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Old 12-08-2012, 05:12 AM
 
Location: NE Ohio
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Chris Christie, seeking to redeem himself from his pre-election blunder sucking up to Barack Obama and looking like a fool (and a RINO), has announced that New Jersey will not set up state exchanges.

Chris Christie nixes state-run insurance exchange - Jason Millman - POLITICO.com

The State Exchanges were a critical building block of ACA, but the Federal Government, in typical fashion, has not provided the states with cost information (who would trust it anyhow?) or other information that would be needed before a state could decide what would be best for the state.

The estimated cost of AFA keeps climbing, and has skyrocketed far beyond what the administration has said it would cost, prior to passing the ill conceived bill, which was originated in the Senate by fraudulent use of a Constitutional provision which allows the Senate to amend a spending bill (which can only originate in the House).

This, coupled with the burdensome taxes required to sustain it, which are forcing businesses to downsize, lay off workers, or decrease employee hours to under 30 hours per week, which will surely result in a weaker economy and low GDP, may prove it to be unworkable.

Well, we can hope.
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Old 12-08-2012, 05:45 AM
 
Location: Central Ohio
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Let the left totally own the economy.

I predict next year we will look back on 2009 as "the good ol' days" but time will tell.
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Old 12-08-2012, 05:47 AM
 
Location: Texas
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Default Will the misnamed "Affordable Care Act" crumble under it's own weight?

No.

Stay tuned for further developments.

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Old 12-08-2012, 05:55 AM
 
Location: Tampa Florida
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The Federal Govt will set up the Exchanges if the State will not. Actually, that will make the future inclusion of a Public Option easier.
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Old 12-08-2012, 06:17 AM
 
Location: Denver, Colorado
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The Federal Govt will set up the Exchanges if the State will not. Actually, that will make the future inclusion of a Public Option easier.
This!

I look forward to the Public Option!
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Old 12-08-2012, 06:42 AM
 
Location: DFW
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The Federal Govt will set up the Exchanges if the State will not.
What a disaster this will be.
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Old 12-08-2012, 07:02 AM
 
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Or the whole country will. Now those who don't want to pay their way expect free unlimited health care and nothing less. Too few will be expected to pay in.

I suspect the first thing that goes is quality -- expect yourself to be given medical care from non-physicians and certainly not physicians of your choice. Some government clerk sitting somewhere in some cubicle will decide what tests can be ordered and what kind of procedures you will be given.
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Old 12-08-2012, 07:22 AM
 
Location: DFW
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I suspect the first thing that goes is quality -- expect yourself to be given medical care from non-physicians and certainly not physicians of your choice. Some government clerk sitting somewhere in some cubicle will decide what tests can be ordered and what kind of procedures you will be given.
The old Star Trek TV series had a lot of vision.... there was an episode where the Govt Employee decided on how many minutes / seconds you could get with the doctor depending on your "Value" to society. A President or Rich man was allotted more seconds than a common worker.

I believe we'll be there very soon.
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Old 12-08-2012, 07:25 AM
 
Location: Holly Springs, NC USA
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Obamacare is already proving to be a disaster especially for the part time low wage worker. The whole idea of this is not to make health care affordable for anyone, but to bring down the rich.

That is the one thing about this administration, they want people to think they are helping them when in turth all they want to do is to bring down the rich. And in the end, all that is left is one class of people with a very small percentage of ruling class elitists. We have seen this before and it has failed every time.
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Old 12-08-2012, 07:28 AM
 
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Nope. Wouldn't bet on it.

Stop it folks. Romney lost. Move on and deal with reality. Geez.
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