Even More Obamacare Follies

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Yeah, all that's needed is a PR campaign...

Just a PR problem? ObamaCare architect claims 'big PR campaign' needed | Fox News

But one of the architects of ObamaCare, in a heated interview on "Fox News Sunday," argued that the reason young people are not signing up in droves for coverage under the law is the administration hasn't promoted it.

Ezekiel Emanuel, a former health adviser to the president (and the brother of former White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel), argued the administration has been too caught up with fixing HealthCare.gov to give the law the proper promotional push.

"No one has launched a big PR campaign to get these people signed up because of the problems with the federal website," he told "Fox News Sunday." "We are about to launch a big PR campaign, and that, I think, is going to persuade a lot of people to sign up."
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Funny about the iPhone comment at the end of the article. I'm reasonably certain Apple wouldn't have rolled out a device that 10% of the population can't make phone calls on.
 
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watching the local news and they just had an item on how the ACA is requiring volunteer fire companies to provide health care for their volunteer fire fighters. seems the IRS considers them to be small businesses and is therefore requiring them to play by the aCa rules for small businesses with more than 50 members. We rely on volunteers in most pennsylvania towns and this could kill their budgets. one of our congressmen is trying to get them exempt through legislation, but it seems common sense should have told the IRS to exempt them already.
 
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YorkVol said:
watching the local news and they just had an item on how the ACA is requiring volunteer fire companies to provide health care for their volunteer fire fighters. seems the IRS considers them to be small businesses and is therefore requiring them to play by the aCa rules for small businesses with more than 50 members. We rely on volunteers in most pennsylvania towns and this could kill their budgets. one of our congressmen is trying to get them exempt through legislation, but it seems common sense should have told the IRS to exempt them already.
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There should be no exemptions.

People need to experience this bad law. Perhaps they wil then get their voting heads out of their asses.
 
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allvol123 said:
There should be no exemptions.

People need to experience this bad law. Perhaps they wil then get their voting heads out of their asses.
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I understand the sentiment and agree to an extent. However, treating volunteer fire companies like small businesses is stupid. They should fall into another category, like a 501C charity or something and be exempt from any taxes. I could see an annual filing to make sure they aren't defrauding the public, but other than that, leave them alone and let the train and fight fires.
 
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YorkVol said:
I understand the sentiment and agree to an extent. However, treating volunteer fire companies like small businesses is stupid. They should fall into another category, like a 501C charity or something and be exempt from any taxes. I could see an annual filing to make sure they aren't defrauding the public, but other than that, leave them alone and let the train and fight fires.
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Sadly enough this was more or less predicted when the ACA came about. Everyone was screaming about the small business portions of it and how it would kill jobs. But did anyone listen? No, the big bad Republicans are trying to HURT you by NOT passing the bill! And you don't need to know what's in it before it gets passed of course.

And getting the average voter to understand something beyond the next hour on X Factor is a trial in itself.

I hope the exemptions go through, but the standard line still remains...this was a bad law to begin with and the hidden portions just keep getting worse and worse.
 
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YorkVol said:
I understand the sentiment and agree to an extent. However, treating volunteer fire companies like small businesses is stupid. They should fall into another category, like a 501C charity or something and be exempt from any taxes. I could see an annual filing to make sure they aren't defrauding the public, but other than that, leave them alone and let the train and fight fires.
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I agree to an point however the pain needs to be felt before we can expect people to open their eyes and minds and pay attention.
 
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hog88 said:
I agree to an point however the pain needs to be felt before we can expect people to open their eyes and minds and pay attention.
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Somehow, when the pain happens, it will be spun as the republicans fault.
 
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Good read.

Obamacare exposes Republican hypocrisy on health care

This gets to a truth about Republican health-care policy ideas, which is that many of them are horrendously unpopular. That's not because they're bad ideas. There's a lot of merit to eliminating the tax break for employer-provided insurance and increasing deductibles on most insurance plans. But no one likes hearing that they should pay more out-of-pocket for health care. No one likes hearing that their plan is going to be among the ones canceled by newly cost-sensitive employers.

One option was for Republicans to build as many of their ideas into the Affordable Care Act and force Democrats to take partial responsibility for these hideously unpopular, but fairly reasonable, ideas. They didn't do that. Then Democrats picked some of the ideas up anyway. So Republicans again had a chance to focus their fire on the parts of the law they hated -- like the Medicaid expansion -- in the hopes of moving the health-care system in the direction they prefer. Instead, they're aiming at the least popular policies in the law -- which just so happen to also be the exactly policies that they support.
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Velo Vol said:
Good read.

Obamacare exposes Republican hypocrisy on health care
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LOL. Thanks for the laugh. This is just another attempt to deflect blame from the POS legislation that is the ACA. We've gone from Dems saying they can't wait to own this law and let the American people know we "fixed" healthcare to Dems (and their cheerleaders in the media) from trying to paste some blame onto the GOP.

The bill was passed with only Democratic votes. It was done behind locked doors, as to keep the GOP out! They didn't want any of their input.

The Dems own it, and Obama's name is attached to it. I laugh when I see pieces like this. Thanks for sharing.
 
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lawgator1 said:
Rubio joins Obamacare - Orlando Sentinel
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You realize if he didn't he'd have the media knocking themselves silly trying to break the story?

Here's the quote you fail to provide:

"He has enrolled through the DC exchange for coverage for him and his family. Senator Rubio is following the law, even though he opposes it," said the spokeswoman, Brooke Sammon.
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Velo Vol is trolling better than you are today.
 
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lawgator1 said:
He could pay the penalty. But he'd rather have the coverage. Hmmmmm ....
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Pay the penalty...and have the IRS audit him, his father and his family...probably find some EPA violation on his property...full monitoring of communications by the NSA (actually, this one is probably being done already)...

Shall I go on?
 
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I'll preempt the official Lawgator "posting of the useless gif" and give you this:

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