| Forum Home | ||||
| PC World Chat | ||||
| Thread ID: 135152 | 2013-10-01 20:13:00 | Can some one explain the shut down in usa? | beetle (243) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1354743 | 2013-10-01 22:23:00 | Yeah I heard last was 17 years ago also. | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1354744 | 2013-10-01 22:25:00 | http://istheusgovernmentshutdown.com/ | Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 1354745 | 2013-10-01 23:37:00 | www.slate.com nd_why_to_sign_up_and.html Passed in 2010, Obamacare is a national law with two goals: making health insurance better for people who already have it and getting health insurance for more of the 60 million people who are uninsured. To do this, the law makes a bunch of new rules for private insurers (like Aetna and BlueCross/BlueShield), public insurers (like Medicaid), employers, and everyday citizens. Here’s the upshot: About half of all Americans—about 160 million people—already have private health insurance, mostly bought by employers. If this applies to you, Obamacare matters only if your plan was stingy. Under the law, insurers must now pay for many things that used to be optional, like prescription drugs, having a baby, and mental health care, among other services. The law also blocks any extra charges for routine checkups, cancer screening, and some other stuff. Obamacare also limits your yearly out-of-pocket fees, such as co-pays for going to the hospital. It also forbids insurers from kicking you out if you get sick. One other thing: Starting in 2015, workplaces with more than 50 people must provide insurance to full-time workers. Another change: Your paycheck must show how much your boss pays for your health coverage, which may shock you. Moving on to the roughly one-third of Americans on Medicare (mostly for seniors) and Medicaid (for the poor and disabled): Life won’t change much for seniors on Medicare, other than having an easier time getting prescription drugs. However, Obamacare includes a big expansion of free health care for the poor, through Medicaid. Starting now, nearly all families making less than $31,000 yearly could get free Medicaid, which means 17 million of the 60 million uninsured could be covered. Everybody else—the remaining 20 percent who don’t have private insurance and don’t qualify for Medicare or Medicaid—has to go buy health insurance from an online government superstore called an exchange. That’s what is opening Oct. 1. You cannot be turned away, and depending on how much money you make, the government kicks in anywhere from nothing to a lot to help you out. Experts think 22 million people of the 60 million uninsured will comply. All this isn’t cheap, so Obamacare cut payments to hospitals and created new taxes for rich people, medical device makers, and health insurers, among many other tweaks to fund the law. According to the Congressional Budget Office, these revenues plus projected savings in Medicare in the next few years should balance out Obamacare’s cost. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 1354746 | 2013-10-02 00:03:00 | Last time they did it to Clinton | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1354747 | 2013-10-02 01:02:00 | Last time they did it to Clinton Around the same time that Monica did it to him? Ken |
kenj (9738) | ||
| 1354748 | 2013-10-02 06:30:00 | Shutdown of government services? Who will notice? | johcar (6283) | ||
| 1354749 | 2013-10-02 06:37:00 | They are fighting over ----- I work with better two year olds. Ever watched our own govt on TV. ?? Kinder-garden kids are better behaved most of the time. Some of the comments and questions makes you think -- And these idiots are running the country :xmouth: | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1354750 | 2013-10-02 07:31:00 | Shutdown of government services? Who will notice? Probably someone waiting for medical treatment from a national institute of health. |
icow (15313) | ||
| 1354751 | 2013-10-02 08:03:00 | Ever watched our own govt on TV. ?? Kinder-garden kids are better behaved most of the time. Some of the comments and questions makes you think -- And these idiots are running the country :xmouth: lol i cant say i watch the parliment kiddies at any time :p |
beetle (243) | ||
| 1354752 | 2013-10-02 19:13:00 | Ever watched our own govt on TV. ?? Kinder-garden kids are better behaved most of the time. Some of the comments and questions makes you think -- And these idiots are running the country :xmouth: I recognize all that Wai,I never cease to be amazed how it all continues to work in spite of these idiots. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1 2 3 4 5 6 | |||||