Posted on 07/18/2014 8:16:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Looking for a place where Obamacare doesn't exist? Try moving to the U.S. Territories, where the Obama administration just provided a pretty big waiver from the law's major coverage provisions.
The Affordable Care Act's design dealt a pretty big problem to the territories. It required insurers there to comply with the law's major market reforms — guaranteed coverage, mandated benefits, limits on profits, etc. — without requiring residents to get coverage or providing subsidies to help them afford coverage. The territories — Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands — have been warning for years that would destroy their insurance markets. The individual mandate and the subsidies are the major ways the ACA tries to bring healthy people into the individual insurance market to balance out sick patients who can no longer be denied coverage.
That was until Wednesday, when the Obama administration told the territories that the coverage requirements actually don't apply to them. The exemption was posted on a Health and Human Services Web site on Thursday....
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Another nail in the nobamacare coffin. Hot dog!
I declare my house a territory
Death panels are reserved for white people ONLY.
Where exactly does he get the legal authority to do this?
The same place Mao, Hitler, Stalin, Hussein, Khadafi, Chavez, Castro and Kim got theirs.
I just wish the chicken-sh#t Congress would defund it so Obastard would take it away from the rest of us.
Still applies to the 57 states.
I’m exempt and you could be too.
We're ALL territories, now!
well, that’s a start at disbanding the O-care fiasco.
Now then, how about we petition the WHut to have O-care withdrawn from all 57 states, too?
(equal protection clause?)
What’s good for Star-Kist is good for the democrats.
Nevermind... I'll just drop anchor off St. John, or maybe Howland Island...
Equal protection under the law does not exist with the democrats.
I’ve never seen anything quite like ObamaCare. Obama doesn’t enforce huge swaths of the law — this is just the latest instance where the law won’t be enforced. But where ObamaCare conflicts with existing law (Hobby Lobby), ObamaCare is so essention that Congress must for the first time in history pass legislation for the sole purpose of restricting religious rights.
oprah let it slip.
that’s why the va system is the way it is.
christian health sharing ministry?
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