Another $750M Down the PPACA Toilet
Remember that law called the Piss-Poor and Amazingly Convoluted Abomination Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) – AKA ObamaCare? The 1,000+ page law where, as SanFranNan put it, “we (Congress) have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it”?
Well, today we have some more “good news” about just how well that whole deal is going. And that news is . . . interesting.
Illegal immigrants aren’t eligible for health insurance subsidies under the PPACA, which are apparently given in the form of tax credits. Yet some unqualified individuals have managed to “slip through” and receive those tax credits anyway.
Whenever someone is found to have received those subsidies in error, the procedure is to notify the IRS of that fact. The IRS then attempts to recoup the money.
That’s the theory. But in actual practice . . . well, “That don’t seem t’be a workin’ out too damn good, Cletus.”
Predictably, since this was “oh so well” thought out before hand it now looks like Uncle Sam has indeed been taken it in the shorts. It’s estimated that somewhere over 500,000 ineligible individuals – most believed to be illegal immigrants – have gotten subsidies they don’t rate.
So, in total how much did they scam from Uncle Sam? Best estimate is somewhere around $750 million.
It also looks like the IRS isn’t going to have much luck in getting much if any of the money back, either. Which, in turn, means that the US taxpayer (that would be you and me) are out around $750 million.
Wonderful. Just freaking wonderful.
Another example of “Your tax dollars at work” from the current Administration. Or maybe that should read “Your tax dollars at waste.”
The linked Fox News article (2nd link above) has more details. It’s worth reading.
Well, it’s worth reading unless you have high blood pressure. Then maybe give it a pass.
Sheesh. We need to kill that asinine excuse for a law called the PPCA immediately. Then burn its remains, and afterwards mix the well-sifted ashes with quicklime – and bury them. Deeply.
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“. . . from the current Abomination.”
There. Fixed it for ya.
Not bad but I prefer “B. Hussein 0bama & Company”.
I was thinking more of burning it in a HAZMAT Incinerator and burying the ashes as deeply as possible with a reinforced concrete cap on top of it! That living abortion of a law has to be one of the top five Ponzi Schemes in American History at the very least. I also wonder how soon we’ll see and hear the loony tunes lefties bawling about how repealing it and denying coverage to illegal aliens is “racist and cruel” and all that shit?
Ill tell any of the loony tune lefties that they and their law are total BS. My sister had BC/BS through her employer. When 0bama care became law, her employer could no longer offer the benefits so she had to buy insurance through the marketplace. She now has a $6000.00 deductible every year. This means that all medical visits come out of her pocket (she never meets the cap in a years time). Her premium is also 3 times what she paid for good insurance. So their law has not helped this widow who lives alone.
I’d like to see “them” take all 1000+ pages of the ACA and stuff them straight up their a$$. “F’em”
“we have to pass it in order to find out what’s in it”. Guess no one told Nancy Blowme that that is the definition of a STOOL SAMPLE! And Obuttheadcare has proven to be just that — a great big pile of bullshit!
Who was that member of Congress who dared to speak the truth at Obamas State of the Union about this? What was it he called him again? Oh yes, a Liar… he was correct then, and it holds true today.
Joe Wilson from SC. A true jackass overall though.
After incineration but before it is buried deep I would like to take a well deserved piss all over it… if no one objects?
Well, if we mix the ashes with quicklime . . . you might want to do that from a considerable distance away. If I recall correctly, quicklime is quite alkaline and caustic. (smile)
I don’t have high BP, Hondo. But I’m not going to read that report at the link. I’ll just take your word for it.
Not only am I not surprised by any of it, I’m just glad I’m out of the work force and don’t have any medical emergencies facing me.
Any Republican who would replace oBaMa’s horror with another version of mandated health insurance is a write-off for me. And that leaves only one candidate: Ted Cruz.
Another example of “Your tax dollars at work” from the current Administration.
That would be “Your tax dollars at rest” and when they are at rest…they disappear and almost always illegally. Obama is a turd that has to yet be flushed. The floater just won’t go down even with a big ass plunger. The problem has been, weepy eyed, golf buddy, ass suckers like John Boehner and his ilk, caring more for their pensions than their constituents and their country. A Congress that had control and the power to stop this chain smoking turd just wouldn’t do their jobs. Even now, for some reason they shrink back at their chances to block him on the board. Obama is playing checkers and Congress has “Kinged” him over and over again now.
So in this latest example Hondo brings us, we the taxpayers have another almost 1 billion dollars, to pay back for illegals who are already one of the biggest drains we have on our economy. We can’t find the money to keep the A-10 flying it seems but we can keep the illegals well healed in all their needs. Meanwhile, my insurance rates continue to climb each year and like every American who is doing things legally and paying out of their own pockets for the needs of their lives, we continue to take it in the shorts. January 2017 cannot come soon enough for me. I hope beyond hope the next President will not be a Democrat or Socialist. At this point I almost don’t care who else is elected. Any change at this point is a change for the better in my mind.
Well. Now that my spouse is out of work, for the third time in 7 years….THIS time, my bill for complying with the law will be 29k. 1584/month for “insurance” that covers nothing until the deductible is met which is 7500. Then add the RX’s that I must use to the tune of 350/month.
Yes, I know. I could qualify for Obama care. But no. On principle, I would choke before accepting this “help”. So, I guess, also by law, I can opt to pay the penalty based on my income. Which thus far would be $40. Hmmm. Maybe I’ll qualify for the EIC? You know like some of my old clients did, who pay nothing in but got some of my taxpayer dollars? I can consider it repayment!! mwahahaha. Fuck Obama and his little shop of horrors. Good things (Like Obamacare implosion) come to those who wait. #patienceisavirtue