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Think that s really going to be the measure of success or failure here. we re going to know, you owe, in a number of months whether that s happened or not. right now it s a glass half empty glass half full kind of argument. they say it could have been worse. when you look at mats mass they got 15% and 23% and 23% in the first three months. we are doing that or beating it a little. charles? it. sounds like a lot of happy talk. this is what we used to call rosy scenario. humana health reports adverse selection, ie the lack of enough young and healthys is worse than they expected. second, if all of this is true, if all of this is exactly as expected, nobody is worried. it s like what happened in massachusetts. why are the insurers and h.h.s. running around scared to death that the move to eliminate the bailout, the government bailout of insurers is underway? and the reason that the premium increase is not a ....
Worry is because if the insurers are ruined by numbers like these and they will be, wouldn t you are below the 38% and you plunge to the mid 20 s, you re going to have huge losses of the reason they are not going to have to go into a death spiral raising the premium and getting even lower number of young and healthys is because they get the bailout. so they can keep the rates at the same rate and you and i in our taxes are going to be providing millions of dollars that will compensate for a program that is completely out of whack. and that s why republicans ought to pass within a week or two or three right now a provision to abolish the bailout. and then you will see the insurers speaking in a completely different way. if they really have to do it honestly and have to raise the premiums, you will hear them scream. steve, what we don t know in these numbers is how many people have actually ....
And most important they need to have a ratio of young and healthys who pay the premiums and der reye t der rive the l amount of medical costs to subsidiz sicker. you have to have a lot of young people paying in. the older ones are going to be training the treasury of the insurance company. now, when we look at the rollout what a disaster it is, the low numbers and the fact that it looks to be unbalanced and what you talk about just a little bit earlier, all of the fixes even as unilaterally imposed on the insurers all of them are in one direction. it let s off the hook the young and the healthy allowing them to stay out of the plan. there is no employer mandate. it leaves out of these exchanges a lot of people who would be able to pay the premiums. what they are doing with every ....
Premium sky rocket, what that means is with high premiums the young and healthys will drop out even more that s why it is called the death spiral. i am not sure there is any way it can be stopped. even if it is not mraj what a campaign issue this will be and how much it will hurt the democrats because if observe exercises the veto now what s he going to do next year after he lost this? good to see you. pleasure, thank you. a winter blast hitting much of the country. we will detail the temperatures in the negative digits in several spots making it not only very cold but very dangerous. plus see how the lunch room complaints of thousands of students may have forced the administration to make a big change in the menu. am does the first lady know about this? next. flush ....
Obamacare historic repudiation of liberals of their own singular achievement. concerned about it. i m not sure it will be an abolition but something like a postponement. it s being hollowed out day by day. i think what might be the key event would be the republicans, i think are going to introduce a no bailout provision, because the insurers because of the add versz selection, the absence of the young and the healthys and the low enrollments are going to be hugely in the hole as a result of these exchanges and going to be hurting. they are going to need a bailout. i think if you are a senate democrat, you are up re-elections coming up in the fall, i don t see how you support a bailout without it. i think obamacare is hollowed out. i think it could be a really historic defeat. i think in the end, probably, i think steve is right, the republicans are probably win the senate, although it could be a tie in which case the vice president will be extremely busy man in the senate. cert ....