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3 More Things We Learned About ObamaCoup Since it Passed
« on: April 14, 2010, 03:12:36 PM »
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Six: Obamacare was intended, eventually, to push members of Congress and their staff out of the federal employees' health care plan and into the exchanges created by the law. The problem is, those exchanges won't exist for some time. And apparently due to an omission, the ban on offering the federal plan to Capitol Hill employees begins immediately.

The law states that "the only health plans that the Federal Government may make available to Members of Congress and congressional staff" are plans created under Obamacare or offered in its exchanges. According to a 13-page report from the Congressional Research Service, prepared a week after Obamacare's passage, this might mean that your congressman has no health coverage.

It's not exactly clear, because the law also contains a clause stating that no one can be forced to give up coverage they already have. "It is difficult to predict which provision a court would find controlling," CRS notes. At the very least, new hires on the Hill and new congressman appear to be out of luck when it comes to health coverage.

If it's any consolation, a spokesman for Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., a medical doctor, tells me he might consider turning his office into a free clinic.

Seven: You don't think Democrats in Congress would knock over their own cancer-stricken mothers to squeeze out a few extra dollars for earmarks? Oh, you're so wrong.

Currently, people with massive medical expenses -- more than 7.5 percent of their income -- can deduct them on their taxes. Under Obamacare, the threshold goes up to 10 percent in 2013 for younger taxpayers and in 2017 for older ones.

According to the Hill, this unnoticed tax hike will squeeze $15.2 billion out of 15 million very sick people, 99 percent of whom make less than $200,000 per year.

Eight: Remember how President Obama railed against health insurer Anthem for boosting its premiums for some California customers by 39 percent, and used that example in speeches as a justification for passing Obamacare? He said, "How much higher do premiums have to rise until we do something about it?"

Perhaps you thought he meant he was going to do something about it. Well, ha, ha, joke's on you. That was just demagoguery.

If you were paying very close attention hours before the House vote, you would have noticed that there was nothing in the Obamacare fix-it bill to prevent 40 percent or even 100 percent premium increases.

Not that government-imposed price controls can solve health care's problems. But how can a 2,000-plus-page bill that apparently no one took the time to read carefully?



Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columns/Three-more-things-we-learned-about-Obamacare-after-it-passed-90776954.html#ixzz0l6jXHE8j
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