Posted on 07/10/2012 5:30:38 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says low-income residents in states that decide to opt out of a big Medicaid expansion in the new health care law will not risk federal penalties as an unintended consequence.
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What an idiot!
The clown has no plan. Everything he does is made up on the fly.
how can she just decide who will and will not be subject to a law? Seriously.
0bama the narcissist who can't handle the idea that he is a buffoon without ANY leadership skills.
Life must really suck for him about now.
At least he has a supportive babe to relax him and get him through these troubling times....
It is falling apart.
Also, if you make too little income you are not eligible to buy a policy on the so-called “exchanges”. But if your State doesn’t expand Medicaid, then many will make too much income to qualify for standard Medicaid. These people caught in the middle will create a new DONUT HOLE in ‘coverage’
What a mess.
In any case it looks like the creaters of this monstrosity will not meet their projected 30 million newly “covered” people.
They passed it to see what was in it. Apparently what was in it is a screwed up mess.
Hi,
My name is John Galt... I have no income.
LLS
)I know, he thinks he is....)
One thing is for sure.
This whole mess is a guaranteed employment bill for high priced attorneys.
“.........how can she just decide who will and will not be subject to a law? Seriously.”
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How DARE you to question the decisions and prerogatives of our czars and overlords! They are our sovereign rulers.
Just wait until Obama’s second term—we haven’t seen anything yet.
nobama is such a quick thinker. Wow. He must be so smart. Why...he can just work his way out of anything. m I must be so beneath him...and stupid. I am so lucky to have nobama taking care of me.
nobama is such a quick thinker. Wow. He must be so smart. Why...he can just work his way out of anything. m I must be so beneath him...and stupid. I am so lucky to have nobama taking care of me.
nobama is such a quick thinker. Wow. He must be so smart. Why...he can just work his way out of anything. m I must be so beneath him...and stupid. I am so lucky to have nobama taking care of me.
Wait a minute... I accidentally posted “quick thinker” for horse’s ass”.
Sorry.
nobama is such a quick thinker. Wow. He must be so smart. Why...he can just work his way out of anything. m I must be so beneath him...and stupid. I am so lucky to have nobama taking care of me.
Wait a minute... I accidentally posted “quick thinker” for “horse’s ass”.
Sorry.
how can she just decide who will and will not be subject to a law? Seriously.
Good question. I’m not sure but I think there are hundreds of clauses in the ACA saying something to the effect “the secretary of HHS shall determine” or “as determined by the secretary of HHS” or some sort of similar lanquage. It looks like the democrats gave the secretary to do whatever she wants with no restrictions. This whole bill is one outrage on top of another and never ending. We’ve got to win in November or this country is finished.
Let me try to parse this report. If the reporter accurately conveyed what Kathleen Sebilius said, then one of several things is true:
(1) The term “low-income residents” refers to those with income of less than $10,000/year for those filing as single, $12,850/year for those filing as head of household, and $17,950/year for those married couples filing jointly, including united homosexuals. The statute specifically exempts these individuals from the tax. The tax also exempts illegal aliens, members of Indian tribes, and those incarcerated without pending charges regardless of income.
(2) Although Sebilius will exempt the “low-income residents” from the mandate, they still must pay the tax on their low incomes unless they fulfill the mandate. Although she failed to articulate so, this situation does not differ materially from the situation of “high-income residents” except that their tax will be more affordable, and they could afford health insurance if it did not conflict with their moral systems.
(3) The statute (26 USC § 5000A) actually allows the Secretary of Health and Human Services to grant exemptions from the tax in cases of “hardship with respect to the capability to obtain coverage under a qualified health plan.” However, she must act through functioning Exchanges so to do: if no exchange exists, then no hardship exemptions can exist.
(4) Quite possibly, some low-income persons with may fall under the situation wherein the monthly premium for one individual exceeds 8% of the annual household income for the most recent year for which the Secretary of the Treasury gives her information (probably your household income one or two years before the coverage year). For a household with a constant income, this effectively means that the household would have to spend more than 96 percent of gross income (before taxes) on each individual’s health policy to get the exclusion. A household experiencing a collapse in income may have to continue to pay for health insurance for years based on previous years’ income before qualifying for the exclusion. Worse yet, the 8% monthly rate gets indexed, not to anything particularly helpful, but to “the excess of the rate of premium growth between the preceding calendar year and 2013 over the rate of income growth for such period.” In other words, if health coverage costs continue to soar, the threshold for the exclusion would rise concomitantly.
(5) Some other section of law may empower her to do as she proposes, or, alternatively, she plans to induce Congress to pass such a law (if Democrats win victories in November).
The more I read this statute, the lees sensible it seems. I guess that’s why the Congress had to pass the law so that we could find out what is in it. We who hold the Congress in utmost contempt wouldn’t have believed that the Congress could do something so awful otherwise.
Even it it does create 30 million “newly covered” people, they won’t have any significant access to healthcare, only possibly to death, because they won’t have the money to pay both the premiums, the food bill, the taxes (yes, premiums get taxed, just to make them more “affordable” for Congress), and the required copayments to get actual healthcare. Life-ending and death-inducing procedures of course are provided for free.
More likely, the working poor (as opposed to the welfare classes)—those lucky enough to get something close to a year-round full-time minimum-wage job will pay an additional tax of $695/person (indexed for inflation). For a single mother of 4 with an income of just $12,850.01/year, this new tax takes away a whopping 16.2% of total income. That doesn’t include a $2,000/employee tax on her employer, which money otherwise might go to providing wage raises. But Congress doesn’t think such families are suffering enough already.
So Democrats use tax policy to oppress the poor...the widow and the orphan! That’s who they mean when they say “tax the rich.” That’s what they did.
Welcome to another episode of Governing by issue polling...
You can tell they polled the issue of States opting out and this was the key concern. Know plan just a "Oh were gonna do this" How? These people won't have Health Insurance so Dumbasses big plan is NOT TO PUNISH THEM FOR IT> But hey we will punish anyone who has a few dollars BECAUSE THEY ARE RICHER THAN YOU AND THEY SHOULD BE PUNISHED!!!!
Like I told a friend of mine who doesn't have water to his house now for 14 straight days (After not having electric for 5) He should get a D9 and get on the North Side of the City building and then head South then head to Washington DC and do the same on the Capital Building and 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
I don’t think your single mother of four making $12,805 per year would have to pay the penalty. However, depending on the State she may not be eligible to buy a health insurance policy on the “exchange” and she would be making too much to be eligible for non-expanded Medicaid.
There will be people a lot of people in this gap ... and the media is ready to pounce on it. They will blame the States that these people are not “covered”, even though the Supreme Court has ruled that States do not have to expand Medicaid and PPACA did not prepare for that.
Obama admin, Pelosi et al were completely blindsided by the SC ruling on Medicaid expansion. They don’t know what to do except to use the media to shame States into complying.
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