You can thank the idiots at AARP for tipping this crock over on us.
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 DO 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 employer’s 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 the worker was paying under his employer plan! (Surprise,
Surprise! Remember Republicans warning that forcing working Americans
to pay for the 30 million leaches 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 pound sand!
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, Kathleen Sebelius, 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 leaches
have no worry. They are covered by that $700 billion dollar pot of
gold that Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary of Health and Human Services will be
demanding from Congress soon!
Sad.
Doggone sad.
Oh,
and, lest we forget --- today, like every other day, over 90 million LAW
ABIDING AMERICAN GUN OWNERS, have murdered no
one.
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