Posted on 11/16/2011 10:53:53 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat
Even if ObamaCare survives Supreme Court scrutiny next spring, its trials will be far from over. That's because the law has a major glitch that threatens its basic functioning. It's so problematic, in fact, that the Obama administration is now brazenly trying to rewrite the law without involving Congress.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act offers "premium assistance"—tax credits and subsidies—to households purchasing coverage through new health-insurance exchanges. This assistance was designed to hide a portion of the law's cost to individuals by reducing the premium hikes that individuals will face after ObamaCare goes into effect in 2014. (If consumers face the law's full cost, support for repeal will grow.)
The law encourages states to create health-insurance exchanges, but it permits Washington to create them if states decline. So far, only 17 states have passed legislation to create an exchange.
This is where the glitch comes in: ObamaCare authorizes premium assistance in state-run exchanges (Section 1311) but not federal ones (Section 1321). In other words, states that refuse to create an exchange can block much of ObamaCare's spending and practically force Congress to reopen the law for revisions.
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Wel;l, of course. Now that the thing is passed, it is time to find out what is IN it!
But in reality, no hidden valley.
Like the endings to "Brazil" and "Blade Runner" the lovely couple disappear into the sunny valley...to be happy ever after.
You are right he probably doesn't even know this. He probably doesn't have a clue what a republic is.
Better yet, let’s dethrone him. Sooner...if not later.
"...Do the democrats have one shred of dignity left?....”
No. I don’t think he’s the anti-christ. If he was, most of us would be dazzled by him too, instead of seeing right through him. I DO, however, think he is soul-less. Just look at his stance on not giving medical treatment to live-birth, fully formed infants in botched abortions. His preference would be to throw them into medical waste bins and leave them to die crying. He’s inhuman.
RE “They can’t lose what they never had.”
Oh, I don’t know...maybe once upon a time they had some dignity...there were some Dems that were good folks. They weren’t ALWAYS the anti-American scum that they are now.
They just got infiltrated and totally taken from within by Marxist/communist professionals. Let’s see...Roosevelt’s admin was heavily loused by communists/socialists; before him, Woodrow Wilson was a “Progressive” - another ephemism for socialist...
Well...yeah...maybe you’re right after all...
And the GOP is on the same path unless we start actively and ruhtlessly removing the liberal/RINO coalition from our ranks.
Saul Alinsky is his father.
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