Obamacare was compared to a “huge train wreck”

[Harsh_77 718]

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Obamacare was compared to a “huge train wreck” by US Senator Max Baucus (D – Mont.) during a hearing on Capitol Hill today. Baucus, the chair of the Senate Finance Committee, helped craft the Affordable Care Act and of course voted for it.

The senator expressed his misgivings directly to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius over how the general public lacks an understanding of the law as it rolls out: “I just see a huge train wreck coming down. You and I have discussed this many times, and I don’t see any results yet … I’m very concerned that not enough is being done so far — very concerned … small businesses have no idea what to do, what to expect.”

Earlier this month, the Obama administration announced that it will be unable to set up of series of healthcare insurance exchanges to provide coverage options for small business until at least 2015. In America, some 70 percent of the workforce is said to be employed by small businesses.

The state healthcare exchanges are also apparently way behind schedule, according to Baucus, who is up for reelection in 2014. “For the marketplaces to work, people need to know about them,” he said. “People need to know their options and how to enroll.”

Various employes around the country are already cutting employee hours and/or have threatened that they will involuntarily downgrade workers into part-time status in the near future to avoid the Obamacare mandate altogether. Many insurers gone on record in warning of insurance premium “sticker shock” as the law goes into implementation.

The United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers is reportedly the first union to officially call for repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Many labor unions vocally endorsed and supported the law (although some of them subsequently received waivers from its provisions). In a statement, union president Kinsey M. Robinson said in part:

“Our Union and its members have supported President Obama and his Administration for both of his terms in office. But regrettably, our concerns over certain provisions in the ACA have not been addressed, or in some instances, totally ignored. In the rush to achieve its passage, many of the Act’s provisions were not fully conceived, resulting in unintended consequences that are inconsistent with the promise that those who were satisfied with their employer sponsored coverage could keep it … I am therefore calling for repeal or complete reform of the Affordable Care Act to protect our employers, our industry, and our most important asset: our members and their families.”

Separately, Home Depot founder Bernie Marcus declared flatly last week that “Obamacare is going to kill off small business.”

Have there been any Obamacare-related changes to your own health coverage where you work if you are currently employed?

Category: Politics

Tags : "obamacare", Affordable Care Act, healthcare reform, Obamacare train wreck, Sen. Max Baucus

Posted: April 17, 2013

By Robert Jonathan

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Way to go kill small business, take such an action where employeer would stop or reduce hiring the ppl, is this the way to grow the economy?

[lostinblue 1,989]

Talk to people in the health care profession....very few say anything good about it. It is not health care it is people control. Most every thing the kenyan tries to pass deals with people control.

[decocker 7,198]

err. not that obamacare is a trainwreck, getting the american public to understand obamacare over all the background noise from the opposition - that's the trainwreck.

comprehension is key..

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

comprehension is key..

...this nation is fcuked.

[decocker 7,198]

...this nation is fcuked.

[Harsh_77 718]

err. not that obamacare is a trainwreck, getting the american public to understand obamacare over all the background noise from the opposition - that's the trainwreck.

comprehension is key..

Yep even the author of the the Obamacare have problem understanding their own bill.

[decocker 7,198]

Yep even the author of the the Obamacare have problem understanding their own bill.

maybe read your link again? i don't know how to help you ..

[Harsh_77 718]

maybe read your link again? i don't know how to help you ..

Read the bolded portion of the Original Post, thats wht the point was and it was not even a topic but at someone request mod split my post into a topic.

[decocker 7,198]

Read the bolded portion of the Original Post, thats wht the point was and it was not even a topic but at someone request mod split my post into a topic.

my bad. i was discussing the title of your post, in which you erroneously stated that obamacare was compared to a 'huge train wreck' - in quotes, which kinda led me to think i should see who exactly said such a thing and why.

but the bolded parts were a nice read too, if you enjoy written whine as opposed to spoken.

[The Nature Boy 4,224]

http://www.inquisitr...mocrat-senator/

Obamacare was compared to a "huge train wreck" by US Senator Max Baucus (D – Mont.) during a hearing on Capitol Hill today. Baucus, the chair of the Senate Finance Committee, helped craft the Affordable Care Act and of course voted for it.

