You
haven' t seen so many faces of misery since you watched Les Miserable’s for
three and a half hours...and they were all Democrats. And one of them,
Senator Max Baucus , was the primary sponsor of Obamacare in the Senate!
Now,
try to follow because this gets pretty complicated. (It seems that Nancy
Pelosi was right; you have to pass Obamacare to find out what's in it...and the
Democrats are now learning what the Republicans warned them about. It's
an unworkable mess that is throwing millions of Americans off the health care
rolls!)
Okay,
apparently, tens of thousands of American employers began throwing workers off
their health care plans and opting to pay the much lower federal fine for not
offering health care for their workers.
Thousands
more are even now converting their full time workers to part time workers by
limiting working hours per week to less than 30, in compliance with Obamacare
rules. (Remember when Paul Ryan and the Republicans predicted employers
would do this? Remember when Democrats were warned that employers would
move to save operating expenses by moving their entire work force into federal
healthcare exchanges?)
Now,
these workers who have lost or will be losing their health care benefits are
busy trying to sign up for state health care exchanges. (There are
internet sites available if your state has agreed to sign up to Obamacare ).
However,
when these American workers, soon to be without employee provided health care,
go to the Health Exchange to sign up, they are finding they are not
qualified! It seems that during the signup process, applicants are
required to fill in various income and benefit data, which then flows over to
IRS computers who then are to spit out what your premium costs will be and how
much federal tax credits you'll receive in order to receive subsidies to help
you afford health care premiums that are as much as 30% more than you were
paying under your employer’s plan!
Big
Problem! The IRS is only allowing somewhere around 9% subsidy support for
Obamacare Health care Exchange premiums that are priced so much higher than the
worker was paying under his employer plan! (Surprise, Surprise! Remember
Republicans warning that forcing working Americans to pay for the 30 million
leeches who pay nothing for their health care under Medicaid would drive the
premiums of working Americans higher?)
Second
Big Problem! The IRS computers won' t mate up with the Health Care
Exchange computers because the IRS computer system is obsolete! So
when workers try to sign up for Obamacare the IRS and the Health Exchanges are
telling applicants to go to hell!
And
so fireworks really broke out at the Finance Committee hearings on Obamacare
yesterday afternoon. Senator Max Baucus , ( Dem ), said, "how could
this happen? I'm hearing from my constituents that they and their
families have been left out in the cold and are without health care because the
Exchanges are not accepting them!" Quote from Senator Bill Nelson ,
( Dem ), Florida "my constituents are not going to be happy to hear this
administration failed to implement the necessary changes to accommodate health
care applicants...someone has to pay for this!" Similar outrage was
professed by Senator Ron Wyden ( Dem ) from Oregon .
Sadly,
Obama Program Director for the Health care Affordability Act was on hand to
lend testimony. All he could seem to do was sympathize with his
Democratic buddies, saying that maybe the problems could be ironed out by the
end of 2014 but could offer no ideas about how that could be done.
An
Update! This morning a Harvard economics professor came on CNBC and
announced that, according to a federal study his group just completed, the
Health and Human Services Secretary is going to be forced to come back to this
same committee, hat in hand, and request $700 billion dollars more be allocated
to Obamacare just to pay for those automatically covered under current federal
programs.
Also,
sadly, the Wall Street Journal reported that, in addition to the 30 million
Americans not currently covered under Obamacare , we can expect tens of
millions more who will be left in the "no health care Twilight Zone";
those who were doing just fine with their employee health care plan until
Obamacare was implemented this year. And many of those who were working
40 hour weeks will find themselves deemed "part time employees"
working less than 30 hours per week and unable to afford Obama 's premiums even
if they could get through the application process.
And,
as usual, while the working poor, and the rapidly declining middle class will
be out in the cold without any health care, the Medicaid /Welfare leeches have
no worry. They are covered by that $700 billion dollar pot of gold
Kathleen Sebelius , Secretary of Health and Human Services will be demanding
from Congress soon!
Source http://justcommonsense-lostinamerica.blogspot.com/2013/02/obamacare... Posted by George Miller on March 25, 2013 at 9:40pm Ventura County Tea
Party. Provided via Email from Carl Franklin.
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