LTC8K6

Nov 10 2014, 12:57 PM

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/11/gruber-strikes-again.php

Gruber strikes again

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Gruber expanded on the theme of deception:

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• In terms of risk rated subsidies, if you had a law which said that healthy people are going to pay in – you made explicit healthy people pay in and sick people get money, it would not have passed… Lack of transparency is a huge political advantage. And basically, call it the stupidity of the American voter or whatever, but basically that was really, really critical for the thing to pass.

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This term, Team Obama will insult the intelligence of the Supreme Court by claiming that (1) the Obamacare statute doesn’t mean what it plainly says because (2) no rationale can explain why the statute was written the way it was. Yet the obvious rationale for the statutory language has been supplied by Gruber, the key Obamacare architect

Mason

Nov 10 2014, 02:36 PM

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Notice how the CBO is just there to be taken advantage of, or are they really active participants in the scam?

I know they're a sham used by DEMS for a long, long time.

And the media speaks of them in glowing terms, yet they are always way off, conveniently.


http://www.cnbc.com/id/102169534


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...Federal officials on Monday sought to lower expectations for upcoming enrollment in Obamacare, announcing that they now believe that only between 9 million and 9.9 million people [from 13 million] will be enrolled in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans by the end of 2015.

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http://www.scotusblog.com/2014/11/symposium-king-v-burwell-a-simple-case/

Symposium: King v. Burwell – a simple case
By Patrick Wyrick

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• Patrick Wyrick is the Solicitor General of Oklahoma and among counsel to several states as amicus curiae urging review of King. He is also counsel in Oklahoma v. Burwell, the first case raising a challenge to this IRS rule.

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LTC8K6

Nov 10 2014, 12:57 PM

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/11/gruber-strikes-again.php

Gruber strikes again

MikeZPU

Nov 10 2014, 09:42 PM

LTC8K6

Nov 10 2014, 12:57 PM

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2014/11/gruber-strikes-again.php
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Gruber strikes again

This is gold.

This is what happens when Liberals forget they're being recorded
and think they are safely in the confines of their liberal-think bubble.

"The stupidity of the American voter" -- amazing that he said that.

Republicans need to take advantage of this comment in the next election.

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• (d) REQUIREMENTS.—
  
  (1) IN GENERAL.—An Exchange shall be a governmental agency or nonprofit entity that is established by a State.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/11/us/us-gives-modest-forecast-for-enrollments-under-health-law.html

Estimate of Health Coverage Enrollment Leaves Room to Grow

The Obama administration on Monday offered a surprisingly modest estimate of the number of people who would sign up for health insurance in the second round of open enrollment, which begins on Saturday.

Sylvia Mathews Burwell, the secretary of health and human services, said she was working on the assumption that a total of 9.1 million people would have such coverage at the end of next year.

By contrast, the Congressional Budget Office had estimated that 13 million people would be enrolled next year, with the total rising to 24 million in 2016. In the past, the White House has used the budget office numbers as a benchmark for success under the Affordable Care Act.

The new estimate appeared to be part of an effort by federal officials to lower public expectations...

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President Obama announced in April that eight million people had signed up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act. Officials said Monday that enrollment had declined to 7.1 million after some people failed to pay their share of premiums and others were found to be ineligible because of unresolved questions about their citizenship or immigration status.

The Department of Health and Human Services estimated that enrollment, including renewals and new customers, would reach 10 million to 11 million by the end of the three-month sign-up period, which closes on Feb. 15.

However, if Ms. Burwell is right, the number would shrink to 9.1 million people at the end of next year. That would still be a 28 percent increase over the number believed to have marketplace coverage today.

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In making their estimates, federal health officials said, they assumed that 83 percent of the people with marketplace coverage — 5.9 million of the 7.1 million people in “qualified health plans” — would renew their coverage.

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Senator John Barrasso of Wyoming, the chairman of the Senate Republican Policy Committee, said that people were skeptical of the law and “aren’t signing up because they realize it’s not a good deal for them.”

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http://online.wsj.com/articles/health-law-enrollment-in-2015-wont-meet-forecast-1415666606

...Officials also say that the CBO had assumed more people would lose employer coverage and wind up using the exchanges, and that hasn’t turned out to be the case.

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A new window-shopping tool on the federal insurance website that debuted late Sunday is giving consumers the first glimpse of health-insurance prices for next year. The tool suggests that many people who bought insurance plans through HealthCare.gov will see their premiums increase in 2015 unless they are willing to switch health-insurance carriers.

...A scan of the rates posted late Sunday shows that in Florida, Georgia, Missouri and North Carolina, for instance, the unsubsidized monthly premium for the least-expensive midrange “silver” health plan available to people in the state capital area will go up by a few dollars. In Arizona and New Jersey, it will fall. But for customers in all those states, there is one important caveat: To get the lowest price, they will have to switch insurance carriers.