Pat and Geno probably won't be fighting over this one:"After months of study ... [Pennsylvania is] moving forward with a key - and widely supported - option offered by the federal health-care overhaul: a state-run insurance exchange."
Of course, the authors of this piece offer no evidence demonstrating anything like "wide support" for the Exchanges (possibly because none such exists), but no sense letting a few facts get in the way of a good story, right?
The silliness doesn't end there, of course:
"Besides being a one-stop shop for health insurance, the exchange will be the only place where many of the people who will be newly eligible for insurance under the law ... can apply for the tax credits that are intended to make coverage affordable."
Well, sort of: it's true that, as this is a state-run Exchange, Keystone State citizens would be eligible for whatever tax "credits" may be available, and for as long as they're available. But since we know that ObamneyCare© will quickly generate huge deficits, it's a sure bet that this won't be for long. Especially since tax payers in states with federally-run Exchanges won't be eligible for these same credits.
What could possibly go wrong?
In the event, the Pennsylvania-run Exchange is scheduled to go on-line (literally) in 2014, and is expected to draw some 2 million people. How many of those will be eligible for tax credits is not mentioned, but one presumes that it will be a majority of participants.
Which leads to even greater deficits, and thus higher premiums.
More cheese!
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