The Affordable Care Act

[BlueStreak]

Sorta.

Dave

[whell]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Had one million hits on the website before 7:00am today.

How could you have foreseen that this one, simple observation would spawn 92 pages of responses?

^ The above is a likely ill fated attempt to bring this thread back on topic.

[bobabode]

Originally Posted by whell

How could you have foreseen that this one, simple observation would spawn 92 pages of responses?

^ The above is a likely ill fated attempt to bring this thread back on topic.

...and I thank you for your contributions to it Mike. It has been a hoot.

[Rajoo]

Originally Posted by whell

How could you have foreseen that this one, simple observation would spawn 92 pages of responses?

^ The above is a likely ill fated attempt to bring this thread back on topic.

What do you know, back on topic from Post 912 through 950. Thanks Whell.

[merrylander]

So will someone please explain to me why workers here are so different from workers in other industrialized countries. When SinglePayer was introduced in Canada there was no rush for the exits. People kept going to work as before, now more content knowing that they would never face bankruptcy due to medical expenses. Is the CBO fairy tale simply another example of American Exceptionalism?

[icenine]

let me tell you one thing...if the ACA does in fact liberate people from working jobs just because they do not need the healthcare anymore from the employer there will be no going back

[bobabode]

Here we go again. Rubio proposes legislation to gut the ACA and link it to their upcoming debt ceiling fight. When will these spinning idjits ever learn?

"Testifying before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) promoted legislation he has introduced in the Senate to repeal a provision of the Affordable Care Act known as “risk corridors,” which are designed to limit the losses and gains of health insurance plans during the first three years they are sold on the law’s new exchanges.
Republicans have discussed linking repeal of the provision to a one-year increase in the federal debt ceiling, an issue that is again coming up for debate. A deal to temporarily suspend the debt limit was reached in October but is due to expire Friday. In their statements to the House panel Wednesday, neither Rubio nor the Oversight Committee chairman, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), mentioned linking repeal of the risk corridors to a debt-ceiling increase.
“This law has so many flaws that it cannot be fixed,” Rubio told the committee. “The American people should not have to pay for another taxpayer-funded bailout.” He added; “The bottom line is that it is not right to allow a powerful industry to use its influence in Washington to protect itself” from the health-care law."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politi...e03_story.html

[CarlV]

I was reading somewhere yesterday that these "risk corridors" were originally a GOP thing that they put into and is in Medicare Part D.


Carl

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by bobabode

Here we go again. Rubio proposes legislation to gut the ACA and link it to their upcoming debt ceiling fight. When will these spinning idjits ever learn?....

I think ol' Marco went off half-cocked again. Just after he announced this plan, the CBO released a report saying the "risk corridor" provisions (introduced originally by Dubya in Medicare Part D expansion) actually saves the government $8 billion. So, in an effort to force reduced spending by the government, he proposes to hold us hostage to a plan that will cost us an additional $8 billion. Feckin' brilliant.

FWIW, they're doing the same thing for their other ransom plan to force cancelling reductions in veteran's benefits (another multi-billion expenditure to force spending cuts ). You just can't make this shit up.

[icenine]

Originally Posted by finnbow

I think ol' Marco went off half-cocked again. Just after he announced this plan, the CBO released a report saying the "risk corridor" provisions (introduced originally by Dubya in Medicare Part D expansion) actually saves the government $8 billion. So, in an effort to force reduced spending by the government, he proposes to hold us hostage to a plan that will cost us an additional $8 billion. Feckin' brilliant.

FWIW, they're doing the same thing for their other ransom plan to force cancelling reductions in veteran's benefits (another multi-billion expenditure to force spending cuts ). You just can't make this shit up.

Is that the cut in the recent budget for non-disabled retired veterans?

They want to restore that but have no problem cutting food stamps...wow