[EGPWS]

Further, the new health law will give some older households without access to employer care a big incentive not to earn too much.

Keep up the good work Doug and you may pass the 3rd grade! /s

[rockinqsranch]

"However, ObamaCare’s progressive subsidies, i.e. more generous for those who earn less, carry more of a disincentive than the flat, universal benefit favored by some Republicans."

NOT saying Boehner specifically is compromising, but that's what ANY "benefit" proposal by any Republicans would be.

What say ye John "No Compromise" Boehner?

NO COMPROMISE PERIOD.

[stockpirate]

Not to worry, RINO’s will tweak the bill so as to make it better. end sarcasm

[Gaffer]

Wurk? You mean you want me to wurk? What about my EBT, my EITC, EITC advance payments. My AFDC, my WICs, my ‘housing assistance’, my ‘student’ jobs programs payments, my ‘educational grants’, my Medicade, my SSI, my SSI child payments, my Social Security (hey, I worked for 2 Quarters when I couldn’t find a man to knock me up....what about......and on and on and on.....

[neodad]

I can’t believe these idiots don’t see France as us in 10 years. If we don’t kill the beast now, we never will. Especially when a generation has grown up with it...

[sodpoodle]

This a salient point - witness the UK - where benefits are not connected to earning a living.

People work to earn a living and provide for themselves and their families. Having employer-subsidized group medical and life insurance is an added perk.

When the government takes from the workers to provide identical benefits to the non-workers - guess what happens?

As for the employees now working for medical and insurance companies - they will be absorbed into the Federal work-force; costing more in benefits and pensions to the working tax-payers. It’s another PONZI scheme.

[CharlesWayneCT]

The report also contains this gem:

The legislation will decrease spending on health care for people who would be insured with or without the legislation. The magnitude of that decrease, and the extent to which it will be achieved through greater efficiencies in the delivery of care or through reductions in access to care or quality of care, are unclear.

In other words, the report says overall that spending will go up, mostly because the cost savings drivers don't start for years, and the newly insured will use 40% more services than they use now. But for those who already have insurance, they will "spend" less -- and it is possible that this less spending will entirely be due to having their insurance plans cut to meet the "cadillac rule", and to removing access to health care, or providing less quality health care.

This is what Obamacare offers to people who already had insurance, those people who were "doing the right thing", working hard and providing for themselves -- a likely reduction in access and quality for our health care.

[meyer]

The motto of the democrat base:

“Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?”