{"id":43735,"date":"2014-07-22T13:10:17","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T19:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/22\/making-affordable-care-unaffordable.html"},"modified":"2014-07-22T14:01:18","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T20:01:18","slug":"making-affordable-care-unaffordable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/07\/22\/making-affordable-care-unaffordable.html","title":{"rendered":"Making Affordable Care Unaffordable"},"content":{"rendered":"
Oh, the irony that we make it more difficult the poor to get affordable coverage, because some individuals\u00a0didn't want the subsidies so that they<\/i> couldn't afford it and therefore could opt out because it would be an economic hardship. \u00a0No, not irony, insanity.<\/p>\n

Speaking of sanity, in a sane world, this wording hiccup would be easily solved through minor legislation. Given the GOP, that's simply impossible. Yay for finding a tax credit the GOP won't<\/i> vote for!<\/p>\n

This won't be over until, I suspect, SCOTUS rules on it. Another appeals court today ruled the opposite direction.\ufeff<\/p><\/div>\n

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Today’s Court Decision Might Make Health Insurance Unaffordable in the Poorest States<\/a>
\n Halbig v. Burwell threatens to undo the Obamacare subsidies that millions of people in more than half the country rely on to buy insurance.\n <\/p>\n

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Oh, the irony that we make it more difficult the poor to get affordable coverage, because some individuals\u00a0didn't want the subsidies so that they couldn't afford it and therefore could opt out because it would be an economic hardship. \u00a0No, not irony, insanity. Speaking of sanity, in a sane world, this wording hiccup would be … Continue reading “Making Affordable Care Unaffordable”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,134],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-health-care"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":129287,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2015\/12\/26\/meanwhile-the-affordable-care-act-continues-to-putter-along-successfully.html","url_meta":{"origin":43735,"position":0},"title":"Meanwhile, the Affordable Care Act continues to putter along successfully","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 26-Dec-15 12:01pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The ACA does keep coming up in political speeches from the GOP, but it's as more of a reflexive afterthought, something to criticize because of course you criticize it, but more from the principle of it being something That Man and His Democrats did than from any serious flaw.Meanwhile, GOP\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":132133,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/12\/01\/to-provide-fewer-human-services-for-health.html","url_meta":{"origin":43735,"position":1},"title":"To provide fewer Human Services for Health","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 1-Dec-16 7:02am","format":false,"excerpt":"Getting rid of the Affordable Care Act has been the top priority for the GOP since it was passed (heck, probably before that). 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