On the Anniversary of ObamaCare Tell Congress We Need Real Reform
Today is the anniversary of the Obama Health Law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a fact-based review of its impact should make this a very unhappy birthday. What has happened in the first year of ObamaCare?
- Premiums have continued to rise at rapid rates.
- Insurance coverage has shrunk for those who have insurance.
- More than 1,000 waivers by the Obama administration allow mini-med plans, which provide limited and inadequate insurance, to continue.
- The U.S. is moving toward a new norm: “unaffordable underinsurance.”
- Areas of expansion of coverage are failing to increase insurance coverage of the uninsured.
- Medicaid, half of the expansion of coverage, is shrinking with hundreds of thousands being taken off Medicaid and states are cutting back on its already inadequate coverage.
- The insurance mandate, the other major coverage expansion (which Prosperity Agenda believes is unconstitutional) is under attack and headed to a very close Supreme Court decision.
- Programs providing insurance to people with prior conditions are not being used because they are too expensive. Millions have no insurance due to pre-existing conditions but only 12,000 have signed up for the insurance available to them.
- The insurance industry is expanding its tentacles into other aspects of health care including providing health care. This creates a rigged game where insurance approves providers and then owns the providers.
For details on all of these facts with links to sources read, One Year Anniversary: The Incredible Shrinking Obama Health Care Law.
The implosion of ObamaCare is presenting an opportunity for the single payer movement. More and more public officials are seeing improved Medicare for All as the only solution. Terry Dougherty, director of MassHealth, from the state which is the model for the Obama law is reaching the obvious conclusion: “I like the market, but the more and more I stay in it, the more and more I think that maybe a single payer would be better.” He notes that unlike the insurance industry government costs less, with much lower administrative costs and “We don’t build big buildings. We don’t have high salaries. We don’t have a lot of marketing.”
Vermont is moving toward a single payer system. A state showing single payer works would be a tremendous advancement. Also, the "Expanded and Improved Medicare for All Act," H.R. 676, a bill that sets up a single payer system has been introduced in the U.S. Congress.
Please write your member of Congress and as them to co-sponsor HR 676, by clicking here. You can see a list of the 39 co-sponsors here. Whether or not your representative is a co-sponsor forward this newsletter so people know the truth about the impact of the new health care law and urge them to read One Year Anniversary: The Incredible Shrinking Obama Health Care Law.
We need real health care reform. The crisis in American health care continues. Americans who lack any health coverage still exceeds 50 million, over 45,000 deaths occur annually due to lack of health insurance, and 40 million Americans, including over 10 million children, are underinsured. We need action on real reform now.
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