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Mr. Small Government wants there to be laws banning two specific individuals from having health insurance.
What happened to all of the doom and gloom economic threads?
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Mr. Small Government wants there to be laws banning two specific individuals from having health insurance.
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stop being a jackass
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DNC Chief Wasserman Schultz: My Aides Are On The Brink of Starvation…
Why do I get the feeling she’s stretching the truth?
Via Fox Nation:
On Tuesday, FL Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and her colleague VA Rep. Jim Moran openly whined about the impacts of spending cuts on their personal office budgets. Moran fretted that, with the looming sequester cuts, he may have to cut one staffer from his office. Wasserman Schultz upped his ante, however. She, almost literally, suggested that her staff were on the brink of starvation, due to the cuts.
Speaking at a hearing of the House Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee, Wasserman Schultz worried that prices of meals in House restaurants are getting so high that aides are being “priced out” of a good meal.
At the carry-out cafe in the Cannon Office Building, where Wasserman Schultz has her office, you can get an 8oz bowl of Ham and Bean soup for $2. You can buy gourmet sandwiches and wraps for around $5. Both of these are cheaper than I can get at delis down the street from my house.
Why do I get the feeling she’s stretching the truth?
Via Fox Nation:
On Tuesday, FL Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz and her colleague VA Rep. Jim Moran openly whined about the impacts of spending cuts on their personal office budgets. Moran fretted that, with the looming sequester cuts, he may have to cut one staffer from his office. Wasserman Schultz upped his ante, however. She, almost literally, suggested that her staff were on the brink of starvation, due to the cuts.
Speaking at a hearing of the House Legislative Branch Appropriations Subcommittee, Wasserman Schultz worried that prices of meals in House restaurants are getting so high that aides are being “priced out” of a good meal.
At the carry-out cafe in the Cannon Office Building, where Wasserman Schultz has her office, you can get an 8oz bowl of Ham and Bean soup for $2. You can buy gourmet sandwiches and wraps for around $5. Both of these are cheaper than I can get at delis down the street from my house.
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Good News: Health Insurance Companies Privately Warning Premiums Could Jump By As Much As 116% Because Of Obamacare…
Once Obamacare has fully kicked in and Americans are slapped out of their stupor we should be able to bludgeon Democrats with it in 2014 and 2016.
Via WSJ:
Health insurers are privately warning brokers that premiums for many individuals and small businesses could increase sharply next year because of the health-care overhaul law, with the nation’s biggest firm projecting that rates could more than double for some consumers buying their own plans.
The projections, made in sessions with brokers and agents, provide some of the most concrete evidence yet of how much insurance companies might increase prices when major provisions of the law kick in next year—a subject of rigorous debate.
The projected increases are at odds with what the Obama Administration says consumers should be expecting overall in terms of cost. The Department of Health and Human Services says that the law will “make health-care coverage more affordable and accessible,” pointing to a 2009 analysis by the Congressional Budget Office that says average individual premiums, on an apples-to-apples basis, would be lower.
The gulf between the pricing talk from some insurers and the government projections suggests how complicated the law’s effects will be. Carriers will be filing proposed prices with regulators over the next few months.
Part of the murkiness stems from the role of government subsidies. Federal subsidies under the health law will help lower-income consumers defray costs, but they are generally not included in insurers’ premium projections. Many consumers will be getting more generous plans because of new requirements in the law. The effects of the law will vary widely, and insurers and other analysts agree that some consumers and small businesses will likely see premiums go down. [...]
In a private presentation to brokers late last month, UnitedHealth Group Inc., the nation’s largest carrier, said premiums for some consumers buying their own plans could go up as much as 116%, and small-business rates as much as 25% to 50%. The company said the estimates were driven in part by growing medical costs not directly tied to the law. It also cited the law’s requirements that health status not affect rates and that plans include certain minimum benefits and limits to out-of-pocket charges, among other things.
Once Obamacare has fully kicked in and Americans are slapped out of their stupor we should be able to bludgeon Democrats with it in 2014 and 2016.
Via WSJ:
Health insurers are privately warning brokers that premiums for many individuals and small businesses could increase sharply next year because of the health-care overhaul law, with the nation’s biggest firm projecting that rates could more than double for some consumers buying their own plans.
The projections, made in sessions with brokers and agents, provide some of the most concrete evidence yet of how much insurance companies might increase prices when major provisions of the law kick in next year—a subject of rigorous debate.
