More Trump voters soon to be trashed on ObamaCare Exchanges!

I've been thinking about how I should react to all the Trump news, and his upcoming ominous presidency, and came up with a few conclusions.

There's nothing we can about the Trump voters gullibility, they've bought into every empty promise.

Voters faith in Trump is a mystery. He lied 70% of the time, according to Politifact.

Why are the Democrats in chaos? They shouldn't be, since there focus was spot on. It's what they didn't do; flat out lie about everything. That convinced many voters to take the easy, "I'll fix it" way out. Many Democrats bought into it too, and will pay the hefty price.

I will watch with glee when rural Republican voters, who believe Trump is going to lower the cost of health care, see their premiums go through the roof. And they will lose their affordable insurance on the exchange. If they thought they were disenfranchised before, just wait. I'm ready for it. They're not, and they're going to go down with me:

Hmm, as it turns out...

In winning what Republicans see as a mandate to repeal Obamacare, Donald Trump carried the Wisconsin counties that participate in a key part of the health program at higher rates 

An analysis by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel shows that people living in the 59 counties won by Trump enroll in the Affordable Care Act's private health insurance exchange at a higher rate than the 13 mostly urban counties that backed Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Oddly, Democrats have fewer ObamaCare enrollees:

-In all, 157,751 people in the Trump counties enrolled in the exchanges in the most recent year ... in the Trump counties, about 4.3% of the population is enrolled in the exchanges and in northern Wisconsin counties like Vilas, Iron and Door, the rates of exchange enrollment rise to nearly 10%.

-In the counties won by Clinton, 3.8% of the population enrolled in the exchanges, or 81,280 in all. The two powerhouse counties for Democrats — Milwaukee and Dane — enrolled at below average rates of 4% and 3.2%, respectively, and few other Democratic counties have high usage rates.

Those who didn't vote for Trump will have to endure the consequences of his presidency. But that's okay, knowing we'll see every Trump voter get stiffed right along with everybody else. Everything will cost more as each and every free market/deregulation Trump promised is fulfilled.

Trump voters will be so invested emotionally in their "leader," that they never admit mistakes or be allowed to take the blame.

Wisconsin Insurance Commission says wait for Exchange rates in ObamaCare, don't believe the high premium numbers...but be very afraid anyway?

Wisconsin Insurance Commissioner Ted Nickel did everything he could to sound like he wasn't really trying to scare Wisconsinites about the cost of the ObamaCare exchanges.

Nickel: "The information is so difficult to kind of sort through, that it's best for consumers to simply wait till October 1st...once you change one little variable here and there, those numbers change quite dramatically...we did hear from a lot of folks saying, they wanted something...."

It's our fault for wanting to know. Ya think we'll all see that "one little variable," lower rates dramatically from the scare mongering increases tossed out by the administration?

Wisconsin has to wait till October 1st apparently, and not get the rates like other states, because after all, Walker is running for reelection. He needs to get mileage out of this.

From Here and Now:

Higher Employee Health Care benefits resulting in lower wages.

Rising employer health care costs are coming right out of an employees pay check in lower wages and lower wage increases. The idea of getting rid of the old employer connection with coverage is picking up steam, which means a single payer system isn't too far off. 

From the Washington Post comes this analysis.

The National Journal published a widely-shared article Thursday comparing premiums in the employer market to those in the individual market, exploring what would happen if employers dropped coverage. Clara Ritger, the author, concludes that “for the vast majority of Americans, premium prices will be higher in the individual exchanges than what they’re currently paying for employer sponsored benefits.”
 That conclusion leaves out crucial information about how employers pay for health insurance–and what else they would do if coverage got cut. National Journal’s analysis focuses on … (what) employees might see deducted out of each paycheck. It ignores the really big contribution that employers pay and that economics research shows to come out of workers’ wages. 
 The total premium, including employer and employee costs, come at the cost of workers’ wages. This is known as the wage-fringe tradeoff. “What we do know is that when health-care costs go up by a dollar, wages go down by a dollar.” 

Amitabh Chandra, another Harvard economist, for his part, says he’d actually prefer it if his employer, Harvard, booted him onto the marketplace–and gave him the increase in wages that his research suggests he would receive. “I’m paying for a super generous plan from Harvard right now in the form of lower wages,” he says. “I could take a higher wage and spend some of it on a nice summer vacation.”

Walker hands Health Care Exchanges over to the federal government, based on nothing specific and unknown possible future costs.

Republicans continue to use “what if” excuses to appeal to their panting and gullible conservative voters. Tea party officials like Scott Walker don’t need real reasons to oppose instituting health care exchanges. Instead, they just need the possibility that something might not work right or cost too much.

What, fine tune and adjust the program as time goes on? Too much work.

Gov. Scott Walker told federal officials Friday that Wisconsin will hand over the creation of an online health insurance marketplace to the federal government, a decision likely to affect consumers, health plans and Walker's political career for years to come. Walker argued that Wisconsin has been able to provide health insurance to more than 90% of state residents without a health care exchange.

The high percentage of coverage in this state has everything to do with our expanded Medicaid program, Badgercare Plus, which has been targeted for cuts under Walker. And yet, the news media never brings that up.

Walker’s decision was purely ideological, based on “what if” scenarios that had no connection with reality.

jsonline: Walker also declined to say whether he would back a future expansion of state and federal Medicaid health programs for the needy as called for under Obamacare … He declined to state specific areas where the state needed more control, saying he was not "dissecting it here today," and couldn't provide an estimate of the future costs the state might face, saying he worried because they were unknown.

To be clear; Walker is worried about nothing specific, and about the unknown “future costs” that might not happen. 

But Walker isn't the only standout when it comes to partisan fear mongering, check out the following comment from a highly conservative business group, it’s almost laughable:

Bill Smith, the Wisconsin head of the National Federation of Independent Businesses (said),  “the governor's analysis, which anticipates unknown massive costs for Wisconsin taxpayers with limited or no control over the system, is a reasonable one that we respect."

“Unknown massive costs” with “limited or no control” over the system...what is he talking about?  And that makes perfect sense to these people that should know better? Don't get me wrong, it would have been a plus to have Walker run the exchanges like WEDC.