There are seventeen states that are not going to comply with Obamacare and set up health insurance exchanges. The Obama administration isn’t happy about this so they will punish those states by instituting a surcharge for any policies sold through the federal exchange.
Residents of states that refuse to set up health insurance exchanges under Obamacare are set to be hit with higher premiums under new rules announced by the Health and Human Services Department.
Insurance companies will be charged 3.5 percent of any premiums they sell through the federal exchanges, the department announced Friday.
And insurers are likely to pass that surcharge on to clients, leading to higher premiums.
The only states to be affected are those that refuse to set up their own exchanges because of opposition to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. They are almost certain to be those under Republican control. In those states, HHS will set up the exchanges.
“Affordable, quality healthcare” my ass. Speaking of which: Big Ears can kiss mine.
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@lonelycon King Obama he don’t have time for are problems he getting ready for vacation while we do not have a budget from the Senate.
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Obviously Sebelius isn’t prepared or competent enough to set up federal exchanges for states, shirking her duty. States already offered low cost insurance through local social services, Medicaid, and Medicare. If the feds can’t run Medicaid, Medicare, Tricare, and the other four medical programs efficiently without fraud or without reform, how can they possibly manage a new behemoth entitlement? States should continue to refuse this as the massive financing will be dumped in their laps after the first year incentive start-up disappears and the State is left with the added Medicaid bill.
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I’m sure that SCOTUS ruling of June 2012 prohibited the WH from retaliation such as this. Oh yeah, Obama considers himself to be above the law!
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