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4/1/17

Nope, Obamacare isn't dying—thanks for noticing, traditional media

The fact that Trumpcare died such an ignoble and embarrassing death seems to have made some news types decide they have to look into the whole "Obamacare is in a death spiral" argument that Republicans keep making. Finally. The result? Hey, guess what—they're discovering Obamacare is not in a death spiral.

"It's a little like a patient with diabetes," Dr. Mario Molina, chief executive of Molina Health Care, a major insurer on the ACA exchanges, told NBC News. "It's relatively healthy at the moment, but if we don't take care of ourselves, we could be in trouble in the future." […]

Molina's company is considering whether to participate in various markets next year and where to set premiums, but the top concerns he described heading into that decision primarily involved "uncertainty" about the Trump White House's intentions, not the law itself. In particular, he's worried that the administration might halt subsidies to help low-income Americans with out-of-pocket costs that Republicans have challenged in court and that they might stop enforcing the individual mandate requiring people to purchase insurance.

"I don't think the marketplace is collapsing," he said. "I think we need to stop playing partisan politics and convene bipartisan groups to start negotiating the future of the health care system." […]



from Daily Kos http://ift.tt/2onMHxW

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