Major Glitch Found in Obamacare: 3 Million ‘Middle Class’ People Could Get Nearly-Free Care
- Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:45pm by
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s health care law would let several million middle-class people get nearly free insurance meant for the poor, a twist government number crunchers say they discovered only after the complex bill was signed.
The change would affect early retirees: A married couple could have an annual income of about $64,000 and still get Medicaid, said officials who make long-range cost estimates for the Health and Human Services department.
Up to 3 million people could qualify for Medicaid in 2014 as a result of the anomaly. That’s because, in a major change from today, most of their Social Security benefits would no longer be counted as income for determining eligibility.
Medicare chief actuary Richard Foster says the situation keeps him up at night.
“I don’t generally comment on the pros or cons of policy, but that just doesn’t make sense,” Foster said during a question-and-answer session at a recent professional society meeting. It’s almost like allowing middle-class people to qualify for food stamps, he suggested.
“This is a situation that got no attention at all,” added Foster. “And even now, as I raise the issue with various policymakers, people are not rushing to say … we need to do something about this.”
Indeed, administration officials and senior Democratic lawmakers say it’s not a loophole but the result of a well-meaning effort to simplify rules for deciding who will get help with insurance costs under the new health care law. Instead of a hodgepodge of rules, there will be one national policy.
“This simplification will stop people from falling into coverage gaps and may cause some to be newly eligible for Medicaid and others to no longer qualify,” said Brian Cook, spokesman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
But states have been clamoring for relief from Medicaid costs, complaining that just these sorts of federal rules drive up spending and limit state options. The program is now one of the top issues in budget negotiations between the White House and Congress. Republicans are pushing for a rollback of federal requirements that block states from limiting eligibility.
Medicaid is a safety net program that serves more than 50 million vulnerable Americans, from low-income children and pregnant women to Alzheimer’s patients in nursing homes. It’s designed as a federal-state partnership, with Washington paying close to 60 percent of the total cost.
Early retirees would be a new group for Medicaid. While retirees can now start collecting Social Security at age 62, they must wait another three years to get Medicare, unless they’re disabled.
Some early retirees who worked all their lives may not want to be associated with a health care program for the poor, but others might see it as a relatively painless way to satisfy the new law’s requirement that all Americans carry medical insurance starting in 2014. It would help tide them over until they turn 65 and qualify for Medicare.
The actuary‘s office said the 3 million early retirees who would become eligible for Medicaid are on top of an estimated 16 million to 20 million people that Obama’s law would already bring into the program, by opening it to childless adults with incomes near the poverty level. Federal taxpayers will cover all of the initial cost of the expansion.
A spokeswoman for the Senate Finance Committee, which wrote much of the health care law, said if the situation does become a problem there’s plenty of time to fix it later.
“These changes don’t take effect until 2014, so we have time to review all possible cases to ensure Medicaid meets its mission of serving only the neediest Americans,” said Erin Shields.
But Republicans already see a problem.
Former Utah governor Mike Leavitt said adding early retirees will “just add fuel to the fire,” bolstering the argument from Republican governors that some of Washington‘s rules don’t make sense.
“The fact that this is being discovered now tells you, what else is baked into this law?” said Leavitt, who served as Health and Human Services secretary under President George H.W. Bush.
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cntrlfrk
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:20pmIt‘s not a ’Glitch‘ or even a ’loophole’ if it was in there, and passed containing this wording.
Investigate and prosecute every jackhole that signed this bill.
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Report Post »Brighter_Bart
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:17pmSo you ARE meaning it was a feature?
Report Post »LarryofArabia
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:18pmThanks Barry.
Report Post »ZAP
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:17pmI want to thank all of you-For paying for my health insurance
Report Post »Richard Compton
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:14pmHow many glitches does it take to fool the people?
Report Post »track
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:11pmThose three million people will have to pay their own way because there will be FEW Dr.’s enrolled in Medicaid because of reduced payments.
Report Post »PASSIONFORCHRIST
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:11pmJust reading the first paragraph tells me this was no accident. ONE PAYER SYSTEM “SOCIALIZED HEALTH CARE!!!!
Report Post »GERATMO
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:10pmWe all know the media wont cover this story. If people only knew what they are in for.
