The collapse appears to have collapsed. Every county in the U.S. has an insurer providing Affordable Care Act marketplace health policies:
Earlier this summer, 19 other counties in Ohio, as well as counties in states including Nevada, Indiana and Missouri, faced the possibility of having no insurer next year. Insurers have since filed to sell plans in all of those areas [Hannah Recht, “No Bare Counties: All U.S. Counties to Have Marketplace Options Next Year,” Bloomberg, 2017.08.24].
84% of ACA marketplace policyholders are getting advance premium tax credits; 60% are getting cost-sharing reductions. 71% are making between 100% and 250% of the poverty level. For those folks in particular, the advance premium tax credit is a big help:
Eighty-four percent of consumers who selected or were automatically re-enrolled in a 2017 plan through HealthCare.gov had APTC, with an average value of $383 per person per month (see Figure 3).[14] Among consumers with APTC, the average APTC covered about 78 percent of the gross premium, resulting in an average premium after APTC of $106 per month. For those consumers who selected bronze plans and received APTC, the average premium after APTC was $88 in 2016 compared to $98 in 2017. For those consumers who selected silver plans and received APTC, the average premium after APTC was $100 in 2016 and $101 in 2017 [Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, “Health Insurance marketplaces 2017 Open Enrollment Period Final Enrollment Report: November 1, 2016 – January 31, 2017,” 2017.03.15].
South Dakota is among the ten states with the highest percentage of ACA marketplace enrollees receiving premium tax credits.
The Affordable Care Act thus trucks along offering millions of Americans better health insurance than Republicans want them to have.
Rounds just wrote me back mansplaining Obamacare is definitely collapsing. pffsstt, I think. I’ll quote it later
Since Alf Landon, Republicans have been trying to subserviate the middle class by removing their safety net. Republicans really don’t hate Obamacare. They hate that it’s become popular and the voters remember which party suffered to bring it to the people. That loss of voters provokes their need to welcome Nazi’s, white supremacists and general all-around haters into their base just to maintain parity with us.
Porter doesn’t live in South Dakota. He’s a foreigner.
Porter is a South Dakota landowner and tax payer.
This post is about a national issue. Try again, OldGoat. LOL
No matter what county any of us live in, we can all get individual coverage from the Affordable Care Act if we qualify. Pretty durable law.
Highly durable. Built by Democrats. So hard to repeal that people march in the streets and vocalize displeasure at Town Halls.
What have Republicans built? Wars that we haven’t won since WW II. Debt from losing those wars. Recession. Wealth inequality. Hypocrisy etc etc etcetera.
Careful on wars, Porter. Don’t Truman, Kennedy, and Johnson figure in the first two big non-wins?
But ACA, Medicaid, Medicare, Social Security—all durable, all built Democrat-tough.
Korea was a stalemate and Vietnam was a “conflict” not a declared war. But those two weren’t put on the credit card like Bush did in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Agreed that Dems are builders. Solid foundation builders. Republicans realize they don’t know how to build so they use “small government ” as an excuse for lack of ability.
Libbie tough. Like the I-35 bridge. Or Social Security. Or Obamacare.
I-35 bridge collapsed while MN had a Republican Governor and USA had a Republican President. Social Security and Obamacare have very good approval ratings and getting higher. The bridge fell under GOP neglect and any problems with SS and ACA came from GOP neglect … and sabotage!! 🐐🐐🐐
Ike was basically the man who drew a line in the sand over VietNam. He got the ball rolling and subsequent Potii escalated.