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ORIGINAL: Phydeaux

And another one's gone, another ones gone another one bites the dust....

Blue Cross Blue shield pulls out of New Mexico, out of North Carolina in 2017 - after losing 400 million dollars. .

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434435/obamacare-premiums-losses-unacceptable

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ORIGINAL: mnottertail

http://www.journalnow.com/business/business_news/local/blue-cross-top-execs-get-big-raises-in-salary-compensation/article_917ec79b-cfb5-5a72-aae5-54b0cf293185.html

sell em out, they are innefficient, they made the law, they set the premiums, put the money in the treasury. national single payer.

They spend all their money on these welfare patients, instead of the producers.

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ORIGINAL: Lucylastic

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ORIGINAL: Phydeaux

And another one's gone, another ones gone another one bites the dust....

Blue Cross Blue shield pulls out of New Mexico, out of North Carolina in 2017 - after losing 400 million dollars. .

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/434435/obamacare-premiums-losses-unacceptable

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/opinion-blog/2015/10/09/north-carolina-embraces-real-medicaid-reform
North Caroline didnt expand medicare until last year.
Two weeks ago, North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory signed into law a bill to reform the Tarheel State's massive and rapidly growing Medicaid program. The plan to overhaul the joint federal-state health insurance program for poor families now moves to Washington for approval by the Obama Administration.

Despite enormous pressure to do so, the state emphatically rejected Obamacare's optional Medicaid expansion and instead embraced reform based on insurer competition and consumer choice. That's big news.

Oh dear seems it didnt work at least for NC,

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ORIGINAL: Phydeaux

The idea that Blue cross would have stayed in if only it could only have lost 390 million - is ridiculous.
And, it is a complete myth that medicare is a more efficient form of healthcare.

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ORIGINAL: Phydeaux

But in other news today:

Medicaid spending, courtesy of Obamas medicaid expansion now comprises more than 1/3 of the states budges in more than 1/2 the states. And this is before the states requirements to kick in extra funds occurs.

More people have enrolled via medicaid than through ACA exchanges, in fact.

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Three of President Obama’s former speechwriters, David Litt, Jon Lovett, and Jon Favreau, sat down with journalist Charlie Rose on his PBS show, where the three men cracked some jokes about one of the biggest lies that emanated from this administration: If you like your health care plan, you can keep it

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CHARLIE ROSE: My point is do you have equal impact on serious speeches? Because it’s about style, use of language, etcetera?

JON LOVETT, FORMER OBAMA SPEECH WRITER: I really like, I was very — the joke speeches is the most fun part of this. But the things I’m the most proud of were the most serious speeches, I think. Health care, economic speeches.

JON FAVREAU, FORMER OBAMA SPEECH WRITER: Lovett wrote the line about “If you like your insurance, you can keep it.”

LOVETT: How dare you!

[laughter]

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Last time I checked, laughing at millions of people who got their insurance gutted because you put to paper a bold-faced lie is sort of messed up.