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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (193508)	9/23/2016 8:15:05 PM
From: rayrohn	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Respond to of 224748

kenny another affordable care drop out Blue Cross drops out of Nebraska's Obamacare marketplace By Steve Jordon / World-Herald staff writer Updated 3 hrs ago (16) RYAN SODERLIN/THE WORLD-HERALD BlueCross BlueShield of Nebraska in Aksarben Village. Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska said Friday it won’t sell individual health insurance on the Affordable Care Act marketplace next year because of continuing losses. Blue Cross’ departure removes the state’s largest health insurer from the individual marketplace, leaving only Aetna and Medica Health to offer individual policies on the Nebraska’s exchange for 2017. Steve Martin, the chief executive of Blue Cross, told The World-Herald that the company has lost $140 million on the exchange policies since 2014. If the trend continued, losses could total $250 million by the end of 2017, he said. As of this year, around 20,000 people out of Blue Cross of Nebraska’s 750,000 clients have individual exchange policies. The decision won’t affect the thousands of Nebraskans covered by Blue Cross group policies through their employers or people who plan to renew their pre-Affordable Care Act individual policies. State and federal rules require companies to submit proposed policies and rates for approval well ahead of time. Blue Cross had proposed substantial rate increases for 2017 and received approvals, but those rates were based mostly on 2015 claims. If the planned 2017 rates turned out to be too low, Blue Cross would have lost money next year, too, company officials said. Friday was the deadline for insurance companies to sign agreements with the federal government to offer policies on the exchanges. Open enrollment on the exchanges starts Nov. 1. Martin said too often federal officials let people buy insurance just before they are due to receive an expensive health treatment and then drop their coverage immediately afterward. As a result, many of them pay no premiums when they are well, only when they are sick. Last month Aetna announced it would drop out of the insurance marketplaces in 11 states because of losses, remaining only in Nebraska, Iowa, Virginia and Delaware. UnitedHealth Group decided earlier this year to drop its Nebraska and Iowa individual coverage, and Humana reduced its participation to 11 from 15 states, which did not include Nebraska or Iowa. More than a dozen insurance cooperatives have shut down in the past few years, including the one that served Nebraska and Iowa. Wellmark, the Iowa affiliate of the Blue Cross network, did not take part in the Iowa exchange in 2014, 2015 or 2016 but last October announced that it would offer policies on the exchange for 2017 in 47 of the state’s 99 counties — not including Pottawattamie County and Council Bluffs. Other companies due to be on the Iowa exchange are Aetna, Gunderson Health and Medica, which is based in Minnetonka, Minnesota. The exchanges are a centerpiece of the federal health insurance law, also known as Obamacare. They are intended to let millions of people who don’t qualify for group insurance shop for policies and receive guaranteed coverage, no matter what their health.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (193508)	9/23/2016 8:50:59 PM
From: tonto	Respond to of 224748

Kenneth, I have no idea how that supports your position...

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (193508)	9/23/2016 8:59:06 PM
From: Jack of All Trades	Respond to of 224748

How many of those Bernie voters will not vote for Clinton? Funny Clinton could only win Milwaukee.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (193508)	9/24/2016 6:46:21 AM
From: tonto	5 Recommendations Recommended By DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck Investor Clouseau Sedohr Nod TideGlider Woody_Nickels Respond to of 224748

Obama lied to us regarding Hillary's server...he did not learn about on the news as he told us, but instead sent her email on it under an aliase. The administration is as deceitful as Hillary. Now the actions make far more sense. Good for the panel. President Barack Obama used a pseudonym in email communications with Hillary Clinton and others, according to FBI records made public Friday. The disclosure came as the FBI released its second batch of documents from its investigation into Clinton’s private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. Story Continued Below The 189 pages the bureau released includes interviews with some of Clinton’s closest aides, such as Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills; senior State Department officials; and even Marcel Lazar, better known as the Romanian hacker “Guccifer.” In an April 5, 2016 interview with the FBI, Abedin was shown an email exchange between Clinton and Obama, but the longtime Clinton aide did not recognize the name of the sender. "Once informed that the sender's name is believed to be pseudonym used by the president, Abedin exclaimed: 'How is this not classified?'" the report says. "Abedin then expressed her amazement at the president's use of a pseudonym and asked if she could have a copy of the email." 2016 Partisan fireworks over Clinton aides' immunity dealsBy RACHAEL BADE The State Department has refused to make public that and other emails Clinton exchanged with Obama. Lawyers have cited the "presidential communications privilege," a variation of executive privilege, in order to withhold the messages under the Freedom of Information Act. The report doesn't provide more details on the contents of that particular email exchange, but says it took place on June 28, 2012, and had the subject line: "Re: Congratulations." It may refer to the Supreme Court's ruling that day upholding a key portion of the Obamacare law. A report on the FBI's June 7, 2016 interview with "Guccifer" confirms FBI Director James Comey's claim that Lazar falsely asserted that he'd surreptitiously accessed Clinton's server. "Lazar began by stating that he had never claimed to hack the Clinton server. [An FBI agent] then advised that Fox News had recently published an article which reported that Lazar had claimed to have to Clinton server. Lazar then stated that he recalled the interview with Fox News, and that he had lied to them about hacking the Clinton server." Read more: politico.com Follow us: @politico on Twitter \| Politico on Facebook

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (193508)	9/24/2016 10:16:18 PM
From: DeplorableIrredeemableRedneck	2 Recommendations Recommended By Investor Clouseau TideGlider Respond to of 224748

GOP Sent Armed Marshals After Hillary Clinton's Tech Guy I know...I know I am linking the Huff post and in the past I have rubbed you about it. None-the-less I presumed you would feel more comfy with this rag. The old hags douch-bag tech guy is getting partial immunity and ratting out that traitorous, lying, pitiful bitch. m.huffpost.com