UPDATE: GOP PLAN = Totally Misleading NEW Attack on Obamacare
GOP = Digging for 2015 bad Obamacare premium news = GOP Theory High Prices
GOP RNC LIE = “Americans will be shocked by higher premiums this November.”
HIS LIPS ARE MOVING!
GOP = GOP = FORGOT Obamacare is designed to protect enrollees against year-to-year price fluctuations.
Larry Levitt, Kaiser Family Foundation = At least one insurer in Washington was cutting rates next year.
How Obamacare Protects Premiums = People receiving subsidies are “shielded” from price increases = Subsidies are calculated based on a person’s income = Cap the dollar amount that a person would pay. = Amount paid is tied to their incomes, not their premiums, they are mostly protected from any price increases. = shielded from premium increases = 85% of Obamacare’s 8 million enrollees received financial assistance.
GOP = Lies and leaves out a big piece of the story to TRY to MAKE OBAMACARE AND ISSUE in 2014 and beyond.
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OBAMACARE CUTS HEALTH CARE INFLATION NOW LOWEST ON RECORD
NOW AT ONLY 1.3%
JUST ALL OF US WATCHING THE OVERCHARGING FRAUD HAS CUT THE OVERCHARGING FRAUD DRAMATICALLY!
CBO SAYS: OVER 100% OF FUTURE PROJECTED BUDGET DEFICIT WAS DUE TO HEALTH CARE COST INFLATION – SO NOW THAT HEAVY LOAD IS DRAMATICALLY REDUCED.
SOURCE: TRENDS IN HEALTH CARE COST AND THE ROLE OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT
GOP MADE US #1 in WORLD IN HEALTH CARE COSTS AND SPENDlNG
GOP = 9,OOO% INFLATION SINCE REAGAN
SCOTT (R-FL) DID KlCKBACKS TO DOCTORS TO MAKE FAKED inflated DlAGNOSES TO INCREASE BILLINGS AND ROB MEDlCARE AND THE TAXPAYER!
SCOTT (R-FL) DID KlCKBACKS TO DOCTORS TO GET THEM TO REFER PATIENTS INTO HIS HOSPlTAL FOR MASSlVE LOOTlNG OF MEDlCARE AND lNSURANCE COS!
OBAMACARE 2013 INFLATION = 1.3% = LOWEST IN RECORDED HISTORY
“From 2010 to 2012, health spending grew at an annual rate of just 1.1% in real per capita terms—the lowest rate in the 50 years we have been collecting these data, and a small fraction of the 6% rate that inaugurated the past decade.”
— JASON FURMAN Wall Street Journal “ObamaCare Is Slowing Health Inflation”
GOP = LOVES THE SCAMS IN HEALTH CARE = WANTS TO KEEP ALL OF THEM!
WAKE UP AMERICA = GOP thinks health care is only for $Millionaires
GOP = Don’t care if working people can afford health care
GOP = Love to see working families go bankrupt if they lose their jobs or if a family member needs expensive health care.
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SOURCE: TRENDS IN HEALTH CARE COST AND THE ROLE OF THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT10% REDUCTION IN HEALTH CARE SPENDING PROJECTIONS!
Around 1.5% of AMERICANS will see a slight increase under OBAMACARE!
80% UNAFFECTED AMERICANS
15% UNINSURED WILL NOW BE COVERED
2.5% GET SIMILAR COST PLAN
1.3% GET BETTER PLAN WITH SUBSIDIES
1.5% GET BETTER PLAN WITH NO SUBSIDIES AND SLIGHT INCREASE IN COST
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GOP STATES CHEAT THEIR CITIZENS OUT OF HEALTH CARE COVERAGE!
OBAMACARE REFORMS:
Cuts $1.7 TRILLION from National Debt over 20 years – CBO Reports
Creates incentives so provides make decisions based on quality rather than quantity of care = Reduces cost.
Cracking down on waste and fraud in Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP and private insurers
Creates competitive health insurance exchanges where consumers and small businesses can compare and buy affordable insurance (like large companies do)
Creates tax credits and subsidies to help low and middle income Americans afford quality care and stops excessive premium increases
Closes Medicare prescription drug “donut hole” – providing an initial $250 rebate and then deep discounts on prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries in the donut hole
Extends the solvency of the Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund by at least nine year
NO MORE pre-existing condition discrimination and denying of coverage
NO MORE – Insurance dropped on people when they get sick
Doublers number of Community Health Centers to Increases access to care – Rural Areas over five years.
