No matter what Trump is doing hes at least doing something. Wheres Hillary at? No where for 3 or 4 days.is that before or after they host a campaign event in the battleground state of Mississippi?
"If she wins we will stop doing illegal shit"
You can't make this up. You just can't.
Here is a link to the transcript of Aetna's Q1 earnings call. I invite you to read it.
http://seekingalpha.com/article/396...-2016-results-earnings-call-transcript?page=1
To save you some time, I'll print here Bertolini's comments about the exchanges. There are multiple concerns and caveats throughout the quotes. All anyone wants to remember - all the people you're getting your info from, is his comment about this being a good investment. Context is your friend. Read it.
I understand it quite well. For you, this is simply one more political issue for you to be Team Blue all in. Obamacare is fundamentally and intrinsically flawed. It will not work, it cannot work. In time that will be obvious, and all this caterwauling will be exposed for what it is.
Opening remarks
Let me take a moment to discuss public exchanges and our individual business. From a regulatory perspective, we welcome the efforts of CMS to work with the industry to stabilize the individual public exchange program. While we are encouraged by these regulatory efforts, there is still much work to be done to ensure the long-term future of this program. As we enter the third year of the public exchange program, we are committed to working constructively with the administration and lawmakers to find solutions that can improve this program, stabilize the risk pool and expand product flexibility, all with the goal of creating a sustainable program that makes health care more affordable and accessible for all consumers.
Analyst question regarding exchanges
Well, I think let's talk about the pricing on the exchanges. With the 2Rs coming off this year, that's a six-point impact on top of trend. So that will have obviously an impact on the exchange enrollment in some way, shape or form and the subsidies coming out of the federal government. We do hope to get to breakeven this year. We're looking forward to the next administration to improve the product as we move ahead.
Let me just give you a different sort of basis to think about our participation in the exchanges. We have 911,000 members on the public exchanges Individual. We have 1.2 million members that are exchange or ACA-compliant. If we were to go out and buy those members, it would cost us somewhere around $1.2 billion to acquire them. If we were to build out 15 markets, it would cost us somewhere between $600 million to $750 million to enter those markets and build out the capabilities necessary to grow that membership.
So in the broad scheme of things, we are well, well below any of those numbers from the standpoint of losses we've incurred in the first two-and-a-half years of this program. And so we see this as a good investment, hoping that we have an administration and a Congress that will allow us to change the product like we change Medicare every year and we change Medicaid every year. But we haven't been able to touch this product because of the politics. But if we get to that point, we believe we are in a very good place to make this a sustainable program.
Analyst question regarding exchanges
I think the kinds of structural changes that we need to make, I think Secretary Burwell and her team at CMS and HHS have done a really good job of using the regulatory framework that they can to try and improve the program in the short term here. But there are bigger structural changes that need to made around product flexibility, rating flexibility, pooling. We need different pools, not one pool. Cross subsidizing at the premium level across a large swath of the population doesn't work. It needs to be multiple pools with specific products for each pool. All of that requires legislative response. And that's not going to happen in the near term here.
We will see the dynamics of the market get tougher as we go forward if we don't get those kinds of structural changes. How it affects us versus others, quite frankly, we've been very careful to choose the markets we're in, as Karen noted earlier. We look for the right cost structure, we offer the kinds of products that we believe people need, but at some point, unless we make these kind of changes, the market will be challenged.
The media is talking about that idiot Lochte more than they ever did Clinton.
http://m.news9.com/story.aspx?story=32784075&catId=112032
The left is so caring.
An Oklahoma college student visiting Washington D.C. on a school trip, says he was beat up for wearing a Redskins Jersey. And the person he got into a fight with was a White House official in charge of American Indian education.
Barrett Dahl is Native American and a member of both the Choctaw and Sac and Fox Nations. He is also autistic. He says he wore the Redskins shirt because he was in Washington D.C. and because he sees it as a sense of cultural pride. However, when he showed up wearing it at a Pow Wow that's when the trouble started.
He says within seconds of sitting down he was approached by William Mendoza.
