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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: Chris_ on April 16, 2015, 10:34:17 AM

Title: Feds reject ObamaCare open enrollment for pregnant women
Post by: Chris_ on April 16, 2015, 10:34:17 AM
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Feds reject ObamaCare open enrollment for pregnant women

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has denied a request from Democrats to create a special open enrollment period under the Affordable Care Act for women when they find out they are pregnant.

In a response to the March letter sent by Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee ranking member Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) with 36 signatures, HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said the agency does not have “the legal authority to establish pregnancy as an exceptional circumstance” to create a special enrollment period.
The Hill (http://thehill.com/regulation/238621-hhs-denies-dems-call-for-open-enrollment-for-pregnant-women)

It's like getting ****ed twice, only the second time isn't as pleasant.  Thanks, Obama!

Title: Re: Feds reject ObamaCare open enrollment for pregnant women
Post by: thundley4 on April 16, 2015, 11:35:44 AM
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HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said the agency does not have “the legal authority to establish pregnancy as an exceptional circumstance” to create a special enrollment period.

Oh bullshit. When has something being illegal stopped this administration from doing anything?  They have  an ulterior motive for denying this.
Title: Re: Feds reject ObamaCare open enrollment for pregnant women
Post by: Crazy Horse on April 16, 2015, 07:54:07 PM
Wait a damn minute.  Are people not supposed to have health care insurance under penalty of law?
Title: Re: Feds reject ObamaCare open enrollment for pregnant women
Post by: obumazombie on April 18, 2015, 02:19:18 PM
Wait a damn minute.  Are people not supposed to have health care insurance under penalty of law?

That's the lib idea of freedom.
Freedom at the point of a gun, or threat of it.