Expands eligibility for Medicaid
Eliminates co pays for preventative Medicare benefits such as cancer screenings and provides free yearly exams for Medicare beneficiaries
Preventive care covered 100 percent by Medicare and Eliminates co-pays for preventive care under new private plan
Temporary coverage for early retirees, ages 55-64
Ends restrictive annual limits on benefits for new insurance policies
Allows adult children to be covered under their parents’ plan up to the age of 26
Insurers must spend at least 80% of premiums on medical care or rebate the rest.
Obamacare = Removes Monopolies with competitive Free Markets
Obamacare = Massive reduction in NUMBER of Extremely Expensive ER visits.
ObamaCare = No more hassles with pre-existing conditions.
Obamacare = Reduced OVERHEAD that the Insurance Scammers can SKIM from AMERICANS!
Obamacare = Lowest health care inflation in recorded history! 1.3% – 50 YEARS!
Obamacare = Not perfect but then what is?
Obamacare = No lifetime Limits if you become seriously ill!
Obamacare = Family members can stay on parents’ plans until 26 years old.
Obamacare = No annual benefit max for prescriptions – GOP Medicare DONUT HOLE CLOSED!
Obamacare = SAVES TAXPAYERS $1.2 TRILLION over next 20 years = C B O says
Obamacare = Freedom to change jobs without losing or changing health insurance
Obamacare = A BIG BOON TO PEOPLE AND THE ECONOMY – Start New Businesses with less Risk!
Obamacare = Later Lets ADD Medicare Buy-In as an Option on the Exchanges!
Vermont = Already has that flexibility!
Medicare = 3.1% Overhead compared to
Insurance = 15% to 30% Overhead.
We saved $2,400 per year with no subsidies from Blue Cross!
Got to love the competition IN STATES THAT ARE TRYING!
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OBAMACARE REFORMS:
Cuts $1.7 TRILLION from National Debt over 20 years – CBO Reports
Creates incentives so provides make decisions based on quality rather than quantity of care = Reduces cost.
Cracking down on waste and fraud in Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP and private insurers
Creates competitive health insurance exchanges where consumers and small businesses can compare and buy affordable insurance (like large companies do)
Creates tax credits and subsidies to help low and middle income Americans afford quality care and stops excessive premium increases
Closes Medicare prescription drug “donut hole” – providing an initial $250 rebate and then deep discounts on prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries in the donut hole
Extends the solvency of the Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund by at least nine years
NO MORE pre-existing condition discrimination and denying of coverage
NO MORE – Insurance dropped on people when they get sick
Doublers number of Community Health Centers to Increases access to care – Rural Areas over five years.
Expands eligibility for Medicaid
Eliminates co pays for preventative Medicare benefits such as cancer screenings and provides free yearly exams for Medicare beneficiaries
Preventive care covered 100 percent by Medicare and Eliminates co-pays for preventive care under new private plans
Ends restrictive annual limits on benefits for new insurance policies
Allows adult children to be covered under their parents’ plan up to the age of 26
Insurers must spend at least 80% of premiums on medical care or rebate the rest.
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GOP = LOVES THlS KlND OF DRUG AND HEALTH CARE FRAUD IN ALL lTS FORMS!
US HEALTH CARE FRAUD IS UNBELlEVABLE! 1,OOO% to 3O,OOO% OVERCHARGlNG:
- $1O8,663 for “SPECIAL DRUGS” mostly not-so-special $5.16/liter standard saline
- $3O to $333 charge for “LAB” for BLOOD and URlNE – Medicare pays $7 to $3O.
- $15,000 for BLOOD and lab tests with Medicare would cost a few hundred dollars
- $1.50 for TyIenol PiII – 1OO like piIIs are $1.49 for consumers.
- $13,702 for a cancer wonder drug – hospitaI PAlD $3,000 to $3,500. 400% MARKUP!
- $283.00 for a simple chest X-ray – Medicare pays $20.44
- $21,000 for a faIse aIarm – $995 ambuIance+$3,000 DOCTORS+$17,000 HOSPlTAL
- $199.50 troponin test – Medicare only pays $13.94
- $157.61 complete BLOOD COUNT – Medicare pays $11.02
- TRlPLE BlLLlNGS VERY COMMON!
- $18 per Accu-chek diabetes test strips – 55¢ each retail cost
- $7,997.54 stress test with radioactive dye ($872.44) on CT scan – Medicare pays $554
- $1,200 for regular stress test – Medicare pays $96
- $87,000 Outpatient BiII
- $333 Chest X-Ray – Medicare pays $23.83
- $3 for marking pen – reusable – Medicare pays $O
- $31 for reusable strap to patient on bed – Medicare pays $O
- $32 for reusable bIanket – Medicare pays $O
- $39 for GOWN surgeon WORE – Medicare pays $O
Still MEDlCARE can NOT negotiate WITH BlG PHAMA FRAUDSTERS!
COSTlNG $TRlLLlONS!
