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Yasmeen Abutaleb: Nearly 11.7 Million Signed Up For Obamacare Health Insurance: HHS
Nearly 11.7 million people have either signed up or re-enrolled for insurance coverage under the U.S. healthcare reform law, more than the 9.1 million predicted by the Obama administration,health officials said on Tuesday. As of Feb. 22, about 8.8 million signed up in one of the 37 states that use online exchanges operated by the federal government and 2.85 million were in the 14 states, and Washington, D.C., that operate their own exchanges, the Department of Health and Human Services said in a statement. In the states that use the federal exchange, called healthcare.gov,
87 percent qualified for a tax credit averaging $263 per month, according to HHS. It said more than half of consumers in states using healthcare.gov bought a plan that cost $100 or less after tax credits. Enrollment across the board has largely exceeded expectations, health officials said. The enrollment period for 2015 coverage opened on Nov. 15 and closed on Feb. 15. More than 4.1 million people under 35 years old have purchased health insurance through state and federal exchanges, the HHS said Tuesday, about a third of enrollees.
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ICYMI: Nearly 11.7 million Americans enrolled in health care through the open marketplace. ofa.bo/f3a7
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 11, 2015The number of uninsured Americans continues to drop within the first two months of 2015: ofa.bo/f3Oz
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Barack Obama (@BarackObama) March 05, 2015
The Obama Diary 
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Congratulations, Don aka Ye of the panting after older women.
You’re feeding into what Don called his “intensity,” NW. Ha!
GM/GA, TODville!
how come I don’t get pics like that when I am furst?
The faces on the men says it all. The one behind the shades was smart.
I don’t think they were checking out the Audi either.
Woooooot! Go Don!
God bless America!
Yes indeedy.
If the Supreme Court rules against Obamacare, they will literally have blood on their hands.
I can’t believe SCOTUS would be so heartless. Congrats again, Don! And thanks to NW for this great news! In Oregon, we have more than 219,000 people in QHPs and 1,037,000 in the Oregon Health Plan (Medicaid) as of March 2nd. Will be helping with 4 special enrollment events in the next 6 weeks.
Thank you to you, Judith, and to all the others, helping to get Obamacare into the hands of those who need it!
The scotus are mostly a bunch of conservatives. They are that heartless.
Great news. Thanks, Nerdy.
🙂
Thanks a gazillion oh Queen of Outstanding Obamacare news!!!!
Look at you rhyming and all that. Fancy! 🙂
😆
😀 Puts Rubio to shame!
where were these people in nov 2014?
SITTING ON THEIR ASSES AT HOME
SMH, SMH
11.7 million Nerf bats to the head!
🙂
Thank you, Ms Wonka. Ain’t no stopping PBO now. He’s on the move!
Don’t forget.
So next time Pookie and them ask what has “Obama” done for Black people: “Got ’em some mutha freakin’ health insurance, beeyatch!”
HELL YEAH! Three snaps!
😀 😀 😀
Great, great, great news. #ThanksObama
And yet it’s so perverse that we must count ourselves, using the Great American Color Wheel. Can’t wait for the day when we just count ourselves as Americans, should I live that long. Which, other than having a miracle happen, I won’t.
#Forward #NobodyCanStealOurJoy
complete psychopaths.
Indeed.
It’s me, No Child.
Good Afternoon TODVille.
WOW, this is astonishing!
wow, and it’s not even two years yet.
For my Scandal people. That means you too, Amk.
OMG!!!!!!
Thank you Nerdy. I’m definitely one of your Scandal peeps
A year and a half. Pfft!
First thing my retired Air Force MSgt sister asked: “Why are ANY of these WH intruders still breathing? Those bastards should be shot dead on sight. Period. Secret Service doesn’t give a flip about protecting this President. Yet the cops are out here shooting unarmed black teenagers for nothing. Fuck that shit.”
fuck him and his ‘analysis’.
Yeah, now he shows up to bring up the rear and act like he knows what’s up. Fuck him, and the horse he rode in on.
😀
Good afternoon, Dudette!
Hiya job! 🙂
“Obamacare has coincided with a big drop in uninsured rates”
Is this motherfucker for real? Coincided my ass, how about because of Obamacare the uninsured rate has dropped bigtime.
Because Ezra was gloom and doom at the beginning of ACA. How about just saying you were effing WRONG?!
Insurance was not available to me at all because of pre-existing conditions, but less affordable. Insurance being available and affordable is now a “coincidence”, I guess.
“much less” affordable. I’m trying to type with my wounded finger for the first time today.
57, Glad to know the finger is doing better.
Ezra always wants to appear a know-it-all that can predict everything. This business of Obamacare being coincidental is crap at its core and he knows it. The whole idea behind O’care besides affordability was cost containment. And he knows that.
He and many others in the media (for instance Count von Knoller) loves to play with words. Unfortunately, there are many readers that miss on the nuances of those words.
To say that O’care and drop on non-insured rate was coincidental is to confess not to know the meaning of coincidence. O’care was by design effected to reduce the uninsured rate, contain escalating healthcare costs while making insurance available to small businesses and low-income who couldn’t afford coverage before.
He is a wacko-bird to quote the Great John McLoss.
traitors. All of them, NCLB.
The Voice is at the podium schooling the hyper toddlers.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/press-briefing-press-secretary-josh-earnest-72
HOLY SHEEEEEEEEEEEET, I love this law. Thank you, President Obama.
