Posted on 11/03/2013 1:22:22 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
What study - another hand-picked university study, in the same vein as the continually discredited global warming "studies?") -- "scientific" studies continually churned out by those Big Government compliant university departments (bought and paid for) to push and support more and more legislation, regulation and taxes -- grow government, shrink liberty!? One of THOSE studies?
How can there be a study when there hasn’t been a sample size large enough to conduct a study, and the fact that the numbers are state secrets?
I think Obama should be pressed to name the “bad apples.”
"Should" and "will" are two completely different concepts. I'm betting on "higher costs and less benefits".
1994:”A hard-edged question was posed to Hillary Rodham Clinton at her Whitewater news conference: what about “the suggestion in the R.T.C. memorandum . . . you and your husband knew or should have known that Whitewater was not cash-flowing and that notes or debts should have been paid”?
“Shoulda, coulda, woulda,” the First Lady replied. “We didn’t.”...............
Taken together, the term means “Spare me the useless excuses.” I reached Mrs. Clinton through her aides, each of whom was surprised at the good-natured nature of my follow-up question, to get her definition. Mrs. Clinton passes the word that she heard the expression often in Arkansas, and interprets it to mean:
“People can tell you that you should have, or could have, or would have, but the question is: Did you or didn’t you?”...............
The shoulda, coulda, woulda phrase (accepting Mrs. Clinton’s order as standard) has a wistfully resigned connotation that was evoked in 1854 by the poet John Greenleaf Whittier in “Maud Muller”:
For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: “It might have been!”
http://www.nytimes.com/1994/05/15/magazine/on-language-shoulda-coulda-woulda.html
“Bad apple insurers”
To be fair, it was Great Satan George Bush who got them to sell their souls.
I remember my mom using that phrase, always in the context of some mistake or lapse of judgement on my part!
So basically what this Kristin is saying is that Highmark was selling a policy that was too expensive and did not provide enough services for the price. But under a government program intended to pay for insuring the uninsurable, the price will go down. Suuuuuuuure.....
” And 1 million in the individual market today will qualify for Medicaid in states that choose to expand it next year.
Pffft, I predict just California by itself will be close to 1 million freeloaders going into Medicaid,
Pffft, I predict just California by itself will be close to 1 million freeloaders going into Medicaid,
It's another way Obama & Co. shifts blame away from them and the truth (sticker shock/policy fail) about their agenda (as they're doing with insurance companies) and onto states that have not "bought into" the federal ploy to expand an unfunded mandate (will become totally a cost to the states). Obama & Co. are hoping panicked voters will pressure their state governments to accept Medicaid expansion.
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Healthcare.gov: What if my state isn't expaninding Medicaid? "Some states are not expanding their Medicaid programs starting January 1, 2014. In these states, some people with limited incomes may have fewer coverage options...........States are continuing to make coverage decisions and they could expand Medicaid in the future......"
That $5,500 tax credit this study cites probably is EITC....
There’s only ONE Bad apple in this mess, and it’s name is OBAMA!!!
Does it really matter how many will receive subsidized health care and how many qualify for free health care?
What really matters is that someone, has to pay for it.
Now who are the someone’s who are going to pay for the Freebies and the Subsidies?????????
Middle Class Americans who Obama has already bled dry.
Working Americans who are the future of America
Not drones who have been collecting America’s goodies for years.
We have already passed the tipping point and are on our way to bankruptcy, led there by a Kenyan Muslim Doper who cannot pass a Security check.
Adolph Obama that is!
Perhaps the Left would be so kind as to name a couple of these explicitly, so that they can be avoided? I thought not.
It’s common knowledge that when Karl Rove wasn’t operating his bad weather machine, he was selling ‘bad apple’ health insurance policies.
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