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Topic: Could ObamaCare´s ´affordability glitch´ leave your family without health care? |
Could ObamaCare´s ´affordability glitch´ leave your family without health care?
Fox News, by Dr. Marc Seigel
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Posted By:earlybird, 2/13/2013 10:30:49 AM
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| The “Affordable Care Act” is turning out to be anything but. (Snip) Advocates for the poor are now suddenly concerned about a new oxymoron, the so-called “affordability glitch,” where your employer can no longer afford to cover you and your family, and you will be forced to go to the state exchanges for your health insurance only to discover that you can’t afford the rising premiums there and don’t qualify for a federal subsidy. The only “good news” about this glitch is that new IRS regulations may exempt you from paying the 2.5% tax for non-compliance,
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Comments: ...You still won´t have health insurance.
Bill Hemmer and Dr. Seigel just discussed this on the morning Fox show. Well worth a read and passing on to your mailing list.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
GringoinQuito, 2/13/2013 10:44:09 AM (No. 9174002)
Impeach them all! They had the nerve to pass this without reading or understanding the implications of the bill. The American people snookered by the worthless piece of trash they call a president.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
nimby, 2/13/2013 10:58:10 AM (No. 9174026)
While he is chugging his "home brewed beer" and caviar with Kobe beef for his entree there will be no USA. Why should anyone care about healthcare?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
pomom, 2/13/2013 11:02:58 AM (No. 9174037)
Since Obamacare was first announced, Blue Cross has steadily raised my health insurance premium. Stealthy way to cover their arse. It has doubled in 4 years.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
nosillod, 2/13/2013 11:07:15 AM (No. 9174045)
And the only people who didn´t see this coming are the Democrats and the CBO. Common sense says that this would happen.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 2/13/2013 11:08:03 AM (No. 9174049)
Here´s the fix.
Propose another outrageous bill named the "Even More Affordable Healthcare Act" which will waste a few trillion more dollars.
When the Republicans vote against it you say: "Our plan would have worked but the evil Republicans hate grandma and they killed the bill.
Ergo...not our fault.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
markinalpine, 2/13/2013 11:29:41 AM (No. 9174088)
Call it what it really is, the "Patient Taxation and Unaffordable Noncare Act of 2010," AKA "ObamaDon´tCare."
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
kono, 2/13/2013 11:35:25 AM (No. 9174099)
Perhaps the smug dipwads in the legislature should have READ THE BILL before voting on it?
There ought to be a simple law ... any member of the House or Senate - or any President - who votes for or signs a bill without having read it first will be bound and gagged in duct tape and unceremoniously thrown into the Potomac River.
If the workload is too high to read a bill before the vote comes up, leave things as they are and vote ´No´.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MisterDickens, 2/13/2013 11:47:55 AM (No. 9174118)
Reading the bill would have done no good as the bill is filled with lies as are almost all bills passed by Congress, especially those proposed by democrat presidents.
This was the plan all along. Make health insurance unaffordable. Make us dependent on democrats. That way all the loser democrat politicians who could not earn 10% of what they earn as congressmen can continue to live lives of luxury and privilege. This was, is, and always will be the "plan".
democrats are the most corrupt assemblage of human beings ever to assemble on earth. Republicans are not much better but I´d rather be waist deep in pooh than neck deep in pooh. That´s why I vote Republican.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
lylacat, 2/13/2013 11:49:39 AM (No. 9174122)
0bama lied when he said his "Affordable 0bamacare" was lowering healthcare costs. My premiums have tripled since it was voted into law. It is obvious that many companies will have to opt out of healthcare for their employees, as it is just too expensive, and their people will be put in 0bama´s "exchanges" and have no opportunity whatsoever, to stay with their own doctor. However, remember that 0bama and his family will have gold plated healthcare which will take care of them the rest of their lives, along with all these dimwits that voted for this horrid healthcare. They never need to fear "exchanges" or rationing, because congress and the president are exempt. Wake up America.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
SheikYerBooty, 2/13/2013 11:58:00 AM (No. 9174141)
It´s 1984, back to the future.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
IdahoJoe, 2/13/2013 12:09:22 PM (No. 9174159)
I won´t be able to afford my own healthcare, but I WILL be required to pay for the healthcare of others.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Question_Assumptions, 2/13/2013 12:38:34 PM (No. 9174194)
What I want to know is who actually wrote the text of the law. Where did all that text come from?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
IGWTrust, 2/13/2013 12:45:49 PM (No. 9174204)
why should we pay a tax on something we did not buy or want??
The rape of Americans without a morning after pill.. Diabblic obamie
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
suziesuburbanite, 2/13/2013 1:00:26 PM (No. 9174227)
Health insurance is NOT healthcare.
