Guess Who's Supporting Obamacare Now?

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Howey

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Yup. The insurance companies!

A malfunctioning HealthCare.gov website and confusion over canceled policies have kept millions of Americans from choosing new health plans so far this fall. But with website access improving and the initial deadline to sign up for coverage looming Dec. 23, insurers are starting to blanket the airwaves and social media with glitzy ads urging consumers to buy their plans.

WellPoint Inc. – which has held off for weeks on a planned campaign as problems with the website made it impossible for many consumers to sign up – said it expects to spend up to $100 million by the end of this year on TV, social media and print ads targeting mostly young and healthy people – the consumers it covets most because their premiums will help offset the medical costs of older, sicker policyholders. […]

The enrollment surge has compelled some insurers to snap up TV ad time, said Scott Roskowski, director of business development at TVB. “It’s already very noticeable that the December pace has begun to pick up” with insurer advertising, Mr. Roskowski said. TVB projects that insurers will spend about $500 million on ads on local TV stations in 2014.

This is, as Paul Krugman noted, “the shoe we’ve all been waiting to see drop.” If the industry expected the Affordable Care Act to collapse – or at a minimum, struggle badly for the foreseeable future – insurers would wait on the sidelines. If the industry expected “Obamacare” to succeed, they’d quickly get in the game, competing for consumers’ business before their rivals could snatch up prospective customers.

Now that insurers are poised to spend a half-billion dollars in advertising, it appears the industry is confident the system will prevail.

To hear Republicans tell it, “Obamacare” is in some kind of death spiral, from which there is no recovery. In reality, the ACA reached its nadir a month ago, and is bouncing back quite nicely.
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Considering the hundreds of millions they spent on anti ACA lobbying, it's the least they can do now.
 
Imagine what could've been, if more than 1/2 the country wasn't working day/night toward the same goal of killing ACA? This is going to succeed, despite billions in anti ACA efforts.
 
Strange bedfellows: Liberals and the health insurance companies.

It won't last long. Once the insurance companies start denying/rationing treatment.... still another shoe will drop.
 
wow I am so shocked that insurance companies would support something that would make everybody have to purchase insurance. this is some ground breaking journalism howey!
 
yup yupyupyupyuypyupyup said:
wow I am so shocked that insurance companies would support something that would make everybody have to purchase insurance. this is some ground breaking journalism howey!
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They were vehemently opposed to it, ya know...

Would you rather charge a healthy 25 year old $45 a month or a 60 year old $1500 a month and then cancel their insurance when they get sick?
 
they still get to charge the old people, and now they get a bunch of young ones too. they have 300 million customers by force. get real.
 
Howey said:
Cool, that fines plus costs of ER visits will cost a heck of a lot more.
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Not when they're young they won't. And you can always pick it up right when you need it. The fines simply aren't large enough. Cost/benefit/risk analysis will lead many to decide to pay the "tax" and buy when/if they need it later.

ER visits are within your deductible anyway.
 
Damocles said:
Not when they're young they won't. And you can always pick it up right when you need it. The fines simply aren't large enough. Cost/benefit/risk analysis will lead many to decide to pay the "tax" and buy when/if they need it later.

ER visits are within your deductible anyway.
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I take it you haven't been to the ER lately, Mr Clooney.
 
Taft2016 said:
Strange bedfellows: Liberals and the health insurance companies.

It won't last long. Once the insurance companies start denying/rationing treatment.... still another shoe will drop.
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dear silly man they cant do that legally anymore that was a big part of why we had to reform their asses.

jesus are you people sheep
 
so now the right wants young adults to NOT sign up so it doesn't work?


what is it you think you will GAIN ?
 
Penguin Puncher said:
they still get to charge the old people, and now they get a bunch of young ones too. they have 300 million customers by force. get real.
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kinda like anyone who had to pay for people who had no way of paying.


Now the forced paying is being done by those who actually get the care.


yet that pains you?


I wish you could see how silly you people are
 
NOVA said:
the health insurance companies are gonna make a bundle on this fiasco...can't blame them.
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this is the funniest one coming from the right now



dude why do you think they were excluding procedures and dropping people and such?

to make bank.


now they will have to give people care and they will still make bank.



man that is some shitty socialism huh


you people are transparent
 
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