The projected increases are at odds with what the Obama Administration says consumers should be expecting overall in terms of cost. The Department of Health and Human Services says that the law will “make health-care coverage more affordable and accessible,” pointing to a 2009 analysis by the Congressional Budget Office that says average individual premiums, on an apples-to-apples basis, would be lower.
The gulf between the pricing talk from some insurers and the government projections suggests how complicated the law’s effects will be. Carriers will be filing proposed prices with regulators over the next few months.
Part of the murkiness stems from the role of government subsidies. Federal subsidies under the health law will help lower-income consumers defray costs, but they are generally not included in insurers’ premium projections. Many consumers will be getting more generous plans because of new requirements in the law. The effects of the law will vary widely, and insurers and other analysts agree that some consumers and small businesses will likely see premiums go down. [...]
In a private presentation to brokers late last month, UnitedHealth Group Inc., the nation’s largest carrier, said premiums for some consumers buying their own plans could go up as much as 116%, and small-business rates as much as 25% to 50%. The company said the estimates were driven in part by growing medical costs not directly tied to the law. It also cited the law’s requirements that health status not affect rates and that plans include certain minimum benefits and limits to out-of-pocket charges, among other things.
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Dems Against Terminating Federal Employees Who Owe Taxes....But of course
One would think Dems would want that revenue
(Daily Caller) Citing figures indicating that more than 100,000 federal employees owe more than $1 billion in federal taxes, a House committee on Wednesday approved legislation that would require the firing of government workers who are “seriously tax delinquent.” (snip)
The Federal Employee Tax Accountability Act of 2013 requires the termination of employment for tax delinquent federal employees, while also prohibiting the hiring of new federal employees with a substantial amount of delinquent tax debt.
Well, it’s not like there is an agency responsible for dealing with collecting taxes.
Democrats on the committee opposed the bill. Maryland Rep. Elijah Cummings, the ranking member on the committee, said the legislation “seeks to demonize federal employees rather than ensure their compliance with tax obligations.”
Yeah, he went all whiny bitch. Of course, what the legislation is really meant to do is not go after some low level worker, who will certainly engage the interest of the IRS, but the people who work for Congress, the White House, and are highly paid and in important positions.
in my best NIGGER CURRY voice
"Oh look, REPOZ wasn't MORE rules and REGULATIONS"!
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You want us to believe that you're using a spell checker?in my best N***ER CURRY voice
"Oh look, REPOZ wasn't MORE rules and REGULATIONS"!
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OBAMACARE: 6 in 10 physicians will retire earlier than planned...
Official: 'Let's just make sure it's not a third-world experience'...
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Obamacare official: “Let’s just make sure it’s not a third-world experience”
The idea of regulated insurance exchanges, on which eligible individuals can use government subsidies to purchase insurance coverage, is central to the law. By 2023, the Congressional Budget Office projects that 25 million Americans will obtain coverage through the exchanges.
As originally pitched, the exchanges were to be easy to use — like Expedia or Orbitz for health insurance — allowing users to fill out basic information, have the government database verify their eligibility, and then enable them to choose among competing plans.
But achieving this has been proving to be a huge hurdle. The exchanges are supposed to be available for open enrollment by Oct. 1 and benefits are supposed to kick in on January 1. Also adding to the workload — 26 states have chosen to let the federal government set up their exchanges.
The CQ article also quotes Gary Cohen, director of the federal Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, as conceding that the exchanges may not be fully functional in all 50 states in time. “I think it’s only prudent to not assume everything is going to work perfectly on day one and to make sure that we’ve got plans in place to address things that may happen,” Cohen said
Official: 'Let's just make sure it's not a third-world experience'...
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Obamacare official: “Let’s just make sure it’s not a third-world experience”
The idea of regulated insurance exchanges, on which eligible individuals can use government subsidies to purchase insurance coverage, is central to the law. By 2023, the Congressional Budget Office projects that 25 million Americans will obtain coverage through the exchanges.
As originally pitched, the exchanges were to be easy to use — like Expedia or Orbitz for health insurance — allowing users to fill out basic information, have the government database verify their eligibility, and then enable them to choose among competing plans.
But achieving this has been proving to be a huge hurdle. The exchanges are supposed to be available for open enrollment by Oct. 1 and benefits are supposed to kick in on January 1. Also adding to the workload — 26 states have chosen to let the federal government set up their exchanges.
