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Is this any worse than “millions of Americans do not have exactly the right amount of tax withheld”? Next April some of these people will have to pay taxes, others will get refunds.
People who had steady jobs with employer provided insurance did not go on the exchanges. People who could only guess at what their income would be, whether it would be like last years or not, did.
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So, considering the ages of most of these people in ACA limbo, how many people NOT covered by Medicaid because their states refused it are now stuck in another twist of misfortune generated by authoritarian Republicans bent on destroying the whole system, with no care about the victims they leave behind?
They should go ahead and cover us all, THEN sort it out. Leaving so many of us hanging because they demand every T crossed and I dotted is just more proof that their stubborn prejudices matter more to them than the well-being of their constituents.
COVER us FIRST, and sort it out later, because if the Republicans have their way, people will be denied ANY coverage based on minor technicalities, simply because they, the Republicans, lost the battle to defeat the whole law.
They waste way too much time and money creating these legal “consolation” conundrums that serve only to assuage their abject disappointment at losing this fight to deny healthcare for all.
This is happening across the legal spectrum, as progressive laws lean us back towards a better future, intransigent and bitter conservatives waste our precious resources in a futile, expensive and exhausting attempt to create obstacles to achieving that better future.
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…so, how long until they demand drug testing for everyone who gets a subsidy?
Don’t discount it, the tiny minority that now controls our process has tried it before. They want anyone they disapprove of to suffer, and that list of disapproval is always growing.
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We know “… three people familiar with the situation” know
Some paid too little
Some paid too much
But
Who paid too little
Who paid too much
And
How little is too little
How little is too much
And
How much is too little
How much is too much
Another day, another problem with Obamacare. What’s next?
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The ACA, or Obamacare is a work in progress, and like any large program, public or private, will take time to work the kinks out. The thing is, we do have affordable health care insurance available for anyone who needs it. That is a progressive and positive step forward, and hopefully it will continue to get larger and better. This country needs some big and worthy projects, to improve an image that is slipping around the globe. We are starting to look like a third world country in many ways, and our people are suffering because of it. Down with the plutocrats and up with the people.
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Another inane comment from the poster with the most fitting screen name at TPM.
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The kind of non-story the belly crawlers love to read.
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Go for it. Baggers.
Use this (or anything else) to move to take away people’s health insurance.
See what happens. You will be unpleasantly surprised.
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That’s some crackerjack reporting there, Mr. Scott. No one recapitulates an article from another news outlet better than you.
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What’s next?
Based on past activity, millions more people signed up for the ACA.
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Why do all the NYT stories have a green dot (or diamond) next to them?
Single payer. Medicare for all. Sooner than you think.
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What’s next? More chum posts from RWNJs.
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Oh, Look! The Washington Post found a glitch. Huzza, Huzza. Too bad they weren’t so assiduous in finding the “glitches” in the Bush regime’s run-up to the Iraq war.
Tom Ricks, who was the paper’s top military reporter, turned in a piece in the fall of 2002 that he titled “Doubts,” saying that senior Pentagon officials were resigned to an invasion but were reluctant and worried that the risks were being underestimated. An editor killed the story, saying it relied too heavily on retired military officials and outside experts — in other words, those with sufficient independence to question the rationale for war.
“There was an attitude among editors: Look, we’re going to war, why do we even worry about all this contrary stuff?” Ricks said.
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Super bad news for Dems in November.
Ricks is THE journalist. Nicely done.
Very true. I am self-employed and estimating income is a yearly event.
This problem does not sound as bad as the constant problems with Blue Cross not paying for preventative treatments that were included in my plan but of course you never see any whining about that because it is not the “big, bad, government”.
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Grist for the mills of the anti-O-care folks.
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