Posted on 08/02/2013 7:49:33 AM PDT by outpostinmass2
Deval Patrick I bet you're a lot like me.
You care about what we've accomplished together because you know it's good for the country. And it frustrates you to no end that there are people out there spending millions of dollars to lie about it, because they think it helps their politics.
Just look at what some are saying about Obamacare. Here's a reform that improves the health of both American families and American businesses. But some want to move us backwards -- at any cost. ... This isn't new to you -- and today, I'm asking you to keep it up -- sign up to join the OFA Truth Team:
http://my.barackobama.com/Join-the-OFA-Truth-TeamSee More
They’ve not changed.
Missouri, 2008
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tom-blumer/2008/09/29/missouri-sheriffs-prosecutors-obama-truth-squad-getting-old-media-silenc
SMELLS just like Desperation!
Here’s a reform that improves the health of both American families and American businesses.
sloppy mumbo jumbo for one and all!
Deval Patrick, Obama Truth Team??? OFA Truth Team???
Deval Patrick -— Gov of Mass.
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Article and thread today:
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/354997/obamacares-rocky-start-josh-archambault
Obamacare’s Rocky Start -— Why is Massachusetts, of all places, requesting waivers from Obamacare?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3050313/posts
Meanwhile, the heavily Democratic Massachusetts legislature has forced Governor Deval Patrick to formally request a partial waiver from the ACA.
Until now, the conventional wisdom has been that the federal law is a carbon copy of former Governor Romney’s 2006 state health-care law. However, the Commonwealth’s legislature has already passed three separate bills to iron out the conflicts between the two laws; the latest has over 100 sections and makes more than a dozen major changes to state law.
Because of the major differences between the two laws, the Obama administration has granted Massachusetts two highly questionable multi-year delays in implementing the new regulations in order to delay sizable premium spikes.
Some features of the current Massachusetts law would be prohibited by the ACA. Massachusetts permits insurers to offer discounts to, for example, someone who works in a low-risk industry or participates in a wellness program. The federal law, on the other hand, requires premiums to be based on a single set of factors: family composition, the ages of covered members, tobacco usage, and geographical location. According to state officials, this will cause premiums to rollercoaster, resulting in “extreme premium increases” for many, and a decline for others.
A Pioneer Institute analysis found that 60 percent of small businesses in Massachusetts will experience a rate hike — for some the increase will be over 98 percent — due to this one regulatory change. These same employers are already bracing for the law’s 18 new taxes.
Once Bay State officials had identified the adverse impacts of the ACA, they requested additional flexibility or a waiver. The Department of Health and Human Services responded by granting a two-year delay to phase out the prohibited rating factors. This is an extraordinary action, given that HHS itself acknowledges that the ACA doesn’t include a provision for granting such a delay.
Most recently, a Boston Globe editorial broke the news that HHS has also granted Massachusetts a two-year grace period before complying with the requirement that insurers set rates once a year. At present in Massachusetts, insurers adjust rates every quarter to best reflect the current cost of health care. The ACA would force health plans, as the Globe puts it, “to develop rates that, in some cases, won’t take effect for 18 months.” The Globe added, “The predictable effect: because health plans will want a cushion against the greater uncertainty of that longer period, they will seek higher rates than they otherwise would. Some estimates are that premiums will increase by an extra 1 to 2 percent as a result.” HHS has yet to reveal the legal rationale for the grace period.
The delay of the employer mandate for the whole nation, along with the grace period for rating factors and rate-setting in Massachusetts, should prompt other states and Congress to raise legal questions about the actions of HHS. Utah senator Orrin Hatch recently started this conversation with a letter to HHS inquiring about the Bay State’s delay. He asked for the “specific legal authority to grant a transition period . . . ; whether similar transition periods will be provided under the same legal authority to states expressing similar concerns . . . ;” and for a legal explanation for why HHS was able to grant a delay when it had previously stated otherwise. The reply from HHS failed to address any of these questions. Congress should investigate these matters further.
Obama Truth Team.
See also ...
Dillinger Bank Examiners
Iscariot & Arnold Trust Co.
Wm Clinton School for Nubile Young Ladies
Barney Frank Bootcamp
Ted Kennedy Center for Chemical Dependency
Hillary Clinton College of Fashion Design
Helen Thomas Memorial Beauty Pageant
... and a host of other organizations that do not and cannot exist in the real world.
Ironjack
Brilliant
thanks
Obama Truth Team.
Except this “exists” (in many hideous Obama “social” incarnations), and they are so effective, the GOP can’t/won’t shut them down.
Latest incarnation-—nudge squad:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/nudgesquad/index?tab=articles
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