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Topic: Budget cutters eye healthcare
law’s insurance subsidies |
Budget cutters eye healthcare
law’s insurance subsidies
The Hill [Washington, DC], by Sam Baker
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Posted By:KarenJ1, 11/12/2012 10:40:19 AM
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| Supporters of President Obama’s healthcare law breathed a sigh of relief Tuesday, but they’re already back at work trying to protect one of its key provisions from budget cuts. As the election fades into the rearview mirror and attention turns more seriously toward the looming “fiscal cliff,” lobbyists and advocates are once again wondering whether Congress might look to the healthcare law for spending cuts. Specifically, lawmakers might be tempted to tap the health law’s insurance subsidies —by far its most expensive provision, and probably the most tangible benefit it will provide. Cutting into the subsidies has
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It´s a nice concept but good luck with that. The Democrats will never let them touch 0bamacare. Let the destruction march on.
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oh-heck, 11/12/2012 11:16:13 AM (No. 9008906)
The religious liberty suits are just being heard. The government has lost most of those heard to date. Most of the states are not going to change their medicaid offering. So the increased coverage of the poor isn´t happening. Once the arguing in Congress begins, they are going to realize that the law as written only allows government insurance subsidies to be paid when the State has created and insurance exchange. If the States don´t create an insurance exchange, the subsidies and special taxes don´t occur. The GOP should watch quietly as Dems fight Dems.
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