Posted on 09/28/2013 8:08:32 PM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
Health care rollout would proceed if government shuts down, uninsured would still get covered
WASHINGTON (AP) Republicans pulling on the budget thread can't neatly unravel President Barack Obama's health care law.
A partial government shutdown next week would leave the major parts of the law in place and rolling along, according to former Democratic and Republican budget officials, as well as the Obama administration itself. Health care markets for the uninsured would open as scheduled on Tuesday.
Deleting the money to implement the law, the GOP's dream scenario, would indeed cripple Obamacare. But that's much less likely to happen than a government shutdown. Obama wouldn't allow the ruin of his hard-fought namesake legislation.
Part of the reason a shutdown wouldn't stop the health care law is that government doesn't grind to a halt. National defense, law enforcement, air traffic control and other activities involving the safety of human life and the protection of property continue.
Ditto for big entitlement programs such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, whose "mandatory" funding does not have to be renewed annually by Congress...
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
BI is Dem party propaganda site .
So why is this crap posted ?
the BI owner is a radical leftist and this writer is a well documented obamabot.
so are these lies spread here ?
Who needs martial law now that we have adult CPS house rules under Obamascare.
Democrts want mayhem but on their term. Either people are going to be for or against gettig government under control, but they are trying to keep a bunch of people in the middle and brainwashing them that when crisis will occur, it will be the fault of those wnting to limit government.
Right now they are campaigning becauae they know chaos and thuggish mayhem is coming.
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