295,855 @ 110p EDT
Lovin’ it!
I ❤ My President!
Love it!
You knew goddamn well that people’s lives were at stake the first time the Supreme Court ruled on Obamacare but you didn’t give a fuck. And now all of a sudden you give a fuck, the only reason you give a fuck now is because you don’t want to get caught holding the bag shoud
ICE CREEEEEAAAAM!!!! 😀
Oh myy…..Hello TOD. Beautiful Sunny Monday in my neck of the woods……It will start changing gradually by nightfall.
Beautiful Post NW……..16M and counting. Lord Have Mercy. Thanks for the Great News, NW 🙂
Congrats to Au ⭐ winners starting with this fine post and several back 😎
My 1st start with the Web today.
3-16-15
Live, Already in Progress…..
Josh “The Voice” Earnest at the Podium.
35% drop in the uninsured Numbers 😉 YES!
https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/press-briefing-press-secretary-josh-earnest-72
And the toddlers ask their usual “Why?”.
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Well, everybody’s gotta be somewhere, I guess. Pass the Irish whiskey.
🙂
I am not to sure about this new look….is it a dress or a coat ?
New? It’s a coat. People wear those.
Lol, it sure looks like a coat but more than odd that she would be receiving congratulations or whatever in a ballroom dressed in a coat. I guess they decided to go along with her embellishment of her involvement as First Lady in the Northern Ireland peace process.
http://www.factcheck.org/2008/03/hillarys-adventures-abroad/
I didn’t know she is Irish.
She isn’t but she’s getting it for her role in the N. Ireland Peace Process. Similar to her role in dodging bullets on the tarmac in Bosnia…
Gotcha.
oh please. #tiredofhillary. #yawn
Same. #DoubleYawn
“Unconscionable?” asks Tom Cotton. “Is that anywhere near Tehran? Let’s bomb ’em!”
Good one!
I will never forget the Healthcare rally I attended downtown MPLS back in 2009 (i think?). Our President spoke, along with kathleen sebelious. It was electric and they were both very fired up and earnest in their desires to get healthcare passed so millions could gain coverage. They both spoke fiercely for the public option as well, but of course, as we now know there was not the votes for it.
The President’s conviction and courage to press ahead on the ACA is a thing of marvel to me, and I doubt more than maybe 1 or 2 other politicians in DC had the cajones to finish the job and get the ACA over the finish line.
If the Supreme court conservatives sink this law there will be national outrage of the highest order. I don’t think even they are that stupid.
Excellent comment, kid kanga. TY.
And to think how far so many DEMS ran away from it. Makes me sick.
Poroshenko Says Ceasefire Is Broken, Yatsenyuk Says Army Should Be On Combat Alert
http://www.interpretermag.com/ukraine-live-day-392-1-ukrainian-soldier-killed-as-russian-backed-fighters-continue-attacks/#7497
Other than MLK, he was the first political figure I admired as a kid. Just three months later he was murdered.
Remember it like it was yesterday, Dudette!
So do I, Bob. That was a day when there was still excitement in the air for the future of our country, and all of our futures, until some of those hopes were dashed later. Often have wondered how things would have been different, without all the tragedies of the ’60s. I kid myself that we were on the move forward.
Thank God President Obama came along in our lifetimes, so we could hope again.
Yes, indeed, Jacqueline!!
Amen!
Today’s Moment of Cuteness:
Guess I should’ve said “Today’s OTHER Moment of Cuteness” 🙂
Um
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Interesting.
You sure get some interesting ones, Chips…
“U.S. crude fell to a six-year low below $43 on Monday as global inventories rose and negotiations progressed toward a possible nuclear deal with Tehran that could allow more Iranian oil exports.”
http://www.cnbc.com/id/102506509
Couldn’t be happier for Putin ……
Gas in CA is still over $3. It shot up when there is a accident with crude at the refineries, tankers, etc., anywhere in the country. I just don’t understand why gas is so expensive in California while it is under $3 everywhere else.
Is this a result of the sequester ?
Partly, yes…..but Mostly, No.
The Tax and especially the budget of 2009 and the growth in the economy have been the greater effect.
The Sequester hurts Transportation, Gov’t Jobs and delay in a more Speedy Econ recovery.
Am I the only one who missed this?? Fantastic. http://www.takepart.com/video/2014/10/06/nature-speaking-mother-nature?cmpid=ait-fb
Great stuff. I posted those here and tweeted them when they came out last fall. Each actors characterization was pitch-perfect! Definitely a repeat look. Lupita’s was my favorite … and Robert Redford’s and Kevin Spacey’s… Oh just all of them!
bbl …..
Does anyone here watch the new series, Dig?
It’s about an End Times conspiracy. There’s a pastor who is at the heart of it, and they show his office. They show a photo of the “pastor” with Romney. Too hilarious. I guess we know the politics of the producers.
When I see bumper stickers supporting Romney, Bush, McCain & other GOP nonsense like “don’t tread on me”, I always wonder why the owner wants to advertise their stupidity in backing absolute losers.
Nerdy’s new post – thank you Legend! See you all later:
http://theobamadiary.com/2015/03/16/16-4m-thanks-to-president-barack-obama/
Hey, wait up! May I come too – am feeling a bit restless here?