The CQ article also quotes Gary Cohen, director of the federal Center for Consumer Information and Insurance Oversight, as conceding that the exchanges may not be fully functional in all 50 states in time. “I think it’s only prudent to not assume everything is going to work perfectly on day one and to make sure that we’ve got plans in place to address things that may happen,” Cohen said
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TAXES ARE FOR THE LITTLE PEOPLE: Hey, what if we fired federal employees seriously delinquent on taxes? Democrats: Nah. “The bill offers exceptions for those employees and applicants demonstrating financial hardship and making good faith efforts to settle up. You’d think our friends in the fair share party would be all over this, but it turns out they only like to demonize people who are already paying their taxes. Asking the bare minimum of federal employees isn’t their bag.”
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SEE? Questor?
No
I SEE BULLSHIT
NIH Posts New Job Opening For $105K-$136K Per Year Position Despite Warning $1.6 Billion In Sequester Cuts Would Cripple Agency…
Less than a month ago the NIH was making dire warnings like this:
In a call with reporters Monday, Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said the NIH was bracing for about $1.6 billion in cuts as a result of the sequester, affecting research into such diseases as cancer, influenza and Alzheimer’s disease.
Hundreds of research grants would go unfunded, he said, and some 20,000 highly skilled workers would lose their jobs. He also expects to have to turn away patients from the NIH’s clinical center, which allows people who have exhausted their treatment options to participate in clinical trials.
“I am a bit disheartened about this,” Collins said. “It is a paradoxical thing that we are both at a time of remarkable and almost unprecedented scientific opportunity, and we‘re also at a time in the United States of unprecedented threat to the momentum of scientific progress.”
No
I SEE BULLSHIT
NIH Posts New Job Opening For $105K-$136K Per Year Position Despite Warning $1.6 Billion In Sequester Cuts Would Cripple Agency…
Less than a month ago the NIH was making dire warnings like this:
In a call with reporters Monday, Francis S. Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, said the NIH was bracing for about $1.6 billion in cuts as a result of the sequester, affecting research into such diseases as cancer, influenza and Alzheimer’s disease.
Hundreds of research grants would go unfunded, he said, and some 20,000 highly skilled workers would lose their jobs. He also expects to have to turn away patients from the NIH’s clinical center, which allows people who have exhausted their treatment options to participate in clinical trials.
“I am a bit disheartened about this,” Collins said. “It is a paradoxical thing that we are both at a time of remarkable and almost unprecedented scientific opportunity, and we‘re also at a time in the United States of unprecedented threat to the momentum of scientific progress.”
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How is busybody not in a mental institution yet?
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another IDIOT!
you cant refute, cant defend with any intelligence the NIGGER, you attack a poster on a PORN BOARD
JACKASS
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Ironic troll is ironic.
Seriously though, when you go on a killing spree, they're going to wonder how you slipped through the cracks.
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C'mon Richard. You're better than quoting Busybody aren't you? It's painful enough that I have entire pages that are just his name but now I have to read a bit of him encase he somehow said something relevant? No fair.
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I think your AV gives you away.
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Cost Of VP Biden’s Hotel Stay For One Night In Paris On Our Dime? $585,000!
Meanwhile no WH tours for us to see “the people’s house” and Obama threatens the Easter egg roll. In a government gone crazy, where is the common sense?
Via The Weekly Standard:
As it turns out, Vice President Joe Biden’s London stay in February was not the most expensive part of his trip. A government document released on February 14, 2013 shows that the contract for the Hotel Intercontinental Paris Le Grand came in at $585,000.50.
The documentation for this contract is not as detailed as the London one, so the cost per room is not available. However, just like his London hotel, the Hotel Intercontinental Paris Le Grand is a five star hotel. Again, security concerns prevent these type of contracts from being open to bidding, but if the government was able to do some comparison shopping, the Hotel Intercontinental has a special offer, “Find a lower price elsewhere and your first night is free.” The Vice President stayed in Paris for one night.
Meanwhile no WH tours for us to see “the people’s house” and Obama threatens the Easter egg roll. In a government gone crazy, where is the common sense?
Via The Weekly Standard:
As it turns out, Vice President Joe Biden’s London stay in February was not the most expensive part of his trip. A government document released on February 14, 2013 shows that the contract for the Hotel Intercontinental Paris Le Grand came in at $585,000.50.
The documentation for this contract is not as detailed as the London one, so the cost per room is not available. However, just like his London hotel, the Hotel Intercontinental Paris Le Grand is a five star hotel. Again, security concerns prevent these type of contracts from being open to bidding, but if the government was able to do some comparison shopping, the Hotel Intercontinental has a special offer, “Find a lower price elsewhere and your first night is free.” The Vice President stayed in Paris for one night.
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how many WHITE KIDS from Kansas
could seen
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COLOREDCUNT and the 2 PROZZIES with that money?
To paraphrase you, "STFU asshole!"
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