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Now that we passed it we are finding out what's in it.
AP: Glitch in Obamacare would place couples earning up to $64,000 in Medicaid
WASHINGTON President Barack Obama's health care law would let several million middle-class people get nearly free insurance meant for the poor, a twist government number crunchers say they discovered only after the complex bill was signed.
The change would affect early retirees: A married couple could have an annual income of about $64,000 and still get Medicaid, said officials who make long-range cost estimates for the Health and Human Services department.
"The fact that this is being discovered now tells you, what else is baked into this law?" said Leavitt, who served as Health and Human Services secretary under President George H.W. Bush. "It clearly begins to reveal that the nature of the law was to put more and more people under eligibility for government insurance."
That $64,000 would put them at about four times the federal poverty level, which for a two-person household is $14,710 this year. The Medicaid expansion in the health care law was supposed to benefit childless adults with incomes up to 133 percent of the poverty level. A fudge factor built into the law bumps that up to 138 percent.
Read more: APNewsBreak: A twist in Obama's health care law | AP Business News - The News Tribune
There has never been a major piece of legislation that hasn't required modifications. The Affordable Healthcare Act is no different...
yea I heard that back in 1990, when medicare had gone to 92 BILLION on a projection in 1964 when the bill was passed of ...wait for it...........
I said, wait for it!!!
12 billion...
yup, I am sure its " no different"