ATTENTION REPUBLICRATS: MAN UP OR GET LOST!
Get rid of this atrocity or we'll get rid of you next election!
Posted on 02/14/2015 6:50:51 AM PST by RoosterRedux
In a few weeks, ObamaCare's second open enrollment season will close. Unfortunately for the president, the law may not live to see a third open enrollment — thanks to an increasingly hostile public and a case before the Supreme Court that could render a major part of the law unconstitutional.
According to Gallup, public approval of ObamaCare dropped to a record low of 37% at the end of 2014. The latest RealClearPolitics average of polls shows that 51% of Americans oppose the law.
That shouldn't be a surprise. For a full year, individuals have had to deal with canceled plans, premium shocks, higher deductibles and narrow networks of health care providers — all thanks to ObamaCare.
Forty-six percent of Americans now describe health costs as a "hardship," up from 36% in 2013.
Those who purchased coverage through ObamaCare's exchanges will get a lot more ornery come tax time this spring. They'll have to fill out a new and extraordinarily complicated form — the instruction booklet runs 21 pages — that directs them to do things like "add allocated amounts across all allocated policies with amounts for non-allocated policies from Forms 1095-A, if any, to compute a combined total for each month."
After enduring this nightmare, about 3.4 million people — roughly half of those who received government subsidies to purchase insurance in the exchanges last year — will have to pay back part of those subsidies because they misreported their incomes, according to tax preparer H&R Block.
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51%....probably more like 90% of people who are actually going to pay premiums or penalty tax that they never had before.
I think the author overestimates GOP courage and underestimates the treachery of the Roberts Court.
More like an impossibility as this point and then to top it off for what I cannot definitely afford you want to penalize me for it when I don’t have a way to pay my taxes at present much less barely able to pay just my mortgage each month alone I hope this scam perpetrated against the American People wakes them up as they slip into poverty and that they light the torches and march against its creator.
How does the writer know this? Was it due to Obamacare Navigators heavily inflating folks income or what?
I can’t see it being anything but a long painful path back to something different, especially given the quality of national leadership.
I don't think Obamacare law is unconstitutional. The law is simply being disobeyed for the convenience of the Obama administration. The Federal subsidies for states that have no exchanges are against law not the Constitution.
If the Supremes rule in favor of Obama in June they will have declared that The Law means nothing and that we are being ruled by fiat. I don't think they will do that but they have surprised me before.
We had our taxes done last week.
We only had to answer one question from the preparer, did you have health insurance all of last year.
Since I am on Medicare, it was yes, and my wife had insurance.
It was then I found out if you are on Medicare you have no further Obamacare obligation.
To late suckers!
You own it now.
There were a couple of articles posted recently here that talked about this snafu. Don’t have time right now to dig them up, but it appears to be a real problem for some people.
By 2016 the biggest block of supporters will probably be the leadership of the NRC. Everyone else will have gotten the heads out of their asses by then. It's pretty obvious that Boehner's head is permanently attached.
This is all orchestrated to slide into government single payer
>>How does the writer know this?<<
H&R Block (referenced as the source) does enough returns to probably have a darn good estimate on the number of people who over-report.
Get rid of this atrocity or we'll get rid of you next election!
Roberts was bought a long time ago - like a two dollar hooker. Don’t expect anything patriotic and conservative from him. Further, GOP (GOPe which controls GOP) isn’t about justice either. It is about entrenched second tier power. It doesn’t know how to do anything else but capitulate. As long as they have their jobs, perks, pensions and Dachas, what the hell do they care?
Why would they take that threat seriously after the last few elections??
Do these who over-reported their income get a refund?
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