A Laughing Stock Health Care Report Card

Opinion/Editorial

 

 How self indulging is this if not downright self righteous on the part of the New York Times editorial board this morning.Talk about carrying the water for the Obama administration they have the audacity to give a report card on what is known as the 2010 Affordable Care Act aka Universal Health Care with everyone with a brain in their heads knows it was UNCONSTITUTIONAL on its merits.Even when the law hasn't totally been enacted yet.
 But the NYT editorial board likes to think otherwise with the title "Report Card on Health Care Reform."
 It begins "Republican leaders in Congress regularly denounce the 2010 Affordable Care Act and vow to block money to carry it out or even to repeal it. Those political attacks ignore the considerable benefits delivered to millions of people since the law’s enactment three years ago Saturday. The main elements of the law do not kick in until Jan. 1, 2014, when many millions of uninsured people will gain coverage. Yet it has already thrown a lifeline to people at high risk of losing insurance or being uninsured, including young adults and people with chronic health problems, and it has made a start toward reforming the costly, dysfunctional American health care system."
 Probably because no one wants this monstrosity of Government intervention into our lives in reference to the health scare crap.If the main elements of the law hasn't been enacted then why is there this report card.Another question why reform something that didn't need reforming liberalism at its best.
 Here is the NYT example of success of this fraudulent law:
 EXPANDING COVERAGE Starting in 2010, all insurers and employers that offer dependent coverage were required to offer coverage to dependent children up to age 26. An estimated 6.6 million people ages 19 through 25 have been able to stay on or join their parents’ plans as result, with more than 3 million previously uninsured young adults getting health insurance. The law requires private health insurers to provide free preventive care, without co-pays or deductibles. Some 71 million Americans have received at least one free preventive service, like a mammogram or a flu shot, and an additional 34 million older Americans got free preventive services in 2012 under Medicare.
 So in other words kids stay on their Mommy and Daddy's plan instead of being man enough or woman enough to get their own plans.
Here is where it gets laughable
SAVING CONSUMERS MONEY Private insurers are required by the law to spend at least 80 to 85 percent of their premium revenues on medical claims or quality improvements, or they must pay a rebate to consumers. In 2012, insurers had to pay $1.1 billion in rebates, an average of $151 per family. Although Republicans contend the law will drive up insurance premiums, thus far it seems to have reduced them. Any insurer that wants to increase its premiums by 10 percent or more for people who buy their own policies must justify the increase to state or federal officials. As a result, the proportion of rate filings that sought increases of 10 percent or more fell from 75 percent in 2010 to 34 percent in 2012, and it is expected to be even lower this year. The average premium increase in 2012 was 30 percent lower than in 2010.  
 Thats the laughing stock it saved money but cost those of us who work for a living alot more.
 As usual this OPED lies and deceives their lame brained readers who are so dumb they cannot figure things out on their own and need Big brother Government to look after them.