{"id":4108,"date":"2016-08-11T07:28:35","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T11:28:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dougsbriefcase.com\/blog\/?p=4108"},"modified":"2016-08-11T07:33:09","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T11:33:09","slug":"obamacare-consensus-insurers-need-corporate-handouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dougsbriefcase.com\/blog\/obamacare-consensus-insurers-need-corporate-handouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Obamacare Consensus: Insurers Need Government Handouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Oba\u00admacare\u2019s sur\u00advival depends on gov\u00adern\u00adment hand\u00adouts to insur\u00aders. [Credit:forbes.com]<\/p><\/div>The Com\u00admon\u00adwealth Fund recent\u00adly released a study<\/a> of the Oba\u00admacare indi\u00advid\u00adual mar\u00adket.  It found that cor\u00adpo\u00adrate sub\u00adsi\u00addies like the rein\u00adsur\u00adance pro\u00adgram have played a \u201ccru\u00adcial role in help\u00ading insur\u00aders tran\u00adsi\u00adtion.\u201d  Because that \u201ctran\u00adsi\u00adtion\u201d has so far gone poor\u00adly, the authors rec\u00adom\u00admend that pol\u00adi\u00adcy\u00admak\u00aders not allow the rein\u00adsur\u00adance pro\u00adgram to expire at the end of the year, as required under cur\u00adrent law. They believe that the hand\u00adouts should con\u00adtin\u00adue \u201cuntil the reformed mar\u00adket has matured.\u201d  To find out why that\u2019s a ter\u00adri\u00adble idea, click here<\/a>.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Com\u00admon\u00adwealth Fund recent\u00adly released a study of the Oba\u00admacare indi\u00advid\u00adual mar\u00adket.  It found that cor\u00adpo\u00adrate sub\u00adsi\u00addies like the rein\u00adsur\u00adance pro\u00adgram have played a \u201ccru\u00adcial role in help\u00ading insur\u00aders tran\u00adsi\u00adtion.\u201d  Because that \u201ctran\u00adsi\u00adtion\u201d has so far gone poor\u00adly, the authors rec\u00adom\u00admend \u2026 Con\u00adtin\u00adue read\u00ading \u2192<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4070,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"nfd_image_url":"","nfd_onboarding_generated":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1294,16,124],"tags":[401,623,1188],"class_list":["post-4108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-corporate-welfare","category-health-care","category-obamacare","tag-exchanges","tag-health-insurance-exchanges","tag-obamacare"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t