After the waivers, the delay in Medicare cuts, the delay in the employer mandate and the reliance on the honor system for determining subsidy eligibility, now comes a delay until 2015 on capping out-ofpocket insurance expenses such as deductibles and co-pays. Somebody in the leviathan had to face the fact that it was going to drive up premiums.
You see, the money has to come from somewhere.
But the bottom line of the article is that "It’s one of the many aspects of Obamacare that should be repealed, if we are to combat the rate shock that the health law imposes on tens of millions of Americans. But that will require Republicans to come up with a smarter strategy than shutting down the government."
ReplyDeleteThe reason I lean toward the defunding strategy is that, while it could lead to a government shutdown, if we eschew it, our hopes rest entirely on getting a sufficient majority in both houses in 2014 to repeal the damn thing - and by then, it will have wreaked a lot more damage.
ReplyDeleteExtra, extra, read all about it: http://www.salon.com/2013/08/14/right_wing_push_poll_accidentally_finds_obamacare_popular/
ReplyDelete“Americans — including 57 percent of independents in ten critical congressional districts — favor defunding Obamacare,” said Michael Needham, the CEO of Heritage Action. “House Republicans should be much more concerned with the fallout of failing to defund Obamacare than with the imaginary fallout of doing so.”
What Needham fails to mention, however, is that even this push poll that dramatically oversamples Republicans (more on that in a minute) finds respondents are more likely to say that the Affordable Care Act should be kept than scrapped — and that a plurality would blame Republicans if the government were to shut down.
Gummit encouraging big brotherism through employers. This is outrageous and must be stopped!
ReplyDeletehttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323455104579014653816536802.html?mod=e2fb
The 2010 federal health-care law is increasing the size of incentives that employers can tie to workers' results on health measures such as cholesterol levels. However, there is no federal cap on penalties tied to activities that aren't linked to employees' health status, such as filling out questionnaires, said Steven P. Noeldner, a partner at Mercer, a unit of Marsh & McLennan Cos.