The GOP and the corporate oligarchy are terrified, because they have begun to fear that the truth is getting harder and harder to ignore and keep from the American people.<\/p>\n
Here is the gist of article in USA Today on the emerging evidence of the positive impact of the health care reform passed early in Obama’s administration.<\/p>\n
* Seniors have saved $1.5 BILLION plus on prescriptions thanks to reduction of the “doughnut hole” by the 50% discount on drugs in that period.<\/p>\n
* Seniors have saved $569 per person under the new policies.<\/p>\n
* Premiums for seniors have not gone up.<\/p>\n
* Medicare premiums may even go DOWN next year.<\/p>\n
* The expansion of information for seniors on Medicare is engaging people more effectively in their own health care.<\/p>\n
* So far some 24 million have had the free wellness screenings and preventive check-ups.<\/p>\n
* Even the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank apparently is admitting these measures will help lower healthcare costs.<\/p>\n
Health care law changing behavior. USA Today<\/a><\/p>\n And none of this addresses the medical loss ratio requirements which just kicked in this month, which require insurance companies to spend 80-85% of all income on actual medical expenses on their insured customers. Most Important Part of \u201cObamacare\u201d Kicks in This Month, and Americans Should be Grateful<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The GOP and the corporate oligarchy are terrified, because they have begun to fear that the truth is getting harder and harder to ignore and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,40,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1778,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/1778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keepamericafree.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}