{"id":38678,"date":"2012-03-27T12:21:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T18:21:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=38678"},"modified":"2012-03-27T12:21:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T18:21:14","slug":"administration-admits-to-court-under-obamacare-select-group-can-get-health-care-not-pay-for-it-not-buy-insurance-not-pay-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/proteinwisdom.com\/?p=38678","title":{"rendered":"“Administration Admits to Court: Under Obamacare, Select Group Can Get Health Care, Not Pay for It, Not Buy Insurance, Not Pay Penalty”"},"content":{"rendered":"

In other words, free riders continue to ride free<\/a>!<\/p>\n

— Or, in other<\/em> other words, the putative (though always disingenuous) reason for ObamaCare is not fixed by ObamaCare. CNS:<\/p>\n

President Barack Obama has justified the mandate in his health-care law that requires individuals to buy health insurance by arguing that it will eliminate free riders\u2014that is, people who get health care (often from emergency rooms) but, lacking insurance, never pay anything back into the health-care system.<\/p>\n

“So that’s why the individual mandate’s important,” Obama explained in a speech on Aug. 15, 2011.<\/p>\n

“Because the basic theory is, look, everybody here at some point or another is going to need medical care, and you can’t be a free-rider on everybody else,” said Obama. “You can’t not have health insurance, then go to the emergency room, and each of us, who’ve don the responsible thing and have health insurance, suddenly we now have to pay the premiums for you. That’s not fair. So, if you can afford it, you should get health insurance just like you get car insurance.”<\/p>\n

However, in the Supreme Court on Monday, Justice Samuel Alito forced President Barack Obama\u2019s solicitor general, Donald Verrilli, to admit that under Obamacare these free riders will not be eliminated despite the individual mandate.<\/p>\n

For an elite group\u2014including people eligible for Medicaid who don\u2019t sign up for it and people whose health care expenses exceed 8 percent of their income\u2014the Obamacare mandate is no mandate and the penalty is neither a penalty nor a tax because they are not required to pay it, period.<\/p>\n

Under Obamacare, Verrilli conceded, these people can continue to receive free health care care, not sign up for health insurance, not sign up for Medicaid, and not pay a penalty.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Case closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In other words, free riders continue to ride free! — Or, in other other words, the putative (though always disingenuous) reason for ObamaCare is not fixed by ObamaCare. CNS: President Barack Obama has justified the mandate in his health-care law that requires individuals to buy health insurance by arguing that it will eliminate free riders\u2014that is, people who get health care (often from emergency rooms) but, lacking insurance, never pay<\/p>\n

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