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Corporate backing is helping Obamacare go mainstream
Los Angeles Times ^ | February 8, 2014 | By Noam N. Levey

Posted on 02/09/2014 8:03:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Univision, the nation's largest Spanish-language television network, is airing half-hour specials about healthy living and educating viewers about how to sign up for coverage under President Obama's health law.

And tax preparers at thousands of Jackson Hewitt and H&R Block offices are talking to their customers about how to enroll in the new insurance plans sold through the law's online marketplaces.

As the law becomes embedded in American life, the Republican drive to dismantle Obamacare will almost certainly become more complicated.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: 113th; aca; ceo; cronycapitalism; failure; obamacare; rinocare; socialism

1 posted on 02/09/2014 8:03:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sounds like agit-prop, paid for by Team Obama, to make the Death Panel law sound “inevitable”.

The truth, if there were journalists out there interested in it, is that Obamacare is massively unpopular and is ripe for destruction.

The fact we don’t have the votes in the Senate for it YET is a mere schedule snafu. Elections matter, and eventually the tide will turn.


2 posted on 02/09/2014 8:07:46 AM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I like the radio commercials with Sammy Hagar “The Red Rocker” stumping for commie-care....very fitting.


3 posted on 02/09/2014 8:10:08 AM PST by RS_Rider (I hate Illinois Nazis)
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Sammy Hagar is a commie?

I knew there was a good reason I never cared for him. It always seemed he was not very talented - but he is a lib so the libs encoruaged him (maybe?)

It is like Bill Mahar- a no-talent jerkwad who knows he would be an UNEMPLOYED no-talent jerkwad if he did not spew the lib talking points.


4 posted on 02/09/2014 8:12:38 AM PST by Mr. K (If you like your constitution, you can keep it...Period.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

His excellency has been counting on this support...his idea is to run out the clock by a systematic slowdown in the implementation of this law such that it takes over like a rising tide takes over the low lands. His plan augmented by those who most benefit by its passage, major employers and the social engineers, will ensure it will not be removed. The dems right now are using this promo: I voted for it and I will make the necessary changes to it. Meanwhile, the GOPe lost any possibility of rooting this out of the entitlement pasture our government has become since 1965. This last one is the death nell. We are done as a free nation.


5 posted on 02/09/2014 8:14:13 AM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Bottom line in the article:
The success of these marketplaces, a central pillar of the law, hinges on whether millions of healthy people enroll this year and help offset the cost of the sickest customers.

Not going to happen; without Federal force being used on the healthy people. - Tom

6 posted on 02/09/2014 8:17:34 AM PST by Capt. Tom
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7 posted on 02/09/2014 8:48:55 AM PST by RedMDer (are sHappy with this, America? Make your voices heard. 2014 is just around the corner. ~ Sarah Palin)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Looks like crony capitalism is the only way to survive in our newly transformed economy.


8 posted on 02/09/2014 8:59:09 AM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Part of the Chicago way - go along to get along, pay to play. The same sort of Vampire capitalism that the Nazis instituted. Every businessman should read Reimann's book.


9 posted on 02/09/2014 9:02:38 AM PST by Paine in the Neck (Our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Univision (the “N.B.C” of the Latin world) is backing O’Care?
Great! All the illegal aliens will be propping up the U.S. health care industry?........Dream-on.


10 posted on 02/09/2014 9:50:00 AM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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Why does the Federal government have separate healthcare funding for AIDS patients at $2.1 BILLION? And it can be used to pay for the AIDS patient Obamacare?

It seems some people are more equal than others...especially those that don’t take responsibility for their own lives. Taxpayers get stuck with funding their lifestyle.

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Ryan White is administered by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), HIV/AIDS Bureau (HAB). Federal funds are awarded to agencies located around the country, which in turn deliver care to eligible individuals under funding categories called Parts, as outlined below. First authorized in 1990, the Ryan White HIV/AIDS Program is currently funded at $2.1 billion.

In September, CMS informed insurers that Ryan White funds “may be used to cover the cost of private health insurance premiums, deductibles, and co-payments” for Obamacare plans.

In November, however, it warned “hospitals, other healthcare providers, and other commercial entities” that it has “significant concerns” about their supporting premium payments and helping Obamacare consumers pay deductibles and other costs, citing the risk of fraud.

The insurers told healthcare advocates that the November guidance requires them to reject payments from the Ryan White program in order to combat fraud, said Robert Greenwald, managing director of the Legal Services Center of Harvard Law School, a position Louisiana Blue still maintains.

“As an anti-fraud measure, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Louisiana has implemented a policy, across our individual health insurance market, of not accepting premium payments from any third parties who are not related” to the subscriber, Maginnis said.

http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-aids-patients-obamacare-limbo-insurers-reject-checks-152316632—sector.html;_ylt=AwrBJR5rZPZSUBMAzhHQtDMD


11 posted on 02/09/2014 10:02:55 AM PST by kcvl
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