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Shameless lie. You literally made that up on the spot..Because her rent was more than she earned...
But it's ok when she makes krap up on the spotShameless lie. You literally made that up on the spot..Because her rent was more than she earned...
Irrelevant, whiny whataboutism. Embarrassing.But it's ok when she makes krap up on the spot
The average rent for a Manhattan apartment is 3667 dollars per month or 44004 dollars per year.
So? What was ocasio's rent? That's right, you have no idea and just pulled something out of your ass. Because, brown democrat female.The average rent for a Manhattan apartment is 3667 dollars per month or 44004 dollars per year.Irrelevant, whiny whataboutism. Embarrassing.But it's ok when she makes krap up on the spot
So you enjoy being a moron
So the socialist was sucking off the populace?I have a link to this but this site will not allow me to prove what I say
If we can prove that she did not report her real income she can be impeached easily as the democrats want her around less then the GOP that finds her humorous
/——/ So a Masters in Economics from Boston U is virtually worthless in the job market.
She does not have a masters, where did you hear that lie?
What she has is bachelor's degree in and a minor in economics.
Is there nothing you people will not lie about just so you can make fun of someone?
Who can't resist making fun of the shithead? She has every trait required in order to to be mocked, pointed at, and laughed at derisively.
What the hell were those people using for brains when they elected her? Their anuses?
Yes, brains, ambition, and a good idea how things work. Plus she's a woman. Always a target of mockery by low IQ right wingers.
Brains? No evidence of that has yet to be presented. Worked as a bartender with a a degree from Boston University. Not smart enough to get a job with her degree?
Ambition? Ran for Congress as a 29 year-old. I'll give you that one.
Good idea how things work? She cannot mange her own money to rent an apartment until her Congressional pay starts.
Woman? No evidence has been presented as yet. She does look like a crazy ex-girlfriend type.
Has she ever seen a man naked
So only the rich can run for office in the "land of opportunity" ?
98 percent kept their doctorMost people kept their doctor.I can post 100 lies by trump in 2 years for every lie you can post by Obama in 8.So he lied again then. First he said he would release them, then he said he wouldn’t because he was being audited; but that he would when the audit was complete.
Obama's lie- repeated ad nauseum- that we would be able to keep our health plan and our doctors with O'care, and we would save $2500 a year each, was a lot worse than anything about revealing a tax return.
Strictly speaking, its doesn't matter a whit to be what is on line #22 on Schedule D of the President's tax return, regardless of what's on it. The only thing that would be interesting is that I've never seen the 300 page tax return of a billionaire- but that means I wouldn't know how to interpret it. Sort of like asking to see the pathology report after a surgery. Sure, the doctor can give it to you, but its all just bullshit unless you are well versed in pathology.
But can you keep your doctor under Obamacare?
Do you enjoy having transvestites in the bathroom with your daughter?
You do have children I presume
LOL
And yes, I have kids.
So? What was ocasio's rent? That's right, you have no idea and just pulled something out of your ass. Because, brown democrat female.The average rent for a Manhattan apartment is 3667 dollars per month or 44004 dollars per year.Irrelevant, whiny whataboutism. Embarrassing.But it's ok when she makes krap up on the spot
So you enjoy being a moron
LOLOLIt now looks like ObamaCare will hurt twice as many people as it helps — because the law isn’t nearly done with canceling people’s insurance.Oh, no’s! A brain-dead conservative quoting another conservative who’s agsinst ObamaCare.LOLOLWas this intended for me?You are wrong again, Obamacare NEVER insured 275 million. I kept my insurance but never was so stupid as to need obamacare.
So you keep pretending that you know whats going on, because you are advertising your stupidity with every post.
20 plus million people use obamacare, not 275 million.
Do you work at being dumb
Learn how to properly utilize the quote feature, ya moron. Surely, it’s not too difficult, even for someone like you, to figure out?
As far as my 275 million figure — I never said that’s how many are on ObamaCare. That was an estimate I threw out of how many people were insured; from which, a few million lost their health insurance.
