In an effort to intimidate states (that is, Republican governors) into setting up state-run ObamaCare exchanges, the leftist authors of the Affordable Care Act have opened the door to lawsuits that could prevent the federal government from selling health plans at affordable rates.
A centerpiece of the ACA involves the offering of federal subsidies “…designed to help low and middle-income individuals purchase health insurance.” However, as the Act clearly states, “…subsidies may only be applied to insurance exchanges set up by individual states, not exchanges implemented by the federal government.” Congress also denied federal exchanges the authority to provide tax credits to employers who offer federally approved insurance plans to their employees.
ObamaCare revolves around the state-financed implementation of exchanges which the law claims will be one-stop shopping centers for healthcare plans approved by the Department of Health and Human Services. However, as of November 28th, 17 states have responded to an HHS-imposed deadline by refusing to set up a state run exchange, leaving it entirely to the federal government to do so.
As a result, exchanges that the federal government will be forced to build in these states may NOT, according to the Act, provide the subsidies and tax credits necessary to make the purchase of ObamaCare plans affordable. And the remaining 10 states have yet to decide whether to build a state exchange or, like the 17 preceding them, leave it to the federal government as well! Half the states in the nation could therefore be forced to “offer” unaffordable healthcare plans. Quite an embarrassing proposition for a president who had claimed his namesake plan would reduce insurance premiums by $2,300 per year for the average family!
Why would ObamaCare authors provide such a glaring loophole in the law, one that says without possibility of contradiction that only state-run exchanges may offer the subsidies and tax credits so vital to participation in the Act? A number of legal scholars “…claim the legislative history shows that the drafters wanted to give states strong incentives to create their own exchanges, and expected them to do so.” What this really means is that the authors were trying to INTIMIDATE and FORCE states into creating exchanges. Otherwise, the left could claim that the Republican governors of those states who did not do so were COSTING their constituents money (subsidies) and denying them affordable insurance coverage, thanks to their refusal to build an exchange. A typical leftist scam and thuggish “boot on the throat!”
However, over half the population remains opposed to the ObamaCare takeover of healthcare. Moreover, in refusing to build a state-run exchange, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker informed HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that “…Wisconsin is already able to provide healthcare to 90% of its citizens without an exchange and the new system would not improve coverage for state citizens.” (4)
And in addition to the fact that the vast majority of Americans are very satisfied with their current healthcare plans, ObamaCare exchanges would cost states up to $100 million per year. States would have NO control over which insurance plans may be offered or how they would be rated, how individuals or employers would be charged, or indeed how much the HHS would force the state itself to pay on a yearly basis in the future. The federal government makes all of the rules, and the state gets to pay the tab.
Only the left could be shocked and offended that states haven’t jumped at the chance to sign up!
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Good! I hope all the states refuse and ObamaCare goes down the drain, hopefully with Obama with it!
Yeah, I agree. Kathleen Sebelius, ahead of the Dept. of Health and Human Services, needs to go down with Obamacare and Obama, too. She’s the one who orchestrated the forced passage of the unconstitutional Obamacare. While she was Governor of Kansas she did everything in her power to protect a sick, demented child killer named Goerge Tiller (the Killer). He would kill unborn babies up to the moment of birth. He did late-term abortions that other abortionists refused to do. He even bragged about killing fully developed unborn children. So, these child-killers need to go down and down far. So, help us God.
I think it’s time to overthrow the government.
I say we the people didnt want it, we didnt vote for it, so ignore it…dont follow any laws this illegal muslim signs in to law…they cant lock the whole country up…with all the mexicans and blacks in the jails already, there’s not enough room.
This could be great news, just as long as those 17 states do not cave in to pressure that I have little doubt that the Government will soon begin to apply. Obama-Care is like Obama, they are both illegal and they both need to be removed from our Government.
Most of us didn’t want it.. This was a Bill to control people, not just for health care. There are things in this bill that don’t have to do with health care. This bill was written by a 60′s Hippie, ( Bill Ayres ) who should be in prison, instead of on O’s staff.
Friend me on FB at juggernaughtgoodevony. I will friend you and add you to the americans unite group!! I will try and keep up with requests!! We are trying to organize for marches against the regime. Only people who are fed up with talking about the problem and want to do something need apply.
When all the elected butt shiners are included in the bozo health care, lose the unearned pensions, and do honest work, then there is something to think about.
I wholeheartedly agree with boone1,, it is time to overthrow this non government turned fifedom that this lying swine is building,, rebellion,, civil disobedience revolt whatever,, it’s time to put a stop to this demon spawn before he gets any closer to his goal,, he is without a doubt the most evil, lying garbage and it’s beyond my ability to comprehend how the people of this country voted this pig for a second term,, be that as it may it’s time for the other side to shout from the rooftops that they’re not taking anymore of his socilalist dung and get rid of him,, he should be impeached and be held accountable for the murders of the Ambassador and his co workers that the administration abandoned in favor of not damaging the “sensibilities” of his fellow terrorist muslim buddies,, he is the most dispicable piece of trash and I’ll never understand how he got elected in the first place,, he talks about other people who ran for his job as being incompetant and not capable of being president and we are supposed to believe that a corrupt community organizer who participated in a gangland style city governemt is a more equipped to do the job,, well maybe all his phone recipients believed that dung and that’s why he got elected but I’m greatful that I don’t have to take any blame for the travesty,, He even has chicago city council member demanding their just rewards for getting his community to vote for him,, they want payback for their doing his bidding,, he sure owes a lot of stupid people who gave their votes and are now waiting for the goodies,, OVERTHROW this socialist wanna be dictator out of the White House and then put him on trail,, he belongs in prision for all the illegal things he’s done and not been held to task for,,, IT’S TIME
HOW SAD THAT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA HAS THIS CALIBER OF INDIVIDUAL FOR A PRESIDENT AND NOT EVEN A GENUINE PRESIDENT. IT IS ALL CARTOON LAND NOW !
REcall election or IMPEACH THE MARXIST Obama is ruining America