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CBO: Obamacare will cost 7 million workers healthcare coverage...

Submitted by emalvini on Tue, 02/05/2013 - 16:30

Politics, General + Law(s)

By Stephen Dinan | The Washington Times | February 5, 2013 | 01:00PM

President Obama's health care law will push 7 million people out of their job-based insurance coverage — nearly twice the previous estimate, according to the latest estimates from the Congressional Budget Office released Tuesday.

CBO said that this year's tax cuts have changed the incentives for businesses and made it less attractive to pay for insurance, meaning fewer will decide to do so. Instead, they'll choose to pay a penalty to the government, totaling $13 billion in higher fees over the next decade.

But the non-partisan agency also expects fewer people to have to pay individual penalties to the IRS than it earlier projects, because of a better method for calculating incomes that found more people will be exempt

This won't stop the so-called 'liberals' from loving it and him.

Submitted by dducks on Tue, 02/05/2013 - 16:46. Permalink

People love to be right. I do. The more adamantly we adhere to a position the more we have invested in being right.

Surprise!

Submitted by Michael Nystrom on Tue, 02/05/2013 - 16:33. Permalink

Obamacare has the opposite of its intended effect!

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It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society. - Krishnamurti. (But don't mind the fool.)

It's downright incredible how often the idea of

Submitted by CarCrashClutter on Tue, 02/05/2013 - 16:54. Permalink

Unintended consequences rings true.

Though I guess it's hard to see what happens on the ground from atop a pyramid of slaves, especially when so myopic, two problems our ruling class has clearly suffered from for far too long.