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[h=1]Piling On Work to Escape Gap in Health Law[/h]
Ms. Ramos is one of many low-income, working adults who are caught in what experts call the coverage gap, eligible for neither federal subsidies nor Medicaid because they live in states that have declined to expand Medicaid under the health care law. And like Ms. Ramos, many of those people are taking second jobs or working extra hours to increase their incomes, hoping to become eligible for assistance that will enable them to afford marketplace plans.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/02/u...cape-gap-in-health-law.html?ref=politics&_r=2
[h=1]Piling On Work to Escape Gap in Health Law[/h]
Ms. Ramos is one of many low-income, working adults who are caught in what experts call the coverage gap, eligible for neither federal subsidies nor Medicaid because they live in states that have declined to expand Medicaid under the health care law. And like Ms. Ramos, many of those people are taking second jobs or working extra hours to increase their incomes, hoping to become eligible for assistance that will enable them to afford marketplace plans.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/02/u...cape-gap-in-health-law.html?ref=politics&_r=2
Ted Cruz Unveils Obamacare Repeal Act
By Joel Gehrke
February 2, 2015 3:25 PM
Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) introduced an “Obamacare Repeal Act” that would repeal the Affordable Care Act “as if such Act had not been enacted.”
The text of Cruz’s bill to repeal the 2,700-page law — which spawned another 10,000 pages of regulations — barely runs onto the third page. It comes as Republicans have debated whether to use a procedural tactic that circumvents filibusters known as reconciliation to repeal the legislation.
“This repeal bill is pro-growth, pro-jobs, and pro-liberty,” Cruz says in a statement on the bill. “It provides time for Congress to start over, to pass true market-based reforms that will allow the purchase of insurance across state lines, expand health savings accounts, and make health insurance, personal, portable, and affordable.”
The bill is co-sponsored by 44 Senate Republicans, including Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) and several leading members of the Obamacareworking group that is mulling the GOP’s possible response to a major anti-Obamacare lawsuit pending before the Supreme Court. If the Court rules against the administration, Americans who enrolled in Obamacare through the federal exchanges would not qualify for subsidies.
“We must send this bill to the president’s desk,” Cruz adds. “If he vetoes it, the GOP Congress should pass bill after bill to stop Obamacare. Each will have broad support among the American people, and Democrats in both chambers will be hard-pressed not to support them. The President will be faced with a clear choice: either listen to the American people, who have never supported this law, or ignore them, and ignore the disastrous harms to millions of families, young people, and the most vulnerable among us.”
If Republicans could get around a Democratic filibuster, Cruz would be the only prospective presidential candidate who could claim to have authored the firstObamacare repeal that passed through Congress.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/397732/ted-cruz-unveils-obamacare-repeal-act-joel-gehrke
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By Joel Gehrke
February 2, 2015 3:25 PM
Senator Ted Cruz (R., Texas) introduced an “Obamacare Repeal Act” that would repeal the Affordable Care Act “as if such Act had not been enacted.”
The text of Cruz’s bill to repeal the 2,700-page law — which spawned another 10,000 pages of regulations — barely runs onto the third page. It comes as Republicans have debated whether to use a procedural tactic that circumvents filibusters known as reconciliation to repeal the legislation.
“This repeal bill is pro-growth, pro-jobs, and pro-liberty,” Cruz says in a statement on the bill. “It provides time for Congress to start over, to pass true market-based reforms that will allow the purchase of insurance across state lines, expand health savings accounts, and make health insurance, personal, portable, and affordable.”
The bill is co-sponsored by 44 Senate Republicans, including Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) and several leading members of the Obamacareworking group that is mulling the GOP’s possible response to a major anti-Obamacare lawsuit pending before the Supreme Court. If the Court rules against the administration, Americans who enrolled in Obamacare through the federal exchanges would not qualify for subsidies.
“We must send this bill to the president’s desk,” Cruz adds. “If he vetoes it, the GOP Congress should pass bill after bill to stop Obamacare. Each will have broad support among the American people, and Democrats in both chambers will be hard-pressed not to support them. The President will be faced with a clear choice: either listen to the American people, who have never supported this law, or ignore them, and ignore the disastrous harms to millions of families, young people, and the most vulnerable among us.”
If Republicans could get around a Democratic filibuster, Cruz would be the only prospective presidential candidate who could claim to have authored the firstObamacare repeal that passed through Congress.
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/397732/ted-cruz-unveils-obamacare-repeal-act-joel-gehrke
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[h=1]Obamacare will add to Dems' 2016 problems[/h]
The basic problem is that Barack Obama promised his healthcare plan would benefit everybody. It doesn't. Under Obamacare, the government subsidizes the health coverage of some Americans while making it more expensive for others. People who have faced higher premiums, higher deductibles, and narrower choices of doctors know they're getting a bad deal.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obamacare-will-add-to-dems-2016-problems/article/2559687
The basic problem is that Barack Obama promised his healthcare plan would benefit everybody. It doesn't. Under Obamacare, the government subsidizes the health coverage of some Americans while making it more expensive for others. People who have faced higher premiums, higher deductibles, and narrower choices of doctors know they're getting a bad deal.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obamacare-will-add-to-dems-2016-problems/article/2559687
Yeah, it's going to be tough to keep Cobb, Bulaga, and Williams. I'm concerned that some team will offer Cobb crazy money and he'll walk. He's my guy. I'd hate to see him go. Seems like the Vikings finally have their QB. I was really impressed by Charles Johnson (they always hyped him with the Packers but he never got a shot). If Patterson figures it out the Vikings might really be able to move the ball.
