<p>“How do you mean, he is affiliated with the Daily Kos?”</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.dailykos.com/user/Brainwrap”>http://www.dailykos.com/user/Brainwrap</a></p>
<p>Dstark, the extension is only for people who have tried to enroll before Monday deadline but for technical reasons can’t complete application. However, since proof is on honor system I will give you the win. </p>
<p><a href=“http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/obama-administration-will-allow-more-time-to-enroll-in-health-care-on-federal-marketplace/2014/03/25/d0458338-b449-11e3-8cb6-284052554d74_story.html”>http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/obama-administration-will-allow-more-time-to-enroll-in-health-care-on-federal-marketplace/2014/03/25/d0458338-b449-11e3-8cb6-284052554d74_story.html</a></p>
<p>Looking, congrats to your daughter on job offer.</p>
<p>I read the law after passage. </p>
<p>The extension has no end date. </p>
<p>Yes it does. Mid April. </p>
<p>“Federal officials confirmed Tuesday evening that all consumers who have begun to apply for coverage on HealthCare.gov, but who do not finish by Monday, will have until about mid-April to ask for an extension.”</p>
<p>I suppose you can argue mid-april isn’t a specific date, but the extension is not open ended. </p>
<p>Well, they are clearly making up the rules as they go along. So, who knows?</p>
<p>“Near record crowds seeking coverage by 3/31. 1.2M+ visits to HealthCare.gov and 390k calls Tues. 5 days left to #GetCoveredNow”</p>
<p>We are starting to fly. :)</p>
<p>Michigan’s AG has joined the federal case to take away the healthcare subsidies in MI.</p>
<p>Yippie, skippie. </p>
<p>Any chance of that actually happening? The hundreds of thousands of families in MI that are now on the subsidies can’t afford the costs without the subsidies. </p>
<p>Oh noes! My bet is looking shaky! 
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<p>CF, :).</p>
<p>People complain about 5 million people who had their insurance cancelled. Except their insurance wasnt cancelled. I cant wait for the same people to tell 17 million people your insurance IS CANCELLED.
Lol… </p>
<p>People are digging their own graves by pushing this lawsuit.</p>
<p>It’s worse than that.</p>
<p>Low-income people who signed up for insurance and have already used it for months would be told they are on the hook for hundreds or thousands of dollars that they never agreed to. </p>
<p>I mean, how would this work for texaspg’s people? They signed up for insurance with subsidies, in good faith, and all of a sudden they owe a thousand, or two thousand, or five thousand in taxes?</p>
<p>CF, I cant believe what you wrote is going to happen. This country will be in such trouble. If the subsidies are turned down. The people that think they are winners are going to be big time losers. They are done. </p>
<p>This is starting to sound political. Of course, the whole thing is political. But, I don’t want to get in trouble today.</p>
<p>Flossy, didn’t you complain about 5 million people losing their insurance? </p>
<p>17 million people are going to have real problems. </p>
<p>I don’t think this lawsuit was thought through too well. ;)</p>
<p>The actual and obvious and undeniable problem is that the law wasn’t thought through too well.</p>
<p>No. Things are working now. Really terrible start. Just an awful start. But now…things are loooooking good. </p>
<p>Do you know how many positive anecdotes are out there? Soooooo many. </p>
<p>Romani - doesn’t Michigan have an exchange?</p>
<p>I don’t know how you get 17 million. The lawsuit only affects the people who have subsidies. That’s between 4 and 6 million people. Not that 4 million people is a small number, but it’s a lot smaller than 17 million.</p>
<p>I am just assuming the whole thing unravels. There werent really 5 million canceled people that lost their plans.
There are going to be 17 million people that have insurance that would not have insurance without ACA. </p>
<p>If you cancel subsidies, everything becomes a mess. The individual market will be in disarray. Then the medicaid market will be attacked. It is a big slope. </p>
<p>The amount of people that are directly affected is less than 17 million people. </p>
<p>The lawsuit is very specific about subsidies being handed out in the federal exchange as not being part of the law.</p>
<p>Technically, it is very specific to states without exchanges which means California won’t even be impacted by this lawsuit.</p>
<p>I know the lawsuit addresses the federal exchange. The ramifications are going to be state specific and national. </p>
<p>I dont believe this lawsuit is going to win.
We will see.</p>