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Obama Admin Considering 'Administrative Fix' For 'Sticker Shock'
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Posted on 11/10/2013 9:06:54 AM PST by chessplayer

Sam Stein, who poses as a journalist while toiling at the Huffington Post (he lost any legitimate claim to the title when he wouldn't back away when caught red-handed pretending to know something he couldn't possibly know about John McCain's vetting or lack thereof of Sarah Palin in September 2008), wrote on Thursday (HT Hot Air) that "The Obama administration is considering a fix to the president’s health care law that would expand the universe of individuals who receive tax subsidies to help buy insurance."

Of course, Stein didn't look into how much this "fix," better described as a "huge spending increase," might cost, and "somehow" forgot that any such "fix" substantially increasing tax subsidies would destroy President Obama's unqualified 2009 pledge that "I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits — either now or in the future. I will not sign it if it adds one dime to the deficit, now or in the future, period."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; obamacare; obamacarefix; obamacaresubsidies; subsidies
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Looks like another "misspeak" coming our way.
1 posted on 11/10/2013 9:06:54 AM PST by chessplayer
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2 posted on 11/10/2013 9:09:57 AM PST by dontreadthis
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Sounds like the usual Democrat bribery for votes, an updated version of the ObamaPhone. Once he has you hooked on the subsidy, your premiums will go up and you will be paying through the nose....unless you are in the right color or gender-challenged group.


3 posted on 11/10/2013 9:10:36 AM PST by txrefugee
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You can only put so many band-aids on a gaping wound before you realize that either quickly or slowly, you’re still bleeding to death.


4 posted on 11/10/2013 9:12:05 AM PST by Mygirlsmom (You know something's really wrong when the salesman keeps selling long after the close.)
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To: chessplayer

Big Bwana the corrupt tribal chieftain says the law be whatever he SAY it is.


5 posted on 11/10/2013 9:15:28 AM PST by Regulator
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Puro Mierda de Toro.

The president cannot arbitrarily change the law. As much as liberal Obama bootlicking acolytes wish it were so, Reichfuhrer Barry won't be able to do it and he will be forced to resign over this entire hot mess.

6 posted on 11/10/2013 9:15:34 AM PST by atc23 (The Confederacy was the single greatest conservative resistance to federal authority ever.)
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At what point does Congress step in and constrain the finances?


7 posted on 11/10/2013 9:16:53 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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-— Stein didn’t look into how much this “fix,” better described as a “huge spending increase,” might cost, and “somehow” forgot that any such “fix” substantially increasing tax subsidies would destroy President Obama’s unqualified 2009 pledge that “I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits — either now or in the future. I will not sign it if it adds one dime to the deficit, now or in the future, period.” -—

Yeah, that’s sure to stop him.

The fix is to give everyone free valium. Everything will be cool.


8 posted on 11/10/2013 9:19:18 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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Ben & Janet’s can crank out the bucks!

Go Baraq!


9 posted on 11/10/2013 9:21:23 AM PST by nascarnation (Baraq's 3rd term: squaw Warren? Lord help us!)
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chessplayer wrote, “Looks like another “misspeak” coming our way.”

Or more anti-Constitutional legislation by Executive Order, from the Dictator-wannabe.


10 posted on 11/10/2013 9:21:33 AM PST by PubliusMM (RKBA; a matter of fact, not opinion. 01-20-2016; I pray we make it that long.)
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how funny. Yep, that’s where we’re at. The old lady, who has no need for birth control at her age, will have that coverage. But, we’re going to ration out other care which would really benefit senior citizens.


11 posted on 11/10/2013 9:22:19 AM PST by Dilbert San Diego
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More and bigger lies.


12 posted on 11/10/2013 9:22:59 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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-— At what point does Congress step in and constrain the finances? -—

“Is Boehner willing to withold Americans’ healthcare, just to spite Obama?”

Wait for it.

But don’t hold your breath waiting for Congress to withold funding.

Obamacare will not “collapse under its own weight.”


13 posted on 11/10/2013 9:23:19 AM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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Why can’t they just allow us to deduct the cost of health insurance from our tax returns?


14 posted on 11/10/2013 9:23:41 AM PST by montomike (Politics should be about service and not a lucrative, money-making opportunity!)
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Regardless of subsidies, the “sticker shock” will come with the bill for the copay and deductible.


15 posted on 11/10/2013 9:28:14 AM PST by zeebee (There are no coincidences.)
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Do the subsidies increase when the premium increases? Is it going to be a "There's No Way Out of Here" situation, that once someone has signed up they can never leave unless they can prove they have another source of insurance (through marriage or a job)

I could see being forced to stay in with the premium being an automatic deduction of some kind. Otherwise, people will sign up, get all of their medical problems taken care of, then drop out.

That's the other factor that's going to cause the insurance to go up unbelievably after the first year...the "takers" will sign up if they find a way to use the system. A lot of people with a lot of medical issues, real or not, are going to get every benefit they can that first year.

The other thing is those new Medicaid eligible. Will they be automatically moved to Obamacare if their financial situation improves, without being able to opt out? They've given the feds control of their bodies when they took Medicaid.

I've been thinking about it. That's how they get enough people in the system. It's going to be like a sticky spider web. Wait to sign up until you get an expensive illness? No problem. Healed, want to go back to opting out. Isn't going to happen. The actuaries are writing the rules, after all.

I'm just guessing, but how else can it work?

16 posted on 11/10/2013 9:32:34 AM PST by grania
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I love reading between the lines of the leftist journos' desperate screeds these days: "Please! Don't let this thing keep happening! If people figure out the truth about this administration, I'M going to look so stupid!"

They will double, triple and quadruple down before they'll ever admit the Obama choom gang is just plain incompetent.

17 posted on 11/10/2013 9:33:11 AM PST by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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“Why can’t they just allow us to deduct the cost of health insurance from our tax returns?”

LMAO! Because that only helps those that pay taxes and O’bastard and the Demonrats know that not many of their base are in that group.


18 posted on 11/10/2013 9:35:41 AM PST by Beagle8U (Free Republic -- One stop shopping ....... It's the Conservative Super WalMart for news .)
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The House will not appropriate any more money for more subsidies for a product that middle class voters don’t want.


19 posted on 11/10/2013 9:38:59 AM PST by mwl8787
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

I know — the childish politics will dominate the necessary considerations.


20 posted on 11/10/2013 9:41:39 AM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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