Discussion: Obamacare Rates Will Rise 30 Percent In Penn. After Trump Cuts Subsidies

Thank you for the swing state, Dipshit in Chief.

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Fair enough. You’re doing more than I am, to be honest. And when you talk about outside consultants that’s a particular problem I can agree with your argument about. A successful candidate usually has to know the community in his or her bones. Some are quick studies—Obama went on a kind of listening tour of rural Illinois, and he learned a lot about the country that way. Even Trump, using his con-man skills, divined something about how the post-industrial folks felt. A marketing-type consultant can’t give you that if you don’t have it. And any group that’s listening to them probably doesn’t know how to fight for those votes, so again, that’s an argument I can agree with. Thanks.

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No worries, Hair Furor has made sure everyone’s income has increased by 50%, so it’s all beautiful, believe me…

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TrumpDon’tCare is the official title…

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The chant for the Halls of Power will be “ObamaCare is failing” and “we told you so”. They will leave out the parts that are causal, because an analysis of cause and effect is too sciency and science is the realm of the godless and democrats.

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If a prezident knowingly and willfully harms citizens of the USA, like Trump just did- and BRAGGED about it- isn’t that cause for impeachment?

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Hey, around here we’re more into blaming “Bernie Bros” than professional consultants. :wink:

I kid, I kid.

BTW, thanks for the work you do in support of our candidates. You are on the front line of keeping a great state like Minnesota blue.

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Trump: We all must sacrifice if ObamaCare has to be killed. Some of us will suffer and die and be poor but its all worth it. Believe you me!!

OK Dems…GET THE WORD OUT…over and over again. This is TRUMP destroying health care. YOUR healthcare. This is not the ACA imploding. DO NOT BE NICE. DO NOT THINK ‘Everyone Knows’. GET OUT THERE. BLAME IT ON WHERE THE BLAME LIES. Do it.

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The 30 percent rise in premiums will only hit silver level plans…

This is a very important nuance to the law. The risk reduction subsidies to the insurance companies are only for silver plans. At the same time the rate of subsidies paid to individuals is tied to silver plan premiums but it is applied to all plans, silver, gold and bronze. This means that if you are on a gold or bronze plan in Penn. and you get a cost covering subsidy, that subsidy will go up, but the premiums of your plan may not go up much at all, meaning that your out of pocket costs could, in theory, go down.

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How to let Toomey know how you feel about the 30% raise in health care premiums if you live in PA!

https://www.toomey.senate.gov/

Of course, that’s right up there with the all the people who weren’t worried about Obamacare cratering because they had their insurance through ACA.

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Have to be honest myself, it wasn’t until I was at least mid-forties that I began to pay any attention to my benefits and so forth. I had a reasonable bennies package, got checkups and my teeth cleaned, paid the co-pay, all very good no problem. I didn’t have any absurd beliefs that I recall, but I sure didn’t know much. The big picture didn’t really interest or concern me. Wish it were like that now.

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“The president’s deliberate action and [Republican] Congress’s failure to appropriate these funds despite repeated requests is forcing large rate increases on consumers in Pennsylvania and around the country."

Is this what winning feels like? Asking for a friend.

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Thanks, Obama Trump!1!

wow, talk about a get out the vote effort!

well done Moron, provided some serious motivation to vote blue

OH! I blame them too! :sunglasses:

I am an equal-opportunity finger-pointer. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Who did PA vote for again?

This article misses a fundamental point - the Silver Plans are the ones where the enrollees receive the subsidies. These folks won’t see their own costs go up by 30% … the federal budget will increase by hundreds of millions, if not billions, as a result of this.

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It will be okay with the folks here in the Cumberland Valley.
Any Republican is better then any Democrat.
You got to live here to love it.

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