Obamacare Glitch: Some Families to be Priced out of Health Coverage

newsmax ^ | january 30, 2013

[lowbridge]

Some families could get priced out of health insurance due to what's being called a glitch in President Barack Obama's overhaul law. IRS regulations issued Wednesday failed to fix the problem as liberal backers of the president's plan had hoped.

As a result, some families that can't afford the employer coverage that they are offered on the job will not be able to get financial assistance from the government to buy private health insurance on their own. How many people will be affected is unclear.

The Obama administration says its hands were tied by the way Congress wrote the law. Officials said the administration tried to mitigate the impact. Families that can't get coverage because of the glitch will not face a tax penalty for remaining uninsured, the IRS rules said.

"This is a very significant problem, and we have urged that it be fixed," said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, an advocacy group that supported the overhaul from its early days. "It is clear that the only way this can be fixed is through legislation and not the regulatory process."

[GlockThe Vote]

Hope and change morons.

[Izzy Dunne]

the only way this can be fixed is through legislation

No problem; that's what the courts are for!

[jeffc]

The Obama administration says its hands were tied by the way Congress wrote the law.

It'll be a long stretch, but I'm sure the "media" will figure out a way to blame this on Repubs, even though they had nothing to do with writing this law. It's Zero's own people and party that did!

My wife nor I can afford either of the "family" plans our employers offer (and she works for the County), not if we want to continue to eat and have a roof over our heads. I'm not sure Zero cares about that......

[NCjim]

The Obama administration says its hands were tied by the way Congress wrote the law.

Passing it without having read it of course had nothing to do with it.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

When your only goal is to overwhelm the system, success is failure, and failure is success.

[smoothsailing]

Good. The glitch is a weapon the GOP can weild like a club. The dems want their precious Obamacare fixed? Fine, the GOP will fix it, granted we all agree to x,y, and z.

[BibleGunClinger]

The Obama administration says its hands were tied by the way Congress wrote the law. WHAT?! Congress didn’t write the bill, they didn’t even read the damn thing! Liberal incompetence strikes again.

[mrsmith]

You can't know what's in the bill until it's passed the departments write their regulations...

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[1_Rain_Drop]

Why don’t they just “unpass” this law?

[C. Edmund Wright]

If they’ll “unpass” it, I’ll promise to “unread” it.

[C. Edmund Wright]

The “bitch” got her “glitch” - when she finally got around to reading the bill!

[jimmango]

The government f’d up something they stuck their nose into? I am so surprised ..... NOT!

[KarlInOhio]

It'll be a long stretch, but I'm sure the "media" will figure out a way to blame this on Repubs, even though they had nothing to do with writing this law. It's Zero's own people and party that did!

It's the Republicans' fault because Fat Ted finally keeled over and his seat was taken over (no, not elected by the people - it was a take over whenever a Republican gets an office owned by the Democrats) by Scott Brown, the super majority the Democrats had was broken. Thus the Republicans kept the Democrats from making some common sense changes to the bill.

Do I get my Pulitzer Prize for Progressive Propaganda?

[Michael Barnes]

I don't want the current crop of "GOP" to get anywhere NEAR fixing anything. They are just as bad as the Democrats these days.

[Wyatt's Torch]

Glitch? No...this was the plan all along.

[Diogenesis]

The GOP? Are you kidding?

ObamaCARE/RomneyCARE is the same.

They were NEVER going to get rid of it.

[sickoflibs]

RE “Bruce Lesley, president of First Focus, an advocacy group for children, cited estimates that close to 500,000 children could remain uninsured because of the glitch. “The children's community is disappointed by the administration's decision to deny access to coverage for children based on a bogus definition of affordability,” Lesley said in a statement.
The problem seems to be the way the law defined affordable.
Congress said affordable coverage can't cost more than 9.5 percent of family income. People with coverage the law considers affordable cannot get subsidies to go into the new insurance markets. The purpose of that restriction was to prevent a stampede away from employer coverage.
Congress went on to say that what counts as affordable is keyed to the cost of self-only coverage offered to an individual worker, not his or her family. A typical workplace plan costs about $5,600 for an individual worker. But the cost of family coverage is nearly three times higher, about $15,700, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.”!
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So whatta bout those kids in college that O care mandates must be covered by parents family plan??
All those kids voted for O because of this.

OOOPPS, no Family plan after all, the whole family is uninsured now.

Dont worry, the fine is what ?? $100 per year??
There is still emergency rooms. tell them you are a Dreamer from Medico named ‘Gonzalos LOL

At least the Dreamers under the Rub-Obamam amnesty plans have incomes low enough to be insured at tax-payer expense, even if thees Americans cant..

Pelosi did tell us ‘we have to pass it to find out whats in it ‘

[smoothsailing]

I don't want the current crop of "GOP" to get anywhere NEAR fixing anything.

Yeah, well I don't want to get anywhere near the bitch with the glitch. Might have to get shots or something.

[smoothsailing]

So what’s your plan? Or do you just want to gripe?