Thanks for proving you’re just another brain-dead conservative who can’t comprehend what he reads. A dime a dozen around here.[/ QUOTE]
Yawning, a few million lost their insurance 3 million of 20 million is 15 percent.
Learn some math girl, its not really that hard.
Funny how you think everyone insured has boobcare
I see you still can’t figure out how to properly use the quote function. Reveals plenty about you.
And no, it wasn’t 3 million out of 20 million who lost their insurance; it was about 3 million out of about 275 million who did. The other 99% kept their insurance.
Are you really a psycho, or what
It now looks like ObamaCare will hurt twice as many people as it helps — because the law isn’t nearly done with canceling people’s insurance.
The 5 million-plus Americans who’ve seen their health plans canceled thanks to ObamaCare will be joined by millions more this year — because the Affordable Care Act makes their employer-provided policies illegal, as well.
ObamaCare defenders are trying to minimize the coming pain. Jonathan Gruber, an architect of the law, told The Washington Post that the number of “losers” who will have to pay more for the same or inferior coverage will be “very, very small.” Nonsense. ObamaCare exchange plans — the only option for most people who lose on-the-job coverage — are a raw deal.
Yet millions will get dropped from employer-provided coverage over the course of this year and be stuck with that alternative.
Effective Jan. 1 of this year, the Affordable Care Act requires small-group plans to provide 10 “essential benefits.” Many employers renewed their plans late last year to avoid that costly requirement as long as possible. But as the months pass, these plans will expire — and employers will be tempted to drop coverage altogether, rather than pay for those costly added benefits.
And those dropped employees will be stuck with ObamaCare-exchange plans or no insurance at all.
Yet an exchange plan is a ripoff compared with what they’re losing.
On average, US workers with on-the-job individual coverage contribute $999 a year in pre-tax dollars and have a deductible of $1,135, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. On ObamaCare exchanges, all but the lowest earners will pay more (even after subsidies), pay with after-tax dollars, face deductibles of $3,000 to $5,000 for silver and bronze plans and lose access to many doctors and hospitals they’re covered for now.
How many people will this change clobber? Well, about 60 million Americans now get employer-provided insurance via small-group plans. Law firms and other high-end businesses are unlikely to drop coverage, but companies with lots of salespeople, receptionists and other lower-paid workers will say they can’t afford Washington’s “one size fits all” requirement — which, the Heritage Foundation reports, adds an estimated $1.79 an hour to the cost of a 40-hour worker (and more than $2 an hour in states like New York and New Jersey, where health care is more expensive).
Even the chance that ObamaCare’s “employer mandate” will go into effect in 2015 isn’t apt to deter employers from dropping coverage. The penalty for not complying with the mandate would add only 98 cents an hour for a 40-hour worker — a bargain compared with the $1.79 cost of providing coverage plus the enormous amount of red tape, reporting requirements and fees that ObamaCare piles on employers who provide coverage. In truth, the law discourages employers from insuring their workers, making it far easier and cheaper to send them to the exchanges.
That’s why the management consultants at McKinsey & Co. warned in 2011 that nearly a third of employers surveyed already were considering dropping coverage, with the figure rising among those familiar with the law’s requirements.
So a conservative estimate is that 25 million people, out of the 60 million in small group plans, get dropped in 2014. Add that to the 5 million or so whose individual-market already canceled on Jan. 1, and you have a lot of losers.
Indeed, it looks like ObamaCare will create twice as many losers as winners in 2014. The Congressional Budget Office projects that 16 million will gain coverage via the law’s Medicaid expansion (9 million) and subsidized exchange plans (7 million) — and even that’s rosier than the enrollment figures we’ve seen so far.
Thirty million losing insurance; 16 million gaining it. It’ll be hard for Democrats running for election this fall to defend a law that hurts twice as many people as it helps.
Betsy McCaughey is the author of “Beating Obamacare 2014.”
