How transparent!
You run out of what you paid in after 6 months and then its welfare!
Of course for those paying in its a big amount per month.
Anyone know how we opt out?
Another insolvent government entitlement. This is not news.
But Jeff, don’t you understand??? We passed it without reading it so that we could then know what was in it. Very similar to when we sent a mission to Mars without first testing anything so that when it crashed on Mars we’d then be able to see the crash???????????????????????????????????????? Just saying!
What about kids that are disabled? Or just kids in general, babies need in home health care. We use to call them moms back in my day.
Seriously though could you charge the government for taking care of a sick family member?
They can’t print money fast enough to cover this.
This exact program (without being able to opt out of paying for it) happens in Texas right now, all the time, every day.
Patients sign up for “attendant” or “non-technical home services,” with a home health care provider, and if the doctor signs that the patient could use some help with doing some things at home, then the home health care provider hires someone who is usually a RELATIVE or FRIEND to do perhaps 20 hours of work a week for the patient. The home health company has to check on the person hired about twice a year, and in exchange it gets paid to supervise the issue and get forms updated periodically.
In reality the home health care companies SOLICIT family members of sick patients by telling them that they can get them paid to do the work at home that they are already doing. Lots of takers...
The state agency in charge of this thinks all that is JUST FINE, basically admitting that they consider it a program designed to transfer wealth to such families as qualify for this.
Socialism and fascism and plan old corruption continue, and now the same thing will happen at a Federal level. Don’t like it? Well, you are just “mean spirited” and hate old people and dogs...
Absolute cluster.
I think one reason (if not the main reason) for this nonsense was to game the CBO score for the Obamacare legislation. The premiums are collected starting during the scoring period but the (unsustainable) benefits aren’t available until after they are no longer scored. NRO wrote about this in their takedown of the CBO scoring of Obamacare here:
http://healthcare.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MmRmNzg2NDM4MGJiMWIzMTAzMzY1YWQ0Mjc5ZTJkYTc=
Sen Conrad is chairman of the Budget Committee, he labeled the measure a Ponzi scheme, yet it was his vote that allowed it to become the law of the land.
In addition, the Congressional Budget Office and other well-regarded estimators of federal budgets have a tradition of overestimating the cost of new initiatives and underestimating revenue collections. Health reform could well turn out to be a lot more economically prudent than the naysayers claim.
You have got to be kidding me.
Do these Dreamacrats have no shame?
The CBO has a reputation of underestimating cost be a factor of 800% (Medicare) and overestimating income (Social Security).