Hey hey! For the first time ever, premiums for the top-selling Affordable Care Act marketplace insurance are going down! Who gets the credit? Kristi Noem and Donald Trump… for failing to repeal the ACA!
For starters, Republicans failed to fully repeal Obamacare.
“Many insurers may feel like they’ve weathered the storm a little bit,” said Sabrina Corlette, research professor at Georgetown University. Corlette said Congress is probably not going to try to destroy Obamacare again. And she said as some federal subsidies ended, other federal assistance programs kicked in.
“So what we saw was enrollment stayed remarkably stable this year,” she said [Sabri Ben-Achour, “Here’s Why Obamacare Premiums Are Going Down for the First Time,” Marketplace, 2018.10.12].
And of course, all the chaos Noem and Trump caused last year with their feckless threats to repeal the ACA drove marketplace insurers to jack up premiums last year by a huge 36.9%—basically two years’ of increase in one.
For the sake of our pocketbooks, let’s hope Kristi and Donald keep failing!
Avera and Sanford both report a stable environment for the ACA. NOem has failed to repeal and for that, we are all grateful. Dirty Johnson would step right in Dirty NOem’s shoes to follow up on her dumbery (new word). As the Rapid City Journal says, he should not be elected…in their own way. sneaky, but we caught them.
I think “dumbery” is a good word. Well done.
Pernicious Pukeface has 70+ years of colossal failures but Noem is working hard to catch up. I am thankful their failure partnership has had 1 positive outcome, even though unintentional.
(They must hate that.)😄😄😄
According to NPR today ACA is THE election issue for 2018 given Republicans many efforts to crush health care for millions, and its affordability. Specifically pre-existing condition coverage.
We totally need to focus on health care, an issue that affects everyone in America, not the culture-war distractions the Republicans are trying to use to hold seats, suppress voters, and support their hopes for one more round of apartheid gerrymandering in 2018. Their effort to repeal the ACA would have done more financial and health-care harm to more Americans than any immigrants, Antifa, or angry Kavanaugh protestors.