Originally Posted by
TopekaRoy
Yep. Income verification is not really a concession. It was in the original ACA before Obama unconstitutionally delayed it a year. That was done because businesses were supposed to report to the IRS who does and does not have insurance and what is covered, but there is no reporting system in place, yet, and businesses have been given a one year delay on their mandate to cover employees (also unconstitutionally), but individuals are required to be covered anyway. So I don't know how they are going to verify eligibility. Just look at your gross income reported on your 1040 form, I guess. So instead of getting a delay for any part of Obamacare, they just got democrats to agree to start that provision sooner than it would have if Obama had his way.
The sequester cuts have to remain in effect by law, because we still don't have a budget. So really, we got NOTHiNG out of the partial shutdown, and at the end of the year we will be right back where we were a few days ago. Only by then millions of people will have signed up for the exchanges (if they ever get the website fixed) and it will be that much harder to make any changes to the ACA.