Reuters Says the Obamacare Death Spiral Has Begun

[sawdust]

Obamacare’s secret numbers are leaking out, and they’re looking very red.

Seven states and the District of Columbia have released age data, showing that only one-in-five, or 22 percent, of their new signs-ups are the much-desired, profit-generating younger people, dubbed “young invincibles,” according to a calculation by Reuters.



Read more: Obamacare death spiral is underway, says study | The Daily Caller

One could only hope.

 

[Phil E Buster]

The Daily Caller is always fair and balanced. :roll:

 

[sawdust]

The Daily Caller is always fair and balanced. :roll:

Chandler is a skeptic of the healthcare law and writes a blog called "ACA Death Spiral." Such a spiral is thought to occur if insurers facing higher costs raise premiums, so only very sick people buy coverage, leading to even higher premiums with the pattern continuing until the insurance market either disappears or shrinks to the point that it is not sustainable.

Obamacare may get sick if young Americans don't sign up | Reuters

Since your ideological purity only allows you to judge sources, not information, Reuters is by no means a conservative news organization.

 

[scatt]

The Daily Caller is always fair and balanced.

They are referencing Reuters, silly goose.

 

[Phil E Buster]

Seems like Reuters is saying it MAY happen, not that it HAS happened. Which pretty much proves my point regarding the DC.

 

[upsideguy]

One could only hope.

So you are pretty much cheering for American failure. Thank you fellow citizen.

 

[Spartacus FPV]

Too bad commies, because I as a young American refuse to sign up for your wealth redistribution scheme.

 

[Phil E Buster]

Too bad commies, because I as a young American refuse to sign up for your wealth redistribution scheme.

If you have health insurance, you're already one of us.

 

[sawdust]

So you are pretty much cheering for American failure. Thank you fellow citizen.

The failure of Obamacare is not an American failure. It's a failure of leftists who are trying to destroy the fabric and institutions that made America a great nation. The failure of Obamacare will save future Americans from the dumbing down of our medical institutions and it will help lift American out of the longest recovery in our history.

 

[Manc Skipper]

DC is the conservative HuffPo, and the thread title is a falsehood.

 

[Spartacus FPV]

If you have health insurance, you're already one of us.

Mine ended Nov 30th because of your lot. Good riddance IMO, i'd hate to pay into your wealth distribution scheme.

I will NEVER be one of your "us".

 

[Phil E Buster]

Mine ended Nov 30th because of your lot. Good riddance IMO, i'd hate to pay into your wealth distribution scheme.

I will NEVER be one of your "us".

Resistance is futile.

 

[upsideguy]

The failure of Obamacare is not an American failure. It's a failure of leftists who are trying to destroy the fabric and institutions that made America a great nation. The failure of Obamacare will save future Americans from the dumbing down of our medical institutions and it will help lift American out of the longest recovery in our history.

.... pretty much like rooting for Iraq in 2003-2006.... nicely done.

BTW.... the ACA is here to stay. Get use to it.

 

[Spartacus FPV]

Resistance is futile.

Spoken like a tyranny-lover, talk that borg **** to someone else; And may posterity forget you were our countryman.

 

[JayDubya]

So you are pretty much cheering for American failure. Thank you fellow citizen.

Failure of unconstitutional socialist bull**** that has no place in America is never "American failure."

 

[iangb]

From the Reuters article itself:

The administration had hoped that over 38 percent, or 2.7 million, of all enrollees in 2014 would be 18 to 35 years old, based on a Congressional Budget Office estimate that 7 million people would sign up by the end of March.

[snip]

Many experts speculate the early enrollees were more likely to be in urgent need of coverage, and therefore more likely to be older or sicker.

A recent survey by The Commonwealth Fund, a healthcare research foundation, found that 41 percent of those who had shopped at the various state marketplaces by the end of December were ages 19 to 34, up from 32 percent from an October survey.


One marketplace with current data, the District of Columbia, said on Friday that of the 3,646 enrollees in private plans through Thursday, about 44 percent are young adults.

Healthcare experts say many young healthy people may sign up only at the end of enrollment on March 31 to avoid paying the law's penalty for not having health insurance.​

The article itself contradicts the interprative spin that the OP's article has put on it.

 

[Bob Blaylock]

Failure of unconstitutional socialist bull**** that has no place in America is never "American failure."

I'd have to say that it's fair to say that allowing such to have been enacted in the first place would constitute an “American failure”.

 

[Phil E Buster]

Spoken like a tyranny-lover, talk that borg **** to someone else; And may posterity forget you were our countryman.

Eventually you will buy health insurance. You will join us or die!

 

[Phil E Buster]

Failure of unconstitutional socialist bull**** that has no place in America is never "American failure."

SCOTUS says constitutional.

 

[JayDubya]

SCOTUS says constitutional.

How is that relevant?

It's a plain English document. Show me in Article I, Section 8 or in any subsequent constitutional amendment where Congress has been given the explicit authority to, for example, sell health insurance on an internet website.. or this entire ordeal is, in fact, unconstitutional - not supported by the text of the Constitution.


Members of the Supreme Court are political appointees, and they have been known to push a political agenda. They are not infallible. Frequently, they are not objective.

 

[Phil E Buster]

How is that relevant?

It's a plain English document. Show me in Article I, Section 8 or in any subsequent constitutional amendment where Congress has been given the explicit authority to, for example, sell health insurance on an internet website.. or this entire ordeal is, in fact, unconstitutional - not supported by the text of the Constitution.


Members of the Supreme Court are political appointees, and they have been known to push a political agenda. They are not infallible. Frequently, they are not objective.

According to the constitution the responsibility of deciding what is and is not considered to be constitutional rests with SCOTUS. If you consider yourself a constitutional literalist, you pretty much have to accept what the SCOTUS says.

 

[cpwill]

According to the constitution the responsibility of deciding what is and is not considered to be constitutional rests with SCOTUS.

Really? Where in the Constitution does it say that?

 

[cpwill]

Anywho, looks like the National Center for Policy Analysis is coming to a conclusion similar to the OP.

 

[clownboy]

According to the constitution the responsibility of deciding what is and is not considered to be constitutional rests with SCOTUS. If you consider yourself a constitutional literalist, you pretty much have to accept what the SCOTUS says.

No, a constitutional literalist would continue to insist that the SCOTUS unconstitutionally took that power unto themselves by fiat (See Madison v Marbury, that's when they did the deed). The framers alive at the time agreed the court did not have such a grant.

 

[Helix]

Reuters Says the Obamacare Death Spiral Has Begun

cool, it should have been vetoed. replace it with medicare for all, and join the rest of the first world.