Okay folks, I know you think the
C-Span Channel that broadcasts all those Congressional hearings is boring,
but, really, you should have been around to watch the Senate Finance
Committee's hearing Wednesday on the Affordable Health Care Insurance
Oversight.
Folks, you haven't seen so many
faces of misery since you watched Les Miserables for three and a half
hours...and they were all Democrats. And one of them, Senator Max Baucus,
was the primary sponsor of Obamacare in the Senate!
Now, try to follow me here
because this gets pretty complicated. (It
seems that Nancy Pelosi was right; you have to pass Obamacare to find out
what's in it...and the Democrats are now learning what the
Republicans warned them about. It's an unworkable mess that is throwing
millions of Americans off the health care rolls!)
Okay, apparently, tens of
thousands of American employers began throwing workers off their health
care plans and opting to pay the much lower federal fine for not offering
health care for their workers. Thousands more are even now converting their
full time workers to part time workers by limiting working hours per week
to less than 30, in compliance with Obamacare rules. (Remember when Paul
Ryan and the Republicans predicted employers would do this? Remember when
Democrats were warned that employers would move to save operating expenses
by moving their entire work force into federal healthcare exchanges?)
Now, these workers who have lost
their health care benefits are busy trying to sign up for state health care
exchanges. (There are internet sites available if your state has agreed to
sign up to Obamacare). However, when these American workers, soon to be
without employee provided health care, go to the Health Exchange to sign
up, they are finding they are not qualified! It seems that during the
signup process, applicants are required to fill in various income and
benefit data, which then flows over to IRS computers who then are to spit
out what your premium costs will be and how much federal tax credits you'll
receive in order to receive subsidies to help you afford health care
premiums that are as much as 30% more than you were paying under your
employers plan!
Big Problem! The IRS is only
allowing somewhere around 9% subsidy support for Obamacare Health care
Exchange premiums that are priced so much higher than thternoon. Senatoring
under his employer plan! (Surprise, Surprise! Remember Republicans warning
that forcing working Americans to pay for the 30 million tit suckers who
pay nothing for their health care under Medicaid would drive the premiums of
working Americans higher?)
Second Big Problem! The IRS
computers won't mate up with the Health Care Exchange computers because the
IRS computer system is obsolete! So when workers try to sign up for
Obamacare the IRS and the Health Exchanges are telling applicants to go to
hell!
And so
fireworks really broke out at the Finance Committee hearings on Obamacare
yesterday afternoon. Senator Max Baucus, (Dem), said.."how could this
happen? I'm hearing from my constituents that they and their families have
been left out in the cold and are without health care because the Exchanges
are not accepting them!". Quote from Senator Bill Nelson, (Dem),
Florida "my constituents are not going to be happy to hear this
administration failed to implement the necessary changes to accommodate
health care applicants...someone has to pay for this!" Similar outrage
was professed by Senator Ron Wyden (Dem) from Oregon.
Sadly, Obama Program Director
for the Health care Affordability Act was on hand to lend testimony. All he
could seem to do was sympathize with his Democratic buddies, saying that
maybe the problems could be ironed out by the end of 2014 but could offer
no ideas about how that could be done.
An Update! This morning a
Harvard economics professor came on CNBC and announced that, according to a
federal study his group just completed, the Health and Human Services
Secretary is going to be forced to come back to this same committee, hat in
hand, and request $700 billion dollars more be allocated to Obamacare just
to pay for those automatically covered under current federal programs.
Also, sadly, the Wall Street
Journal reported that, in addition to the 30 million Americans not
currently covered under Obamacare, we can expect tens of millions more who
will be left in the "no health care Twilight Zone"; those who
were doing just fine with their employee health care plan until Obamacare
was implemented this year. And many of those who were working 40 hour weeks
will find themselves deemed "part time employees" working less
than 30 hours per week and unable to afford Obama's premiums even if they
could get through the application process.
And, as usual, while the working
poor, and the rapidly declining middle class will be out in the cold
without any health care, the Medicaid/Welfare tit-suckers have no worry.
They are covered by that $700 billion dollar pot of gold Kathleen Sebelius,
Secretary of Health and Human Services will be demanding from Congress
soon!
Sad. Damned Sad. Lest we forget
--- today, like every other day, over 90 million, LAW ABIDING, AMERICAN GUN
OWNERS , have murdered no one.
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2 comments:
I'm not a fan of the health care act, where can I view the C-Span Channel video of this? Please send the link to schlumpy7@comcast.net
add me please or get a link out there...please
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