Report Post »llotus
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:09pmThis is a good reason for them to get rid of this healthcare disaster themselves. Well nancy they are finding out whats in that thing. How you liken it now. My gosh, it has something in it to help the middle class. They will do something about that, cant have that. This discovery may be what it takes to end the healthcare. Wishful thinking. Burn the healthcare bill. Lotus.
Report Post »264win
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:09pmDad to his 18 year old son!
Son: Hey Dad!
Dad: Yes Son what do you need?
Son: hey I recived this letter in the mail that i may have won 1 million dollars!
Dad: Really!
Son: Yep all I have to do is fill out all the infromation and sign it and send it back in it’s that simple!
Dad: Did you read the entire letter?
Son: well most of it.
Dad: The first thing you need to understand in life is nothing is free!
Dad: One of the most important advise I can tell you is never sign anything until you completely read it and understand everything in detail!!!
Son: Well the congress and senate never read the obamacare before they signed it and they are older adults and political professionals.
Dad: They don‘t care whats in it becuase it’s not there money that they are spending and the heatlhcare will not effect them.
Dad: Remember things things can only work in governmnet they would never work in the real world the private sector or they would be without a job!!
Report Post »Susan09
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:05pmTHE people have to have FAIR AND NOT FIXED VOTING TO KEEP THE GOVERNMENT FROM BEING OUR OWNERS AND US THE SLAVES.. I believe it was AL GORE that thought He could WIN THE PRESIDENCY because he had the POPULAR VOTE SO HE HAD RECOUNT AFTER RECOUNT UNTIL THE SURPREME COURT finally SAID whom won.. WOULD AL GORE IF PRESIDENT IN 2001 of SEPTEMBER Would This EX VICE PRESIDENT that had no GUTS TO STAND FOR THE RIGHT THINGS during the Clinton Fiaskos BEEN STRONG ENOUGH TO GO AGAINST THOSE THAT CAME CALLING IN NEW YORK THAT DAY. OR WERE WE BLESSED BECAUSE WE HAD A PRESIDENT THAT GOT THE GO AHEAD TO GO AFTER THE ENEMIES OF WALL STEREET THE FREE WORLD AND THE STATE OF ISRAEL NAMELY IRANS PENCHENT FOR DEATH TO THE JEWISH ????? AND YES ALL INFIDELS>>> I DID SAY ALL <> WHOM HERE THINK THAT IRAN IS CORRECT AND ALL FREE PEOPLE SUCH AS AMERICANS ENGLISH THE UK SHOULD ALSO JOIN IRAN AND RUSSIA AND CHINA AND ASSYRIA, LYBIA YOU KNOW KADAFFEE SORRY MY SPELLING ON FOREIGN LEADERS LEAVES VALOT TO BE DESIRED BUT I THINK MOST KNOW THE ENEMY LEADERS AND COUNTRIES OR SHOULD IF THEY STILL DO NOT …
Report Post »let us prey
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:08pmIt is the heroin to get everyone hooked.
Report Post »Thighmaster
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:07pmI wonder if whites will qualify… jus sayin
Report Post »leftcoastslut
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:29pmit is all slight of hand
Report Post »Drum Man
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:05pmOne Word: REPEAL.
Report Post »DianeCee
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:05pmI’m beginning to research American clinics that will be available in Costa Rica. Giving up my citizenship to relocate there so I retain my freedom of medical choices is starting to look like a good idea.
Report Post »the hawk
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:03pmDamn ! Sounding better! Still want it Killed for my kids sake !
Report Post »Susan09
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:01pmThere are some out here that have not been blind at all SOME HAVE seen THIS COMING and nONE have Listened FOR YEARS!!! ..
Report Post »Brighter_Bart
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:19pmUp there on the page somebody just now said the blind were leading the blind ones etc.
Report Post »walker1812
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:00pmNEARLY-FREE??????? Somebody (we) are paying for it! What’d Nancy say. They have to pass it to find out what’s in it. Nobody even read the frickin’ thing.