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GOP = LOVES THE PRIVATIZED HEALTH CARE SCAMS!
XRAY = COST IN USA VERSUS OTHER LOCATlONS AROUND WORLD
4O to 24O TlMES HlGHER COST IN USA VERSUS lNDlA
6 to 34 TlMES HlGHER COST IN USA VERSUS FRANCE
13 to 80 TlMES HlGHER COST IN USA VERSUS PAKlSTAN
$O COST = EngIand for X-RAY and DOCTOR’s.
5O to 300 TlMES HlGHER COST IN USA VERSUS PHlLlPPlNES
33 to 5O TlMES HlGHER COST IN USA VERSUS SOUTH KOREA
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USA COST = $2O5 to $1,200
lNDlA COST = less than $5 for a chest X-ray SERlES.
FRANCE COST $35 – chest Xray Study + DOCTOR – for whole thing!
PAKlSTAN COST = $15 for XRAY STUDY of lower abdomen and neck.
PHlLlPPlNES = $4 TO $5 FOR a chest x-ray for 2 views INCLUDES DOCTOR
SOUTH KOREA = cost $6 to $25 SOUTH KOREA including DOCTOR visit, X-Ray – done immediately – total waited about 15 minutes.
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NO MORE-PROFITING ON SlCK PEOPLE!
GOP = LlVES OFF BRlBES FROM $TRlLLlON CRlMlNAL SCAMS THEY SPONSOR
PRlVATlZED HOSPlTAL FRAUD!
SOME CODE PRlCE VARIATlONS – 4,O98% = 41 X HlGHER PRlCES AT “FOR PROFIT” HOSPITALS!
SOURCE: THE SPREADSHEET DATA FROM H P!
% HlGH PRlCE over LOW Diagnostic related Group
- 4,098% 812 – RED BLOOD CELL DlSORDERS
- 3,472% 917 – POlSONlNG & TOXlC EFFECT
- 2,971% 682 – RENAL FAlLURE W MCC
- 2,894% 897 – ALCOHOL/DRUG ABUSE
- 2,860% 871 – SEPTlCEMlA OR SEVERE SEP
- 2,839% 885 – PSYCHOSES
- 2,435% 948 – SlGNS & SYMPTOMS
- 2,199% 872 – SEPTlCEMlA OR SEVERE
- 2,170% 690 – KlDNEY & URlNARY TRACT
- 2,156% 683 – RENAL FAlLURE
- 2,107% 603 – CELLULlTlS
- 2,079% 552 – MEDlCAL BACK PROBLEMS
- 2,028% 638 – DlABETES
DATA FROM A MASSlVE DATABASE: https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/Medicare-Provider-Charge-Data/index.html
The Great American Hospital Pricing Scam Exposed-We Now Know Why Healthcare Costs Are So Artificially High
Insured Americans = Paying OUTRAGEOUS charges in ever-rising cost of Insurance
Unfortunate millions of Americans who has no health insurance = Charged SAME OUTRAGEOUS and shamefully inflated rate card prices guaranteeing financial ruin if you experience an illness.
Vast chasm between the rate card charges from one hospital to the next?
Hospital Procedures cost 10+ TIMES the price charged for the identical service at other Hospital – Sometimes 41 TIMES HIGHER!
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2O13/O5/O8/hospital-prices-cost-differences_n_3232678.html
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OBAMACARE REFORMS:
Cuts $1.7 TRILLION from National Debt over 20 years – CBO Reports
Creates incentives so provides make decisions based on quality rather than quantity of care = Reduces cost.
Cracking down on waste and fraud in Medicare, Medicaid, SCHIP and private insurers
Creates competitive health insurance exchanges where consumers and small businesses can compare and buy affordable insurance (like large companies do)
Creates tax credits and subsidies to help low and middle income Americans afford quality care and stops excessive premium increases
Closes Medicare prescription drug “donut hole” – providing an initial $250 rebate and then deep discounts on prescription drugs for Medicare beneficiaries in the donut hole
Extends the solvency of the Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund by at least nine years
NO MORE pre-existing condition discrimination and denying of coverage
NO MORE – Insurance dropped on people when they get sick
Doublers number of Community Health Centers to Increases access to care – Rural Areas over five years.
Expands eligibility for Medicaid
Eliminates co pays for preventative Medicare benefits such as cancer screenings and provides free yearly exams for Medicare beneficiaries
Preventive care covered 100 percent by Medicare and Eliminates co-pays for preventive care under new private plans
Temporary coverage for early retirees, ages 55-64
Ends restrictive annual limits on benefits for new insurance policies
Allows adult children to be covered under their parents’ plan up to the age of 26
Insurers must spend at least 80% of premiums on medical care or rebate the rest.
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