As usual, it turns out that the states with the most boisterous Obamacare opposition, are the ones where Obamacare is struggling.
It is time for Red State politicians to stop their ideological fight against Obamacare and work in the best interest of their constituents. There is an article in the Charlotte Observer titled “Obamacare isn’t collapsing, but guess where it’s struggling” that analyzed a recent Kaiser Foundation report, which everyone should read. It reads as follows.
A report out this week shows once again that despite what Republicans have claimed for months, the Affordable Care Act isn’t in a death spiral. It’s not collapsing. It’s not imploding. In fact, according to the Kaiser Foundation, Obamacare is stabilizing. Insurers earned more revenue per person on the exchanges last quarter than ever. Insurers are set to make profits on those exchanges in 2017 across the country. But not all of the country. In some places, Obamacare has legitimately struggled, with insurers fleeing and leaving consumers with little or nothing to choose from on the ACA exchanges.
Those places have something in common, however: Almost all of them are in Republican states. Let’s dig into Kaiser’s numbers a little more. According to the Foundation’s interactive map, in the 974 U.S. counties with only one insurer, only 23 are in states in which Democrats control the legislature. …
The takeaway: In Republican-controlled states, where lawmakers have railed against the ACA and refused to expand Medicaid, consumers are largely facing fewer insurance options. In Democratic-controlled states, lawmakers have expanded Medicaid and worked to make Obamacare healthy. And it is, in those states.
So as you hear Republicans screaming about the ACA being in a death spiral. Remember that it is only in trouble in areas the GOP is in charge of because of their dereliction of duty.
MSNBC Ali Velshi has been doing excellent reporting on the fallacies from the Republicans as fast as they are letting them out. He did this great piece where he thoroughly debunked the Republican lie about Obamacare being in a death spiral.