Quality is being sacrificed for quantity.
Funny how when the government gets involved quality is always the first thing that gets lost.
Affordable Care Act
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Quality is being sacrificed for quantity.
Funny how when the government gets involved quality is always the first thing that gets lost.
cajunrevenge
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Why do you need quality when you can force the customer to buy your product. Like the police.
Jaw
It's OVER 5,000!
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/10/06/trump-offer-broad-leway-employers-refuse-provide-birth-control-coverage-without-religious-reason/738869001/
The Trump administration is expanding the religious exemption for employers that don't want to provide insurance coverage for certain birth control methods because they have moral objections under rules announced Friday.
The Affordable Care Act required all employers to cover birth control for their workers without any co-payment, but the provision has been embroiled in lawsuits ever since.
The new rules allow any employer or insurer to stop covering contraceptive services if they have religious beliefs or moral convictions against covering birth control. It would be up to states to determine how companies should make these decisions.
Senior Health and Human Services officials said only a small fraction of women who get birth control without cost from their employers will be affected, as some large companies, including Pepsi and Exxon, had pre-ACA plans that will continue. Some church groups were already exempt from the law and not providing this coverage. The officials requested anonymity during a Friday call with reporters.
The Trump administration is expanding the religious exemption for employers that don't want to provide insurance coverage for certain birth control methods because they have moral objections under rules announced Friday.
The Affordable Care Act required all employers to cover birth control for their workers without any co-payment, but the provision has been embroiled in lawsuits ever since.
The new rules allow any employer or insurer to stop covering contraceptive services if they have religious beliefs or moral convictions against covering birth control. It would be up to states to determine how companies should make these decisions.
Senior Health and Human Services officials said only a small fraction of women who get birth control without cost from their employers will be affected, as some large companies, including Pepsi and Exxon, had pre-ACA plans that will continue. Some church groups were already exempt from the law and not providing this coverage. The officials requested anonymity during a Friday call with reporters.
jpx7
Very Flirtatious, but Doubts What Love Is.
No mention, naturally, that a lot of the NHS' recent problems are a result of the Tories' austerity regimes ...
Ezra KleinVerified account @ezraklein 6h6 hours ago
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Trump's new policy will increase premiums by 20%, cost the government $194 billion, increase the deficit, destabilize insurance markets, and increase the number of uninsured Americans. There is nothing it makes better; it's pure policy nihilism.
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Trump's new policy will increase premiums by 20%, cost the government $194 billion, increase the deficit, destabilize insurance markets, and increase the number of uninsured Americans. There is nothing it makes better; it's pure policy nihilism.
jpx7
Very Flirtatious, but Doubts What Love Is.
He wants to back-door implode the marketplaces. As someone who advocates for single-payer, but thinks the ACA is seriously flawed law, I can dispassionately say that—for better or worse for average Americans (but probably a lot worse, in the short-term)—it's not a terrible strategy, given where his Congress has left him.
57Brave
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It's a horrible strategy for those that need it.
If you don't rely on it --- think of those that do..
We agree on single payer. I see ACA as a bridge - not a finished product
Alexander / Murray :
"Trump has taunted GOP senators on Twitter and threatened to end cost-sharing subsidy funding, in a move that could drive up premiums and potentially prompt insurers to flee the market altogether. He’s also suggested ending the federal contributions that lawmakers receive to help pay for their own health care."
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/01/obamacare-bipartisan-hearings-senate-241224
If you don't rely on it --- think of those that do..
We agree on single payer. I see ACA as a bridge - not a finished product
Alexander / Murray :
"Trump has taunted GOP senators on Twitter and threatened to end cost-sharing subsidy funding, in a move that could drive up premiums and potentially prompt insurers to flee the market altogether. He’s also suggested ending the federal contributions that lawmakers receive to help pay for their own health care."
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/08/01/obamacare-bipartisan-hearings-senate-241224
57Brave
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Destroy the village to save it -- is an understandable strategy too -- but ...
jpx7
Very Flirtatious, but Doubts What Love Is.
This is all I'm really saying—though I guess I've resigned myself to this EO outcome for a while, so I'm having trouble ringing the alarm bells.
It's a good strategy with horrible outcomes. I'm neither happy nor unsympathetic about what these EOs will do—I guess I'm just hoping the fallout is that this "forces" the other end of the bridge to be built from ACA to single-payer.
sturg33
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... What? Not sure how that relates to my post
57Brave
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Ezra KleinVerified account @ezraklein 13h13 hours ago
Trump's new policy will increase premiums by 20%, cost the government $194 billion, increase the deficit, destabilize insurance markets, and increase the number of uninsured Americans. There is nothing it makes better; it's pure policy nihilism.
Trump's new policy will increase premiums by 20%, cost the government $194 billion, increase the deficit, destabilize insurance markets, and increase the number of uninsured Americans. There is nothing it makes better; it's pure policy nihilism.
57Brave
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be careful you don't fall patting yourself on the back