Something Incredible Happens When a Citizen Asks MN Dems Simple Obamacare Question

The Blaze ^ | February 20, 2014 | Jason Howerton

[VerySadAmerican]

I imagine all those new Medicaid patients are saving at least $2,500.

[SoConPubbie]

It is something much more evil and much worse. It is the reprobate mind, the mind incapable of telling good from bad, truth from falsehood--in fact, people who are afraid of Communists and communism will accept that good is evil, and evil is good.

you are being much too kind.

This isn't a lack of ability, it's much worse, it's a choice.

God has given us all a basic conscience; it's standard equipment. He has left no-one with an excuse where doing the right thing is concerned.

[logi_cal869]

The ‘joke’ gets more interesting: I had a conversation with my tax gal the other day. It seems I stumbled upon the real reason the mandate was delayed.

The mandate includes qualifying employer-provided health plans that are provided as part of compensation...this includes many public-sector health plans, sometimes provided as 100% benefit or provided by negotiated labor contract as ‘employer contribution’.

No calculator exists where anyone can do the math, but the ‘mandate’ is supposed to have a ‘sliding scale’ with those with ‘too much benefit’ being taxed and those with ‘not enough benefit’ getting a new revenue stream akin to the ‘Earned Income Tax Credit’ (welfare).

I’m just guessing a whole bunch of lib voters on the public dole (including a whole bunch of public employees at the state & local level, including universities, might have seen their precious tax refunds evaporate before their eyes and taken it out at the voting booth...so they delayed it. (recall it was said, “...pass it to see what’s in it...”...I bet the darker part of the ‘regulatory regime’ took awhile to get worked out to parse in a simple outline for our puppet’s handlers’ comprehension)

The mandate as a ‘penalty’ for not having coverage was just a very public smokescreen, imho. Who knows...

[Gaffer]

That putrid puke on the right (glasses) was the one that ended up defending Obamacare.

The words he spoke “....problems, yes, but don’t pretend there was a safe harbor before this mess...blah blah blah”

I’d tell him to his face, “At least there WAS a harbor before this, safe or not - now it’s all beached.”

[cableguymn]

He only voted NO because Nancy didn’t need his vote. Remember that fellow Minnesotans.

[Kickass Conservative]

THEY LIVE, and we’re the only ones wearing the Sunglasses.

[fortheDeclaration]

The question that the MSM will never ask.

[trebb]

...it’s got to make sure we’re not leaving people behind or distorting the system,” the lawmaker said. “But don’t pretend there was some type of safe harbor before this where everything was just peachy keen.”

Then they shouldn't pretend that ObamaCare is an improvement and that it won't waste more money and lives due to government despotism and incompetence.

[SunkenCiv]

> Rep. Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), who also attended the meeting, was the only one prepared to respond. “I voted ‘no’, so I’ll let these guys handle that,” he said, sparking applause from the audience.

Thanks NYer.

[Colonel_Flagg]

The question: “I thought the Affordable Care Act would save $2500 per family. What happened?”

The Witless Wonder, Amy Klobuchar, probably didn't understand the question.

[cradle of freedom]

Are they laughing with us or at us?