Step to single payer
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
enuf8, 2/13/2013 1:15:36 PM (No. 9174254)
This should have been expected since the original drafter of this abomination was receiving room and board along with free health care during his time frame as a guest of the governmental penal system. Yep--otherwise known as Prison. Doesn´t seem to shame or bother his Dem spouse as she sits in Congress, tho.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
MattMusson, 2/13/2013 1:47:47 PM (No. 9174330)
While Obama is intentionally Crashing the HealthCare system - he needs to be careful he does not crash the entire country.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Susannah, 2/13/2013 1:58:04 PM (No. 9174354)
Obamacare was designed to be a mess in order to force the single payer system on us. That was the whole point of it. Obama got Kucinich to vote for the act by telling him it was a means of getting to single payer. The reasoning was that if you force an awful boondoggle on the people, they´ll demand that the government take over the health insurance business.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
horacer, 2/13/2013 2:19:58 PM (No. 9174398)
This is what happens with ´must cover´ and ´community rating´. Community rating used to be the death knell for any health care proposal. The only way to finance this boondoggle was a massive wealth transfer from younger, healthy workers to older, less healthy workers. Without the mechanism to force the transfer private insurance goes into the death spiral and we wind up with single payer.
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Why Did Lois Lerner Take the Fifth?
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Wall Street Journal, by James Taranto
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Posted By: earlybird- 5/22/2013 2:14:35 PM
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Among the criteria by which the Internal Revenue Service selected groups in for its political targeting program in 2012 was "educating on the constitution and bill of rights" (lowercase in original), according to the Inspector General´s Report. Lois Lerner, who directs the office at the center of that effort, has received her own education in the Constitution.(Snip)Josh Marshall, proprietor of TalkingPointsMemo.com, concedes that Lerner "has every right" to invoke the Fifth Amendment "and may be wise to do so. But that´s a decision that simply is not consistent with her remaining in her job.
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Cincinnati agent giving orders in IRS scandal?
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WXIX-TV [Cincinnati], by Ben Swann
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Posted By: earlybird- 5/22/2013 11:04:31 AM
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CINCINNATI, OH - The claim that the ongoing IRS scandal is limited to low level employees is falling apart. The six Cincinnati workers we have identified, who sent scrutinizing letters to conservative groups with words including "patriot, liberty, tea party or 9-12" in their names are Mitchel Steele, Carly Young, Joseph Herr, Stephen Seok, Liz Hofacre and a woman identified only as Ms. Richards. (Snip) Because all six of our IRS workers have different individual and territory managers, Cindy Thomas is one manager they all have common.
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Lois Lerner to plead the Fifth Wednesday before Issa Committee
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American Thinker, by Thomas Lifson
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Posted By: earlybird- 5/22/2013 9:02:04 AM
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We can now officially call the Obama administration besieged. One of President Obama´s underlings is set to plead her Fifth Amendment Right against self-incrimination in the burgeoning IRS scandal. The Los Angeles Times broke the story: Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, won´t answer questions about what she knew about the improper screening - or why she didn´t disclose it to Congress, according to a letter from her defense lawyer, William W. Taylor III. Lerner was scheduled to appear before the House Oversight Committee on Wednesday.
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Man questioned in Boston Marathon bombing shot, killed by FBI
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WCBV-TV [Boston], by Staff
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Posted By: earlybird- 5/22/2013 7:21:44 AM
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One of two men allegedly being questioned in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings was shot and killed by an FBI agent in Florida on Tuesday, (Snip)A friend of Ibragim Todashev said he and Todashev were being investigated as part of the Boston bombings. He said Todashev, 27, knew bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev because both were MMA fighters. The man claims he and Todashev were interviewed by the FBI for nearly three hours on Tuesday. The friend said he left the interview, and when he came back to the apartment he found that there had been a shooting.
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How Apple scores its lower tax bill
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CNN Money, by Jeanne Sahadi
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Posted By: earlybird- 5/22/2013 7:11:13 AM
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Apple is one of America´s most profitable companies. And it pays a substantial income tax bill to the U.S. government -- by its own account, $6 billion in 2012 and an estimated $7 billion this year. But many tax experts and lawmakers say Apple´s tax bill should be bigger. A lot bigger. The concern is that Apple (Snip), while complying with U.S. laws, is nevertheless taking advantage of loopholes in the tax code to shift a substantial amount of income to offshore subsidiaries in low-tax countries. The result is billions of dollars in profits every year that go untaxed.
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The Apple Tax Diversion
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Wall Street Journal, by Editorial
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Posted By: earlybird- 5/22/2013 7:00:42 AM
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You almost have to admire Carl Levin´s timing. Amid a furor over politicized IRS tax enforcement, the Michigan Democrat on Tuesday tried to change the subject to a hardy Washington perennial—corporate tax loopholes. Too bad his designated business pinata, Apple, AAPL -0.74% demonstrates instead the insanity of the tax code that Mr. Levin has done so much to write. Mr. Levin unveiled the results of his months-long investigation into Apple´s corporate taxes (Snip)What Mr. Levin did not do was present any evidence of anything illegal or even inappropriate. He did prove that Apple has smart accountants and tax lawyers.