Despite that author’s “estimates,” we actually saw how many got dropped. The highest figure was 4.7 million. Nowhere near the 25 million you idiotically posted. And even that 4.7 million was contested as probably too high.
ObamaCare’s here to stay. You’re only chance to get rid of it expires in a month. And given your side failed to get rid of it in the last 2 years, there’s no hope you can now.
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The 5 million-plus Americans who’ve seen their health plans canceled thanks to ObamaCare will be joined by millions more this year — because the Affordable Care Act makes their employer-provided policies illegal, as well.
ObamaCare defenders are trying to minimize the coming pain. Jonathan Gruber, an architect of the law, told The Washington Post that the number of “losers” who will have to pay more for the same or inferior coverage will be “very, very small.” Nonsense. ObamaCare exchange plans — the only option for most people who lose on-the-job coverage — are a raw deal.
Yet millions will get dropped from employer-provided coverage over the course of this year and be stuck with that alternative.
Effective Jan. 1 of this year, the Affordable Care Act requires small-group plans to provide 10 “essential benefits.” Many employers renewed their plans late last year to avoid that costly requirement as long as possible. But as the months pass, these plans will expire — and employers will be tempted to drop coverage altogether, rather than pay for those costly added benefits.
And those dropped employees will be stuck with ObamaCare-exchange plans or no insurance at all.
Yet an exchange plan is a ripoff compared with what they’re losing.
On average, US workers with on-the-job individual coverage contribute $999 a year in pre-tax dollars and have a deductible of $1,135, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. On ObamaCare exchanges, all but the lowest earners will pay more (even after subsidies), pay with after-tax dollars, face deductibles of $3,000 to $5,000 for silver and bronze plans and lose access to many doctors and hospitals they’re covered for now.
How many people will this change clobber? Well, about 60 million Americans now get employer-provided insurance via small-group plans. Law firms and other high-end businesses are unlikely to drop coverage, but companies with lots of salespeople, receptionists and other lower-paid workers will say they can’t afford Washington’s “one size fits all” requirement — which, the Heritage Foundation reports, adds an estimated $1.79 an hour to the cost of a 40-hour worker (and more than $2 an hour in states like New York and New Jersey, where health care is more expensive).
Even the chance that ObamaCare’s “employer mandate” will go into effect in 2015 isn’t apt to deter employers from dropping coverage. The penalty for not complying with the mandate would add only 98 cents an hour for a 40-hour worker — a bargain compared with the $1.79 cost of providing coverage plus the enormous amount of red tape, reporting requirements and fees that ObamaCare piles on employers who provide coverage. In truth, the law discourages employers from insuring their workers, making it far easier and cheaper to send them to the exchanges.
That’s why the management consultants at McKinsey & Co. warned in 2011 that nearly a third of employers surveyed already were considering dropping coverage, with the figure rising among those familiar with the law’s requirements.
So a conservative estimate is that 25 million people, out of the 60 million in small group plans, get dropped in 2014. Add that to the 5 million or so whose individual-market already canceled on Jan. 1, and you have a lot of losers.
Indeed, it looks like ObamaCare will create twice as many losers as winners in 2014. The Congressional Budget Office projects that 16 million will gain coverage via the law’s Medicaid expansion (9 million) and subsidized exchange plans (7 million) — and even that’s rosier than the enrollment figures we’ve seen so far.
Thirty million losing insurance; 16 million gaining it. It’ll be hard for Democrats running for election this fall to defend a law that hurts twice as many people as it helps.
Betsy McCaughey is the author of “Beating Obamacare 2014.”
LOLOLIt now looks like ObamaCare will hurt twice as many people as it helps — because the law isn’t nearly done with canceling people’s insurance.Oh, no’s! A brain-dead conservative quoting another conservative who’s agsinst ObamaCare.LOLOLWas this intended for me?
Learn how to properly utilize the quote feature, ya moron. Surely, it’s not too difficult, even for someone like you, to figure out?
