Posted on 02/17/2013 4:36:53 PM PST by upchuck
The backbone of President Obama’s health care law is taking shape, with 26 states choosing to let the federal government run the online insurance markets mandated by his signature reforms instead of keeping the job in-house or partnering with the feds.
The Department of Health and Human Services had encouraged states to run their own markets, or “exchanges,” that help the uninsured find coverage. Only 17 states and the District of Columbia took on the task, while seven states decided to split the duty with the Obama administration, according to a breakdown by the Kaiser Family Foundation...
State leaders who deferred to the federal government cited numerous reasons for their choices: They wanted to distance themselves from Mr. Obama’s first-term achievement, could not obtain enough information to make an informed decision or ran out of time after Mitt Romney lost the presidential election. That loss effectively ended Republicans’ hopes to repeal the health care law...
“We are making great progress, we are on track, and we will be ready for people all across the country to obtain high-quality, affordable health care coverage beginning on Oct. 1,” Gary Cohen, director of the Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, told the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday.
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That history makes things a little more clear.
Actually, I have to wonder if the Dems thought this nightmare would really pass. (I know I didn’t think it would) So maybe they were ill prepared for implementation.
Nah, the Feds always think before doing. What was I thinking?
That should set off alarms ~ if the average state has 50% MORE people to deal with than FEHB, there goes the idea that FEHB personnel and contract support folks can provide advice and training to the newbies in this business.
Frankly, unless your market is composed of people known to have an abiding and vital interest in their health care benefits this thing isn't going to work!
It’s not *just* that...Those Fed Employees are viewing their choices as a *benefit*; something they’ve earned through their employment agreement, be it verbal or written.
Being forced to choose something or else be fined $2,000 (basically having your tax refund stolen from you) will undoubtedly *not* be looked at as a benefit, but rather as a *Punishment*; which is, in fact, what it is.
Instead of eager participants, fully involved and invested in the choice and having it be a success; you’ll have disinterested people with low-level or entry-level jobs currently not providing insurance, who will ‘turn-out’ to sign up at a rate equal to or lower than turnout for an off-year election.
I’ve found that disinterested people are disinterested in all aspects of life. I’ll be kind and say that perhaps they just prioritize differently than people who are more involved with actively managing their affairs and life in general.
First off I wouldn't like to be the IRS jackboot trying to collect the fines from any of them ~ particularly those living at home SINCE any 'family income' standard necessarily excludes them from the freebies ~ and that's in this deal somewhere ~ we may not see it clearly but it's there. This whole law was written by psychosociopathic monsters so that's how we can know that with certainty.
Secondly, they will actively sabotage whatever does get set up ~ and that will cost the system more than it's been budgeted to handle ~ or that it has resources for.
ObamaKKKare is an all around waste of time for everybody. Some will suffer on account of it. None will benefit.
Frankly, I wouldn't be surprised to find mobs of unemployed young people chasing down Democrat politicians in alleys and beating them.
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