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    Wow. Not only is Jones demented... (none / 0) (#7)
    by Corinthian Scales on Wed Nov 16, 2011 at 10:01:09 PM EST
    ...Jones is dangerous too.  Everyone see this yet?

    Here's an idea: when the Supreme Court holds their five-hour long oral arguments on The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, perhaps they could discuss what Jonathan Adler and Michael Cannon refer to in the Wall Street Journal as "a major glitch that threatens its basic functioning."

    The two authors even claim that the aforementioned "glitch" is so huge that the Obama administration is trying to fix it by rewriting the bill without involving Congress.

    What's the "glitch"? Adler and Cannon explain:

    The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act offers "premium assistance"--tax credits and subsidies--to households purchasing coverage through new health-insurance exchanges. This assistance was designed to hide a portion of the law's cost to individuals by reducing the premium hikes that individuals will face after ObamaCare goes into effect in 2014. (If consumers face the law's full cost, support for repeal will grow.)

    The law encourages states to create health-insurance exchanges, but it permits Washington to create them if states decline. So far, only 17 states have passed legislation to create an exchange.

    This is where the glitch comes in: ObamaCare authorizes premium assistance in state-run exchanges (Section 1311) but not federal ones (Section 1321). In other words, states that refuse to create an exchange can block much of ObamaCare's spending and practically force Congress to reopen the law for revisions. [Emphasis added]

    The Obama administration wants to avoid that legislative debacle, so this summer it proposed an IRS rule to offer premium assistance in all exchanges "whether established under section 1311 or 1321." On Nov. 17 the IRS will hold a public hearing on that proposal. According to a Treasury Department spokeswoman, the administration is "confident" that offering premium assistance where Congress has not authorized it "is consistent with the intent of the law and our ability to interpret and implement it."

    Rest here

    And....

    Create state "Obamacare exchange"

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