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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A list with explanations would run longer than 2700 pages.
Obama and his admin isn’t stupid. Neither is Pelosi or Reid. They knew what they were doing.
This is the bill they wanted, and this is the bill you are going to get.
This was NOT a health care reform bill. It was a referendum on the representative republic form of government, and on capitalism as an economic system.
We are all customers of the health care system. As such, if you control that, you control everyone. Everybody gets sick. That simple.
In fact, the easiest way to dispose of your opposition is to make them sick and then withhold their medicine. Sends an effective message to anyone else with a contrary idea.
You may not be able to make an army oppose their own citizens in order to enforce your way of life. You can however control their ability to get medical care, and eventually food, and do the same thing.
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“On top of that, they never leave their jobs once there. Almost all have job security no matter their work record.”
Exactly like tenured college professors.
You guy/gal are wonderful. Thanks.
This is their plan to “fix” Social Security and Medicare and Medicaid. Kill off enough old folks until they can pronounce their entitlements to be fiscally sound and solvent.
But who is going to give you a paycheck?
1. Does ObamaCare, once it is fully in place, include Dental Insurance?
2. Example: If I suddenly have a toothache, will ObamaCare allow me to immediately go to any dentist I choose, or will I have to pay for the dentist visit out of my own pocket?
3. If ObamaCare includes dental insurance, when will it go into effect: In six months or much later, like not until 2014?
4. If ObamaCare includes dental insurance, will it pay for yearly routine visits for the entire family and pay for such things as tooth removal and tooth fillings?
No one is giving me a paycheck. They pay me to produce, and I don't ask for health care benefits.
That won't take much effort. Once all the deadbeat hypochondriacs (and several million illegals) jump on the boat, it'll sink of its own accord.
How right you are... IMO
It’s also going to be fun to watch the idiots who pushed this, to have to deal with no health insurance companies.
What they hated, will soon be missed IMO.
The crap may hit the fan on this sooner than I expected
oops, #74 was for you too. Thanks.
Cloward-Piven was meant to strain the state level so that the Federal Government would be forced to step in and relieve a steadily growing strain. I would posit that Cloward-Piven is not applicable here for two reasons: 1) it is the Federal Government that is itself being overburdened - there is no big ‘papa’ to go to beyond this, unless God decides to step in personally, and 2)the required seizure of assets would need to be so great, and so rapid, that a popular backlash would be unavoidable. The sooner we can show the endgame is failure, the better.
The backlash would, by definition, come after the fact. Once the assets are gone, they cannot be gotten back................
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