Report Post »Puddle Duck
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 12:16amIt’s still being written (by the Reg Czar)…..by the time 2014 roles around this bill will have over 100,000 pages of legalise undeciferbale by anyone other than a corporate lawyer. If you look at the initial bill (2600 pages and growing) there are vast tracts of it that have language along these lines “to be determined by X agency or board”. There are literally thousands of these references throughout the bill….the entire stinking mess along with the Financial reform bill (which is much the same and still being written by the same Czars in concert with Dodd/Frank) that need complete repeal ASAP.
Report Post »progressiveslayer
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:58pmBarry wanted single payer for years and this is just the path to it,private health insurance will be wiped out in favor of the government taking over health care totally.The drunk Ted kennedys dream of medicare for all,will just collapse the system faster then it normally would have,of course that’s the whole point,collapse the system and start over.
Report Post »fitsgibbons
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:56pmThe blind, leading the blind.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:58pmThe Blonde, leading the Bland.
Report Post »VRW Conspirator
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:07pmthe idiots leading the moronic
Report Post »Outlaw_Josey_Wales
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:51pmthe idiots leading the morons and the imbeciles
Report Post »Brighter_Bart
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:06pmI am not following this
Report Post »exactly
so far
Whostolemypig
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:56pmYou “AIN”T” seen nothing yet! The fun is just beginning.
Report Post »Lover of America
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:55pmThis whole administration is a big fat glitch!
Report Post »Susan09
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:55pmWhen The Government is paying everything for everybodies needs SCHOOLS, MEDICINES, JOBS LIKE WORK FOR THE GOVERNMENT SYSTEM INSTEAD OF VOTING FOR YOUR WORKERS FOR YOU THE PEOPLE GUESS WHOM YOU BELONG TO??????? BECAUSE THEY HAVE ALL THE MONEY BECAUSE IT IS THEM AND NOT US THAT ARE BUILDING OWNING AND RUNNING COMPANIES LIKE INSURANCES SCHOOLS STATE UPKEEP OF HIGHWAYS OR ANYTHING ELSE THAT STATE TAXES PAY FOR BY STATE PEOPLE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA OR HAVE WE NOW LOST OUR RIGHT TO HAVE OUR OWNED BUSINESSES BY THOSE THAT WANT TO MAKE AND BUILD COMPANIES AS LIKE SMALL BISINESS THAT THGEN CAN BECOME BIG COMPANIES OWNED BY THE ONE THAT BEGAN AS AN ENTREMPTER SMALL BUSINESS MAN OR YES WOMAN ALSO>> IF THE GOVERNMENT OWNS IT ALL WHAT AND HOW DO PEOPLE OWN OR HAVE CONTROL OVER ANYTHING> THEY NO LONGER HAVE THE MONEY THE GOVERNMENT DOES PAYING US INSTEAD OF US VOTEING IN THEM THAT IS CONSIDERED A TRYANICAL DICTATORSHIP ONE MAN GOVERNMENT I THINK THAT HAS BEEN PROVEN TO FAIL.. Does anyone NOTIVCE THE POWER OUR GOVERNMENT IS AQUIREING ..
