COVID-19 & Healthcare

The GOP Grinches who couldn’t stop ‘ObamaCare’ from coming

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: The GOP Grinches couldn't stop "ObamaCare" from coming. The Health Insurance Marketplace for the uninsured is now open for business! Go to HealthCare.gov and and follow the prompts to open up the Arizona Health Insurance Marketplace. I would expect delays today as millions of people want to check out their federally run … Read more

Countdown to the Health Insurance Marketplace

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie: For all the rabid mad dogs foaming at the mouth with insanity, the Tea-Publicans are not going to stop "ObamaCare" from coming with a government shutdown at Midnight tonight. They have deluded themselves into believing their own insane rhetoric. The fact of the matter is, "ObamaCare" will continue even if Republicans force … Read more

Countdown to the Health Insurance Marketplace

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

TwoThe editorial opinion in the Arizona Daily Star today is by Sarah Garrecht Gassen (not the editorial board), Obamacare is here, and that's a good thing:

It’s finally here. Beginning Tuesday uninsured Americans,
including about 1 million Arizonans, will be able to compare plans from
private insurance companies, figure out if they qualify for a subsidy to
help pay for coverage, and enroll in a plan that will take effect Jan.
1.

Yes, this is Obamacare.

And while several important
provisions already have kicked in, Oct. 1 marks the beginning of the
largest phase in the law that benefits Americans.

It’s a landmark
law, upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, and while there will no doubt be
kinks to work out and improvements to be made, the Affordable Care Act
stands to improve the life and health of Americans.

Arizonans will
pay less than the national average for health insurance, according to
information from the federal Health and Human Services agency.

Arizona is one of 36 states that will participate in the federal health-care exchange instead of running its own marketplace.

Gov. Steve Beshear of Kentucky: ‘Get over it … and get out of the way so I can help my people’

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

Democratic Governor of Kentucky (you read that right) Steve Beshear wrote an opinion for the New York Times on Friday well worth the read. My
State Needs Obamacare. Now.

SUNDAY morning news programs identify Kentucky as the red state with two
high-profile Republican senators who claim their rhetoric represents an
electorate that gave President Obama only about a third of its
presidential vote in 2012.

So why then is Kentucky — more quickly than almost any other state — moving to implement the Affordable Care Act?

Because there’s a huge disconnect between the rank partisanship of
national politics and the outlook of governors whose job it is to help
beleaguered families, strengthen work forces, attract companies and
create a balanced budget.

It’s no coincidence that numerous governors — not just Democrats like me
but also Republicans like Jan Brewer of Arizona, John Kasich of Ohio
and Rick Snyder of Michigan — see the Affordable Care Act not as a
referendum on President Obama but as a tool for historic change.

Countdown to the Health Insurance Marketplace

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Posted by AzBlueMeanie:

3It is incriminating headlines such as this that demonstate the abject failure of the corporate media to inform and educate the public. This is a national disgrace. Three-quarters
of the uninsured don’t know when Obamacare starts:

So says the Kaiser Family Foundation in a poll conducted in mid-September, a few weeks before the Affordable Care Act's new marketplaces open for enrollment.

Twelve percent of the uninsured knew that the marketplaces would open on
Oct. 1, just three days from now. An additional 14 percent guessed that
it would start sometime in 2013 or 2014. The majority, though — and
this held true for the general population as well — just didn't know
when the programs kick in, or declined to guess.

Of course, Sarah Kliff, like all Beltway media villagers, blames the White House for not "hyping" the Affordable Care Act enough. Are you effin' kidding me? The Obama Administration has had a multimedia campaign in place for years. If the media has not received this information, it is because they chose not to receive it.

it is the corporate media, which chooses to report on conflict between Republicans and Democrats in Congress rather than providing factual information with which to inform and educate the public who are at fault. (It is amazing to me how the media can always absolve itself of any fault in any situation. There is no accountability.)