyene Senger / @AlyeneSenger / December 09, 2016 / comments

The administration's enrollment figure is based on survey data, which is less reliable than data derived from insurers themselves. (Photo: iStock Photos)

• Private market growth has been slow.

  COMMENTARY BY

  Jared Hatch

  Jared Hatch is a member of the Young Leaders Program at The Heritage Foundation.

  Alyene Senger@AlyeneSenger

  Alyene Senger focuses her research and writing at The Heritage Foundation on the intricacies of health care as a policy analyst in the Center for Health Policy Studies. Read her research.
  One of the most frequently heard claims from

   the Obama administration is that Obamacare is

   responsible for insuring 20 million adults who 

  were previously uninsured. But Heritage Foundation 

  research shows the administration’s figure is off by

   a few million.

  The Department of Health and Human Services 

  claims that 20 million people have gained health

   coverage since the enactment of Obamacare in

   2010 through early 2016.

  Of those people, 2.3 million are said to be young 

  adults (ages 19 to 25) that gained coverage between 

  2010 and 2013 as a result of the Obamacare 

  provision allowing them to stay on their parents’ 

  plan until age 26.

  The remaining 17.7 million people gained health 

  insurance from Obamacare’s first open enrollment

   period between October 2013 and early 2016.

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  However, it is important to note that the 

  administration’s coverage estimates are based on

   survey data rather than calculating the actual

   change in coverage in different markets. Though

   surveys can provide useful information, they are 

  not as precise as using enrollment data taken

  directly from insurance companies.

  A recent analysis by The Heritage Foundation’s

   Edmund Haislmaier and Drew Gonshorowski uses

   the more accurate method, taking actual enrollment

   data from Medicaid and private insurance

   companies to assess the impact Obamacare

   has had on coverage.

  The researchers found that just over 14 million

   people gained coverage from the end of 2013 

  to the end of 2015. Of those 14 million, 11.8 million

   gained their insurance through Medicaid and 2.2

   million through private coverage.

  The report provides several key takeaways from

   the first two years of Obamacare’s full

   implementation:

Enrollment in the individual market increased by 5.9 million and the self-insured employer market grew by 3.9 million. However, these increases were largely offset by an enrollment drop of 7.6 million people in fully insured employer group plans. Overall, the net gain in private market coverage was only 2.3 million people.

• Medicaid enrollment has surged.

In states that adopted Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion, enrollment surged by 10.4 million. However, Medicaid enrollment also rose by 1.4 million in states that didn’t expand their Medicaid programs. Overall, enrollment in Medicaid and the Children’s Health Insurance Program accounts for 84 percent of the total coverage gains from Obamacare since 2014.

• Obamacare’s impact is diminishing.

Though only two full years of data are available, Obamacare

 appears to be having less of an impact on both private and

 public insurance markets after its first year of implementation.

For example, while the individual market saw an upsurge of 

40 percent in 2014 (the first year of Obamacare’s implementation),

 it drastically slowed in 2015, with enrollment growth of just

 7 percent.

Likewise, the law seems to be having less impact on the fully insured employer group market. In 2014, enrollment in that sector fell by 11 percent, but in 2015, it nearly broke even, decreasing by only 2 percent. Medicaid enrollment also experienced a similar trend. In states that expanded, enrollment increased 23 percent in 2014 but slowed to 4 percent growth in 2015.

Understanding exactly how Obamacare has affected health coverage is important as Congress works to repeal Obamacare and replace it with market-based reforms in the coming months.

ACA Is A Success! Premims ONLY Go UP 3% As Deductibles Jump Skyward. ObamaCrapCare IS A Failure

Health insurance is getting more affordable — but there’s a catch

September 14, 2016

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It’s fair to say health insurance premiums will always go up in America. But new data collectedfrom employers by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) and Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) shows these spikes have started to slow down.

According to the two organizations’ annual Employer Health Benefits Survey released Wednesday, this year’s average increase was just 3%, less than last year’s 4%. The slowdown hasn’t just been the past two years — it’s an ongoing trend. Kaiser reported a 63% premium increase from 2001 to 2006, a 31% from 2006 to 2011, and a shrunken 20% increase from 2011 until now.