As far as my 275 million figure — I never said that’s how many are on ObamaCare. That was an estimate I threw out of how many people were insured; from which, a few million lost their health insurance.
Thanks for proving you’re just another brain-dead conservative who can’t comprehend what he reads. A dime a dozen around here.[/ QUOTE]
Yawning, a few million lost their insurance 3 million of 20 million is 15 percent.
Learn some math girl, its not really that hard.
Funny how you think everyone insured has boobcare
I see you still can’t figure out how to properly use the quote function. Reveals plenty about you.
And no, it wasn’t 3 million out of 20 million who lost their insurance; it was about 3 million out of about 275 million who did. The other 99% kept their insurance.
Are you really a psycho, or what
It now looks like ObamaCare will hurt twice as many people as it helps — because the law isn’t nearly done with canceling people’s insurance.
The 5 million-plus Americans who’ve seen their health plans canceled thanks to ObamaCare will be joined by millions more this year — because the Affordable Care Act makes their employer-provided policies illegal, as well.
ObamaCare defenders are trying to minimize the coming pain. Jonathan Gruber, an architect of the law, told The Washington Post that the number of “losers” who will have to pay more for the same or inferior coverage will be “very, very small.” Nonsense. ObamaCare exchange plans — the only option for most people who lose on-the-job coverage — are a raw deal.
Yet millions will get dropped from employer-provided coverage over the course of this year and be stuck with that alternative.
Effective Jan. 1 of this year, the Affordable Care Act requires small-group plans to provide 10 “essential benefits.” Many employers renewed their plans late last year to avoid that costly requirement as long as possible. But as the months pass, these plans will expire — and employers will be tempted to drop coverage altogether, rather than pay for those costly added benefits.
And those dropped employees will be stuck with ObamaCare-exchange plans or no insurance at all.
Yet an exchange plan is a ripoff compared with what they’re losing.
On average, US workers with on-the-job individual coverage contribute $999 a year in pre-tax dollars and have a deductible of $1,135, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. On ObamaCare exchanges, all but the lowest earners will pay more (even after subsidies), pay with after-tax dollars, face deductibles of $3,000 to $5,000 for silver and bronze plans and lose access to many doctors and hospitals they’re covered for now.
How many people will this change clobber? Well, about 60 million Americans now get employer-provided insurance via small-group plans. Law firms and other high-end businesses are unlikely to drop coverage, but companies with lots of salespeople, receptionists and other lower-paid workers will say they can’t afford Washington’s “one size fits all” requirement — which, the Heritage Foundation reports, adds an estimated $1.79 an hour to the cost of a 40-hour worker (and more than $2 an hour in states like New York and New Jersey, where health care is more expensive).
Even the chance that ObamaCare’s “employer mandate” will go into effect in 2015 isn’t apt to deter employers from dropping coverage. The penalty for not complying with the mandate would add only 98 cents an hour for a 40-hour worker — a bargain compared with the $1.79 cost of providing coverage plus the enormous amount of red tape, reporting requirements and fees that ObamaCare piles on employers who provide coverage. In truth, the law discourages employers from insuring their workers, making it far easier and cheaper to send them to the exchanges.
That’s why the management consultants at McKinsey & Co. warned in 2011 that nearly a third of employers surveyed already were considering dropping coverage, with the figure rising among those familiar with the law’s requirements.
So a conservative estimate is that 25 million people, out of the 60 million in small group plans, get dropped in 2014. Add that to the 5 million or so whose individual-market already canceled on Jan. 1, and you have a lot of losers.
Indeed, it looks like ObamaCare will create twice as many losers as winners in 2014. The Congressional Budget Office projects that 16 million will gain coverage via the law’s Medicaid expansion (9 million) and subsidized exchange plans (7 million) — and even that’s rosier than the enrollment figures we’ve seen so far.
Thirty million losing insurance; 16 million gaining it. It’ll be hard for Democrats running for election this fall to defend a law that hurts twice as many people as it helps.
