{"id":8298,"date":"2012-07-08T09:29:02","date_gmt":"2012-07-08T16:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=8298"},"modified":"2012-07-08T09:29:02","modified_gmt":"2012-07-08T16:29:02","slug":"republicans-plan-to-keep-you-uncovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/07\/08\/republicans-plan-to-keep-you-uncovered\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Plan to Keep YOU Uncovered"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have already discussed how Republicans are trying to create an Obamacare gap<\/a> by refusing Medicaid expansion funds to upgrade Medicaid to cover all under 133% of the federal poverty level.  This would create a coverage gap between the percentage at which red states cut off Medicaid eligibility (as low as 25% of federal poverty level) and 133%, when federal subsidies kick in.  If this was not bad enough for America, Republicans are now trying to deprive people in the states they control of federal health care subsidies for those over 133% of the poverty level.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"8HCR\"Critics of the new health care law, having lost one battle in the Supreme Court, are mounting a challenge to President Obama\u2019s interpretation of another important provision, under which the federal government will subsidize health insurance for millions of low- and middle-income people. Starting in 2014, the law requires most Americans to have health insurance. It also offers subsidies to help people pay for insurance bought through markets known as insurance exchanges. <\/p>\n

At issue is whether the subsidies will be available in exchanges set up and run by the federal government in states that fail or refuse to establish their own exchanges. <\/p>\n

Critics say the law allows subsidies only for people who obtain coverage through state-run exchanges. The White House says the law can be read to allow subsidies for people who get coverage in federal exchanges as well. <\/p>\n

The law says that \u201ceach state shall\u201d establish an exchange. But Washington could be running the exchanges in one-third to half of states, where local officials have been moving slowly or openly resisting the idea. <\/p>\n

The dispute has huge practical implications. The Congressional Budget Office predicts that 23 million uninsured people will gain coverage through exchanges and that all but five million of them will qualify for subsidies<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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This should not fly.  The intent of the law is clear.  States are required to set up exchanges.  The ability of the federal government to set up exchanges is provided only as a remedy to be used when states willfully violate the law.  The notion that a states residents may be punished by state governments, because those state governments refused to meet their legal obligations, is absurd.  Nevertheless, there is no depth to which Republicans will not stoop.<\/font><\/p>\n

Every penny Democrats spend on providing health care for worthy families<\/font><\/h6>\n
is a penny Republicans can\u2019t give to unworthy billionaires!<\/font><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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