Figures. Experts Say Job-Killing Obamacare May Actually Leave More Americans Without Insurance
Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, January 29, 2011, 7:43 AM
Experts now believe that Obamacare will actually leave more Americans without insurance than before the law was passed.
FOX News reported:
Meanwhile, the Obama administration has now tripled the number of waivers granted to employers who cannot meet with the requirements of the new law — from a little more than 200 to more than 700.
“Even the Obama administration is admitting by granting these waivers that they better make some exceptions or they’re going to have the unintended consequence of having more uninsured, not less,” according to Jim Capretta of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a former official in the White House Office of Management and Budget from 2001 to 2004.
John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis says “What’s happening is the federal government is trying to force workers to have a health insurance plan that’s more expensive than they or their employers can afford.”
The law now forces all plans to offer at least 750,000 dollars in annual benefits, but the administration has already granted waivers to McDonald’s and other low wage firms.
Goodman and others fear employers will just drop insurance altogether and pay the penalties, or hire fewer people.
“The cheapest thing for an employer not to do is not to hire people,” Goodman says, “to hire only temporary workers. To hire contract laborers. And then you get out from under the fines. You get out from under the mandates, but is that really where we want to go?”
Hundreds of entities from banks to church groups to school districts are saying they can’t live up to the law.
Michelle Malkin adds that the growing numbers of ObamaCare waivers alone prove it is unconstitutional: it violates the Equal Protection clause.
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Betsy Ross commented:
How is it possible for the Executive Branch to exempt people from a law? Doesn’t the Legislative Branch have some say in this? Is it even legal or constitutional to do such a thing?
The All Real Numbers Symbol commented:
Nice. No insurance. Thanks for nothing, Odummer.
Carbon Pootprint commented:
The Progs have a new motto. “Naked in America…….. We’ll leave you with nothing”
Get the Cloward and Piven hearings going.
Granny commented:
And what about all those many self-employed? Do WE get waivers? Because I can tell you right now that a goodly number of us cannot afford insurance that meets the government spec. Me, they’ll simply have to send to jail.
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forest commented:
“The cheapest thing for an employer not to do is not to hire people,”
No matter how many changes are made to that law, not hiring people will always be the best thing for companies to do.
burt commented:
Granny,
Once you are in jail, you will have government health care!
bg commented:
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Leave More Americans Without Insurance
knew that, as well as posted about it, long BEFORE they
shoved their UNREAD bill down “we the (fitb)’” throats..
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Radegunda commented:
Obamacare has dramatically pushed up the prices of insurance for people who have bought their own for years, so now there are many people worrying about where to find that extra money in their budgets.
The Democrats are robbing me. I detest them.
Radegunda commented:
Also, these results — higher premiums, people being force off their policies, fewer doctors, certain treatments becoming unavailable — are exactly what Republicans and Tea Partiers predicted, while the Dems all said we were crazy racist liars. Actually the Dems were lying, and they still are.
B commented:
Undermining capitalism and promoting immorality is the perfect storm to effect a marxist’s favorite word: crisis.
befuddled commented:
don’t worry folks, obama said that he will put all our grandmas on waivers. as long as it can be verified that she voted for obama and the democrats, she will get a waiver. as long as she doesn’t lose her waiver, she doesn’t have to worry about the death panels.
befuddled commented:
if you can afford insurance now, than you must be part of the evil rich people cabal obama and democrats keep referring too. most likely, you could probably afford to pay higher for the insurance you like,and therefore, as obama said correctly; you will be able to stay on your insurance plan. on an even brighter side, since you evil rich people wanted to pay more taxes anyways, now it will be government mandated that you spread your wealth around.
2012: together we thrive to work harder to pay for obama’s dream.
Oh Yuck commented:
No surprise. KKK Commie care = the govt stealing everything they can from you and then charging you a hefty fee for that service.
valerie commented:
OT – He can’t even keep the two different war schedules straight
http://www.politico.com/politico44/perm/0111/which_war_1b30bf17-d3fb-4af9-9e55-e5d78ca45073.html
How can we trust what he has to say about something complex?