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say wha's avatar

Kirby Delauter has attempted to penalize a few people, but Kirby Delauter's ultimate goal is to penalize six million people who are not Kirby Delauter.

bobbert's avatar

Fuckin Canuck hipsters.

Historicat's avatar

People have no fucking clue how much the employer portion covers. Until they get a COBRA notification and can't believe how expensive it is.

Bitter Scribe's avatar

The Republicans may not have anything to say, but the Heritage Foundation has plenty to say. Of course, none of it makes any sense.

Shananigan's avatar

If I remember rightly, there's a place on the W-2 where employers are now required by the ACA to identify how much of the employee's portion they paid but not every employer has to do it.

http://www.irs.gov/Affordab...

Chris Grrr's avatar

"Romneycare" should poll better.

Lascauxcaveman's avatar

The happy part of that article is where it says while the R's saying the same old (incorrect, disingenuous, misleading) stuff about Obamacare, they are saying it less often.

Couple of years from now, they'll be largely indifferent to deeply entrenched, widely popular program, ala Medicare.

Lascauxcaveman's avatar

At least they aren't denying, in opposition to facts and numbers, that they *are* benefitting.

Say, are you sure these people are actually conservatives?

Lascauxcaveman's avatar

Also, none of the four plaintiffs in the case have "standing," that is, they cannot demonstrate any actual harm has occurred. (Two of them qualify for veteran's benefits and two of them don't earn enough to be required to buy insurance under the ACA). Ergo, none of them are actually affected by the law and its requirements to buy insurance.

Pygmy's Love Child's avatar

where are the Death Panels? We were promised Death Panels! ObamaCare is a complete failure until we get the Death panels we were promised damn it !!!

Mark Richey's avatar

Yeah. But Obama doesn't love America as much as you.

Tallmutha's avatar

Hey, you know who else penalized six million people?

freakishlyterrified's avatar

And probably more than half of the newly insured voted for the repealin' R's..