Saturday, January 04, 2014

Larwyn's Linx: Obamacare: Frustrated Patients Walk Out of Hospitals Without Treatment

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Nation

Frustrated Patients Walk Out of Hospitals Without Treatment: Tammy Bruce
Welcome To Reality, IDIOTS!: Market Ticker
Obamacare Has No Financial Controls Whatsoever: RS

11 state attorneys general say Obamacare fixes illegal: BPR
CA Lacks the Docs To Meet the Demand Of ObamaCare: S&L
Obamacare system fails to account for human reproduction: Moe Lane

ObamaCare Scam Collapsing as Uninsured Realize How Little it Offers: FPM
Make Obamacare Voluntary: Phil Kerpen
Your daily ObamaCare horror story: Protein Wisdom

Economy

An American Depression: Extreme Haircut Edition: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
Stop the Bailout -- Now: Charles Krauthammer
Congress Throws Veterans Under The Bus For Illegal Immigrants: John Hawkins

Death, Taxes, and Obamacare: Erick Erickson
5 Ways Liberal Obsession With Income Inequality Hurts Poor: John Hawkins
10 Things to Watch in Congress in 2014: Bill Straub

Scandal Central

Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians” for 2013: JW
Rand Paul to Lead Class-Action Lawsuit Against Obama Administration: Breitbart
The DOJ is about to spend half a million on LinkedIn: NakedDC

Climate & Energy

U.S. Taxpayers Funded $7.45 Billion Helping Other Countries Deal With “Climate Change”: WZ
As Temperatures Plunge, Experts Declare Global Warming Is Getting Worse: MB
Polar Vortex – It’s colder in Canada than it is on Mars – But I thought Global Warming?: FAM

Media

Let us send our daughters to die in battle for the sake of gender neutrality!: Matt Walsh
J’Accuse the Ultimate Anti-Semite (Update): The “As a Jew” Meme Returns: Liberty's Spirit
Self-Esteem Begat the Selfie Generation: MOTUS

World

Heading South: Mark Steyn
This is called "quan jue", or execution by dogs: Blazing Cat Fur
Al Qaeda Captures Fallujah, Proclaims It An Islamic State: RWN

I’m glad my son’s murderers have not been found: Sherri Mandell
Allah Akbar and Ho, Ho, Ho: Blogmocracy
NYU Prof to Head ASA, Supports Israel Boycott: Joshua Levitt

Sci-Tech (courtesy BadBlue Tech News)

Eye-Controlled Gaming May Be Closer Than It Appears: Richard Adhikari
Is Republic Wireless too good to be true?: Maguerite Reardon
New research on King Tut's genitals could point to ancient religious rift: Josh Lowensohn

Cornucopia

It's Up to Us: Adrienne
It's Thick: RWN
A&E spinoffs: Dyke Dynasty, Schmuck Dynasty, Lame Duck...: Cube

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Today's Larwyn's Linx sponsored by: Please Support the Senate Conservatives Fund

QOTD: "First, it postponed the employer mandate. Then it exempted from the individual mandate people whose policies were canceled (by Obamacare). And for those who did join the exchanges, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is “strongly encouraging” insurers — during the “transition” — to cover doctors and drugs not included in their clients’ plans.

The insurers were stunned. Told to give free coverage. Deprived of their best customers. Forced to offer stripped-down “catastrophic” plans to people age 30 and over (contrary to the law). These dictates, complained an insurance industry spokesman, could “destabilize” the insurance market.

Translation: How are we going to survive this? Shrinking revenues and rising costs could bring on the “death spiral” — an unbalanced patient pool forcing huge premium increases (to restore revenue) that would further unbalance the patient pool as the young and healthy drop out.

End result? Insolvency — before which the insurance companies will pull out of Obamacare.

Solution? A huge government bailout. It’s Obamacare’s escape hatch. And — surprise, surprise — it’s already baked into the law.

Which is why the GOP needs to act [to ban any bailout of insurers]... Such a bill would be overwhelmingly popular because Americans hate fat-cat bailouts of any kind. Why should their tax dollars be spent not only saving giant insurers but also rescuing this unworkable, unbalanced, unstable, unpopular money-pit of a health-care scheme?" --Charles Krauthammer

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Doug, this link isn't working.

ObamaCare Scam Collapsing as Uninsured Realize How Little it Offers: FPM

creeper

Randolph B said...

> QOTD: Translation: How are we going to survive this?

D'oh! The insurance companies aren't supposed to survive this. How exactly do they expect to get to single payer otherwise? When will the useful idiots realize they're not invited to the After Party?