The Dismantling of ObamaCare - Ongoing Updates.

[Yagents]

Penalty..............ain't no stinkin' penalty

Fewer people hit with Obamacare penalty last year - Aug. 24, 2017

Some 4 million households paid the Obamacare penalty for not having health insurance last year, new Internal Revenue Service data shows.
That's down from 5.6 million a year earlier.
The average penalty was $708, according to the report filed by the agency's Taxpayer Advocate Service, which looked at returns filed through April 27.
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Also, roughly 10.7 million households requested exemptions from the individual mandate, which requires nearly all Americans to have coverage or pay a penalty. People can request exemptions for a variety of reasons, including if coverage is considered unaffordable -- when premiums are more than 8.13% of their household income -- or they were unable to renew existing coverage.

 

[Yagents]

Showtime boys and girls.............

https://www.help.senate.gov/hearings

10 a.m. EDT Sept. 6: State insurance commissioners.

9 a.m. EDT Sept. 7: Governors.

10 a.m. Sept. 12: Advocates for state flexibility.

10 a.m. Sept. 14: Health care stakeholders

 

[Yagents]

Ways to burn your day...............

https://www.help.senate.gov/hearing...l-insurance-market-for-2018-state-flexibility

 

[hamben]

Good God these experts font have a clue.

 

[Yagents]

Wah! And the dems didn't appreciate the agent role. The article has a lot of truth to it. Too bad the prior admin put us at war with Nav's, trying to replace agents.

Bemoaning Budget Cuts, Navigators Say Feds Don’t Appreciate Scope Of The Job | Kaiser Health News

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The private market always steps up. You like the image on the ad? Pretty dramatic.
In Chicago, the ads show bullet holes in victims to entice them to get covered and not be a burden on the state taxpayer.

Private Insurer Steps Up To Advertise Open Enrollment For Obamacare : Shots - Health News : NPR

 

[somarco]

advertising from private insurers won't be able to match the power of the advertising in years past by the federal government,

Perhaps that is because private companies generally have limited advertising budgets while the govt doesn't have that constraint.

That is one of the primary reasons why I decided to boycott the Obamacare market. Spending my own money to promote my business while at the same time DC is taking my tax dollars to fund their own promotion didn't make a lot of sense to me.

 

[Yagents]

Obamacare is affordable, don't let the facts fool you:

Affordable Care Act Health Insurance Will Be Unaffordable in 2018 for Many Middle-Income American Families, eHealth Analysis Shows | Business Wire

 

[AllenChicago]

Obamacare is affordable, don't let the facts fool you:

Affordable Care Act Health Insurance Will Be Unaffordable in 2018 for Many Middle-Income American Families, eHealth Analysis Shows | Business Wire

Good info YAgents!

I just glanced over https://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-prior/i8965--2015.pdf and it looks like most Americans without MEC will be able to avoid the penalty for 2017 as well.

 

[junkman]

ACA was unaffordable in 2017. Twenty one percent increase for BCBST.

 

[somarco]

50%+ in Georgia.

State accepts big hikes on 2018 exchange; now it’s up to the feds | Georgia Health News