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LaSalleAve · Jun 21, 2011

APNewsBreak: A twist in Obama's health care law - Yahoo! News

President Barack Obama's health care law would let several million middle-class people get nearly free insurance meant for the poor, a twist government number crunchers say they discovered only after the complex bill was signed.
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Texas_Tiger · Jun 21, 2011

LaSalleAve said: ↑

APNewsBreak: A twist in Obama's health care law - Yahoo! News
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It's the unintended consequence of signing something you didn't read.

mobius481 · Jun 21, 2011

You mean a couple of days wasn't enough to read and fully comprehend all of the ramifications of a thousand pages of legislation? I'm shocked!

LaSalleAve · Jun 21, 2011

which makes me wonder....... intentional? unintentional?

mobius481 · Jun 21, 2011

LaSalleAve said: ↑

which makes me wonder....... intentional? unintentional?
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From the article....

Indeed, administration officials and senior Democratic lawmakers say it's not a loophole but the result of a well-meaning effort to simplify rules for deciding who will get help with insurance costs under the new health care law. Instead of a hodgepodge of rules, there will be one national policy.

"This simplification will stop people from falling into coverage gaps and may cause some to be newly eligible for Medicaid and others to no longer qualify," said Brian Cook, spokesman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
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Evidently it was a way to allow more people to fall under the medicaid plan.

SabanFan · Jun 22, 2011

President Barack Obama's health care law would let several million middle-class people get nearly free insurance meant for the poor, a twist government number crunchers say they discovered only after the complex bill was signed.
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Oh My God!! Taxpayers getting a government benefit while the freeeloaders get nothing? Sacrilege.