Just when you thought the Libs couldn't lower their standards any more than they already have... several of these nude "Trump" statues (titled: The Emperor Has No Balls) popped up in public (note the children in the photo) areas of major US cities.
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Hopefully, Trump laughs it off and says something like "at least they got the hair right"... then, when he becomes the president, he can gut the National Endowment for the Arts.
You sound like a PC, censoring, libtard to me.Just when you thought the Libs couldn't lower their standards any more than they already have... several of these nude "Trump" statues (titled: The Emperor Has No Balls) popped up in public (note the children in the photo) areas of major US cities.
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Hopefully, Trump laughs it off and says something like "at least they got the hair right"... then, when he becomes the president, he can gut the National Endowment for the Arts.
Golden opportunity this fall to put her on the spot on how she'd fix this disaster and tie her to wanting universal.Bloomberg joins to vast right wing conspiracy to falsely claim UCA is not awesome.
Businessweek @BW 2h2 hours ago
Obamacare is in trouble as big insurance companies pull out http://bloom.bg/2bkXyAE
Top 20Who is running her campaign.
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Don't think nude wax sculptures of our respective candidates is an avenue Ds want to travel.
Of course if one of HC popped up it would be a hate crime and punishable by guillotine.
This. I care less about the statues. But the double standard is pathetic. If someone put up hillary versions, there'd be a full scale manhunt and prosecutions
Don't think nude wax sculptures of our respective candidates is an avenue Ds want to travel.
Of course if one of HC popped up it would be a hate crime and punishable by guillotine.
Facebook and twitter are the overlord portals for the messengers.You forgot Facebook
Do you have a link to a nude wax sculpture of Hillary Clinton posed in public squares made by conservatives?Right. Because there have never been any attempts to ridicule HRC's appearance. Republicans have been as prissily decorous as Miss Manners.
I've swayed your vote. I've directed you here to this very spot. At this very moment. With these very words.
Who is running her campaign. Wtf. Deny deny deny you fn idiot.
She's doing everything wrong. She's getting blasted by the internet, not attacking back, admits guilt, won't speak for herself. She is up against a joke. All she has to do is get in front of cameras and lie her ass off like she's used to. Tell the people what they want to hear. Ie: YEA WE TAKE FOREIGN DONATIONS BECAISE WE ARE FOR THR WOLD UNLIKE RACIST TRUNP WHO WANTS TO KICK OUT FOREIGNERS!!!! CAN I GET A HELL YEA!!!!
And Hillary is worldly and progressive and helping these poor foreign countries. Of course she's going to take more donations to help more people!!!
Her campaign is forgetting how dumb voters are, imo.
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Vox
NYT
WaPo
HuffPo
Atlantic
NBC
CBS
ABC
CNN
MSNBC
Salon
Slate
NPR
Soros
Google (literally, google (pun) Schmidt working her campaign
New Yorker
Politco
The Hill
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You forgot Facebook
That was a rope-a-dope postAll you have to do is look at the noses of the people who run those organizations... and you'll know if Hellary ate any corn recently.
Do you have a link to a nude wax sculpture of Hillary Clinton posed in public squares made by conservatives?
No, you don't. Thankfully, I might add.
Moe lost all his hair in the great pantsuit fire of 2013 and has a perpetual yeast infection.All you have to do is look at the noses of the people who run those organizations... and you'll know if Hellary ate any corn recently.
online catpaw forum or public displays that make national news?.....very comparable. There are roughly 23 latin debate terms your comp violates.forum
You do realize it's not "foreign donations" everyone cares about, correct? Or are you that stupid?
It's the donations from foreign oppressive regimes and the favors Clinton was granting in return for the donations.
willful ignorance+awful context comparison+rathole argument+vague reference to attempt to show intelligence coming yo wayYou do realize it's not "foreign donations" everyone cares about, correct? Or are you that stupid?
It's the donations from foreign oppressive regimes and the favors Clinton was granting in return for the donations.
online catpaw forum or public displays that make national news?.....very comparable. There are roughly 23 latin debate terms your comp violates.