Federal Rule (Obamacare) Limits Aid to Families Who Can’t Afford Employers’ Health Coverage

NY Times ^ | 1/30/13 | ROBERT PEAR

[Libloather]

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration adopted a strict definition of affordable health insurance on Wednesday that will deny federal financial assistance to millions of Americans with modest incomes who cannot afford family coverage offered by employers.

In deciding whether an employer’s health plan is affordable, the Internal Revenue Service said it would look at the cost of coverage only for an individual employee, not for a family. Family coverage might be prohibitively expensive, but federal subsidies would not be available to help buy insurance for children in the family.

The policy decision came in a final regulation interpreting ambiguous language in the 2010 health care law.

[Libloather]

Pelosi knew...

[freeangel]

“Pelosi knew...”

So did hussein. Elections have consequences and I hope these consequences are coming home to roost for the nitwits that voted for their massa. They deserve nothing less.

[TigersEye]

What difference does it make?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

This is what happens when the only goal is to overwhelm the system; success is failure, and failure is success.

[potlatch]

 

 

[funfan]

“The Congressional Budget Office predicts that 30 million people will be uninsured in 2016 and that 6 million of them will pay penalties.”

So according to this it is the same figure of uninsured people that led to this Obama plan and guess what there will still be the same amount uninsured. I hope the democrats will get penalized somehow for what they have done
to the US.

[hoosierham]

So people who can’t afford insurance are going to have even more of their money stolen by the government?

I guess obama can end poverty by executing the poor!

[nascarnation]

Think of the upside - those 15,000 new high paying IRS agent jobs created. More prosperity for the capitol region!