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@parados,

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That has nothing to do with the ACA and is not caused by the ACA.

The Employer mandate has been pushed back past the election. It will have everything to do with it soon. Obama will not enforce the law as it was written. Manipulation at its finest. Putting off what will doom employer health plans because of the costs.

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@parados,

The ACA caused a rise in my insurance premiums, prior to the ACA I would see a small rise in the cost of my insurance plan, maybe $20 or $50 a pay period, not a rise of $200 a month. That is a fact. The ACA cost more for replacement insurance, and would do nothing to lower my costs. In fact switching to the ACA would double my current costs.

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@Baldimo,

Baldimo is from Venus, parados is from Mars.

Coldjoint is from Pluto.

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@JTT,

<snicker> Good 'un!

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@Baldimo,

Nothing you've presented indicates that. Everything you've presented indictes savings of $700 or more a month after your employer stops contributing $700 a pay period to your premium and puts that into your paycheck instead. That lone increases your paycheck from $700 - $1,400 a month - at least $10,000 a year. You are "stand" wise and dollar foolish.

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The GOP is out to kill you.
Talk about your death panels. The GOP's refusal to expand Medicaid in Florida actually killed this woman, when otherwise, she'd still be here. This is out of control. The GOP needs to take full responsibility for her death. It does not have to be this way. We're killing our own people due to greed and ignorance. Of course, since this is related indirectly to the ACA, the GOP is against it. I can only hope that other states that have refused to expand Medicaid are listening and reading and change their minds. WTF

http://orlandoweekly.com/news/the-perils-of-florida-s-refusal-to-expand-medicaid-1.1665144

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@bobsal u1553115,

I will say it again. You want me to change my medical insurance due to the ACA causing the price of my insurance to go up. There wasn't a problem with my insurance before the ACA, only after the ACA.

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@Baldimo,

Give it a chance, Baldimo.

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Lack Of Health Insurance Linked To 17,000 Childhood Deaths, US

Thu 29 Oct 2009 - 11am PST

A new US study concluded that lack of health insurance may have contributed or led to nearly 17,000 hospital deaths among American children over two decades.

The study was the work of lead researcher Dr Fizan Abdullah, pediatric surgeon at Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore, Maryland, and colleagues and is due to be published on 30 October in the Journal of Public Health.

Abdullah and colleagues said that their study, which was funded by the Robert Garrett Fund for the Treatment of Children, is one of the largest ever to examine the effect of insurance on preventable deaths and potentially saveable lives of sick children in the US.

He and his colleagues reviewed over 23 million hospital records from 37 states covering the period 1988 to 2005 and compared the risk of death between hospitalized children with and without health insurance.

The results showed that 0.47 per cent (104,520) of 22.2 million insured hospitalized children died compared with 0.75 per cent (9,468) of 1.2 million uninsured hospitalized children.

After adjusting for potential confounders, they calculated that an uninsured child in the study was 60 per cent more likely to die in the hospital than an insured child.

Even when they compared rates of death by underlying disease, he and his colleagues found the uninsured still had a bigger risk of dying than the insured.

Abdullah told the media that:

"If you are a child without insurance, if you're seriously ill and end up in the hospital, you are 60 percent more likely to die than the sick child in the next room who has insurance."

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http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/169216.php

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Senate Passes Unemployment Benefits Extension Bill, House Republicans Continue to Stall
Source: The Brooklyn Reader

The U.S. Senate finally passed a bill that would extend long-term unemployment insurance benefits on Monday, but the House of Representatives continue to find fault in the measure and are less eager to do the same.

House Speaker John Boehner, a Republican from Ohio, is calling the bill “unworkable,” because it fails to create jobs (although a jobs creation bill has very little to do with a decision on whether to extend insurance benefits).

Boehner also says the bill cannot work because individual state governments will have trouble finding the 2 million people who’ve missed out on the benefits since they lapsed in December.

The Congressional Budget Office has said repeatedly that emergency unemployment benefits boost jobs because claimants plow their benefits directly into necessities such as food and shelter.

Read more: http://www.bkreader.com/2014/04/senate-passes-unemployment-benefits-extension-bill-house-republicans-stall/

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I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth.

Now that the Obamacare sign up deadline has come and gone, and come and then gone again, and been delayed and then come, then suddenly without warning been decreed to be gone, and then returned and sort of snuck past under the radar and then — surprise! — popped up and has come and then gone... it’s time to take a fair, non-partisan look at the costs and benefits and even more enormous costs of the Affordable Care Act, to examine the administration’s claims for its signature domestic achievement and separate the lies from the distortions and fantasies.

For instance, the president recently ridiculed conservative concerns about the act by saying, “There are still no death panels. Armageddon has not arrived.” Let’s examine those statements. True? Or false? Or complete crap?

There is no Death Panel in Obamacare but there is the Independent Payment Advisory Board, 15 unelected bureaucrats who will employ the very latest in dartboards, graft and magic eight balls to determine whether your Medicare costs are affordable or you should be killed. Obamacare supporters point out that this is not like pushing our old people out to sea on ice floes, since global warming will melt all the ice floes and it’ll just be like taking a warm bath and then you’ll be dead.

As for whether Armageddon has arrived, while there have been wars and rumors of wars and earthquakes in diverse places, the moon has not yet turned to blood. So there’s something positive we can say about Obamacare.

But the president’s most important claims are that “the share of Americans with insurance is up and the growth of health care costs is down, and that’s good for our middle class and that’s good for our fiscal future.”

All of which would be absolutely true if it weren’t utterly false. In fact, Obamacare has only insured a miniscule percentage of the previously uninsured, no one knows how many of those can actually pay for what they got, health care costs are soaring, and what’s left of the middle class is pretty well screwed. As for our fiscal future... oh look, how pretty, the moon just turned all red... Uh oh.

I’m Andrew Klavan with the Revolting Truth.

http://www.truthrevolt.org//video/andrew-klavan-obamacare-lies-or-crap

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@Baldimo,

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There wasn't a problem with my insurance before the ACA, only after the ACA.

Nothing wrong with it except it costs twice as much as should. Don't burn your money, just send it to me.

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@bobsal u1553115,

Interesting that you are touting the success of the ACA, when we have no final #'s in and Kathleen Sebelius just resigned today. I wonder why she quit?

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@Baldimo,

Interesting that you are so invested in hampering the citizens of the USA from getting the health care they need to bring the USA up to a third world level of healthcare, Baldimo.

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@bobsal u1553115,

Racists? Really? Try lying sons a bitches in the WH. And the right of the American people to hear the truth. A truth that is blocked by executive privilege, abuse of power in the WH, the DOJ, and the Senate. It has 0 to do with race. And the lefts determination to get that big lie out there and keep it there out with morons like you to help is getting old.

Try again slimeball. And this time tells us about transparency.

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@coldjoint,

You completely ignored the facts in bobsal's post, cj, and pulled up a big fat red herring.

What percent of people in those four states want expanded healthcare?

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@JTT,

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ignored the facts in bobsal's post

The race baiting was enough to ignore the post.

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@coldjoint,

Any red herring is good for empty headed tea baggers, cj.

Now what are those figures you are studiously ignoring?

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@JTT,

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Now what are those figures you are studiously ignoring?

Propaganda mainly. You should understand propaganda. Zinn is a master at it.

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