The latest problem with the Obama Health Care plan is the subsidies for
low and middle-income people. The
Congress set up the Obama Health Care plan so that only the people in states
that set up the health insurance exchanges (online marketplaces where people
could go to log on and browse for health plan prices, enroll in coverage, and
apply for subsidies) could receive these subsidies. But if the state did not set up the exchange
and the Federal government had to come in and set up the exchange, then that
state’s citizens could not receive subsidies.
Michael Carvin, the attorney for the plaintiffs, said “Time has proved
that the Affordable Care Act is a highly unstable law that cannot work unless
states give their cooperation “. But
Joel McElvain, an attorney representing the government, stated that the federal
government meant that all qualified people, even if the federal
government is setting up the exchanges, can receive subsidies.
The debate goes on.
Another battle in the court which wastes our tax money, and it makes
you wonder, if the government took all the money that it spent on a faulty
computer system for the exchanges and the court battles, we would have extra
money to pay for health care for low income people.
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