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Surprisingly the Obama Administration has admitted that they are not making contingency plans should Obamacare be overturned.[2] But while the Obama Administration embraces a “do nothing” preparation strategy, some liberal groups are reportedly planning to tell the stories of individuals who have been hurt by the fallout of an overturned Affordable Care Act.
Make no mistake—there will be repercussions if Obamacare is overturned. The Obama Administration, the states, private insurers, and other businesses have all spent the past two years implementing and preparing for Obamacare, which has a potential impact of hundreds of billions of dollars. Overturning it would be like stopping a freight train by running it into the side of a tunnel-less mountain. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius said that overturning Obamacare would have a “pretty cataclysmic impact.
Read more at NetRightDaily.com: http://netrightdaily.com/2012/06/wha...#ixzz3TB7E8vZm
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So the Republicans are now upset has the administration has not done anything to lessen the blow of such REPUBLICAN venon? Iffen a laff a dead!
The REPUBLICAN can prevent any catastrophe by embracing OBAMACARE! ...so???
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I can just see the Dems running adds - REPUBLICANS THROW CANCER PATIENTS OFF TREATMENT!!! or...REPUBLICANS TURNED OFF YOUR DIALYSIS TREATMENT!!!
...etc., etc?
Yahoo Finance - But as the Court challenge draws near, Republicans acknowledge that a ruling against Obamacare would be a disaster for millions of Americans. Now, with a week before oral arguments, they’re scrambling to come up with ways to quell the potential backlash of an adverse ruling—before they get blamed.
The now-infamous case of King v. Burwell was brought on by libertarians who openly admit to coming up with the challenge as a way to take down Obamacare, as Dave Weigel notes in Slate. The whole case centers on a single phrase in the law’s language addressing who is eligible to receive subsidized coverage.
The plaintiffs in the case say the wording only mentions providing subsidized coverage to people in states that set up their own insurance exchanges—meaning that for the last year, millions of people living in the 37 states that rely on the federal exchange received subsidies illegally.
The administration, for it’s part, has written the phrase off as a drafting error—saying it never intended to exclude anyone from access to subsidies.
If the Court sides with the plaintiffs, at least 8 million people will lose their subsidized coverage, and hundreds of thousands more could pay more for their employer-based plans, since fewer people would be in the insurance risk pool, sending costs soaring.
Related: Four Little Words That Could Kill Obamacare
A study by the Rand Corporation estimated that without these subsidies, premiums for existing Obamacare enrollees would increase by nearly 50 percent— an average annual increase of $1,600 for a 40-year-old — and that 70 percent of consumers would cancel their policies, Kaiser Health News noted. Separately, the Urban Institute noted that if fewer people have health coverage, hospitals would see uncompensated care return to pre-Obamacare levels or worse.
From nearly every angle, experts say the ruling would be disastrous for the law, millions of people in danger of losing coverage, the insurance industry losing customers, hospitals losing insured patients, and essentially the entire U.S. health care system.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/gop-co...131500570.html
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So an add saying - REPUBLICANS DESTROY YOUR HEATH CARE!!!
...a multi-trillion dollar section of the economy goes down!!! Iffen unnuh tick di worl si financial problems before tink ha-gen!!!
Make no mistake—there will be repercussions if Obamacare is overturned. The Obama Administration, the states, private insurers, and other businesses have all spent the past two years implementing and preparing for Obamacare, which has a potential impact of hundreds of billions of dollars. Overturning it would be like stopping a freight train by running it into the side of a tunnel-less mountain. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius said that overturning Obamacare would have a “pretty cataclysmic impact.
Read more at NetRightDaily.com: http://netrightdaily.com/2012/06/wha...#ixzz3TB7E8vZm
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So the Republicans are now upset has the administration has not done anything to lessen the blow of such REPUBLICAN venon? Iffen a laff a dead!
The REPUBLICAN can prevent any catastrophe by embracing OBAMACARE! ...so???
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I can just see the Dems running adds - REPUBLICANS THROW CANCER PATIENTS OFF TREATMENT!!! or...REPUBLICANS TURNED OFF YOUR DIALYSIS TREATMENT!!!
...etc., etc?
Yahoo Finance - But as the Court challenge draws near, Republicans acknowledge that a ruling against Obamacare would be a disaster for millions of Americans. Now, with a week before oral arguments, they’re scrambling to come up with ways to quell the potential backlash of an adverse ruling—before they get blamed.
The now-infamous case of King v. Burwell was brought on by libertarians who openly admit to coming up with the challenge as a way to take down Obamacare, as Dave Weigel notes in Slate. The whole case centers on a single phrase in the law’s language addressing who is eligible to receive subsidized coverage.
The plaintiffs in the case say the wording only mentions providing subsidized coverage to people in states that set up their own insurance exchanges—meaning that for the last year, millions of people living in the 37 states that rely on the federal exchange received subsidies illegally.
The administration, for it’s part, has written the phrase off as a drafting error—saying it never intended to exclude anyone from access to subsidies.
If the Court sides with the plaintiffs, at least 8 million people will lose their subsidized coverage, and hundreds of thousands more could pay more for their employer-based plans, since fewer people would be in the insurance risk pool, sending costs soaring.
Related: Four Little Words That Could Kill Obamacare
A study by the Rand Corporation estimated that without these subsidies, premiums for existing Obamacare enrollees would increase by nearly 50 percent— an average annual increase of $1,600 for a 40-year-old — and that 70 percent of consumers would cancel their policies, Kaiser Health News noted. Separately, the Urban Institute noted that if fewer people have health coverage, hospitals would see uncompensated care return to pre-Obamacare levels or worse.
From nearly every angle, experts say the ruling would be disastrous for the law, millions of people in danger of losing coverage, the insurance industry losing customers, hospitals losing insured patients, and essentially the entire U.S. health care system.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/gop-co...131500570.html
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So an add saying - REPUBLICANS DESTROY YOUR HEATH CARE!!!
...a multi-trillion dollar section of the economy goes down!!! Iffen unnuh tick di worl si financial problems before tink ha-gen!!!