Betsy McCaughey is the author of “Beating Obamacare 2014.”
Despite that author’s “estimates,” we actually saw how many got dropped. The highest figure was 4.7 million. Nowhere near the 25 million you idiotically posted. And even that 4.7 million was contested as probably too high.
ObamaCare’s here to stay. You’re only chance to get rid of it expires in a month. And given your side failed to get rid of it in the last 2 years, there’s no hope you can now.
![]()
The 5 million-plus Americans who’ve seen their health plans canceled thanks to ObamaCare will be joined by millions more this year — because the Affordable Care Act makes their employer-provided policies illegal, as well.
ObamaCare defenders are trying to minimize the coming pain. Jonathan Gruber, an architect of the law, told The Washington Post that the number of “losers” who will have to pay more for the same or inferior coverage will be “very, very small.” Nonsense. ObamaCare exchange plans — the only option for most people who lose on-the-job coverage — are a raw deal.
Yet millions will get dropped from employer-provided coverage over the course of this year and be stuck with that alternative.
Effective Jan. 1 of this year, the Affordable Care Act requires small-group plans to provide 10 “essential benefits.” Many employers renewed their plans late last year to avoid that costly requirement as long as possible. But as the months pass, these plans will expire — and employers will be tempted to drop coverage altogether, rather than pay for those costly added benefits.
And those dropped employees will be stuck with ObamaCare-exchange plans or no insurance at all.
Yet an exchange plan is a ripoff compared with what they’re losing.
On average, US workers with on-the-job individual coverage contribute $999 a year in pre-tax dollars and have a deductible of $1,135, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. On ObamaCare exchanges, all but the lowest earners will pay more (even after subsidies), pay with after-tax dollars, face deductibles of $3,000 to $5,000 for silver and bronze plans and lose access to many doctors and hospitals they’re covered for now.
How many people will this change clobber? Well, about 60 million Americans now get employer-provided insurance via small-group plans. Law firms and other high-end businesses are unlikely to drop coverage, but companies with lots of salespeople, receptionists and other lower-paid workers will say they can’t afford Washington’s “one size fits all” requirement — which, the Heritage Foundation reports, adds an estimated $1.79 an hour to the cost of a 40-hour worker (and more than $2 an hour in states like New York and New Jersey, where health care is more expensive).
Even the chance that ObamaCare’s “employer mandate” will go into effect in 2015 isn’t apt to deter employers from dropping coverage. The penalty for not complying with the mandate would add only 98 cents an hour for a 40-hour worker — a bargain compared with the $1.79 cost of providing coverage plus the enormous amount of red tape, reporting requirements and fees that ObamaCare piles on employers who provide coverage. In truth, the law discourages employers from insuring their workers, making it far easier and cheaper to send them to the exchanges.
That’s why the management consultants at McKinsey & Co. warned in 2011 that nearly a third of employers surveyed already were considering dropping coverage, with the figure rising among those familiar with the law’s requirements.
So a conservative estimate is that 25 million people, out of the 60 million in small group plans, get dropped in 2014. Add that to the 5 million or so whose individual-market already canceled on Jan. 1, and you have a lot of losers.
Indeed, it looks like ObamaCare will create twice as many losers as winners in 2014. The Congressional Budget Office projects that 16 million will gain coverage via the law’s Medicaid expansion (9 million) and subsidized exchange plans (7 million) — and even that’s rosier than the enrollment figures we’ve seen so far.
Thirty million losing insurance; 16 million gaining it. It’ll be hard for Democrats running for election this fall to defend a law that hurts twice as many people as it helps.
Betsy McCaughey is the author of “Beating Obamacare 2014.”
Aww... you poor thing, bless your heart... you’re stuck on stupid.![]()
”Because her rent was more than she earned.”Because her rent was more than she earned...………..Why do we care what she made last year?
Why do fools care what Trump earned in any year.
