I love America

[Sapidus]

All interesting, but has nothing to do with what I'm waiting for.

You said you were happy to pay more taxes, and I asked if you understood the goals you wanted the higher taxes for do not have to be funded with taxes. You claimed to understand that. So, I asked why you think taxes should fund those things.

So, you did a great job of answering a question I didn't ask to explain something no one wanted to know.


Again.

Keep having those made up conversations with your" educated " imaginary friends.

 

[Gilligan]

It's funny how hard they have been working to destroy ObamaCare and it has taken this much effort to destroy what they claim is a "flawed failing system"

What effort? It's almost completely finished failing all on it's own. Spectacularly so. In addition to preimum hikes for 2018 in excess of 100% in some areas, ....there is this:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/08/news/economy/obamacare-washington-state/index.html

 

[This_person]

It's funny how hard they have been working to destroy ObamaCare and it has taken this much effort to destroy what they claim is a "flawed failing system"

What changes have they successfully made? Not "what parts of the law are they enforcing", what CHANGES have they made to the law?

 

[This_person]

Keep having those made up conversations with your" educated " imaginary friends.

Do you understand that you do not have to pay more in federal taxes to accomplish the goals you state?

Yep.

If you understand that taxes do not have to be the solution, why can't you understand taxes don't need to be the solution?

Still waiting.....

 

[black dog]

It's Africa. They will kill a lot of people, and swap one tyrant for another.

[video=youtube_share;8EtlWqpBYAA]https://youtu.be/8EtlWqpBYAA[/video]

 

[Sapidus]

What effort? It's almost completely finished failing all on it's own. Spectacularly so. In addition to preimum hikes for 2018 in excess of 100% in some areas, ....there is this:

http://money.cnn.com/2017/06/08/news/economy/obamacare-washington-state/index.html

You forgot to mention this year was has already seen the most signups in the shortest amount of time.

This despite the fact that Trump has shortened the enrollment period by half.

Seems like the rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated. If it was so bad it surely would have ran itself into the ground without any help so why waste so much time and political capital trying to hasten it?

 

[Sapidus]

What changes have they successfully made? Not "what parts of the law are they enforcing", what CHANGES have they made to the law?

They have e cut the enrollment period in half. Stopped advertising the open enrollment and now in the tax bill are threatening to remove the insurance mandate. Sad

 

[black dog]

They have e cut the enrollment period in half. Stopped advertising the open enrollment and now in the tax bill are threatening to remove the insurance mandate. Sad

That's funny, enrollment ads are on tv everyday out here, in your mailbox and on the radio..

 

[Sapidus]

That's funny, enrollment ads are on tv everyday out here, in your mailbox and on the radio..

Not here. And the budget for advertising has been drastically cut. Just seems surprising there is so much effort to kill it but they also claim its dying on its own. More hypocrisy

 

[black dog]

not here. And the budget for advertising has been drastically cut. Just seems surprising there is so much effort to kill it but they also claim its dying on its own. More hypocrisy

lol.....

 

[This_person]

They have e cut the enrollment period in half. Stopped advertising the open enrollment and now in the tax bill are threatening to remove the insurance mandate. Sad

These things were changes in LAW? Read the question....

Threatening is not a change in law.


Here are some changes Republicans (not conservatives) changed the law. By changing the law, I mean adjusting the law through legislative action signed by the president such that the actual law is different

In 2011, Congress passed and President Obama signed a law reducing ACA’s reporting requirements for small businesses. It repealed a provision requiring businesses to report to the IRS any time they made a purchase of more than $600 to a single vendor.

In 2013, Congress passed and President Obama signed a repeal of Title VIII of the ACA, known as the CLASS Act, which had been one of Ted Kennedy’s contributions to the law. It was supposed to create “a voluntary and public long-term care insurance option for employees” once implemented, but the Obama administration determined it was unworkable so Congress went ahead and repealed it, which Obama signed.

In 2015, Congress passed and President Obama signed the Protecting Affordable Coverage for Employees Act which makes a minor fix in the definition of a small business that could result in thousands of dollars of savings for 150,000 businesses. Under the original law, small businesses of less than 50 employees have their own special rules requiring specific types of coverage with a higher cost to employers. Beginning in 2016, those special rules were scheduled to apply to small businesses of 51 to 100 employees.

The new law gives states the ability to decide how to classify businesses of 51 to 100 employees, potentially saving premiums for small business employees from going up 18 percent or more, according to an estimate from the consulting firm Oliver Wyman. And there's a bonus: Reducing workers' insurance premiums means increasing their taxable income, resulting in a $280 million in additional revenues to the federal government over 10 years. That money will go to bolster Medicaid.

Grace-Marie Turner of the Galen Institute, a prominent Obamacare critic, said the congressional action comes just under the wire, as insurance companies finish pricing contracts for 2016 coverage. And the quick, businesslike way in which the bill was passed just shows that neither side saw any benefit in politicizing the issue, she said.

"I think here the White House certainly doesn’t want to announce with big fanfare that the Republican Congress has led on making changes on the president's health law," she said. "And the Republicans don't want to say that they’re fixing it, because they want to repeal it entirely."

 

[Gilligan]

You forgot to mention this year was has already seen the most signups in the shortest amount of time.

This despite the fact that Trump has shortened the enrollment period by half.

Seems like the rumors of its death have been greatly exaggerated. If it was so bad it surely would have ran itself into the ground without any help so why waste so much time and political capital trying to hasten it?

. Couldn't read the article, eh?

 

[GURPS]

Not here. And the budget for advertising has been drastically cut. Just seems surprising there is so much effort to kill it but they also claim its dying on its own. More hypocrisy

why would MD cut the adverting budget