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Saturday, June 30, 2012

MooPig HealthCare Tracking Department :: "#SCOTUS upholds #ACA"

Retrieved by Pat Darnell | June 30, 2012 | Bryan TX

[Picture LINK] [CREDIT Cartoon by DonkeyHotey] ... Is the Minimum Coverage (individual mandate) provision constitutional? ...
SCOTUS Answer: Do you think Justice Kennedy would let the government make you eat your broccoli? Hell No. 5-4. The usual suspects.

Obamacare Lives: What You Need to Know: ""#SCOTUS upholds #ACA individual mandate."

That was the tweet heard 'round the world this morning from the widely followed SCOTUS Blog.

We'll probably be parsing the words of the Supreme Court's decision for weeks, but it looks like the individual mandate of the Affordable Care Act, also known as Obamacare, has survived.

What's it mean?"

'via Blog this'

Very few expected this outcome. Intrade, an online betting site, put the odds of the mandate being struck down at around 70%. Even staunch supporters of the mandate seemed resigned in recent days to the likelihood that it would likely be repealed.

Simplified, the bill does a few big things:
  • Prevents insurance companies from denying customers for pre-existing conditions.
  • Allows young adults to stay on their parent's insurance until age 26.
  • Limits age-rating, or charging premiums several times higher for older customers.
  • Eliminates lifetime insurance caps and restricts annual limits.
  • Restricts how much insurance companies can spend on non-medical costs (overhead).
  • Mandates that everyone acquire health insurance by 2014 or face a tax, offering subsidies or Medicaid for those who can't afford it.
Here's what's important: According to the Census Bureau, 49.9 million Americans didn't have health insurance in 2009. Part of that is due to the weak economy; most of those without health insurance have a very low or nonexistent income. But a lot is due to soaring costs that have put insurance out of reach for the gainfully employed. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 69% of businesses offered workers health insurance in 2000. By 2009, that number had dropped to 60%. It's almost certainly lower today. Our health-care system doesn't work for far too many Americans, which likely explains why most of the policies outlined above are pretty popular. Most, that is, except the mandate to buy insurance ... "

The measuring of political wins and losses misses the point altogether. The winners here are the nearly 50 million Americans who don't have health insurance. They're the majority of personal bankruptcy cases linked to medical bills, and those who couldn't quit their job because they can't afford to lose employer-provided coverage. ... "

Health insurers might be seen as losers -- shares of UnitedHealth (NYSE: UNH ) , WellPoint (NYSE: WLP ) , and Cigna (NYSE: CI ) were all down big this morning -- but it's still entirely unclear how the bill will affect their business over the long haul. On one hand, there are a raft of new rules to comply with. On the other, they'll eventually see a flood of new customers effectively mandated to buy their product. First-day knee-jerk reactions rarely reflect the true impacts of big events. ... "

This isn't the end of the story, of course. Mitt Romney has vowed to repeal the ACA if elected president. One of the biggest complaints about the ACA is that it causes uncertainty. No one knows what might happen next, or what health-care costs will be a year or two from now. Alas, that hasn't gone away. (Morgan Housel | More Articles. June 28, 2012. HERE)... "

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http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2012/06/28/obamacare-lives-what-you-need-to-know.aspx#.T-6kA7W86aU
http://www.flickr.com/photos/donkeyhotey/5985153020/sizes/m/in/photostream/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/06/28/1103845/-SCOTUS-ACA-predictions

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