The Truth Is Surfacing, And It Ain't Pretty!!]

"What a fine mess you've got us into, Ollie..."




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
Miserable’s 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 leeches 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 leeches 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!