Okay folks, I know you think
the C-Span Channel that broadcasts all those Congressional hearings is boring,
but, really, you should have been around to watch the Senate Finance Committee's
hearing Wednesday on the Affordable Health Care Insurance
Oversight.
Folks, you haven't seen so
many faces of misery since you watched Les Miserables for three and a half
hours...and they were all Democrats. And one of them, Senator Max Baucus, was
the primary sponsor of ObamaCare in the
Senate!
Now, try to follow me here
because this gets pretty complicated. (It seems that Nancy Pelosi was right; you
have to pass ObamaCare to find out what's in it...and the Democrats are now
learning what the Republicans warned them about. It's an unworkable mess that is
throwing millions of Americans off the health care
rolls!)
Okay, apparently, tens of
thousands of American employers began throwing workers off their health care
plans and opting to pay the much lower federal fine for not offering health care
for their workers. Thousands more are even now converting their full time
workers to part time workers by limiting working hours per week to less than 30,
in compliance with ObamaCare rules. (Remember when Paul Ryan and the Republicans
predicted employers would do this? Remember when Democrats were warned that
employers would move to save operating expenses by moving their entire work
force into federal healthcare
exchanges?)
Now, these workers who have
lost their health care benefits are busy trying to sign up for state health care
exchanges. (There are internet sites available if your state has agreed to sign
up to ObamaCare).
However, when these American
workers, soon to be without employee provided health care, go to the Health
Exchange to sign up, they are finding they are not qualified! It seems that
during the signup process, applicants are required to fill in various income and
benefit data, which then flows over to IRS computers who then are to spit out
what your premium costs will be and how much federal tax credits you'll receive
in order to receive subsidies to help you afford health care premiums that are
as much as 30% more than you were paying under your employer's
plan!
Big Problem! The IRS is only
allowing somewhere around 9% subsidy support for ObamaCare Health care Exchange
premiums that are priced so much higher than the worker was paying under his
employer plan!
(Surprise, Surprise!
Remember Republicans warning that forcing working Americans to pay for the 30
million tit suckers who pay nothing for their health care under Medicaid would
drive the premiums of working Americans
higher?)
Second Big Problem! The IRS
computers won't mate up with the Health Care Exchange computers because the IRS
computer system is obsolete! So when workers try to sign up for ObamaCare the
IRS and the Health Exchanges are telling applicants to go to
hell!
And so fireworks really
broke out at the Finance Committee hearings on ObamaCare yesterday afternoon.
Senator Max Baucus, (Dem), said... "How could this happen? I'm hearing from my
constituents that they and their families have been left out in the cold and are
without health care because the Exchanges are not accepting them!". Quote from
Senator Bill Nelson, (Dem), Florida "my constituents are not going to be happy
to hear this administration failed to implement the necessary changes to
accommodate health care applicants...someone has to pay for
this!"
Similar outrage was
professed by Senator Ron Wyden (Dem) from
Oregon.
Sadly, Obama Program
Director for the Health care Affordability Act was on hand to lend testimony.
All he could seem to do was sympathize with his Democratic buddies, saying that
maybe the problems could be ironed out by the end of 2014 but could offer no
ideas about how that could be done.
An Update! This morning a
Harvard economics professor came on CNBC and announced that, according to a
federal study his group just completed, the Health and Human Services Secretary
is going to be forced to come back to this same committee, hat in hand, and
request $700 billion dollars more be allocated to ObamaCare just to pay for
those automatically covered under current federal
programs.
Also, sadly, the Wall Street
Journal reported that, in addition to the 30 million Americans not currently
covered under ObamaCare, we can expect tens of millions more who will be left in
the "no health care Twilight Zone"; those who were doing just fine with their
employee health care plan until ObamaCare was implemented this year. And many of
those who were working 40 hour weeks will find themselves deemed "part time
employees" working less than 30 hours per week and unable to afford Obama's
premiums even if they could get through the application
process.
And, as usual, while the
working poor, and the rapidly declining middle class will be out in the cold
without any health care, the Medicaid/Welfare tit-suckers have no worry. They
are covered by that $700 billion dollar pot of gold Kathleen Sebelius, Secretary
of Health and Human Services will be demanding from Congress
soon!
Sad. Damned
Sad.
Lest we forget --- today,
like every other day, over 90 million, LAW ABIDING, AMERICAN GUN OWNERS have
murdered no one.
