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The administration just took Obamacare away from the territories
The Washington Post's Wonk Blog ^ | July 17, 2014 | Jason Millman

Posted on 07/18/2014 8:16:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Looking for a place where Obamacare doesn't exist? Try moving to the U.S. Territories, where the Obama administration just provided a pretty big waiver from the law's major coverage provisions.

The Affordable Care Act's design dealt a pretty big problem to the territories. It required insurers there to comply with the law's major market reforms — guaranteed coverage, mandated benefits, limits on profits, etc. — without requiring residents to get coverage or providing subsidies to help them afford coverage. The territories — Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands — have been warning for years that would destroy their insurance markets. The individual mandate and the subsidies are the major ways the ACA tries to bring healthy people into the individual insurance market to balance out sick patients who can no longer be denied coverage.

That was until Wednesday, when the Obama administration told the territories that the coverage requirements actually don't apply to them. The exemption was posted on a Health and Human Services Web site on Thursday....

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Health/Medicine; Local News
KEYWORDS: obama; obamacare
Beyond belief.
1 posted on 07/18/2014 8:16:25 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Another nail in the nobamacare coffin. Hot dog!


2 posted on 07/18/2014 8:19:29 PM PDT by upchuck (The country is being billed for its own execution. ~ h/t: SpaceBar)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I declare my house a territory


3 posted on 07/18/2014 8:25:30 PM PDT by Viennacon (Rebuke the Repuke!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Death panels are reserved for white people ONLY.


4 posted on 07/18/2014 8:26:38 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Where exactly does he get the legal authority to do this?


5 posted on 07/18/2014 8:27:11 PM PDT by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Lurker

The same place Mao, Hitler, Stalin, Hussein, Khadafi, Chavez, Castro and Kim got theirs.


6 posted on 07/18/2014 8:30:00 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I just wish the chicken-sh#t Congress would defund it so Obastard would take it away from the rest of us.


7 posted on 07/18/2014 8:33:07 PM PDT by 5th MEB (Progressives in the open; --- FIRE FOR EFFECT!!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Still applies to the 57 states.


8 posted on 07/18/2014 8:33:37 PM PDT by MUDDOG
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To: 5th MEB

I’m exempt and you could be too.


9 posted on 07/18/2014 8:34:52 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: Viennacon
Lol!!! I've been thinking the same thing....

We're ALL territories, now!

10 posted on 07/18/2014 8:35:25 PM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

well, that’s a start at disbanding the O-care fiasco.
Now then, how about we petition the WHut to have O-care withdrawn from all 57 states, too?

(equal protection clause?)


11 posted on 07/18/2014 8:37:19 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ((Brilliant, Profound Tag Line Goes Here, just as soon as I can think of one..))
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To: Lurker



12 posted on 07/18/2014 8:43:46 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey ( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill ...)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What’s good for Star-Kist is good for the democrats.


13 posted on 07/18/2014 8:50:55 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Do those territories include the District of Columbia?

Nevermind... I'll just drop anchor off St. John, or maybe Howland Island...

14 posted on 07/18/2014 8:52:31 PM PDT by Prospero (Si Deus trucido mihi, ego etiam fides Deus.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Equal protection under the law does not exist with the democrats.


15 posted on 07/18/2014 8:59:34 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’ve never seen anything quite like ObamaCare. Obama doesn’t enforce huge swaths of the law — this is just the latest instance where the law won’t be enforced. But where ObamaCare conflicts with existing law (Hobby Lobby), ObamaCare is so essention that Congress must for the first time in history pass legislation for the sole purpose of restricting religious rights.


16 posted on 07/18/2014 9:17:45 PM PDT by SSS Two
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To: Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America

oprah let it slip.

that’s why the va system is the way it is.


17 posted on 07/19/2014 12:11:23 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

christian health sharing ministry?


18 posted on 07/19/2014 12:12:07 AM PDT by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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