Think
Repeating bullshit is nothing more than .... repeating bullshit.LOLOLIt now looks like ObamaCare will hurt twice as many people as it helps — because the law isn’t nearly done with canceling people’s insurance.Oh, no’s! A brain-dead conservative quoting another conservative who’s agsinst ObamaCare.LOLOL
I see you still can’t figure out how to properly use the quote function. Reveals plenty about you.
And no, it wasn’t 3 million out of 20 million who lost their insurance; it was about 3 million out of about 275 million who did. The other 99% kept their insurance.
Are you really a psycho, or what
It now looks like ObamaCare will hurt twice as many people as it helps — because the law isn’t nearly done with canceling people’s insurance.
The 5 million-plus Americans who’ve seen their health plans canceled thanks to ObamaCare will be joined by millions more this year — because the Affordable Care Act makes their employer-provided policies illegal, as well.
ObamaCare defenders are trying to minimize the coming pain. Jonathan Gruber, an architect of the law, told The Washington Post that the number of “losers” who will have to pay more for the same or inferior coverage will be “very, very small.” Nonsense. ObamaCare exchange plans — the only option for most people who lose on-the-job coverage — are a raw deal.
Yet millions will get dropped from employer-provided coverage over the course of this year and be stuck with that alternative.
Effective Jan. 1 of this year, the Affordable Care Act requires small-group plans to provide 10 “essential benefits.” Many employers renewed their plans late last year to avoid that costly requirement as long as possible. But as the months pass, these plans will expire — and employers will be tempted to drop coverage altogether, rather than pay for those costly added benefits.
And those dropped employees will be stuck with ObamaCare-exchange plans or no insurance at all.
Yet an exchange plan is a ripoff compared with what they’re losing.
On average, US workers with on-the-job individual coverage contribute $999 a year in pre-tax dollars and have a deductible of $1,135, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. On ObamaCare exchanges, all but the lowest earners will pay more (even after subsidies), pay with after-tax dollars, face deductibles of $3,000 to $5,000 for silver and bronze plans and lose access to many doctors and hospitals they’re covered for now.
How many people will this change clobber? Well, about 60 million Americans now get employer-provided insurance via small-group plans. Law firms and other high-end businesses are unlikely to drop coverage, but companies with lots of salespeople, receptionists and other lower-paid workers will say they can’t afford Washington’s “one size fits all” requirement — which, the Heritage Foundation reports, adds an estimated $1.79 an hour to the cost of a 40-hour worker (and more than $2 an hour in states like New York and New Jersey, where health care is more expensive).
Even the chance that ObamaCare’s “employer mandate” will go into effect in 2015 isn’t apt to deter employers from dropping coverage. The penalty for not complying with the mandate would add only 98 cents an hour for a 40-hour worker — a bargain compared with the $1.79 cost of providing coverage plus the enormous amount of red tape, reporting requirements and fees that ObamaCare piles on employers who provide coverage. In truth, the law discourages employers from insuring their workers, making it far easier and cheaper to send them to the exchanges.
That’s why the management consultants at McKinsey & Co. warned in 2011 that nearly a third of employers surveyed already were considering dropping coverage, with the figure rising among those familiar with the law’s requirements.
So a conservative estimate is that 25 million people, out of the 60 million in small group plans, get dropped in 2014. Add that to the 5 million or so whose individual-market already canceled on Jan. 1, and you have a lot of losers.
Indeed, it looks like ObamaCare will create twice as many losers as winners in 2014. The Congressional Budget Office projects that 16 million will gain coverage via the law’s Medicaid expansion (9 million) and subsidized exchange plans (7 million) — and even that’s rosier than the enrollment figures we’ve seen so far.
Thirty million losing insurance; 16 million gaining it. It’ll be hard for Democrats running for election this fall to defend a law that hurts twice as many people as it helps.
Betsy McCaughey is the author of “Beating Obamacare 2014.”
Despite that author’s “estimates,” we actually saw how many got dropped. The highest figure was 4.7 million. Nowhere near the 25 million you idiotically posted. And even that 4.7 million was contested as probably too high.
