"State targets gap in federal health care coverage; Supports subsidies for family coverage" by Tracy Jan | Globe Staff, June 10, 2013
WASHINGTON — A congressional mistake that could cause nearly 4 million people to be ineligible for federal subsidies in President Obama’s health care law has prompted Massachusetts officials to launch a new effort to try to close the gap under what has become known as a “glitch” in Obama’s health plan, although that was not what lawmakers say they intended....
The glitch stemmed from the fact that the health care law was passed in a hurry following the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy, a Massachusetts Democrat and key health care champion, and the election of Republican Scott Brown, who had vowed to block the law, to Kennedy’s seat, health policy experts said.
Translation: politics f***ed up your health care.
Instead of forming a conference committee to clean up the legal language and resolve technical issues, Congress moved health care reform through the reconciliation process, a budget mechanism that allows a bill to pass with only 51 votes in the Senate, avoiding a filibuster.
“There was no opportunity to review the bill,” said Judy Solomon, vice president for health policy at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, which has been pushing for a fix....
What a pos that bill turned out to be.
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Related: Reading the Health Care Fine Print For the Little People
Oh, this isn't the first time something was sloppily written?
Also see: Filling Out the Obamacare Forms
I hope their aren't any glitches.
