Obama administration waives some insurance penalties
Low-income Americans whose states refuse to expand their Medicaid programs won't have to pay the penalty for failing to obtain health insurance, the Obama administration said Tuesday.
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius wrote in a letter to governors that if they opt out of the health care law's massive Medicaid expansion, their residents who would have been newly eligible for the low-income federal health program won't be subject to the individual mandate fine, according to the Associated Press. Read more....
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/jul/11/obama-administration-waives-some-insurance-penalti/
2 comments:
and what do they consider low income? Geeze, that would mean me and my husband for sure.
According to articles all over the internet, families making up t $90,000 "States will be compelled to set up vast new bureaucracies to check into our finances and families so they can hand out generous taxpayer subsidies for health insurance to families earning up to $90,000 a year."
In other words, 90,000 is now the new poor. This means they are finding ways to get everybody in the pool.
http://www.nationalreview.com/critical-condition/304361/top-ten-worst-things-obamacare-grace-marie-turner
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