Posted on 10/25/2013 5:07:08 PM PDT by Libloather
Remember sequestration? Those automatic budget cuts that went into effect when Congress failed to do real budgeting a couple of years ago? It’s hitting Obamacare now.
Both laws have been around for awhile, but the Obama Administration hasn’t done anything to prepare for their collision.
The cuts are hitting a set of subsidies that were supposed to help pay deductibles and co-pays for lower-income Americans with Obamacare coverage. An Obama official pledged there would be a plan before the Obamacare exchanges opened on October 1, but that didn’t happen.
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Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
Sir Walter Scott, Marmion, Canto vi. Stanza 17.
Scottish author & novelist (1771 - 1832)
he’ll just suspend it.
he’s suspending any law he doesn’t like now.
Sequestration forever!
Memo to insurance companies: "Eat it. Or else. Love, Bo..."
No "grand bargain". Not even a "small bargain".
Harry intimated the choice for Republicans was either a.) dump the sequester or b.) the 'Rats would shut down the government...and blame it on Republican intransigence again.
Ryan's head, of course, is full of "Grand Bargain" sugar plums. It seems to have become a perverse obsession of his.
Would he give up the sequester -- avoiding yet another Obamacare embarrassment -- in return for a promise to open negotiations on a "Grand Bargain"?
Gawd, I hope not...
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