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Obamacare fee of $63 per person to begin in 2014 (Just for pre-existing conditions)
The Washington Times / The Associated Press ^ | December 10, 2012 | Ricardo Alonso-Zaldivar, AP

Posted on 12/10/2012 8:04:23 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

Your medical plan is facing an unexpected expense, so you probably are, too. It’s a new, $63-per-head fee to cushion the cost of covering people with pre-existing conditions under President Obama’s health care overhaul.

The charge, buried in a recent regulation, works out to tens of millions of dollars for the largest companies, employers say. Most of that is likely to be passed on to workers...

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: economy; layoffs; obama; obamacare
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To: ltc8k6

I voted for Palin and Ryan.


21 posted on 12/10/2012 8:46:26 PM PST by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves" Month)
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To: Artcore

Or voted for the Libertarian guy, Ron Paul or some other no-name third party non-entity.


22 posted on 12/10/2012 8:46:37 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (I'll raise $2million for Sarah Palin's presidential run. What'll you do?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

23 posted on 12/10/2012 8:46:44 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: ltc8k6

>>> Only the “poor” will be exempt because they will have “free” insurance.

Based on my Christian beliefs, I find health insurance to be a form of gambling like the Muslims do.

Muslims are specifically exempted for this reason in the healthcare law.

I claim the same exemption.

Denying me this right under the religious clause of the healthcare law would be a violation of my civil rights, as well as a violation of the establishment of religion clause in the constitution.


24 posted on 12/10/2012 8:48:09 PM PST by Safrguns
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To: jurroppi1

Good Point. Those in the Wagon and those pulling the Wagon.

Who gets to make the call?

Same situation when your glass is at the halfway mark. Are you an optimist or a pessimist, IOW is your glass half full or half empty?

Clue: It all depends on whether your are pouring or drinking.


25 posted on 12/10/2012 8:48:40 PM PST by Graewoulf ((Traitor John Roberts' Obama"care" violates Sherman Anti-Trust Law, AND the U.S. Constitution.))
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Heh, see all the victims of obamacare are treated the same... preconditions or no preconditions. IOW, "This is a stick-up".

I noted in the first debate that obama said that he liked the name "Obamacare". Sure, same as pharaoh enjoyed his power over the slaves, determining who lived and who died.

There was an early example of even the Egyptians thwarting pharaohcare, when the midwives told pharaoh that hey, those Hebrew women deliver 'em fast... before we can get there [to kill off the boys].

26 posted on 12/10/2012 8:50:07 PM PST by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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To: Safrguns

You have to fill out an exemption form and be approved via a waiver; that is in the 1400+ page monstrosity...

Now the constitutional argument on the other hand is different - you have to show injury to have standing, so get in line and pay your taxes. Oh, and get back to work so the mooch and her effete husband can live and party in Hawaii off taxes taken from your hard-earned paycheck, serf!


27 posted on 12/10/2012 8:55:50 PM PST by jurroppi1
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To: ltc8k6
"More people voted for Romney than for McCain."

Tallest midget little person in the room! There were/are both losers.

28 posted on 12/10/2012 8:58:33 PM PST by I am Richard Brandon
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Surprised to see the local ABC TV news program carry a bit on this tonight - not much longer than the headline, but the sort of story the Regime probably wants to keep quiet and enough to start people thinking and talking.....


29 posted on 12/10/2012 8:59:35 PM PST by Intolerant in NJ
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To: Artcore

“And to those 3 million Republican idiots who stayed home on election night to show what “true Patriots” you were; GO F*CK YOURSELVES!”

Amen Brother!


30 posted on 12/10/2012 9:03:47 PM PST by rhubarbk
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To: jurroppi1

>>> You have to fill out an exemption form

Really? Have you seen this form? looked to me like the law explicitly exempts them. Besides, if there is a form, I seriously doubt it has a “Christian” checkbox... so again, I would not be able to fill it out properly.

>>> you have to show injury to have standing

Would 1.5 million unborn babies being decapitated qualify?

I would claim that as injury to my conscience, thus my mental health. Hell.. I’m allready going crazy because of all the murder I’ve allready paid for with my taxes.

Maybe I should just sue.


31 posted on 12/10/2012 9:06:13 PM PST by Safrguns
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To: headstamp 2

“No wonder the insurance companies backed this monstrosity.”

That’s right, along with their pushing for their Massachusetts loser.

Any of the insurance companies go out of business in Massachusetts?

Fascism.


32 posted on 12/10/2012 9:06:49 PM PST by Varsity Flight (Extortion-Care is the Government Work-Camp: Arbeitsziehungslager)
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To: Artcore

Put the blame on where it lies, Mitt Romney and the GOP left.


33 posted on 12/10/2012 9:12:03 PM PST by ansel12 (A.Coulter2005(truncated)Romney will never recover from his Court's create of a right to gay marriage)
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To: I am Richard Brandon

Just refuting the often heard claim that Romney got 3M less votes than McCain. It was a big story right after the election, with threads here as well.

Romney is actually close to having 1M more votes than McCain.


34 posted on 12/10/2012 9:20:11 PM PST by ltc8k6
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The fee will total $12 billion in 2014, $8 billion in 2015 and $5 billion in 2016. That means the per-head assessment would be smaller each year, around $40 in 2015 instead of $63.

It will phase out completely in 2017 — unless Congress, with lawmakers searching everywhere for revenue to reduce federal deficits — decides to extend the fees.
(no worries, they never extend fees....)

Well, ain't that a kicker....
Guess they crunched the numbers and realized the 'tanning tax' wasn't going to completely foot the bill for the entitled.

I wonder if the $5.25/mo will be taken out before or after taxes?

35 posted on 12/10/2012 9:26:16 PM PST by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

As the old saying goes...If you think health care is expensive now, just wait until it’s free.


36 posted on 12/10/2012 11:35:38 PM PST by AlaskaErik (I served and protected my country for 31 years. Progressives spent that time trying to destroy it.)
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To: umgud

It’s asking much too much of a reporter to include such esoteric, highly technical details!


37 posted on 12/11/2012 12:58:03 AM PST by Arthur McGowan (If you're FOR sticking scissors in a baby girl's neck and sucking out her brains, you are PRO-WOMAN!)
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To: ansel12
I blame people who Voted for Obama and people who didn't Vote for Romney.

Levin Rule, you Vote your Candidate in the Primary and you Vote your Party's Candidate in the General.

The mistake was very simple, Republicans Hope people are smart, but Democrats Know people are stupid.

Doesn't matter anyway, the Republic as we knew it is over.

38 posted on 12/11/2012 1:48:56 AM PST by Kickass Conservative (As they say in China, erections have consequences...)
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To: Safrguns

Cut other benefits or withhold raises or pass it on to customers. Nothing is free.


39 posted on 12/11/2012 2:05:16 AM PST by TN4Liberty (My tagline disappeared so this is my new one.)
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To: Safrguns
Umm... how do they get my $63.00 if i don’t have insurance?

Sadly, I'm sure the IRS will have some say on that.

40 posted on 12/11/2012 3:20:24 AM PST by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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