Gardner is mad about insurance costs, but they'd go up more under Obamacare replacement than under Obamacare

5 thoughts on “Gardner is mad about insurance costs, but they’d go up more under Obamacare replacement than under Obamacare”

1. "Con Man Cory" Gardner: Always the dissembling, duplicitous, deceitful, deplorable, disappearing dick. Nary a truthful, honorable bone in his entire ALEC-owned body, nor a pinch of humanity in his shriveled, Koch-owned soul.

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   1. In other words, full of shit.

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      1. Translating all that: Cory Gardner is a LIAR (say it Jason – break the bonds of that journalistic impulse to treat both sides equally) – all Republicans are now lying about this Health Care Ruination Act just like they lied the last 8 years about the affects and intent of Obamacare.

         (This is what you get for all your earnest desire to be bipartisanshippy and stuff with Pathological, Lying Politicians who hate government and want to destroy its function only so the wealthy can be more wealthy.)

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2. How can Kaiser Family Foundation say TrumpCare will result in an average of 74% increases in cost and an unnamed insurance company exec say it will reduce premiums? Two not mutually exclusive answers:

   1. The executives are lying sacks of crap who will receive a huge tax break on their own compensation, so they are willing to say anything Cory wants to hear to make him feel better about screwing everyone that doesn't make over $500,000 a year.

   2. Premiums may go down, but costs will go way up. For example, TrumpCare will allow the insurers to sell policies that do not include emergency room coverage, maternity care, or mental health coverage, and have high deductibles and co-pays. That will nominally reduce premiums, but will overall cost more in copays, deductibles, and lost coverage. TrumpCare also reduces subsidies. So the sticker price of your crappy policy may be less than your Silver Plan under the ACA, but it will cost you more because will have no subsidy or a reduced subsidy.  Your premium goes down, and you are screwed. 

   As someone that is older and has to buy on the exchange, I would love for BlueCross to guarantee me a lower premium on my current policy for next year if TrumpCare passes (net after subsidy). If they do, I will eat my hat.

    

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3. Finally, voters (except maybe Republicans) are finally taking notice and the polls show that unlike DontCare, they do care!

   The Quinnipiac University poll is nearly identical to Marist’s survey: 16 percent of registered voters approve of the Republican health care plan to replace Obamacare, and 58 percent disapprove. The numbers among Republicans are similar, too: 37 percent approve, 23 percent disapprove and 40 percent are undecided. By comparison, only 11 percent of Democrats and 26 percent of independents didn’t express an opinion about the GOP health bill.

   Opposition to the bill is stout. Nearly half of all voters, 48 percent, say they strongly disapprove of the measure; only 6 percent strongly approve of it.

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