RIGHT ANGLE - OBAMACARE - AT DEATH'S DOOR

ObamaCare strikes again - Rate increases for 2016

"Dozens of health insurers selling plans under ObamaCare have requested hefty premium increases for 2016, according to preliminary information published Monday by the White House.

The insurers have cited higher-than-expected care costs from customers they gained under the ObamaCare's coverage expansion and the rising cost of prescription drugs and other expenses as reasons for proposing the increases, many of which are in the double-digit percentages.

Among the market leaders, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina is seeking a roughly 26 percent premium increase, while plans in Illinois and Florida, among other states, are asking for hikes of 20 percent or more. In Pennsylvania, Highmark Health Insurance Co. is asking for a 30 percent increase."

I'll just leave this here.

Trans Pacific Partnership

"If you want to hear the details of the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal the Obama administration is hoping to pass, you’ve got to be a member of Congress, and you’ve got to go to classified briefings and leave your staff and cellphone at the door.

If you’re a member who wants to read the text, you’ve got to go to a room in the basement of the Capitol Visitor Center and be handed it one section at a time, watched over as you read, and forced to hand over any notes you make before leaving.

And no matter what, you can’t discuss the details of what you’ve read.

“It’s like being in kindergarten,” said Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), who’s become the leader of the opposition to President Barack Obama’s trade agenda. “You give back the toys at the end.”

For those out to sink Obama’s free trade push, highlighting the lack of public information is becoming central to their opposition strategy: The White House isn’t even telling Congress what it’s asking for, they say, or what it’s already promised foreign governments."

I"m sorry, but is this going to be like Net Neutrality? Or ObamaCare?  You have to pass it to read it?

Uhhhh with all the hidden dangers in it's predecessors, I want this WHOLE thing published in full with any and ALL notes, suggestions including who offered them, which country/nation wants what, offers what.  I want to know it A-L-L.

The only reason I can think of for so much secrecy is that it is something that will, in the words of President Obama "Fundamentally Transform" America.

I'm sorry, but I LIKED my country the way it was before he tried to "Fundamentally Transform" it.

Granted there were a few things that needed improvement as technology and lifestyles change, almost everything needs to be tweaked.

Tweaked, NOT torn down and rebuilt with very little semblance to what was there in the first place.

And THAT is what Obama and his Minions have been doing for Obama's Overlords.

Think about that.

And like they said on the X-Files,, the truth is out there.

And so is the evidence, if you get to it before it goes down the memory hole.

Explaining ObamaCare

Seen on BookFace

Gruber in 2009 Only way to control costs is to deny treatment

“So what’s different this time? Why are we closer than we’ve ever been before? Because there are no cost controls in these proposals. Because this bill’s about coverage. Which is good! Why should we hold 48 million uninsured people hostage to the fact that we don’t yet know how to control costs in a politically acceptable way? Let’s get the people covered and then let’s do cost control.”

Gruber also said that the only way to control costs is to effectively deny treatment.

“The real substance of cost control is all about a single thing: telling patients they can’t have something they want. It’s about telling patients, ‘That surgery doesn’t do any good, so if you want it you have to pay the full cost.’”

Already older people are being told that they can't have certain treatment in the UK which is the model Gruber and Obama are trying to emulate.

"Older women 'denied breast cancer treatment

Older women with breast cancer are being denied potentially life-saving treatments which are available to younger patients, a charity said today.

While younger women routinely have surgery to remove tumours, surgeons are reluctant to operate on those over 70 because doctors believe they are too frail, according to the Cancer Research Campaign.

Women over 70 could enjoy an extra three years of life if they were given the same access to surgery as other breast cancer patients, experts said.

The charity said the NHS was discriminating against older women and called on doctors to give patients over 70 the option of having tumours surgically removed."

And since when does some bureaucrat get to decide your medical treatment?

Remember the "Death Panels"?

"The US Preventive Services Task Force is an independent body authorized by Congress to make “evidence-based recommendations about clinical preventive services such as screenings, counseling services, or preventive medications.” And since the onset of Obamacare discussions, the Task Force recommendations for treatment and screening have become less and less generous. In November 2009, the Task Force recommended that mammography for women every other year between the ages of 50 and 74. They admit that they have insufficient information to suggest that it would be fruitless to screen after 74, and they say that case-by-case screenings should take place before 50.

The Mayo Clinic, by contrast, recommends annual mammograms for women above age 40; so too does the American Cancer Society. As Dr. Sandhya Pruthi of the Mayo Clinic writes, “Findings from a large study in Sweden of women in their 40s who underwent screening mammograms showed a decrease in breast cancer deaths by 29 percent.”

Just who is going to make your health care decisions?

You and your physician?  Or some nameless faceless number cruncher in some dank office in the bowels of Washington D.C.?

