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AP : Say, guess what we just found in ObamaCare !
Hot Air ^ | MARCH 25, 2010 | ED MORRISSEY

Posted on 03/26/2010 9:37:09 AM PDT by RobinMasters

Congress passed the bill without knowing what was in it. Barack Obama signed it without reading it. Now it looks as though the Associated Press reported on ObamaCare without comprehending its content. Readers will have to scroll far down to discover that the elimination of a key tax break that kept retirees on company prescription-medication plans will mean dumping millions of seniors onto Medicare — and that the AP ignored it until now:

The health care overhaul will cost U.S. companies billions and make them more likely to drop prescription drug coverage for retirees because of a change in how the government subsidizes those benefits.

In the first two days after the law was signed, three major companies — Deere & Co., Caterpillar Inc. and Valero Energy — said they expect to take a total hit of $265 million to account for smaller tax deductions in the future.

With more than 3,500 companies now getting the tax break as an incentive to keep providing coverage, others are almost certain to announce similar cost increases in the weeks ahead as they sort out the impact of the change.

Figuring out what it will mean for retirees will take longer, but analysts said as many as 2 million could lose the prescription drug coverage provided by their former employers, leaving them to enroll in Medicare’s program.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 111th; assininepress; bhohealthcare; bhosocialism; caterpillar; deere; democratcongress; democrats; drugs; dump; healthcare; hopeychangey; march; medicare; obama; obamacare; prescription; retirees; seniors; socialisthealthcare
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1 posted on 03/26/2010 9:37:09 AM PDT by RobinMasters
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To: ExTexasRedhead; justiceseeker93; traderrob6; OL Hickory; socialismisinsidious; trlambsr; Altera; ...

Ping


2 posted on 03/26/2010 9:37:21 AM PDT by RobinMasters
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To: RobinMasters

wow


3 posted on 03/26/2010 9:38:03 AM PDT by tutstar (Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or ...off.)
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To: RobinMasters

The hell with it. The only solution is to bankrupt the system. It’s the only way the states will turn around and the only way the Federal Government will get turned around. Right now, I have only one personal goal with regard to healthcare - take as much personal care of my health as I can so that I stay out of the system to the greatest extent possible. When everything crashes and burns, I’ll try to help restructure things by speaking out. Right now, there are a whole lot of open hands and closed ears. The debate is essentially over.


4 posted on 03/26/2010 9:40:01 AM PDT by domenad (In all things, in all ways, at all times, let honor guide me.)
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To: RobinMasters

Looks like I’ll be scrubbing toilets till they put me in the grave.


5 posted on 03/26/2010 9:40:07 AM PDT by writer33 (Mark Levin Is The Constitutional Engine Of Conservatism)
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To: RobinMasters

When the congressional Staffers didn’t even KNOW they were being dumped into the new Government Healthfare Program is a perfect example of the stupidity that is infecting the American Society.


6 posted on 03/26/2010 9:40:29 AM PDT by Marty62 (marty60)
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To: RobinMasters

How can they be so dumb...


7 posted on 03/26/2010 9:40:33 AM PDT by Dallas59 (President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
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To: RobinMasters

Gomer Pyle: Surprize, Suprize, Suprize!!!


8 posted on 03/26/2010 9:40:33 AM PDT by FlashBack ('0'bama: "Katrina on a Global Level")
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To: tutstar

I read this somewhere else yesterday. The ‘cost’ to taxpayers of giving the tax breaks to employers who provide the benefit to their retirees is about 50% of the cost of all these retired persons signing up for Part D.


9 posted on 03/26/2010 9:40:51 AM PDT by Trust but Verify
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To: RobinMasters

I completely disagree.

The communist/socialist/liberal anonymous authors of this coup d’etat knew perfectly well what they put into the bill.

That is why they wrote exemptions for themselves.

They intended to destroy private heath insurance as a bridge to single payer or de facto single payor via a few giant goverment monopoly insurance plans.


10 posted on 03/26/2010 9:41:19 AM PDT by FormerACLUmember (The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. - H. L. Menken.)
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Ping!


11 posted on 03/26/2010 9:41:51 AM PDT by writer33 (Mark Levin Is The Constitutional Engine Of Conservatism)
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To: RobinMasters

they also forgot to report that Obama is clearly an America, hating, commie too—both before and after the election they somehow missed this.


12 posted on 03/26/2010 9:43:01 AM PDT by GOP Poet (Obama is an OLYMPIC failure.)
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To: RobinMasters

Ain’t this just peachy keen.......


13 posted on 03/26/2010 9:43:06 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: RobinMasters

surprise = no

But is was HISTORIC ya know.


14 posted on 03/26/2010 9:43:33 AM PDT by edcoil (If I had 1 cent for every dollar the government saved, Bill Gates and I would be friends.)
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To: RobinMasters
Congress Critters didn't read the bill?!?!?!

Click for more like this

15 posted on 03/26/2010 9:43:49 AM PDT by Mad Dawgg (If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the next one...)
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To: FormerACLUmember

Yes, sadly you are right.


16 posted on 03/26/2010 9:44:01 AM PDT by DoughtyOne (Novemberrrrrr.... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2477039/posts?page=16#16)
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To: RobinMasters

Gosh it’s too bad we didnt learn about this BEFORE it was passed into law.

If only there were some people who would have called for a stop to this ...


17 posted on 03/26/2010 9:44:10 AM PDT by Mr. K (This administration IS WEARING OUT MY CAPSLOCK KEY!)
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To: Dallas59

They weren’t.

We were. Or enough of us were.


18 posted on 03/26/2010 9:44:57 AM PDT by Adder (Proudly ignoring Zero since 1-20-09! WTFU!)
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To: Marty62
Last I knew the legistlative aides who wrote this thing opted themselves out of ObamaCare.

Meanwhile...

2,000 House staffers make six figures

19 posted on 03/26/2010 9:45:21 AM PDT by mewzilla (Still voteless in NY-29)
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To: Dallas59
How can they be so dumb...

Who says they are stupid? I say they were deliberate...

20 posted on 03/26/2010 9:46:09 AM PDT by Wyatt's Torch (I can explain it to you. I can't understand it for you.)
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