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Kathianne
09-09-2013, 09:17 PM
Let it be! LOL! If he's on the ropes the way I think he is, watch out! Call and write your Senators:
(http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm)


http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/09/cbo-obamacare-individual-mandate-delay-would-save-35-billion/


CBO: Obamacare individual mandate delay would save $35 billion


Posted By Sarah Hurtubise On 3:58 PM 09/09/2013 In Daily Caller News Foundation | No Comments

(http://dailycaller.com/2013/09/09/cbo-obamacare-individual-mandate-delay-would-save-35-billion/?print=1#comments_controls)

The House bill to delay Obamacare’s individual mandate would save $35 billion dollars, according to a Congressional Budget Office analysis.


After the Obama administration revealed it would not enforce the employer mandate — a requirement that large companies provide their employees health insurance — until January 2015, the House quickly passed a measure that would not only codify that delay, but put off the individual mandate by one year as well.


The CBO found (http://cbo.gov/publication/44551) that just a one-year delay of the individual mandate would save $35 billion over ten years. But the basic cost structure of the Affordable Care Act would remain intact.

“I never thought I’d see the day when the White House, this president, came down on the side of big business, but left the American people out in the cold as far as this health care mandate is concerned,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/10/us/politics/house-gop-pushes-delay-on-individual-mandate-in-health-law.html?_r=2&).


Cantor’s message carried over even to some in the President’s own party. The “Fairness for American Families Act” is one of many Republican-dominated efforts to delay certain aspects of Obamacare, but this time it received bipartisan support: 22 House Democrats bucked their own party and voted for the bill, which President Obama vowed to veto.


The White House charged (http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/omb/legislative/sap/113/saphr2667r_20130716.pdf) that the House legislation “would raise health insurance premiums and increase the number of uninsured Americans.”


Keeping the individual mandate the law of the land is vital to the success of Obamacare exchanges. High participation in the exchanges, especially by the young and the healthy, is necessary to keep premiums low.

Not enforcing the employer mandate while still requiring individuals to purchase health insurance would have increased participation in Obamacare exchanges, piling on an additional $3 billion in subsidies, according (http://news.yahoo.com/obamacare-mandate-delay-cost-12-billion-affect-1-214446398.html) to the CBO. Presumably this cost would be nullified by the House bill to delay the individual mandate.


But the whole cost of the Obama administration’s employer mandate delay comes in at $12 billion, largely from a reduction in fines the government is able to collect from employers who don’t provide coverage.

The bill passed the House in July but is unlikely to pass the Democratic-controlled Senate.

fj1200
09-09-2013, 09:50 PM
Let it be! LOL! If he's on the ropes the way I think he is, watch out! Call and write your Senators: (http://www.senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm)

This is all just quibbling over pennies at this point. The damage is done because this piece of crap is on the books and coming down the pike and no temporary delay is going to have any stimulative effect.

Kathianne
09-09-2013, 09:59 PM
This is all just quibbling over pennies at this point. The damage is done because this piece of crap is on the books and coming down the pike and no temporary delay is going to have any stimulative effect.

Except for those who can't afford the mandate, they'll have another year reprieve.

Kathianne
09-09-2013, 10:01 PM
As I said, 'appears on the ropes,' WaPo today:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/09/08/left-behind-stories-from-obamacares-31-million-uninsured/


Left behind: Stories from Obamacare’s 31 million uninsured By Sarah Kliff and Lena H. Sun, Published: September 8 at 7:26 pm



Every month, a hundred or so people crowd the lobby of the Arlington Free Clinic, clutching blue tickets to enter a health-care lottery. Uninsured and ailing, they hope to be among the two dozen who hit the jackpot and are given free care.

Some might think the lottery’s days are numbered, given that the insurance expansion under President Obama’s health-care law is taking effect in January. But clinic officials say the lottery will stay because demand for their services is likely to be as high as ever. “We will be business as usual,” said Nancy Sanger Pallesen, the clinic’s executive director.


The Affordable Care Act, the most sweeping health care program created in a half century, is expected to extend coverage to 25 million Americans over the next decade, according to the most recent government estimates (http://www.cbo.gov/sites/default/files/cbofiles/attachments/44190_EffectsAffordableCareActHealthInsuranceCover age_2.pdf). But that will still leave a projected 31 million people without insurance by 2023. Those left out include undocumented workers and poor people living in the 21 states, such as Virginia (http://wapo.st/17jkndm), that have so far declined to expand Medicaid under the statute, commonly called Obamacare.


“The law will cut the number of the uninsured in half,” said Matthew Buettgens of the Urban Institute. “This is an important development, but it certainly isn’t the definition of universal.”

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fj1200
09-09-2013, 10:29 PM
Except for those who can't afford the mandate, they'll have another year reprieve.

Meh, temporary is pointless.

Kathianne
09-09-2013, 10:33 PM
Meh, temporary is pointless.

Says one who doesn't have a problem with insurance or getting fined.

fj1200
09-09-2013, 10:38 PM
Says one who doesn't have a problem with insurance or getting fined.

True, but as I said, quibbling over pennies when the whole law sucks:

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/dam/assets/130812165443-obamacare-penalties-620xa.png

Kathianne
09-09-2013, 10:43 PM
True, but as I said, quibbling over pennies when the whole law sucks:

http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/dam/assets/130812165443-obamacare-penalties-620xa.png

Yep, I understand. Then again, someone who can't pay for insurance, can't really afford the $95 come April either.

If Obama can reprieve businesses, once he realized they were all applying for waivers, he can the individuals too.

I agree with you on the train wreck of a plan. ;)