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Report: White House might expand eligibility for ObamaCare subsidies
The Hill ^ | 11/08/2013 | Elise Viebeck

Posted on 11/08/2013 7:38:03 PM PST by Mike Darancette

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To: Mike Darancette

These are tax credits, on a massive scale. Effectively, he will be creating a second monetary system. If you know Gresham’s law, you should be able to figure out what will happen. The end result will be the devaluation of government reimbursement to the point where no one will accept EBT cards, viola, rioting and looting across the country.

It’s going to happen anyway, the sooner the better.


41 posted on 11/08/2013 8:13:41 PM PST by Born to Conserve
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To: Mike Darancette

Continuing to break the law of their unconstitutional *tax*/*law of the land*. This latest “change” should completely void this debacle and make it null and void.


42 posted on 11/08/2013 8:14:36 PM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

What I don’t get is that it doesn’t help people who work, but earn less than poverty level. But they make too much to get Medicaid. It seems like these are the people obamacare should help. It doesn’t make sense.


43 posted on 11/08/2013 8:17:12 PM PST by virgil
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To: Mike Darancette

*More! Free! Government! Sh*t!*

The USA has already been bankrupted, what’s a little more debt between friends? How about a free week in Vegas with all-you-can-eat lobster for every EBT recipient who registers as a Democrat?

And I don’t just want a pony, I want my pony to make $10/hour!


44 posted on 11/08/2013 8:18:53 PM PST by Junk Silver
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To: yadent
RE Unfortunately legality at the Federal level has become one big grey zone......and a majority of the nation’s peoples apparently don’t care.

Its one thing to not enforce a law its another to spend money or extend tax cuts without a change in the law.

I agree 100% about Americans apathy but with so much attention on the Obamacare failure I can see how this could backfire on Obama too,

This seems like the beating that we all been waiting forever for.,

45 posted on 11/08/2013 8:22:16 PM PST by sickoflibs (Obama : 'If you like your Doctor you can keep him, PERIOD! Don't believe the GOPs warnings')
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To: Mike Darancette

So what about that Constitution!

This is a tax and all tax laws originate in the House of Reps not the Whitehouse.


46 posted on 11/08/2013 8:25:42 PM PST by RginTN
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To: Mike Darancette

If this is such a GREAT product, why do you have to basically bribe people to sign up for it?


47 posted on 11/08/2013 8:27:22 PM PST by randita
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To: sickoflibs
Although I'm not optimistic about it happening anytime soon, at some point the people will have to wake up and realize that we no longer have laws in this country. The politicians and the cops just do whatever they want, and we grovel at their feet.

Although I see the situation getting worse each day, I think the essential point is that we are already "there". The tipping point has been passed, and we are subjects, not citizens. Some of us know it, but not enough.

48 posted on 11/08/2013 8:28:59 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (21st century. I'm not a fan.)
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To: doc1019
Yet more tax dollars down the tubes.

Taxes haven't been covering the spending for a long time. This is more borrowed money.

49 posted on 11/08/2013 8:29:29 PM PST by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: Mike Darancette

67% of the population was at or below the 400% mark in 2010-11...

http://kff.org/other/state-indicator/population-up-to-400-fpl/#table

Probably 70% by now.

So right now around 70% of the population is already subsidy eligible.


50 posted on 11/08/2013 8:30:10 PM PST by ltc8k6
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To: Mike Darancette

Anybody who wanted free healthcare already had it. The rest of us won’t qualify for their handout.


51 posted on 11/08/2013 8:33:32 PM PST by ToastedHead
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To: Mike Darancette
He's forcing entitlements on people who have never lived off the Gov't.

He wants all of the middle class to be getting handouts...that will make it much easier to control the bourgeois.

52 posted on 11/08/2013 8:38:34 PM PST by what's up
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To: ToastedHead

The congressional staff members are not eligible right now because of a glitch in the law. They are very upset and threatening to resign. Congress will take care of its own.


53 posted on 11/08/2013 8:39:50 PM PST by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

I’m happy to hear that Congress is getting a close up view of the anger the rest of us feel! Maybe they won’t laugh it off the way it seems they usually do.


54 posted on 11/08/2013 8:45:22 PM PST by ToastedHead
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To: Mike Darancette

I recall we had a big laugh about what would happen when the dopes who voted for this fiasco found out it was not free medical insurance. Unfortunately the laugh is on us as this thing moves to being free medical insurance for about 90% of the population.

O turd is going to keep throwing cash at this monster just to get it up and going. After he has completely destroyed the individual market, he will rest well in the notion it is national medical insurance and he has reached his goal.


55 posted on 11/08/2013 8:58:21 PM PST by Mouton (The insurrection laws perpetuate what we have for a government now.)
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To: old curmudgeon

A wonderful idea.

If you are a Marxist Muslim.

Actually a Marxist who is using Fascism as a first step to Marxism.

*****Tax you and me so the insurance companies can make money selling policies to people who do not need or want them.

That gets them on his side.

Same thing Hitler did in his early days. Big business loved him for it.

Then he turned nasty and by then they were afraid to disagree.*****

And there you have it folks, history and the future in a nutshell.


56 posted on 11/08/2013 9:00:05 PM PST by ResponseAbility (The truth of liberalism is the stupid can feel smart, the lazy entitled, and the immoral unashamed)
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To: virgil
It doesn’t make sense.

It does work in the states that bought into Obama's Faustian bargain to raise the Medicaid minimum to 138% of the poverty level (and other stuff). At first all states were required to participate but the supreme court shot that down.

57 posted on 11/08/2013 9:00:38 PM PST by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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To: Kickass Conservative

Yeah. I’m sure the pink tie GOPe will show the proper amount of umbrage.


58 posted on 11/08/2013 9:02:51 PM PST by Eagles6 (Valley Forge Redux)
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To: Mike Darancette
What now? 100% subsidies for 100% of the people...why not? - and then we'll get the bright idea, approved by everyone, to just cut out the middle man and have the government pay the insurance companies directly - et voila - government single payer health coverage - what duya know.....
59 posted on 11/08/2013 9:06:05 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: doc1019
Yet more tax dollars printed dollars down the tubes.
60 posted on 11/08/2013 9:09:54 PM PST by Mygirlsmom (You know something's really wrong when the salesman keeps selling long after the close.)
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