We have waited for this law for a generation and this is what is being done to it. Absolutely not!
Ryan has taken the country hostage along with the Affordable Care Act. He can go straight to hell. We will not be intimidated by a man that wants to pad the pockets of Wall Street!
The Republicans are scam artists. Enough, they accept the law the way it was written or they get nothing. There is such a thing as principle and this is it. Let the Republicans cut the Affordable Care Act to the bone and we'll see what 2014 looks like. This is a betrayal! They are a bunch of crooks!
By David Morgan
WASHINGTON
Thu Jan 31, 2013 12:30pm EST
...But premium support (click here) is gaining fresh momentum among congressional Republicans as a way to control Medicare spending as the debate rages over entitlement reform and the deficit, say analysts, lobbyists and congressional aides.
"It's an idea that becomes more politically seaworthy with every passing day, because there are no other legitimate alternatives that can simultaneously control costs in a rational fashion and broaden access to quality care," said Robert Moffitt of the conservative Heritage Foundation....
It is the beginning of privatization of Medicare. Has Sebelius gone mad? Here we go. The corruption and the cronies are out in full force. It is not constitutional. It is not the law and Sebelius needs to resign!
The Path to Prosperity. They didn't have the guts to pass it, but, they sure want an piece of it now!
I thought we were getting rid of Medicare Advantage because it was laid with fraud. We should trust the private insurance industry now in a different name? I don't think so!
By ROBERT PEAR
Published: March 21, 2013
...Ohio and Arkansas are negotiating (click here) with the Obama administration over plans to use federal Medicaid money to pay premiums for commercial insurance that will be sold to the public in regulated markets known as insurance exchanges.
Republicans in other states, including Florida, Louisiana, Pennsylvania and Texas, have expressed interest in the option since Gov. Mike Beebe of Arkansas, a Democrat, received a green light from Kathleen Sebelius, the federal secretary of health and human services.
Valerie Jarrett, a top White House aide, has been a catalyst in talks with Ohio and other states.
The idea of using “premium assistance” to buy private insurance for new Medicaid beneficiaries is a sharp departure from the 2010 health care law, in which Congress expanded Medicaid to cover the poorest Americans and assumed that people with higher incomes would obtain private coverage through the exchanges.
In many states, Republicans are trying to create a hybrid of the two alternatives, taking federal money for the expansion of Medicaid but using it to help people buy commercial insurance instead.
State Senator Jonathan Dismang, a Republican from central Arkansas, said the idea appealed to him because it would “use the markets to provide better health care and to increase competition in the health insurance industry,” which could drive down costs.
The Arkansas Medicaid director, R. Andrew Allison, said the state had obtained “conceptual approval” from Ms. Sebelius to use Medicaid money to help low-income adults enroll in private insurance through the exchange in 2014. This arrangement, he said, could double the number of people in the exchange, to perhaps 500,000, while shrinking enrollment in the traditional Medicaid program....
Good bye, Secretary Sebelius!!!!!