For consumers, slow premium growth is good news, especially considering the stagnant wage growth that finally broke in 2015, according to Census data released Tuesday.

However, premium costs don’t tell the whole story of money. The healthcare game has always been zero sum, and there’s a catch: high deductibles.

In the past year, employers reported that deductibles had risen a whopping 12%. This means that for the first time, more than half (51%) of all workers who have health insurance have deductibles of over $1,000.

So why is this happening? As you may have noticed, employers have been phasing out the traditional Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) plans, options that front-load costs to employees in premium-form, instead of in the deductible. In 2014, 58% of covered workers were in these plans. Today they make up 48%.

High-deductible plans that often utilize tools like HSAs and HRAs have swooped in to take the place of these PPO options, and have grown from 20% to 29% of the market-share from 2014. On a conference call with reporters, Ken Anderson, chief operating officer of the HRET, said “this illustrates the continued strategy to shift the financial burden to employees.”

Fortunately, many companies give their employees earmarked cash to trim the high deductibles to something more manageable. This year, 43% of workers received enough to reduce the amount they’d be on the hook for to less than $1,000, and 9% even got enough to pay the whole deductible.

“It’s a shift to what insurance is for most Americans,” KFF CEO Drew Altman noted on the call. “Skimpier coverage with more skin in the game.” He noted this was most pronounced in businesses with fewer than 200 employees.

So is this good or bad? “It’s both good and bad,” said Altman, who called it one of the biggest changes in healthcare. “It may even be more important than the ACA in the number of people affected.”

Ethan Wolff-Mann is a writer at Yahoo Finance focusing on personal finance and tech.

ACA Is A Success! Premims ONLY Go UP 3% As Deductibles Jump Skyward. ObamaCrapCare IS A Failure

Health insurance is getting more affordable — but there’s a catch

September 14, 2016

Ad:

24 seconds

It’s fair to say health insurance premiums will always go up in America. But new data collectedfrom employers by the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) and Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) shows these spikes have started to slow down.

According to the two organizations’ annual Employer Health Benefits Survey released Wednesday, this year’s average increase was just 3%, less than last year’s 4%. The slowdown hasn’t just been the past two years — it’s an ongoing trend. Kaiser reported a 63% premium increase from 2001 to 2006, a 31% from 2006 to 2011, and a shrunken 20% increase from 2011 until now.

For consumers, slow premium growth is good news, especially considering the stagnant wage growth that finally broke in 2015, according to Census data released Tuesday.

However, premium costs don’t tell the whole story of money. The healthcare game has always been zero sum, and there’s a catch: high deductibles.

In the past year, employers reported that deductibles had risen a whopping 12%. This means that for the first time, more than half (51%) of all workers who have health insurance have deductibles of over $1,000.

So why is this happening? As you may have noticed, employers have been phasing out the traditional Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) plans, options that front-load costs to employees in premium-form, instead of in the deductible. In 2014, 58% of covered workers were in these plans. Today they make up 48%.

High-deductible plans that often utilize tools like HSAs and HRAs have swooped in to take the place of these PPO options, and have grown from 20% to 29% of the market-share from 2014. On a conference call with reporters, Ken Anderson, chief operating officer of the HRET, said “this illustrates the continued strategy to shift the financial burden to employees.”

Fortunately, many companies give their employees earmarked cash to trim the high deductibles to something more manageable. This year, 43% of workers received enough to reduce the amount they’d be on the hook for to less than $1,000, and 9% even got enough to pay the whole deductible.

“It’s a shift to what insurance is for most Americans,” KFF CEO Drew Altman noted on the call. “Skimpier coverage with more skin in the game.” He noted this was most pronounced in businesses with fewer than 200 employees.

So is this good or bad? “It’s both good and bad,” said Altman, who called it one of the biggest changes in healthcare. “It may even be more important than the ACA in the number of people affected.”

Ethan Wolff-Mann is a writer at Yahoo Finance focusing on personal finance and tech.