Posted on 11/22/2013 12:12:26 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
The Obama administration plans to delay by a full month the open enrollment period for Obamacare's second year, in a move that a Republican campaign strategist called 'nakedly political.'
According to Healthcare.gov, the Department of Health and Human Service's official online portal for the Affordable Care Act, enrollment for 2015 is scheduled to begin on October 15, 2014 and end on December 7.
But an HHS official said Thursday that the schedule has been bumped back, beginning on November 15, 2014 and ending on January 15, 2015. That timetable will ensure that the midterm elections come and go before the new year's insurance rates are published.
The White House attracted widespread scorn in July when the Treasury Department quietly announced a one-year delay of the Obamacare law's employer mandate, shelving the implementation of its stiffest penalties past the 2014 midterms.
The HHS official told Politico that the change is 'good news for consumers, who will have more time to learn about plans before enrolling.'
But it will also postpone any resulting public sticker shock until after voters choose the members of the next Congress.
Insurance companies will still be required to submit their policies to the federal government in mid-spring 2014, but consumers getting their coverage through the government's exchange will not find out how much they will pay until they shop online – 11 days after the election.
Ana Gupte, an analyst at the investment firm Leerink Swann & Co., told Bloomberg News that '[t]he death of this law would be for health insurance companies to price policies for 2015 in a way that premiums skyrocket. At that point, it’s a death spiral and it’s over.'
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We can pickup where Ted Cruz left off by creating a bankrun from facebook. Repeal or you don’t get to play with our money anymore.
Oh, they talk like holy tolerance for homosexual as heterosexuals, and once the law locks favor on homosexuals, they surprize come out the closet.
Wolves in sheeps clothing
They are using the shameful fabian homosexual strategy. Secretly support pedophilia and exploitation of the people.
Think of when Sen Reid kept nailing Romney on the "fact" that he hadn't paid his taxes in ten years. Which was of course a lie, but Romney was still doing his taxes, and would not release them until they were done. So Reid got a few weeks of free Romney smears in. He never got called on it, and he gave low information votors constant reinforcement that Romney was a rich evil person.
Republicans have an entire election cycle of warning the current ObamaCare subscribers how bad their rate increases will be, if the democrats are hiding it from them until after the election. Plus they can warn the current employee plan holders that after the election, they will get thrown onto the exchange.
“Older congressional staff say their out-of-pocket healthcare costs will rise three or four times after they enter the ObamaCare insurance exchanges.
The economic shock has led Democratic chiefs of staff to call for changing the rules so that their staffers won’t take the economic hit..........”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3094231/posts
isn’t it funny, media and gop attacking tea partier for being extremist for doing exactly what obama is doing via executive order
“FUD - Fear, Uncertainty, Doubt.”
Was there ever any other condition under which to do business? FUD is the paper you write next year’s plans on.
If republicans capture both houses on a wave of anti Obama sentiment, they should impeach him. Biden would run as the incumbant against Hillary. No matter who won, they would be defeated by a solid republican.
So then it hits in time for the Presidential election. Name one Dem who didn’t speak up for Obamacare or support it? Especially Hildabeast. This is her baby from back during when Bill was in office.
Where is the Republican opposition????????????
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