Posted on 03/22/2010 9:10:51 PM PDT by Rightproud
I know that this article has already been posted but this posting puts a interesting strategic twist on it.
The way many have read page 158 of the legislation leads the reader to believe that congressional staff are exempted from bamacare.
"(II) CONGRESSIONAL STAFF- The term 'congressional staff' means all full-time and part-time employees employed by the official office of a Member of Congress, whether in Washington, D.C. or outside of Washington, D.C."
This mean that each of our Republican Senators and Republican Representatives can claim us as their "congressional staff" which means that we would be exempt from bamacare.
Maybe our Republican Senators and Republican Representatives would need to pay each of us $1 per year to make our "part-time employee" status legal.
This would overburden bamacare with the millions of legally exempt people that it would create.
Kinda like using Alinsky's overburdening rule to beat them at their own game.
Maybe each of us should call our Republican Senators or Republican Representatives and ask to become a member of their part-time congressional staff residing outside of Washington D.C.
Thoughts?
It's having millions of us seeking to be exempt from participation.
But sadly, you are correct about the damage that bamacare will do to the insurance companies and hospitals.
We can also all become Amish.
I have some furniture made by the Amish. Seems close enough to me.
I have relatives in Pennsylvania—I am hoping that is enough...
RULES? NOT LEGAL? We don't need no stinkin rules, the RATS don't, why should we! Let them fight us in court if they think it's illegal!!!!
Not sure if this works, but was posted here two days ago & the poster claims it has the same exemptions as the Amish.
http://www.samaritanministries.org/
That seems like a convoluted system.
You pay a $170/yr per household “administrative fee” no matter how large or small your household is. Then you pay $120/mo per individual. But you don’t pay it to the organization, you send your check to whoever the organization “assigns” you to send it to based on other members’ requests for reimbursement that month.
So if you have a $50K hospital bill and submit it to the organization, they will “assign” your bill to some 400+ other members and you will hopefully receive separate checks from each of those members. Then you have the joy of endorsing those 400+ checks, depositing them to your bank, who may charge you for depositing such a large number of checks to a non-business account, and hope none of them bounce and leave you with bank fees or just plain short or bouncing your own check you use in paying the hospital bill.
There are currently less than 14,000 households involved, and that doesn’t seem like a very big risk pool to spread the risk across.
No, it will just force us into back-alley insurance deals. Women will die when unlicensed brokers using coat hangers write policies.
Can we just “deem” that we’re Amish and be done with it?
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Create you new name at the link. Jeb.
There is also an exemption for members of a Christian health co-op.
I say bankrupt the purse and worry about care later. This is why: they won’t stop at this. They will come after what you eat, what you wear, when you exercise, your guns, and your speech. Draw the line now.
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