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:57pmPlease do not yell like this – you will wake up the sleeping giants. LOL
Report Post »Susan09
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:15pmI believe you are the one that Said something about the REPUB’S Implying that The Government NOW is Giving In to Repubs V FOR votes??? Republicans No way If they have any sense at all Do not want a COMMUNISTIC SOCIALISTIC ONE MAN GOVERNMENT WITH ANY ONE NAMED PRESIDENT THAT TELLS US ALL HOW TO LIVE what HOSPITAL TO GO TO OR WHAT DR TO HAVE OR WHAT INSURANCE GOVERNMENT CAN GIVE US FOR FREE. LETS see NOT ALL democratic Presidents have been bad Neither have all Republican Presidents either. IN the Past few years.. HMMM JOHN KENNEDY WENT AGAINST the COMMUNIST CASTRO.. BAY OF PIGS.. HE WAS MURDERED BECAUSE OF THIS. FOR GOING AGAINST A COMMUNIST DICTATOR HE was a DEMOCRAT.. Lets See Then NIXON WELL how many KNOW NIXON LEFT ANYONE REMEBER WHY.. SOMETHING ABOUT HIS PARTY BREAKING INTO A BUILDING THEFT AND SCANDLE HMM ONE FOR ONE ONE DID SOMETHING GOOD gOT MURDERED FOR IT another DI A WRONG and LEFT OFFICE RATHER THEN BE IMNPEACHED AND SOME EVEN WENT TO PRISON LIDDY OH AND HE NOW HAULKS GOLD TO FOR US ALL TO BUY>> THEN hmmm I remeber CARTER .. BOTCHED A RESCUE MISSION . FROM THE KIDDNAPPED EMBASY AND SERVICE PEOPLE BY OUR ENEMIE.. DEMOCRATE .. REAGAN well WE all STILL REMEMBER THE WALL CAME DOWN.. NOT A SGHOT FIRED OF COURSE DOES NOT MEAN that MAYBE A FEW THREATS WERE SPOKEBN OF BUT THEN THE MAN IN CHARGE WELL HE WAS A BOT MORE MILD then THE NORMAL COMMUNIST> BECAUSE WE HAD THE POWER THE DID NOT.. REPUBLICAN .. FORD KINDA GOT HIS again BECAUSE OF AN ATTENMPTED MURDER OF REAGAN>> WHOM
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:22pmWhoa! I almost wrenched by neck reading your post!
Heavy Stuff!
Report Post »Susan09
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:32pmREAGAN WHOM WENT AGAINST AN ENEME OF AMERICA AND OTHERS COMMUNIST AND HE THEN HAD AN ATTEMPT ON HIS LIFE BY WHOM ANOTHER AMERICAN.. REPUBLICAN PRES TWO GOING AGAINST AN ENEMY OF AMERICA AND OTHERS THAT WERE CONSIDERED A FREE PEOPLE? WHY IS IT THAT EVERYTIME A PRESIDENT AND GOVERNMENT THAT HAD POWER THE ENEMY LOST.. YET TODAY??? WE HAVE NO POWER AS THEN. BANKRUPT, NO JOBS, NO COMPANIES UNLESS OWNED BY GOVERNMENTS AND WHOS GOVERNMENTS GEE KOREA CHINA RUSSIA GERMANY WHERE HAS ALL OUR POWER DISAPPEARED TO??? AND WHY>> OH and IT WAS PRESIDENT BUSH THAT DID NOT SIT BACK AND DO NOTHING WHEN THE TOWERS CAME DOWN HE SAID::::::: AND TOLD US ALL>> WERE YOU LISTENING?????? “”"”“ ”THE WAR” THE ONE WE ARE IN TODAY>>>> “IS BETWEEN GOOD & EVIL”
Report Post »AMERICA AND ALL FREE PEOPLE AND ABOUT ISRAELS RIGHT TO HAVE LAND LIFE AND THE PEOPLE CALLE JEWISH A RIGHT TO EXIST???? THEY HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR YEARS TO BRING BOTH DOWN. THEY CAME HERE BECAUSE THEY BELIEVED IT WAS TIME >> LOOKS LIKE THEY HAVE ACCOMPLISHED THEIR GOAL BANKRUPT AMERICA TAKE OUR COMPANIES AND SOON OUR MILITARY IF WE LOOSE THE WAR BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL AS PRESIDENT G.W. BUSH TOLD US ALL ABOUT!!!!!!!! YOU THINK HE IS THE ONLY ONE THAT SAW THE TRUTH OF ISLAM HATRED AND IRANIAN THREATS>> and THE COMMUNIST REGIMFOR POWER OVER ALL??????? DEATH TO US AND THE JEWISH PEOPLE OF THE STATE CALLED ISRAEL>> THEY WANT IT ALL … THINK on WHOM is EVIL THOSE THAT LET ALL THEIR CHILDREN BE MARTYERS TO KILL A JEWISH ISRAELIE AND AN AME
Susan09
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:34pmI BELIEVE THEY CONSIDER US THE GREAT SATAN, and THE ISRAELIE JEWISH THE SMALL SATAN BOTH INFIDELS TO THE ENEMIE OF BOTH FREEDOM AND JEWISH HEBREWS. TRY PROVING THESE TRUTHS WRONG..
