As Republicans grapple with their failure to live up to their seven year promise to repeal and replace Obamacare, they are considering just repealing. The current repeal bill would be a partial repeal, one that health care expert Larry Levitt of Kaiser says would “produce an actual, real-life death spiral.”
The privatization scam amounts to a yearly-issued, and set amount, coupon to purchase healthcare services at a private hospital or doctor’s office, or use as a discount card to purchase a private insurance policy.
For five years, Republicans claimed the Affordable Care Act would produce significant rate hikes that would kill the law. For five years, they’ve been dead wrong.
An interesting survey of the residents of New Orleans by the Kaiser Family Foundation released today found that 49% of those surveyed think that the BP oil spill is a more damaging threat to the city than Hurricane Katrina was (40%). No matter how much BP has tried to spin their response, 84% held a negative of view of how the company responded to the man made disaster.