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Topic: Some families to be priced out of health overhaul |
Some families to be priced out of health overhaul
Associated Press, by Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar
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Posted By:JoniTx, 1/30/2013 10:04:34 PM
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| WASHINGTON— Some families could get priced out of health insurance due to what´s being called a glitch in President Barack Obama´s overhaul law. IRS regulations issued Wednesday failed to fix the problem as liberal backers of the president´s plan had hoped. As a result, some families that can´t afford the employer coverage that they are offered on the job will not be able to get financial assistance from the government to buy private health insurance on their own. How many people will be affected is unclear. The Obama administration says its hands were tied by the way Congress
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Justavoter, 1/30/2013 10:12:42 PM (No. 9149586)
Easy to fix all these problems with a single payer system. The plan all time
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
KTWO, 1/30/2013 10:15:51 PM (No. 9149588)
Can´t Obama just order insurance companies to give them free coverage?
Or is that one of things he can´t do because he is not King.
Should the poor suffer because O is not King?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Reillybinx, 1/30/2013 10:29:39 PM (No. 9149603)
So if the enforcement to mandate everyone to buy health insurance is done thru the tax code and...49% of people don´t pay taxes...how is that going to work?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
reddfroge, 1/30/2013 10:34:35 PM (No. 9149609)
the ´nightmare´ continues....we are finished as a free country...Obamacare rules every aspect of your life.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
neanderthal, 1/30/2013 10:39:34 PM (No. 9149613)
Well, we passed it now, Nancy sweetie, maybe it´s time to read it.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
devnull, 1/30/2013 11:26:16 PM (No. 9149656)
Mistake???? Ohhhh no. This was no mistake. This is quite deliberate. The progressive movement has always hated the working poor. Always. They were the undesirables that abortion was to have gotten rid of. Now that President Obama has no need for voters, they can be disposed of. They will be forced into a rationed care system that will refuse to care for any lifestyle related illnesses (smoking, obesity, drinking) and left to die. This will weed out the "untermensch" and control the population in line with Agenda 21 goals. Leaving only the educated and elite. With fully automated farming and manufacturing no need for the "little people" who just consume and reproduce.
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berthabutt, 1/31/2013 12:04:58 AM (No. 9149676)
Already happening. Church acquaintance has a teenage special needs child who has required tube feeding with prescriptive formula since forever. In Nov Mom was told by pharmacy that kid´s food was no longer covered with Obamacare changes. Now they have to buy Ensure type products to sustain which give many complications to digestion, let alone the cost. Mom & Dad feel this is the first track in the cattle chute to the death panel. Please pray for them & how many thousands of others facing these determinations by the Fatherland.
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Kowgirl, 1/31/2013 12:28:46 AM (No. 9149686)
FTA: "The Obama administration says its hands were tied by the way Congress wrote the law."
Is this a joke? I distinctly remember over one-half of Congress (the Republicans) begging for time to read the ACA so everyone would know what was in it before the vote. I recall Nancy Pelosi´s infamous statement, "We have to pass the bill so we can find out what´s in it."
It would be interesting to learn exactly who, and/or what organization(s), is responsible for this mess. Until then, I can only say, "Thanks for nothing, John Roberts."
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
bighambone, 1/31/2013 12:34:08 AM (No. 9149688)
The people who wrote this article need to do a little bit more research, as it was not a bipartisan Congress that passed Obama Care, it was the Democrats in Congress who passed that law, as not one Republican voted for the law. When Obama blames the Congress for the many deficiencies in Obama Care, he should be directing his complaints to the Democrats in Congress as they are the people who passed the law.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
LanieLou, 1/31/2013 3:59:35 AM (No. 9149753)
Propaganda Alert... ObieCare only passed by bending the rules so only dems could pass it. No matter how hard they lie, peeps know the truth. Medicare drug co-pays are increased to +300% of 2012 cost, depending on the drug. We are already suffering.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Trigger2, 1/31/2013 5:17:14 AM (No. 9149782)
Boo hoo. Those workers who can´t pay for business plans will just refuse it and go on the state exchanges and walla, they get free taxpayer money.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Spidey, 1/31/2013 5:51:31 AM (No. 9149803)
There´s no glitch in this law.What we´re seeing is an intentional effort to corner a relative handful of middle class whites paying the price for having the gumption to be self sufficient.What this says is there´s no escape hatch for the people Obama targeted to begin with.
It´s an absolute mathematical impossibility for the shrinking workforce to finance the exorbitant cost of this plan which will add 50 million more people to an already broke medicaid system,many of whom don´t even belong here. Just take the costs of one illegal mexican get kidney dialysis treatments for months on end.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
judy, 1/31/2013 5:58:28 AM (No. 9149814)
The won should have said his hands were tied by the dem congress, not one repub voted for the bill.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bugger, 1/31/2013 6:34:20 AM (No. 9149851)
Hey thanks AP, but the story is, oh, about 2 years late. Maybe somebody should have read the monstrosity.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
FunOne, 1/31/2013 7:50:13 AM (No. 9149965)
It depends on what the definition of "Affordable Care Act" is.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
stablemoney, 1/31/2013 9:10:02 AM (No. 9150167)
People that pay for their health care are going to be priced out and will not be able to afford a doctor´s visit. Only those that get their visits free will be at the doctor´s office. The payors will have to get back rather than pay the $500 for themselves and the 5 free ones in front they will have to wait on. A neighbor calls an ambulance all the time -- $2500 a call and free, but not for me.
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