ObamaCare’s here to stay. You’re only chance to get rid of it expires in a month. And given your side failed to get rid of it in the last 2 years, there’s no hope you can now.
![]()
The 5 million-plus Americans who’ve seen their health plans canceled thanks to ObamaCare will be joined by millions more this year — because the Affordable Care Act makes their employer-provided policies illegal, as well.
ObamaCare defenders are trying to minimize the coming pain. Jonathan Gruber, an architect of the law, told The Washington Post that the number of “losers” who will have to pay more for the same or inferior coverage will be “very, very small.” Nonsense. ObamaCare exchange plans — the only option for most people who lose on-the-job coverage — are a raw deal.
Yet millions will get dropped from employer-provided coverage over the course of this year and be stuck with that alternative.
Effective Jan. 1 of this year, the Affordable Care Act requires small-group plans to provide 10 “essential benefits.” Many employers renewed their plans late last year to avoid that costly requirement as long as possible. But as the months pass, these plans will expire — and employers will be tempted to drop coverage altogether, rather than pay for those costly added benefits.
And those dropped employees will be stuck with ObamaCare-exchange plans or no insurance at all.
Yet an exchange plan is a ripoff compared with what they’re losing.
On average, US workers with on-the-job individual coverage contribute $999 a year in pre-tax dollars and have a deductible of $1,135, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. On ObamaCare exchanges, all but the lowest earners will pay more (even after subsidies), pay with after-tax dollars, face deductibles of $3,000 to $5,000 for silver and bronze plans and lose access to many doctors and hospitals they’re covered for now.
How many people will this change clobber? Well, about 60 million Americans now get employer-provided insurance via small-group plans. Law firms and other high-end businesses are unlikely to drop coverage, but companies with lots of salespeople, receptionists and other lower-paid workers will say they can’t afford Washington’s “one size fits all” requirement — which, the Heritage Foundation reports, adds an estimated $1.79 an hour to the cost of a 40-hour worker (and more than $2 an hour in states like New York and New Jersey, where health care is more expensive).
Even the chance that ObamaCare’s “employer mandate” will go into effect in 2015 isn’t apt to deter employers from dropping coverage. The penalty for not complying with the mandate would add only 98 cents an hour for a 40-hour worker — a bargain compared with the $1.79 cost of providing coverage plus the enormous amount of red tape, reporting requirements and fees that ObamaCare piles on employers who provide coverage. In truth, the law discourages employers from insuring their workers, making it far easier and cheaper to send them to the exchanges.
That’s why the management consultants at McKinsey & Co. warned in 2011 that nearly a third of employers surveyed already were considering dropping coverage, with the figure rising among those familiar with the law’s requirements.
So a conservative estimate is that 25 million people, out of the 60 million in small group plans, get dropped in 2014. Add that to the 5 million or so whose individual-market already canceled on Jan. 1, and you have a lot of losers.
Indeed, it looks like ObamaCare will create twice as many losers as winners in 2014. The Congressional Budget Office projects that 16 million will gain coverage via the law’s Medicaid expansion (9 million) and subsidized exchange plans (7 million) — and even that’s rosier than the enrollment figures we’ve seen so far.
Thirty million losing insurance; 16 million gaining it. It’ll be hard for Democrats running for election this fall to defend a law that hurts twice as many people as it helps.
Betsy McCaughey is the author of “Beating Obamacare 2014.”
Aww... you poor thing, bless your heart... you’re stuck on stupid.![]()
It now looks like ObamaCare will hurt twice as many people as it helps — because the law isn’t nearly done with canceling people’s insurance.
The 5 million-plus Americans who’ve seen their health plans canceled thanks to ObamaCare will be joined by millions more this year — because the Affordable Care Act makes their employer-provided policies illegal, as well.
ObamaCare defenders are trying to minimize the coming pain. Jonathan Gruber, an architect of the law, told The Washington Post that the number of “losers” who will have to pay more for the same or inferior coverage will be “very, very small.” Nonsense. ObamaCare exchange plans — the only option for most people who lose on-the-job coverage — are a raw deal.