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:53pmOh no! Someone might get free medical care!! Call in the Marines! Contributors to this story? Bushie2 Leavitt. Repube Governors, so the “balanced” rhetoric is out the window.
Report Post »freedoc
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:21pmActually your still a sheep. But in wolves clothing.
You sneer at the notion that freedom advocates scoff at free health care. Right on cue.
But you don’t answer the question…who will PAY? Not you, I suppose. The producers. For every ‘free’ health care recipient, someone, somewhere has to actually WORK to provide it.
The only balance in thievery is slavery. Thats your balance?
Report Post »freedoc
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:25pm@track.
Never fear, they will force Doctors to participate. One-payer system is but one example.
Can you say ‘American Gulag’?
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:23pmWhat. No Vitter ??
Slacker
Report Post »jedi.kep
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:52pmHow is it that we have politicians who voted this into law, and we are STILL finding out surprises? Are you kidding me? What has happened to our country?
Report Post »USAMEDIC3008
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:56pmFree hell , somebody will pay for it.
Report Post »Lover of America
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:56pmRemember, the deal got done behind closed doors without the Republicans involved.
Report Post »TH30PH1LUS
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:51pmGuess we had to pass it to find out what was in it – right, Nancy Pelosi?
(hand to forehead)
Report Post »Seagal45
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:48pmYou have to pass the bill to find out what’s in it……..
Report Post »HKS
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:50pmThis bill is a glitch.
Report Post »frustratedwithgovt
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:55pmExactly – These clowns need to go. The sooner the better.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:56pmGlitch or not, they will find some means to make the fixes they see being needed. Even if only being done by executive fiat he is so fond of doing anymore.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:56pmWhat HUGE news! This is Great! And it will be the deciding factor in 2012.
This is definitive PROOF that the Democrat machine is focused on serving the needs of the vast majority of voting republicans!
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:59pmThe only “fix” for Obummercare is a total repeal of the bill.
Report Post »VRW Conspirator
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:05pmI agree with the Jed Babbin article about John McCain…entitled… Charlie Foxtrot McCain… but this is Charlie Foxtrot Obamacare in action……
for those that don’t know Charlie Foxtrot……about the same as FUBAR……talk to a miltary man or gal for the answer…educate yourself people.. LOL.. You could also reference Heartbreak Ridge with Clint Eastwood… HEHEHE
Report Post »Rightsofman
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:07pmGoody for me ! Now I support Bamacare. I’m gonna switch back to the Democrat Party and invite Nancy Pelosi to dinner. Any more gimmies coming my way in this bill?
Report Post »ReddenBlack
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:08pmOh no!!! Lots of people are getting free health care!!
That was the point of it. Everyone who makes less than 100 grand a year should get free healthcare. paid for by either state or local gov.
Report Post »SavingtheRepublic.com
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:08pm^____^____^
Report Post »No glitch it was by design, so are all the waivers. They want the system to fall apart so they can reign in single payer. Single Payer has been the SNC and BHO’s goal from the gitgo
banjarmon
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:13pmSimple fix…REPEAL the WHOLE BILL!!!
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:17pm@VRW Conspirator, BOHICA is another acronym that comes to mind when I think about ANYTHING pertaining to Obummer and his destructive policies.
Report Post »LarryofArabia
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:17pmNo… progressives. There’s your glitch. Maybe they’ll let us read the next bill. Everything they touch becomes a sink-hole. Thanks Barry.
Report Post »fastfacts
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:20pmYou should see the next piece of propaganda about ObamaCare that just came out: http://tiny.cc/97gny
Then another story says that Issa wants to investigate Obama’s propoganda for stimulus as well as health care: http://tiny.cc/9cziq
Report Post »LarryofArabia
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:23pmHitler once said, ‘the bigger the lie, the more they will believe it’.
Report Post »Sicboy
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:29pmGlenn Beck is in the bag for Rick Perry…http://blog.chron.com/txpotomac/2011/06/jonathan-gurwitz-rick-perrys-not-just-lucky-he-takes-advantage-of-political-opportunities/
Report Post »Sandy
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:31pmThe REAL issue is that right now $64K is considered middle class, the way the FED keeps devaluing our dollar $64K will be poverty before Obummer gets out of office!!
