Republicans Can't Stop Obamacare As Over 100,000 Uninsured Americans Sign Up In A Day

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source: Politicususa

HHS Secretary Sylvia Burwell announced that Obamacare is getting even stronger as 500,000 people accessed their accounts on the ACA website yesterday, and 100,000 uninsured Americans signed up.


Video of HHS Secretary Burwell announcing the new numbers:

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House Republicans sue Obama over health care law

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“This case address fundamental issues regarding the limits of
executive power under our constitutional form of government, and
the continued viability of the separation of powers doctrine upon
which the whole American fabric has been erected,” the lawsuit says.
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WASHINGTON — After months of threats and delays, House Republicans on Friday finally filed their lawsuit against the Obama administration over the 4-year-old Affordable Care Act, charging that the White House had exceeded its authority on key elements of the law.

House Speaker John Boehner’s office announced the suit, filed in the U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia. It appeared to be choreographed to burnish the GOP’s narrative of President Barack Obama as a ruler who thinks he’s above the law.

The announcement came a day after the president, despite strong objections from Republicans, said he’d issue an executive order to stop deportations for 5 million immigrants who are in the U.S. illegally, and moments after the speaker vowed that congressional Republicans would respond to Obama’s action
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Read more here: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2014/11/21/247779/house-republicans-sue-obama-over.html#storylink=cpy

 

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source: Daily Kos

How could these people be so happy to have health insurance?


Sen. John Barrasso (R-WY), the guy who wants President Obama to stop talking about the good stuff that has come with Obamacare has another "Shut up!!! Shut up!!!!" moment following Monday's announcement that the uninsured rate has dropped by 35 percent since the law was enacted, and 16.4 million people have gained insurance through the law. Nonsense, says Barrasso.

Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, the chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, said: "Millions of people have lost coverage they liked, and out-of-pocket costs continue to rise. Coverage does not equal care."

Moreover, he said, the addition of people to the Medicaid rolls is "hardly worth celebrating."
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"And argle bargle!" Actually, new data from the Urban Institute shows that not so many people actually did lose coverage they liked. No, it was millions, it was 400,000 or about 2.2 percent of Americans. That coverage that was "lost," by the way, really wasn't equal to care. The plans that were cancelled didn't include the ten essential health services required by the law (you know, frivolous things like chronic disease management and prescriptions and preventive care).

Millions didn't lose their coverage, but you won't be able to tell Barrasso or any other Republican that, just as you won't be able to convince them that, yes, Medicaid coverage is better than none at all. Because, for Republicans, it's an article of faith that it's just better for people to be uninsured than to be insured by this law that they irrationally hate.

 

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The King v. Burwell Fallout​

How many people would become uninsured if the U.S. Supreme
Court rules against the Obama Administration in King v. Burwell?​

• The New York Times has reported that 7.5 million could lose their subsidies, a number that comes from a Kaiser Family Foundation estimate for those qualifying for subsidies in federally run marketplaces as of mid-February this year. A March report by the Department of Health and Human Services on marketplace enrollment through Feb. 22 confirms that number.

• The Urban Institute estimates that the number receiving subsidies in the 34 states with federally run marketplaces in 2016 would be 9.3 million.

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