FIASCO

[billvon 2,380]

Some recent polling results from Kaiser. Summary - people overwhelmingly support Obamacare, want Trump to work to preserve it and do NOT support actions that might harm it. Perhaps the most interesting result is more than half of Trump supporters and Republicans want Trump to work to make the ACA work.

=======================================
The August Kaiser Health Tracking Poll finds that the majority of the public (60 percent) say it is a “good thing” that the Senate did not pass the bill that would have repealed and replaced the ACA.

A majority of the public (57 percent) want to see Republicans in Congress work with Democrats to make improvements to the 2010 health care law . . .

A large share of Americans (78 percent) think President Trump and his administration should do what they can to make the current health care law work while few (17 percent) say they should do what they can to make the law fail so they can replace it later. About half of Republicans and supporters of President Trump say the Trump administration should do what they can to make the law work (52 percent and 51 percent, respectively)

. . .a majority of the public (60 percent) says President Trump and Republicans in Congress are responsible for any problems with the ACA.

A majority of the public disapprove of stopping outreach efforts for the ACA marketplaces so fewer people sign up for insurance (80 percent) . . .

The majority of Americans (63 percent) do not think President Trump should use negotiating tactics that could disrupt insurance markets and cause people who buy their own insurance to lose health coverage . . .

This month’s survey continues to find that more of the public holds a favorable view of the ACA than an unfavorable one (52 percent vs. 39 percent).

http://www.kff.org/health-reform/poll-finding/kaiser-health-tracking-poll-august-2017-the-politics-of-aca-repeal-and-replace-efforts/?utm_campaign=KFF-2017-August-Tracking-Poll&utm_content=58907145&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

[wolfriverjoe 1,340]

And while Trump fiddles, rates go up.

Because uncertainty about what will happen means insurers hedge their bets.

"There are NO situations which do not call for a French Maid outfit." Lucky McSwervy

"~ya don't GET old by being weak & stupid!" - Airtwardo

[Phil1111 908]

Two more chief executives have resigned from Donald Trump's American Manufacturing Council over the president's response to violence in Charlottesville at the weekend.

Intel's Brian Krzanich and Under Armour head Kevin Plank have followed Merck's Ken Frazier in leaving the council.
http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40933391

More and more business in America are beginning to realize that associating with trump is a losing proposition.

trump therefore had three CEO's quit and he only attacked one of them for doing so. The black one.

[billvon 2,380]

So after all the Trumpcare bills failed, Trump has returned to just trying to destroy Obamacare through neglect - refusing to pay bills, telling people not to use it etc.

What effect will that have? Some effects from the CBO's analysis:

==================
The fraction of people living in areas with no insurers
offering nongroup plans would be greater during the
next two years and about the same starting in 2020

Gross premiums for silver plans offered through the
marketplaces would be 20 percent higher in 2018 and
25 percent higher by 2020—boosting the amount
of premium tax credits according to the statutory
formula

Federal deficits would increase by $6 billion in 2018,
$21 billion in 2020, and $26 billion in 2026
===================

So less insurance, higher costs to consumers and higher deficits - a win/win/win for Trump.

[billvon 2,380]

It is a sad day when Jimmy Kimmel knows more about what's in the latest "repeal Obama" bill than the guy who claims to have written it.

=============================
Kimmel, not Cassidy, is right on health care, analysts say

By DAN DIAMOND
POLITICO
09/20/2017

In the war of words between Jimmy Kimmel and Sen. Bill Cassidy, the late-night host has the better grasp of health policy, health care analysts say.

Kimmel — who had allied himself with Cassidy after the senator famously proposed a “Jimmy Kimmel test” for health reform — blasted the Louisiana Republican’s last-ditch Obamacare repeal-and-replace bill in a seven-minute monologue on Tuesday night. While Cassidy had pledged to protect people with pre-existing conditions like Kimmel’s infant son, who was born with a serious heart condition, the proposal Cassidy co-authored with Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) wouldn’t live up to those promises, Kimmel said.

“This guy, Bill Cassidy, he just lied right to my face,” Kimmel said.

He then listed four pledges that Cassidy made when he appeared on Kimmel’s show in May, including a promise to lower health costs for Americans and to oppose insurance companies’ lifetime caps on coverage that Kimmel said would no longer be guaranteed under the new legislation.

“ 'Health care’s complicated [and] it’s boring; I don’t want to talk about it [and] the details are confusing' ,” Kimmel said in his monologue. “And that’s what these guys are relying on. … They’re taking care of the people who give them money, like insurance companies.”

Cassidy countered Wednesday that the talk-show host didn’t grasp the nuances of his legislation. “I am sorry he does not understand,” the senator told CNN on Wednesday morning. “More people will have coverage, and we protect those with pre-existing conditions,” citing a provision in the bill that states would have to ensure certain protections for individuals.
POLITICO Pulse newsletter

Graham on Wednesday defended his colleague, telling NBC News that Kimmel's monologue was "absolute garbage" and parroted "liberal talking points."

. . .

But experts say that Cassidy and Graham’s bill can't guarantee those protections and that Kimmel’s assessment was basically accurate because of the flexibility the bill gives states to set up their own health care systems. For example, health insurers could hike premiums for patients with pre-existing conditions if their states obtain waivers from Obamacare regulations — as Kimmel said.

Cassidy’s plan “would pave the way for insurers to deny coverage to people with a history of medical conditions,” five HIV/AIDS groups warned in a joint statement on Tuesday.
========================