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Obama admin delays major requirement of health law
"In a major concession to business groups, the Obama administration Tuesday unexpectedly announced a one-year delay, until 2105, in a central requirement of the new health care law that medium and large companies provide coverage for their workers or face fines."
"The move sacrificed timely implementation of President Barack Obama's signature legislation but may help the administration politically by blunting a line of attack Republicans were planning to use in next year's congressional elections." So the decision was based on keeping Democratic congressional seats? That's pretty fucked up. http://news.yahoo.com/obama-admin-de...221406945.html . |
wonder what common sense reforms the republican leader is referring to
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Don't they do this in Hawaii already?
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One side effect from that is that it's harder to find full-time work there - many positions are intentionally offered as part-time as those aren't subject to the mandatory coverage rules, IIRC. I'm in support for health care reform, but there's gonna be fallout from changes like this for sure. |
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These new part time workers are going to really have a shitty work schedule. . |
Ahhhh All just so we can all be forced to buy something. Aint it grand!
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Obama administration is promising to bring that down to only THREE pages per employee...but it will take them a YEAR to be able to do that! Not only do I have a personal issue with one person being forced to pay another person's medical health insurance (or paying for ANYTHING for another person), but this is starting to look like it's gonna be a giant bureaucratic/money wasting typical govt. clusterfuck. People trying to run a business are already up to their necks in forms, fees, and other assorted paperwork that the govt. requires (and of course we need to be taxed more to pay for all the new bureaucrats to file and process all the paperwork). The more this thing rolls out, the more I don't like it. I didn't like it in the beginning when perfectly healthy young people are being forced to buy expensive health insurance (at a time in their lives when they are trying to get ahead in life and maybe even save a few dollars in the bank)...but now with thousand of NEW IRS agents being hired to "enforce" ObamaCare, and this latest 21 pages of bullshit further taking up people's time and money...it's looking bad to me. |
Obamacare needs those new IRS agents to collect from healthy people opting out of it to fund the NSA to spy on us
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Who fucking cares?
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http://www.irs.gov/uac/Questions-and...lity-Provision 25. What happens if I do not have minimum essential coverage or an exemption, and I cannot afford to make the payment with my tax return? The IRS routinely works with taxpayers who owe amounts they cannot afford to pay. The law prohibits the IRS from using liens or levies to collect any payment you owe related to the individual responsibility provision, if you, your spouse or a dependent included on your tax return does not have minimum essential coverage. However, if you owe a shared responsibility payment, the IRS may offset that liability against any tax refund you may be due. so you can say I cant pay and the law protects you. |
This isn't you having to pay for somebody else's health care. This is the company having to pay for it so you don't have to pay for somebody else. Right now the uninsured go to the hospital, rack up thousands in care, then don't pay it. That is you paying for someone else.
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is this what he meant when he said "change we can believe in."?
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I don't eat at McDonalds or shop at Walmart. |
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Do you want the person who serves your meal to expose you to TB or other illness because they couldn't afford to go to the doctor, couldn't afford to not work and didn't inform their boss so they could keep working? Quote:
By your logic of people waiting until they are in need of healthcare before buying insurance, then why not wait on buying car insurance until you have an accident or home insurance until there is damage? |
And as far as paying for someone else, I don't have children and will never have children, yet I am looking at my property tax bill for the year and the school tax is larger than the city tax. I hear people often complain about school tax when they don't have children, but I know they would be even more frustrated if everyone they dealt with was illiterate.
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It seems pretty clear to me that if you let insurance companies suck out more money out of the healthcare system the costs can only rise.... :2 cents: |
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What keeps the insurance companies from sucking the money out are the provisions in the Affordable Care Act that require them to use a specific percentage of premiums for actual health care. |
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Like most young men, I was in college...had a wife and kid, a house payment, a car payment, all my bills etc. and just BARELY made ends meet each week. I didn't want or need health insurance. And neither did 99.9% of the people that were in my age group. I can't imagine where I would have gotten the extra money to buy health insurance on top of everything else when I was 20 years old. Oh, wait a minute...that's right...the govt. will force your parents to pay for it until your 26 years old. Because parents in their 40's and 50's don't have anything better to spend their money on right? Retirement savings? Going on a vacation? Keeping your own money? Hell no! lol The real answer would have been for the govt. to put an end to the price gouging that hospitals do and stop the pharmaceutical companies from charging U.S. citizens 3 to 4 times MORE for the same medications than they do in other countries. Then everybody could pay their own goddamn medical bills and only have "insurance" for what it was originally supposed to be: for a catastrophe (car wreck, heart surgery, etc.) instead of having to use it everytime you stub your toe. |
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so winners in this arrangement are: 1. insurance companies 2. those that are less healthy doesn't sound very fair to me... |
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Sad really.. the US needs universal healthcare in a big bad way. Money can be made any way, it's just the current way has your country bankrupt in under 100 years :/ 'Republicans Attack Obama For Not Implementing Health Care Reform Quickly Enough' headline i just came across lol |
my college offered medical insurance, i bought it.
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And don't forget about the Democrat and Republican politicians who are getting billions of dollars from the lobbyists for the insurance, hospital, and pharmaceutical industries. They ALL benefit. But the one thing that doesn't change? The QUALITY of our health care. If you have a shitty doctor now...you'll still have a shitty one later. And if you have a good doctor...you'll still have a good one. And by the way...The CBO itself is saying that 30 MILLION people will still be uninsured with ObamaCare. So that part doesn't change at all. If you don't believe me...just google it up. Looks like a lot of people who are already outrageously rich (pharmaceutical companies, hospital industry, insurance industry, lobbyists, politicians) are about to get even richer off the backs of the middle class. |
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i hope this doesn't mean the pre-existing condition clasue coming into effect in <100 days is going to be a nightmare.
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20,000 pages of regulations, you thought this was going to work?
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One accident or illness can wipe out even the best of planned savings. No one should have to go bankrupt because they got injured or sick. |
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The ACA requires insurance companies to use 85% of premiums actually providing healthcare. The same people against ACA are usually the ones who want to get rid of Social Security and Medicare. Are you able to pay for the care of all of your elderly or disabled relatives on top of your entire family's? |
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I think my transition was a paperwork foul up -- the people at the PCIP plan did seem sincere in trying to help. But, the young lady in the Plan Administrator's Office admitted to me that the dumping of the state policy holders onto the new Federal Obamacare or the Affordable Care Act (ACA) PCIP insurance plan was a total mess now. |
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healthcare will play out exactly the same, I will subsidize others now, but when it comes for next generation to subsidize my healthcare I'll probably get fucked just like I will get fucked with SS... |
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When I was 20 car insurance wasn't required, so many people didn't buy it. Like health insurance now. |
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it's capitalism for the poor, socialism for the rich |
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