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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAetna drops Obamacare in all but 4 states, citing persistent losses.
Somebody at HuffPo decided to turn off the copy ability from their articles, but here's the link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/aetna-obamacare_us_57b262cbe4b0c75f49d7eb27?section=us_politics
I just have two words to say about this:
Single payer, single payer, single payer, single payer, single payer, single payer, single payer.
Single
Payer
Single payer.
It is the RIGHT thing to do because it removes profit from the healthcare equation. Healthcare is a BASIC RIGHT. That means that ALL AMERICANS should be able to access healthcare. WHEN, do you think, will we rearrange at least our healthcare system around human need rather than human greed?
When???
Single payer.
happydaze
(46 posts)dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)which was said in response to my comment on how outrageously expensive some drugs are.
Wilms
(26,795 posts)How can they go on like that??
DawgHouse
(4,019 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,362 posts)A small drop in profits is listed as a catastrophic loss.
MadDAsHell
(2,067 posts)The answer is never, because in 2010 a President who promised a public option not only didn't give us a public option, but he doubled down on a system he said was so terrible (employer-sponsored insurance).
I've seen plenty of excuses made on DU here for why the President didn't get a public option into the bill, but I've never seen one competent defense of why he ultimately used his political capital to not get rid of, but REINFORCE, a system that he said was broken.
Which is also what makes things like the Hobby Lobby case so ridiculous. Via the employer mandate portion of the ACA, the President doubled-down on the notion that health insurance should be controlled by your employer, but then fought tooth and nail every employer who took that to heart.
SammyWinstonJack
(44,129 posts)Forcing Americans to buy a flawed service from private for profit corps that is often unusable ..or be fined.....uniquely American.
Nuclear Unicorn
(19,497 posts)by executive waiver of the enforcement. To this date that has not been rescinded.
And the GOP's quietness over non-enforcement of written law (think of their complaints over immigration for contrast) is -- telling.
lostnfound
(16,124 posts)The cost of medicines aren't included in the risk sharing pool, which is driving q lot of extra costs for some companies.
riderinthestorm
(23,272 posts)Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)There were spots in Arizona in which Aetna was the only participating carrier left.
ananda
(28,758 posts).. didn't really need to do this, but is playing the Feds
for leverage in its bid to buy Humana.
Also, Raw Story: http://www.rawstory.com/2016/08/aetna-pulled-out-of-obamacare-because-ceo-was-angry-his-big-merger-got-denied/
That actually makes sense, even though it IS pretty evil.
edhopper
(33,075 posts)Won't let them merge with Humana.
This is orporate payback.
Ilsa
(61,656 posts)Both Johnson and Weld were on Morning Joe promoting it this morning.