Posted on 12/21/2013 6:18:19 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
When fairness goes out the window, you know politics has caused the White House to take its Obamacare scramble to a whole new level. The administration said Thursday night that people with canceled policies will not be subject to the individual mandate in 2014. This is huge, but you wouldn’t know it from Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius’ letter announcing the change, which she sent in response to senators worried that those who saw their health insurance policies canceled this fall did not “consider” Obamacare replacement policies to be affordable.
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Ted Cruz was right.
I think I am correct that all this does is remove the potential penalty for not having insurance.
Those that lost their policies are still not allowed to buy anything but what the King has decreed is acceptable.
Actually Lord Barack gave the peons permission to buy bare-bones catastrophic plans—the kind that are illegal under Obamacare. Where they’re supposed to find illegal plans to buy at this stage of the game is unknown.
The Left has underestimated, in my opinion, the personal outrage of those of us who have been mistreated by the "individual mandate" and what will happen when this whole monstrosity goes into effect and 100 million more policies are cancelled.
Those of us who have to write a check each month for these god awful policies that are being mandated will be reminded of Obama's personal attack upon us. A pox on him.
How can these people just say the law is changed and it gets upheld in a court?
This is a huge catch 22 in the courts when anybody goes along with what this administration changes daily instead of what is written in the law is it not??????
Somebody please explain.
Beginning Jan. 1st, we will have no health care. Probably for the rest of our life. I make that last statement because I believe the country itself is only going to slide farther and farther down the slope of catastrophe for the foreseeable future, as it has been doing since 2006.
health care = health care insurance.
“I still have the same question...how is any of this legal?”
I still have that question too. It’s become completely egregious and I can only see it ending one way, with the repeal and replacement of Obamacare.
However, I’m pretty sure this is all setting a very bad precedent. And it cannot be that the only things that matter are the things the media gets its knickers in a twist over.
And here's what is most comical of all ...
The guy who swam across the Rio Grande a few months ago, has no Social Security number, works off the books for cash, and operates outside the scrutiny of the IRS and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is among the last free men in the United States of America.
It will never work until single payer is offered to fix the problem.
My premium would be higher than my car payment and my payments on both my real estate loans. It would be over 10% of my GROSS income here.
It’s not gonna happen. But I’ll never pay a penalty because I always owe the IRS at the end of the year.
Do you think they are this clever to intentionally screw up so all premiums rise, then offer a low-cost $1000 per citizen per year no deductible insurance via single payer?
Single payer was the plan from the start.
Question.....will this apply to those who will have their policy cancelled IN THE FUTURE? LIKE 2014, WHEN THE EMPLOYER POLICIES WILL DIE?
I've been wondering the same thing.
The trick is to get it in front of a court in the first place.
Who will have standing to say they were harmed? What is the "harm" in the first place? Is it the loss of health care insurance, the lack of ability to get helath care insurance, or the loss of constitutional rights of representation from executive usurpation?
I say that the harm is the latter one. Why vote for a Congressman if the President can override duly passed law on a whim? Every person who votes for a Congressman is harmed each time Obama arbitrarily overrides a law.
Who can bring that case to the Court?
-PJ
The guy who swam across the Rio Grande a few months ago, has no Social Security number, works off the books for cash, and operates outside the scrutiny of the IRS and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is among the last free men in the United States of America.
WORTH REPEATING THANK YOU
You will never hear that on Television,or that republicans have been right about the buffoon in The White Hut
The Republican majority could stop it by defunding it but as we have seen the leadership doesn’t have the backbone to do it.
While I supported defunding, we got a major break because lack of funding would have been blamed for the website, disorganization, etc.
...and you know the MSM would have trumpeted it from the rooftops!
This 100% Democrat-written and passed legislation now hangs 100% around the Democrats' necks.
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