The Vikings fell victim to Packeritis, they were a banged up bunch last year. If they had Peterson they may have won 10 games but who knows, now that season is over the Peterson deal made Teddy learn quick, but their left side of offensive line was terrible and the right side was backups. They lost Anthony Barr who was also having a great rookie season and Rudolph at TE seems to be always hurt. Its all about health as the Vikings have abut 5 really good young defensive players to build around. I don't think the Vikes will go after any of those Packer players. They need a Left Guard and a middle linebacker desperately. They are sending Patterson to some WR boot camp, be interesting to see what they can sign free agent wise and how they approach the draft. If their season total is 7 or less for next season I am flying to vegas to put at least 5 K on the over maybe more and not bet during the regular season.
I should have been doing it for a long time. Im 10 - 2 in viking season totals last 12 years. 9 - 3 for the Packers, I picked them to win the Super Bowl the season they won it and I only missed 2 games vs the spread in Packer games this year. I did pass on 3 of them. I post at madjacks. If I could only stick to those two teams
#working
Ms. Pineman, who is self-employed, accepted that she’d have to pay higher premiums for a plan with a narrower provider network and no out-of-network coverage. She accepted that she’d have to pay out of pocket to see her primary care physician, who didn’t participate. She even accepted having co-pays of nearly $1,800 to have a cast put on her ankle in an emergency room after she broke it while playing tennis.
But her frustration bubbled over when she tried to arrange a follow-up visit with an orthopedist in her Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield network: The nearest doctor available who treated ankle problems was in Stamford, Conn. When she called to protest, her insurer said that Stamford was 14 miles from her home and 15 was considered a reasonable travel distance. “It was ridiculous — didn’t they notice it was in another state?” said Ms. Pineman, 46, who was on crutches.http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/sunday-review/insured-but-not-covered.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
Ms. Pineman, who is self-employed, accepted that she’d have to pay higher premiums for a plan with a narrower provider network and no out-of-network coverage. She accepted that she’d have to pay out of pocket to see her primary care physician, who didn’t participate. She even accepted having co-pays of nearly $1,800 to have a cast put on her ankle in an emergency room after she broke it while playing tennis.
But her frustration bubbled over when she tried to arrange a follow-up visit with an orthopedist in her Empire Blue Cross/Blue Shield network: The nearest doctor available who treated ankle problems was in Stamford, Conn. When she called to protest, her insurer said that Stamford was 14 miles from her home and 15 was considered a reasonable travel distance. “It was ridiculous — didn’t they notice it was in another state?” said Ms. Pineman, 46, who was on crutches.http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/08/sunday-review/insured-but-not-covered.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
Oh the irony! All that union money spent to get Obama elected.
The slow-roll implementation of Obamacare threatens to close U.S. commercial ports on the West Coast. The 29 ports, which handle 70 percent of maritime imports from Asia, were closed over the weekend after months of contentious contract negotiations. The ports reopened Monday, but 20,000 longshoremen are still threatening to strike over a new Obamacare tax.
More…
http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...care-tax-threatens-to-close-west-coast-ports/
The slow-roll implementation of Obamacare threatens to close U.S. commercial ports on the West Coast. The 29 ports, which handle 70 percent of maritime imports from Asia, were closed over the weekend after months of contentious contract negotiations. The ports reopened Monday, but 20,000 longshoremen are still threatening to strike over a new Obamacare tax.
More…
http://www.breitbart.com/big-govern...care-tax-threatens-to-close-west-coast-ports/
Well, the Stuttering Clusterfuck is now mad...and he's not going to take it anymore!
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obama-slams-staples-big-companies-132621073.html
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama singled out office supply company Staples Inc as undercutting his healthcare reform law and said large corporations should not use the health insurance issue as an excuse for cutting wages, the news website BuzzFeed reported.
"It's one thing when you've got a mom-and-pop store who can't afford to provide paid sick leave or health insurance or minimum wage to workers ... but when I hear large corporations that make billions of dollars in profits trying to blame our interest in providing health insurance as an excuse for cutting back workers’ wages, shame on them,” Obama said in an interview with BuzzFeed.
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What an unbelievable fucking goofball.
The fact that any president even thinks he has the right to dictate anything to individual companies about their workplace policies is extraordinary. That he is telling companies what they can or can't "afford" to do demonstrates yet again that he has no concept of how businesses are run and every intention of turning this country into some kind of centrally planned banana republic. This is what we get when we have a President who had zero real-world work experience and is a demagogic progressive.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/obama-slams-staples-big-companies-132621073.html
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama singled out office supply company Staples Inc as undercutting his healthcare reform law and said large corporations should not use the health insurance issue as an excuse for cutting wages, the news website BuzzFeed reported.
"It's one thing when you've got a mom-and-pop store who can't afford to provide paid sick leave or health insurance or minimum wage to workers ... but when I hear large corporations that make billions of dollars in profits trying to blame our interest in providing health insurance as an excuse for cutting back workers’ wages, shame on them,” Obama said in an interview with BuzzFeed.
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What an unbelievable fucking goofball.
The fact that any president even thinks he has the right to dictate anything to individual companies about their workplace policies is extraordinary. That he is telling companies what they can or can't "afford" to do demonstrates yet again that he has no concept of how businesses are run and every intention of turning this country into some kind of centrally planned banana republic. This is what we get when we have a President who had zero real-world work experience and is a demagogic progressive.