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:32pmConspirator and Biohazard
“SNAFU” for all the DC CO2 expellers!
btw Semper Fi
Report Post »ozchambers
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:33pmAint nothin free.
Report Post »mikem1969
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:33pmThe whole bill is a glitch. Me and my family fall into the 3 million that would get it almost free if not free, but I would still rather work for and attain what I want myself. No one needs to pay for my family and me but me period. All the morons that want handouts need to move out.
Report Post »USAMama
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:34pmSavingTheRepublic:
You are exactly right!
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:43pm.
Report Post »SNAFU or FUBAR take your pick…
sWampy
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:45pmA retired couple making 64K in some places will clearly be below poverty level plus 1/3.
Report Post »Living In NYC
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:50pmNo worries…Nancy and Harry planned it that way!!!
Report Post »HUGGINGMYBABIES
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:50pmMillions of Americans are getting a first hand look at the old saying “If it looks too good to be true, it’s probably not!”
Report Post »Brighter_Bart
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:54pmGlitch is RIGHT!
Report Post »“Millions of Families Served” — they are not a Feature aspect or; in palne language not real!
cessna152
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:00pmWait… I think “whitey” will get free health care…
Halocaust survivor gives account of incremantal steps of Hitler… truly AMAZING! This administration are NOT Marxists they are National Socialists!
Report Post »http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAvMHWhdEUU&feature=youtu.be
CatB
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:00pm” Federal taxpayers will cover all of the initial cost of the expansion.”
So how much you want to bet an increase in taxes and this “free” healthcare will cost these “middle class” PLENTY!
This just means that we all will be paying more.
Report Post »SnapTie
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:07pmObamacare glitch. Hardly a “glitch” it was crafted and written into the policy, the fact it was kept from the Public until now does not make it a “glitch
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:20pmDon’t count on it being GOOD care.
Report Post »Cloth Stews
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:44pmI don’t know who Richard Foster is but I could have pointed this out to him before the bill was passed. I told my Representative and Senators that I opposed this bill before it was passed even though I sought to benefit greatly from its implementation. Yes, I am one of the 3 million. I have decided to not take advantage of this anomoly which would possibly save me $7200.00 in insurance premiums and the $10,000.00 annual deductible. How many others will try to do the right thing?
Report Post »DirectlyUnPCman
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:51pmAre they all minorities?
Report Post »TomFerrari
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 4:52pmThe socialist democrat people taking over our nation and abolishing freedom are the “GLITCH”
Report Post »bertr
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 5:22pmtalk about a glitch, why did my post get censored 20 minutes after it posted? it wasnt offensive or inappropriate by any intrepretation. just odd…
Report Post »LadyLiberty
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 8:05pmThis is NOT a glitch. This was intentional. Go back and listen to Senator Obama about government run single payer systems.
This is a deliberate means to get the bulk of us on Government Cheese; it makes the case to go single payer almost overwhelming.
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 8:05pmMONICNE
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 2:56pm
What HUGE news! This is Great! And it will be the deciding factor in 2012.
This is definitive PROOF that the Democrat machine is focused on serving the needs of the vast majority of voting republicans!
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Dude, put the pipe down. Look our nation is going bankrupt and the only thing this inept joke of a president can do is spend money like my ex wife, go on vacation, and play golf more then a retired doctor. I’ve known pathological liars that lied less then this administration and the rest of his hypocrat party does. And liberal twits like yourself just lap up the bathwater like it’s coming from the messiah and the cup of life itself. Do yourself a favor and think for yourself for a change.
Report Post »hifi74
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 8:06pmbiohazard23
Posted on June 21, 2011 at 3:17pm
@VRW Conspirator, BOHICA is another acronym that comes to mind when I think about ANYTHING pertaining to Obummer and his destructive policies.
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SNAFU comes to mind too.
Report Post »Jackers
Posted on June 22, 2011 at 5:25amMillions upon millions of “vulnerable Americans” and yet we continue to import poverty at a staggering level.
How about reducing legal immigration to reasonable levels and to immigrants who will prove to be self-sufficient and eliminating all illegal immigration? Naw… That would be too much common sense for our elected officials…
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