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Posted on 08/30/2013 7:19:46 AM PDT by shove_it
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) – More than four-in-ten Americans have said they believe President Obama’s 2010 federal health care law has been repealed, overturned in court or are simplyjust unsure if it is still a law.
According to an August Kaiser Health Tracking poll, those Americans, who account for 44 percent of the nation, remain unsure if the Affordable Care Act – often referred to as “Obamacare” – is in effect, even as the Oct. 1 launch date of the health insurance exchange approaches...
(Excerpt) Read more at washington.cbslocal.com ...
actually, I give the 44% a pass here - how many laws passed with this great of fanfare are still not implemented 3 1/2 years later?
If you took a poll on how many voters think that the USA surrendered to the axis powers in world war 2, I’ll bet you get at least 5%.
The amount of stupidity in the USA is staggering. And the idiots’ vote counts just as much as ours.
I imagine they’re going to need an “app” for their “smart” phone to help them figure it out.
IT IS LAW!
And I think Chief Justice Roberts recognized it as a properly passed law that we have to live with until Congress and Executive powers are adjusted.
No it does not.
The law was merely “deemed to have passed”.
In all the constitutional challenges obamacare has faced so far, that has not been addressed.
Assume, and all that.
Now the "stick" portions are being implemented.
The $940 billion health-care overhaul will take nearly a decade to roll out in full. A look at the key parts of the bill and when they go into effect.
2010
Coverage
Subsidies begin for small businesses to provide coverage to employees.
Insurance companies barred from denying coverage to children with pre-existing illness.
Children permitted to stay on their parents' insurance policies until their 26th birthday.
2011
Coverage
Set up long-term care program under which people pay premiums into system for at least five years and become eligible for support payments if they need assistance in daily living. (CANCELLED)
Taxes and fees
Drug makers face annual fee of $2.5 billion (rises in subsequent years).
2013
Taxes and fees
New Medicare taxes on individuals earning more than $200,000 a year and couples filing jointly earning more than $250,000 a year.
Tax on wages rises to 2.35% from 1.45%.
New 3.8% tax on unearned income such as dividends and interest.
Excise tax of 2.9% imposed on sale of medical devices.
Cost control
Medicare pilot program begins to test bundled payments for care, in a bid to pay for quality rather than quantity of services.
Coverage
Create exchanges where people without employer coverage, as well as small businesses, can shop for health coverage. Insurance companies barred from denying coverage to anyone with pre-existing illness.
Requirement begins for most people to have health insurance. Subsidies begin for lower and middle-income people. People at 133% of federal poverty level pay maximum of 3% of income for coverage. People at 400% of poverty level pay up to 9.5% of income. (Poverty level currently is about $22,000 for a family of four.)
Medicaid, the federal-state program for the poor, expands to all Americans with income up to 133% of federal poverty level.
Subsidies for small businesses to provide coverage increase. Businesses with 10 or fewer employees and average annual wages of less than $25,000 receive tax credit of up to 50% of employer's contribution. Tax credits phase out for larger businesses.
Taxes and fees
Employers with more than 50 employees that don't provide affordable coverage must pay a fine if employees receive tax credits to buy insurance. Fine is up to $3,000 per employee, excluding first 30 employees. (DELAYED UNTIL 2015)
Insurance industry must pay annual fee of $8 billion (rises in subsequent years).
Cost control
Independent Medicare board must begin to submit recommendations to curb Medicare spending, if costs are rising faster than inflation.
2016
Taxes and fees
Penalty for those who don't carry coverage rises to 2.5% of taxable income or $695, whichever is greater.
2017
Coverage
Businesses with more than 100 employees can buy coverage on insurance exchanges, if state permits it.
2018
Taxes and fees
Excise tax of 40% imposed on health plans valued at more than $10,200 for individual coverage and $27,500 for family coverage.
—Sources: House bill; Kaiser Family Foundation
44% of Americans are suffering from BUYERS’ REMORSE but don’t know it - they have been duped. Our side has done a lousy job of diagnosing the ailment and educating the electorate.
I meant reply#8 to go to you rather than ‘I want the USA back’, sorry.
Understandable - if I see a cop speeding w/o lights and/or running stop signs and/or changing lanes w/o signals, I wonder if the laws I grew up with still apply. Zero isn’t following this horrible law so it makes sense that folks would think it no longer exists.
Depends a lot on what one means by the word “law”.
If you mean something passed by Congress, signed by the President and enforced by the Executive Branch, it’s not a law.
If you mean something passed by Congress, signed by the President, and enforced only in part based on what the Executive Branch happens to be partial to on any given day, then I guess it is a law.
Obama administration offers strategies to promote Obamacare in schools (Common Core)
Oh well, No sweat... FR Jim "offers strategies" to dump Kommiecare in Congress!
80 House members: Shutdown better than ObamaCare (Aug 23, 2013)
What you’re probably thinking of is when the House Dems thought it would not pass because of the so-called pro-life Democrats led by that turkey from MICHIGAN. About a dozen of them balked at passage, then Obama promised them an executive order to keep Obamacare seperate from abortion (meaningless act). And those Dems caved and voted for it based on that. But before that happened, a scheme was reported, led by Louise Slaughter of NY of the Rules Committee, to “deem it passed” if need be.
But believe me, in the end, it narrowly passed on a regular vote.
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