AP Exclusive: Applying for health care not easy

AP ^ | March 12, 2013 | RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR

[thouworm]

It runs 15 pages for a three-person family. The online version has 21 steps, some with added questions.

At least three major federal agencies, including the IRS, will scrutinize your application.

[Monorprise]

““This is great news and means most parasites will not make it!! YES!!”
We only wish, I fear they are like cock roaches and will survive almost anything.”

This is what a lot of people do for a living, fill out government paper work to get money.
Some of them even go to theses special offices and have the government pay for other folks to fill out that paper work for them.

To be honest I don’t begruge anyone who evades taxes or fills out this paper work, precisely because I know as long as the Government demands & enables it people will and the professionalism of them will build up political machines to get more and more of it.

Id rather have an honest man cheat the State, than a dishonest man make a career out of exploiting & driving this corruption.

At least the honest man knows when to stop and does not support this evil where it counts. In this respect the Honest man is helping to drain the Cess pool with his acts while refusing to add to it.

[Monorprise]

“On the path to beginning Medicare, I can affirm that nothing the fedgov touches can remain simple.

The lawyers who write these laws get paid by the word.”

Most politicians particularly democrats are lawyers. Liberals like it that way, which is why any politician with a business background is condemned and attacked for it.

The last thing they want is someone in Washington who actually knows how to produce something rather than regulate, litigate, and tax everyone into the ground.

[Monorprise]

I agree, I just wish The so called “republican” leader of the house had an inch of moral fiber with in him.

The man who commands is the man who doesn’t take no for an answer and stands his ground for what is right. A man who follows is a man who conseeds on every core issue, for minor gains.

You talk to John and its as if a “government shut down” is the end of the world as if 2.7 trillion dollars is not enough to pay for all the “essential” government services.

If John is right and a Government shutdown is unacceptable then so too is a balanced budget, which would necessarily mean running the government on that same 2.7 trillion in revenue.

No amount of new taxes is going to get Washington any more money, and if your going to budget for the highs of good times than your going to forever build debt from the bad times. Debt that we have already been building at an exponential rate for 80+ years.

[nascarnation]

As a smart guy on CNBC mentioned several years ago:

China has central planning by scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, and the US has central planning by lawyers.
Neither is good, but by definition we lose this game.

[ridesthemiles]

IF Obamacare is mandatory-—why should anyone have to fill out an ‘application’?

If it is ‘universal’ care for every person in the USA, then an ‘appolication’ is redundant.

The IRS will ‘scrutinize’ my ‘application’???

Good luck with that.

This is turning into a bureaucratic nightmare, from which there is no escape.

Every part of all these new rules is grounds to abandon Obamacare.

Where are the strong Republicans who will actually put Sebelius on trial along with Pelosi?

Doctors and other medical professionals are poised to find other work or go underground.

I would rather be treated for minor items by an ‘underground’ doctor than get involved into Obamacare.

Also- Why is there all the talk about ‘your medical records are electronic and available to any other medical professional’ when a friend of mine has to fill out new PAPERWORK EVERY TIME he is referred to another professional medical person.

He is getting his main treatments from the VA, but some things, they refer to outside specialists. He is going nuts with all the ‘Fill this out paperwork’.

This needs to end.