The senator expressed his misgivings directly to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius over how the general public lacks an understanding of the law as it rolls out: "I just see a huge train wreck coming down. You and I have discussed this many times, and I don't see any results yet … I'm very concerned that not enough is being done so far — very concerned … small businesses have no idea what to do, what to expect."

Earlier this month, the Obama administration announced that it will be unable to set up of series of healthcare insurance exchanges to provide coverage options for small business until at least 2015. In America, some 70 percent of the workforce is said to be employed by small businesses.

The state healthcare exchanges are also apparently way behind schedule, according to Baucus, who is up for reelection in 2014. "For the marketplaces to work, people need to know about them," he said. "People need to know their options and how to enroll."

Various employes around the country are already cutting employee hours and/or have threatened that they will involuntarily downgrade workers into part-time status in the near future to avoid the Obamacare mandate altogether. Many insurers gone on record in warning of insurance premium "sticker shock" as the law goes into implementation.

The United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers is reportedly the first union to officially call for repeal of the Affordable Care Act. Many labor unions vocally endorsed and supported the law (although some of them subsequently received waivers from its provisions). In a statement, union president Kinsey M. Robinson said in part:

"Our Union and its members have supported President Obama and his Administration for both of his terms in office. But regrettably, our concerns over certain provisions in the ACA have not been addressed, or in some instances, totally ignored. In the rush to achieve its passage, many of the Act's provisions were not fully conceived, resulting in unintended consequences that are inconsistent with the promise that those who were satisfied with their employer sponsored coverage could keep it … I am therefore calling for repeal or complete reform of the Affordable Care Act to protect our employers, our industry, and our most important asset: our members and their families."

Separately, Home Depot founder Bernie Marcus declared flatly last week that "Obamacare is going to kill off small business."

Have there been any Obamacare-related changes to your own health coverage where you work if you are currently employed?

Category: Politics

Tags : "obamacare", Affordable Care Act, healthcare reform, Obamacare train wreck, Sen. Max Baucus

Posted: April 17, 2013

By Robert Jonathan

More Posts By Robert Jonathan

10

Read more at http://www.inquisitr...wXrYb8efBxrg.99

Way to go kill small business, take such an action where employeer would stop or reduce hiring the ppl, is this the way to grow the economy?

[Póg mo 1,749]

So when are Obama care opponents going to put forward their own plan? How about about a vote on universal healthcare? I am tired of people complaining about Obama care, while refusing to even admit that the American health care system prior to Obama care was seriously flawed, overly expensive and mind bogglingly inefficient.

[Póg mo 1,749]

P.S. I don't particularly like the affordable healthcare act, but at least finally it might force Americans to quit egnoring that the fact that the health care system is fundamentally broken.

[Harsh_77 718]

my bad. i was discussing the title of your post, in which you erroneously stated that obamacare was compared to a 'huge train wreck' - in quotes, which kinda led me to think i should see who exactly said such a thing and why.

but the bolded parts were a nice read too, if you enjoy written whine as opposed to spoken.

Lol, I knew someone was going to make some comment but unfortunately this was a topic split by mod so I did not create it.

[Harsh_77 718]

So when are Obama care opponents going to put forward their own plan? How about about a vote on universal healthcare? I am tired of people complaining about Obama care, while refusing to even admit that the American health care system prior to Obama care was seriously flawed, overly expensive and mind bogglingly inefficient.

If they really want to improve the health care, get rid of the insurance system.

One only pays for the service one needs, one goes to the doctor pay the doctor right than and there.

Stop the frivolous law suit and the courts need to stop awarding these crazy amounts.

Bring the execs from pharma company and ask them why their exact med is costing half the price in other part of the world while they are charging crazy price in US.

P.S. I don't particularly like the affordable healthcare act, but at least finally it might force Americans to quit egnoring that the fact that the health care system is fundamentally broken.

The new healthcare is not going to fix anything, you have an example of the UK and have seen it working.

Infact is going to make it worse just imagine earlier a single doc had 10 patient now he will have 100, how is that going to improve the overall care?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Lol, I knew someone was going to make some comment but unfortunately this was a topic split by mod so I did not create it.

No, you pasted that article into a thread that had absolutely NOTHING to do with Obamacare.