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IRS´ last two commissioners deny lying; official to take the 5th
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Los Angeles Times, by Joseph Tanfani*
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Posted By: earlybird- 5/21/2013 11:17:34 PM
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WASHINGTON — As the Internal Revenue Service´s last two directors struggled to provide answers Tuesday about the agency´s improper scrutiny of conservative groups, a lawyer for another key IRS official said she would invoke the 5th Amendment rather than answer questions about the screening and why she didn´t tell Congress about it. Lois Lerner, director of exempt organizations for the IRS, will assert her right against self-incrimination during her scheduled appearance Wednesday before the House oversight panel.
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White House Chief of Staff knew about damaging IRS audit, kept Obama in the dark
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New York Post, by S.A. MILLER
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Posted By: FlyRight- 5/20/2013 4:15:03 PM
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WASHINGTON – The Internal Revenue Serviced scandal today spread further within the White House and closer to President Obama. White House spokesman Jay Carney today disclosed that Obama’s chief of staff, Dennis McDonough, and other top White House officials had advance warning that the IRS was targeting conservative groups. But he insisted McDonough and the other White House officials purposely kept Obama out of the loop.McDonough “rightly chose not to take action” to inform Obama, Carney told reporters at the daily White House briefing.
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Anthony Weiner announces NYC mayor run
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Politico, by Kevin Robillard
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 5/22/2013 6:06:40 AM
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Former Rep. Anthony Weiner, whose career in public life came to an abrupt end when he sent lewd pictures to a college student on Twitter, jumped back into politics on Wednesday by announcing a bid for mayor of New York City. “Look, I’ve made some big mistakes and I know I’ve let a lot of people down,” the Democrat said in a 2-minute video announcing his bid. “But I’ve also learned some tough lessons. I’m running for mayor because I’ve been fighting for the middle class and those struggling to make it for my entire life.
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Leaks turn to deluge for reeling White House
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New York Post, by John Podhoretz
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Posted By: StormCnter- 5/21/2013 4:49:13 AM
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The wheels came off the Obama administration yesterday. We learned of a startling assault on freedom of the press by the Department of Justice, following the revelation last week of the unprecedented information-gathering foray by that department against The Associated Press. Then, a few minutes later, the Justice Department’s inspector general released a report declaring that the US attorney in Arizona used the leak of a confidential memo to try to discredit a whistleblower in the notorious “gun-walking” scandal known as Fast and Furious (which got two federal agents killed). The leak was called “egregious.”
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Top IRS official will invoke Fifth Amendment
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Los Angeles Times, by Richard Simon and Joseph Tanfani
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Posted By: Scottyboy- 5/21/2013 3:53:35 PM
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WASHINGTON – A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the Fifth Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee investigating the agency’s improper screening of conservative nonprofit groups. Lois Lerner, the head of the exempt organizations division of the IRS, won’t answer questions about what she knew about the improper screening – or why she didn’t reveal it to Congress, according to a letter from her defense lawyer, William W. Taylor 3rd. Lerner was scheduled to appear before the House Oversight committee Wednesday.
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A Crack in the IRS Dam
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Power Line, by John Hinderaker
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Posted By: Dreadnought- 5/21/2013 10:50:44 PM
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The dam protecting the IRS scandal began to crack today when Lois Lerner, the IRS official who announced, and apologized for, the improper singling out of conservative-leaning organizations by IRS employees under her command, announced through her criminal defense lawyer that she will not testify as scheduled tomorrow before the House Oversight Committee. Rather, she will assert her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination. This marks an enormous milestone in the IRS investigation. It can now be taken as more or less established that crimes were committed by Obama administration employees. Lerner’s lawyer tried to minimize the significance
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Man questioned in Boston Marathon bombing shot, killed by FBI
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WCBV-TV [Boston], by Staff
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Posted By: earlybird- 5/22/2013 7:21:44 AM
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One of two men allegedly being questioned in connection with the Boston Marathon bombings was shot and killed by an FBI agent in Florida on Tuesday, (Snip)A friend of Ibragim Todashev said he and Todashev were being investigated as part of the Boston bombings. He said Todashev, 27, knew bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev because both were MMA fighters. The man claims he and Todashev were interviewed by the FBI for nearly three hours on Tuesday. The friend said he left the interview, and when he came back to the apartment he found that there had been a shooting.
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Howard Dean: ‘Benghazi is a Laughable Joke’
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National Review Online, by Andrew Johnson
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Posted By: KarenJ1- 5/21/2013 11:59:15 AM
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Former Democratic National committee chairman Howard Dean considers the controversy over Benghazi a “joke” and “silly.” “Benghazi is a laughable joke,” Dean proclaimed twice in a discussion with Republican National Committee communications chairman Sean Spicer last week. “With all due respect, governor, when four Americans die serving this country, that’s not a joke, sir,” Spicer responded. “Oh, stop it,” said Dean. The former Democratic presidential candidate also said that there were “no serious questions being asked about Benghazi” and brushed it off as an effort by Republicans to score political points.
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