{"id":491639,"date":"2010-03-31T00:11:54","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T04:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.szone.us\/f87\/welcome-obamacare-part-ii-41613\/"},"modified":"2010-03-31T00:11:54","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T04:11:54","slug":"welcome-to-obamacare-part-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/491639","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to ObamaCare, Part II"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>03.30.10 10:48 AM<\/p>\n<p>Last week I told you about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americansforprosperity.org\/032510-welcome-obamacare\" >false advertising<\/a> around the childhood preexisting condition ban, today it\u0092s more on the politicization of private sector health care decisions.<\/p>\n<p>In 2003, when President Bush expanded federal coverage for elderly Americans\u0092 prescription drugs, he also included a subsidy so businesses would keep retirees in their private drug benefit plans.  The payout was about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanbenefitscouncil.org\/documents\/hcr_bridgeyears-towerswatson_rds-study_031610.pdf\" >$665 per employee<\/a> each year they were kept on private coverage.  The goal was to keep employers from dumping retirees into the newly expanded government plan.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Obama and the Democrats in Congress removed the subsidy\u0092s tax-free status.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americansforprosperity.org\/033010-welcome-obamacare-part-ii\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americansforprosperity.org\/033010-welcome-obamacare-part-ii\" >http:\/\/www.americansforprosperity.or&#8230;macare-part-ii<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>03.30.10 10:48 AM Last week I told you about the false advertising around the childhood preexisting condition ban, today it\u0092s more on the politicization of private sector health care decisions. In 2003, when President Bush expanded federal coverage for elderly Americans\u0092 prescription drugs, he also included a subsidy so businesses would keep retirees in their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}