VA Employees filing ObamaCare applications instead of Veterans Adminstration Applications

"Davis expanded on his revelations to Neil Cavuto on Wednesday, explaining that 17,000 applications for VA Healthcare were destroyed, and they're "also looking into a backlog of over 600,000 pending applications for VA Healthcare." The applications were purged as a way to deal with pressure from Washington D.C."

If this does not show just how craven the current administration actually is to the "Phony Scandal" people, they are willfully ignorant and blinded by their own sense of self importance.

InsuranceCompany Bailouts?

"The Obama administration has quietly adjusted key provisions of its signature healthcare law to potentially make billions of additional taxpayer dollars available to the insurance industry if companies providing coverage through the Affordable Care Act lose money.

The move was buried in hundreds of pages of new regulations issued late last week. It comes as part of an intensive administration effort to hold down premium increases for next year, a top priority for the White House as the rates will be announced ahead of this fall's congressional elections.

Administration officials for months have denied charges by opponents that they plan a "bailout" for insurance companies providing coverage under the healthcare law."

This isn't recent.  There has been talk of this for at least 8 months that I know of.

I"ll make a prediction.  Sometime before the next Presidential Election, there will be a MASSIVE bailout.  And as a part of that the Dems and RINOs will step up with a plan to take over all the companies, paving the way for the vaunted single payer system.

What do you think?

Haven't bought insurance yet? You're out of luck now.

"WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans thinking about buying health insurance on their own later this year, or maybe switching to a different insurer, are probably out of luck. The policies are going off the market as a little-noticed consequence of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul.

With limited exceptions, insurance companies have stopped selling until next year the sorts of individual plans that used to be available year-round. That locks out many of the young and healthy as well as the sick and injured, even those who can afford to buy without government subsidies."

So another thing we couldn't read before we passed it.

This deal is worse than Cloud City's deal with the Empire.

Harry Reid "You're too stupid to sign up for ObamaCare

"There are some people who are not like my grandchildren who can handle everything so easily on the Internet, and these people need a little extra time. ... The example they gave us is a 63-year-old woman came into the store and said, 'I almost got it. Every time I just about got there, it would cut me off.' We have a lot of people just like this through no fault of the Internet, but [because] people are not educated on how to use the Internet," he said."

Excuse me?  What has this to do with the millions of millennials who ARE tech and internet savvy who REFUSE to sign up for your Chinese Fire Drill?

It doesn't.  It's CYA on the part of Reid and the rest of the DNC to save their jobs while they try to drum up support among the millennials who originally wanted ObamaCare/Affordable Care Act and now that they are finding out just what it will actually cost them, they don't want ANYTHING to do with it.

They would much rather pay the fine coming out of their nonexistent tax refunds than to pay one dime towards the hunk of junque that came out of D.C.

All President Obama and the DNC are doing is to try to get some breathing room so they can try to get some more sign ups.  I personally don't doubt that we will find that the "subsidy" amounts will suddenly be increased to reduce the out of pocket expenses for the millennials as an enticement to get them to buy into it.  And watch even that be a bait and switch.

Sure they might get a larger subsidy, but for how long?

More changes to ObamaCare - no fanfare this time

"In 2013, HHS decided that ObamaCare's wave of policy terminations qualified as a "hardship" that entitled people to a special type of coverage designed for people under age 30 or a mandate exemption. HHS originally defined and reserved hardship exemptions for the truly down and out such as battered women, the evicted and bankrupts.

But amid the post-rollout political backlash, last week the agency created a new category: Now all you need to do is fill out a form attesting that your plan was cancelled and that you "believe that the plan options available in the [ObamaCare] Marketplace in your area are more expensive than your cancelled health insurance policy" or "you consider other available policies unaffordable." 

How many changes have been made by now?   And not a single one of them was brought before Congress.

This is without a doubt the most lawless Administration in the entire history of this nation.

President Obama and his Administration have made multiple changes to the Affordable Care Act aka ObamaCare, and the problem with that is he doesn't have the authority to do so.

In order to make the changes he has done, he should have submitted the changes to Congress.  And he did not do so. 

He just wrote an Executive Order.

Sorry, Executive Orders are NOT law.

President Petulants ObamaCare CYA

I didn't think of this particular wrinkle but Ace did.

"Presumably, he also won't enforce the law against citizens buying these Illegal Policies, either.

But here's the wrinkle-- why on earth would an insurance company conduct an illegal action just because a lawless President swears it's okay? Adler thinks it through"

So no matter what, we're hosed.

While I am still trying to recover

with the weather not helping at all, here are a few over at a Nod to the Gods for you to peruse.

No Pass For Clinton

Who really tanked the economy and who is keeping it that way. Despite the claims otherwise.

