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Why White House Kept Exemption to ObamaCare Quiet
Submitted by Guest on Wed, 09/17/2014 - 19:41
Hawaii Political Info comment: This story is a little old, but it's a good one.
Breitbart
By John Sexton
March 14, 2014
An exemption is only an exemption if people know about it. That's why the White House kept a broad hardship exemption to Obamacare's individual mandate quiet, including leaving it off the official exemption page on Healthcare.gov for nearly three months.
In case you missed the story this week, there are 14 hardship exemptions from the individual mandate, the portion of Obamacare which says you must buy health insurance or pay a tax. The last of these 14 exemptions is extremely broad. It just says you can claim "another hardship" that prevented you from getting insurance and requires no documentation to back it up.
Exemption 14 was quietly slipped in by the White House back in December. At the time, the New York Times and most other outlets were focused on another exemption created at the same time for people with cancelled policies. In fact, the Times warned Republicans would use the cancellation exemption to push for an even broader exemption, not realizing a broader exemption already existed.
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