Yet millions will get dropped from employer-provided coverage over the course of this year and be stuck with that alternative.
Effective Jan. 1 of this year, the Affordable Care Act requires small-group plans to provide 10 “essential benefits.” Many employers renewed their plans late last year to avoid that costly requirement as long as possible. But as the months pass, these plans will expire — and employers will be tempted to drop coverage altogether, rather than pay for those costly added benefits.
And those dropped employees will be stuck with ObamaCare-exchange plans or no insurance at all.
Yet an exchange plan is a ripoff compared with what they’re losing.
On average, US workers with on-the-job individual coverage contribute $999 a year in pre-tax dollars and have a deductible of $1,135, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. On ObamaCare exchanges, all but the lowest earners will pay more (even after subsidies), pay with after-tax dollars, face deductibles of $3,000 to $5,000 for silver and bronze plans and lose access to many doctors and hospitals they’re covered for now.
How many people will this change clobber? Well, about 60 million Americans now get employer-provided insurance via small-group plans. Law firms and other high-end businesses are unlikely to drop coverage, but companies with lots of salespeople, receptionists and other lower-paid workers will say they can’t afford Washington’s “one size fits all” requirement — which, the Heritage Foundation reports, adds an estimated $1.79 an hour to the cost of a 40-hour worker (and more than $2 an hour in states like New York and New Jersey, where health care is more expensive).
Even the chance that ObamaCare’s “employer mandate” will go into effect in 2015 isn’t apt to deter employers from dropping coverage. The penalty for not complying with the mandate would add only 98 cents an hour for a 40-hour worker — a bargain compared with the $1.79 cost of providing coverage plus the enormous amount of red tape, reporting requirements and fees that ObamaCare piles on employers who provide coverage. In truth, the law discourages employers from insuring their workers, making it far easier and cheaper to send them to the exchanges.
That’s why the management consultants at McKinsey & Co. warned in 2011 that nearly a third of employers surveyed already were considering dropping coverage, with the figure rising among those familiar with the law’s requirements.
So a conservative estimate is that 25 million people, out of the 60 million in small group plans, get dropped in 2014. Add that to the 5 million or so whose individual-market already canceled on Jan. 1, and you have a lot of losers.
Indeed, it looks like ObamaCare will create twice as many losers as winners in 2014. The Congressional Budget Office projects that 16 million will gain coverage via the law’s Medicaid expansion (9 million) and subsidized exchange plans (7 million) — and even that’s rosier than the enrollment figures we’ve seen so far.
Thirty million losing insurance; 16 million gaining it. It’ll be hard for Democrats running for election this fall to defend a law that hurts twice as many people as it helps.
Well sure, but I am right, and they are wrong. So, I'm good.Do you have any idea how idiotic you sound? How retarded would it sound if you leftard regressives actually came out and said that you hate Trump because, "white Republican male"?
I have a link to this but this site will not allow me to prove what I say
If we can prove that she did not report her real income she can be impeached easily as the democrats want her around less then the GOP that finds her humorous
/---/ Her hometown was posted on the net until she was called out for her poor upbringing. She represents the 14th District and Parkchester is part of it. Rents there are about $2,700 a month. If you know what part of the 14th district she lives in, tell us so we can research the rents.The average rent for a Manhattan apartment is 3667 dollars per month or 44004 dollars per year.
Does she live in Manhattan? I believe lives in the Bronx and worked in Manhattan.
Actually in order for you to call me a liar, you would need to know her rent. Furthermore what you are saying is that her rent was less than 26000 which puts her in a rent controlled rat and roach infested room over a bodega.”Because her rent was more than she earned.”Because her rent was more than she earned...………..Why do we care what she made last year?
Why do fools care what Trump earned in any year.
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No, it wasn’t. You’re a liar.
And like I always say, if rightards didn’t lie they’d have nothing at all to say.