Make ‘Em Take The Walk Of Shame

Who is responsible for people losing their health care insurance? These people.

There Never Was An “If” In Obamas Promise

That's right, President Petulant did NOT set a modifier in his various speeches or proclamations.  With no modifier he basically lied and he KNEW he was lying.

Check out those links if you want to know what the BLEEP is going on.

I'm on a Classic Rock kick today - Bliss Band Doctor

Has some comparisions to ObamaCare/Affordable Care Act

White House had YEARS of warning

And blew the warnings off and left persons within the administrations who had NO experience in business, let alone a business startup.



To read more click the following link


CBS: 'White House Had Years of Warnings' About ObamaCare Debacle

Computer Virii through your soundcard?

Borepatch links to this one and it is scary.


"Ruiu said he arrived at the theory about badBIOS's high-frequency networking capability after observing encrypted data packets being sent to and from an infected laptop that had no obvious network connection with—but was in close proximity to—another badBIOS-infected computer. The packets were transmitted even when the laptop had its Wi-Fi and Bluetooth cards removed. Ruiu also disconnected the machine's power cord so it ran only on battery to rule out the possibility that it was receiving signals over the electrical connection. Even then, forensic tools showed the packets continued to flow over the airgapped machine. Then, when Ruiu removed the internal speaker and microphone connected to the airgapped machine, the packets suddenly stopped."

In the article it's stated that the original infection might have come in through an infected USB Thumb Drive ala STUXNET but there is still no way to fully trace it.  However the Virus /Malware/Rootkit whatever it is, appears to be able to use a computers speakers and microphone to transmit itself from one computer to another in addition to traditional methods for infection.


Also at Borepatch's there is a very interesting post about ObamaCare's Employer Mandate.

"But that mandate was for individuals, who make up less than 10% of the public.  People who get insurance via their employer make up the other 90%.  And when that mandate hits, it will be chaos.  The Administration knew back in 2010 that perhaps a hundred Million people would lose their coverage."

Click the link above and go read about it.

Coming soon to a National Healthcare Program near you

"Natasha, 16, complained of headaches. She died after 13 doctors failed to diagnose a brain tumour"

She complained to 13 different Doctors, of headaches, eye problems, dizziness and back problems for a year.

And yet one even denied her an MRI stating it was reserved for "Life or Death" cases.

This is what is now coming thanks to ObamaCare aka Affordable Care Act.

Health Rationing, Death Panles, Higher Costs, Less availability of Doctors and care.

All because of one flim flam huckster in the Whitehouse  and millions of gullible idiots.

President Petulant KNEW ObamaCare/Affordable Care Act would kill

the Health Insurance Industry here in the US.  "If you like your plan you can keep it"?  Naahhhh not so much.


"Four sources deeply involved in the Affordable Care Act tell NBC NEWS that 50 to 75 percent of the 14 million consumers who buy their insurance individually can expect to receive a “cancellation” letter or the equivalent over the next year because their existing policies don’t meet the standards mandated by the new health care law. One expert predicts that number could reach as high as 80 percent. And all say that many of those forced to buy pricier new policies will experience “sticker shock.”

Add in the website that requires ALL of your personal information, which is just ripe for Identity Thieves and the IRS to take your information who knows where.




Video found : Obama Knew Millions Would Lose Coverage: Media Did Nothing


And we also have :   Insurers Tell Congress: Beware Of Rate Shock If Enrollment Is Extended

Dr's refusing to participate in ObamaCare

New York doctors are treating ObamaCare like the plague, a new survey reveals.

A poll conducted by the New York State Medical Society finds that 44 percent of MDs said they are not participating in the nation’s new health-care plan.

Another 33 percent say they’re still not sure whether to become ObamaCare providers.

When the Dr's refuse to accept ObamaCare patients due to the increase in regulations and decrease in payments, it means there will be less Dr's available to provide care.

Less Dr's available for care means de facto healthcare rationing

Think about it.

A thought on the ObamaCare website issues

"He also blamed in part a "late decision" to require customers to register before browsing for insurance, which could have helped overwhelm the registration system. 

"This may have driven higher simultaneous usage of the registration system that wouldn't have otherwise occurred if consumers could window-shop anonymously," he said."

This thought just came to me.

The "Late" implementation for the requirement that people must create an account was done so the government can have a list of people to go after if they DON'T get insurance.

Why else, other than they don't want people to get sticker shock, would they require you to enter ALL of your personal information.  That way they have all the information they need to go after your tax returns and if you don't get a return they know where you work, they know who your spouse or your adult kids for your not having "approved" insurance.

Insty has 3 on ObamaCare you should read

Instapundit

Click that to go look at the links

Oh and this one too

Instapundit II