New blow to the US Affordable Care Act (Obamacare).
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The desire for affordable healthcare for all has caused many to cast a blind eye to the problems with Obamacare. To take just one example, Forbes has determined
Quote:3,137-County Analysis: Obamacare Increased 2014 Individual-Market Premiums By Average Of 49%
http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecar...age-of-49/


From a Wall Street Journal editorial:
Quote:Distinguishing between state and federal exchanges was no glitch or drafting error. In 2010 Democrats assumed that the unpopularity of ObamaCare would melt away and all states would run their own exchanges. Conditioning the subsidies was meant to pressure Governors to participate. To evade this language, the Internal Revenue Service simply pumped out a rule in 2012 dispensing the subsidies to all. The taxmen did not elaborate on niceties such as legal justification.
http://online.wsj.com/articles/upholding...1406070280

It appears that these subsidies that violate the letter of the law were issued in an attempt to disguise the increased cost of insurance created by Obamacare.

The way the law was originally crafted did not result from a flub to limit subsidies only to exchanges run by the States. Jonathan Gruber , a paid consultant, responsible for much of the crafting of Obamacare, made that clear on multiple occasions back in 2012. http://www.forbes.com/sites/theapothecar...exchanges/
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RE: New blow to the US Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). - by Alram - 07-26-2014, 05:36 AM

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