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The
Heritage Foundation
Obamacare,
Simplified
07/19/2013
With
open enrollment in Obamacare’s
exchanges set to start in fewer than three months, the law’s supporters
are
attempting to change the subject from Obamacare’s many delays and
glitches.
Instead, they're mounting a campaign to sell the unpopular measure to
the
public.
President
Obama yesterday gave a
speech on Obamacare, trying to justify the fact that premiums continue
to rise,
violating his 2008 campaign promise to lower them by $2,500 per family
per
year. The Kaiser Family Foundation even released a video that attempts
to
simplify and explain the 2,700-page measure.
But
there’s another helpful chart
that shows how Obamacare will work, and it’s taken from an official
report
released by government auditors. Click on the image below to see how
the
Treasury’s inspector general for tax administration explained the
Obamacare
enrollment process, in testimony before the House Oversight Committee
on
Wednesday see link below.
The
process for determining subsidy
eligibility could require 21 different steps, involving at least five
separate
entities—the Social Security Administration, the Department of Homeland
Security, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Internal
Revenue
Service, and state exchanges—and utilizing a process called the Income
and
Family Size Verification Project.
Given
this bureaucratic nightmare,
it’s little wonder that another report from government auditors
released last
month said that “critical” deadlines to create the Obamacare exchanges
had been
missed. Nor should any be surprised that yesterday, Treasury’s
inspector
general for tax administration testified it “is concerned that the
potential
for refund fraud and related schemes could increase” due to Obamacare.
Yet
the Obama Administration
believes spending more money will solve the problem. Just for the IRS
implementation of Obamacare, the Administration requested $439.6
million for
nearly 2,000 bureaucrats.
Reat
the rest of the article at the
Heritage Foundation
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