For The Children

Remember how proud the White House was of its "enable kids to freeload of their parents' coverage years after they're no longer kids" O-Care feature?  You saw this "unintended" consquence coming from parsecs away, right?:

Some major health insurance companies have stopped issuing certain types of policies for children, an unintended consequence of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul law, state officials said Friday.

Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty said in his state UnitedHealthcare and Blue Cross Blue Shield have stopped issuing new policies that cover children individually. Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland said a couple of local insurers in her state have done likewise. …

The major types of coverage for children — employer plans and government programs — are not be affected by the disruption. But a subset of policies — those that cover children as individuals — may run into problems. Even so, insurers are not canceling children’s coverage already issued, but refusing to write new policies.

Thanks to the Obamedia, the adjective "unintended" is becoming as risible as its kissin' cousin "unexpected".  Fact is, there's nothing "unintended" about a "consequence" that is so "feature, not bug-ish" that libs are already plotting to exploit it practically before this government-driven contraction in the childrens' individual insurance market started to emerge.

And that's just the hors de overe:

The “Special Needs Kids Tax” takes effect January 1, 2011:  This provision of Obamacare imposes a cap on flexible spending accounts (FSAs) of $2500 (Currently, there is no federal government limit).  There is one group of FSA owners for whom this new cap will be particularly cruel and onerous: parents of special needs children.  There are thousands of families with special needs children in the United States, and many of them use FSAs to pay for special needs education. Tuition rates at one leading school that teaches special needs children in Washington, D.C. (National Child Research Center) can easily exceed $14,000 per year.  Under tax rules, FSA dollars can be used to pay for this type of special needs education.  (Page 1999/Sec. 9005/$14 billion)

Read J-Ger's entire post.  If I exerpt more than this, I'll glom the whole thing.

I don't know what got into Geraghty today, but he was using False Messiah's head for the speed bag - bukida-bukida-bukida-bukida.  It was, to quote Mickey Goldmill after the statue of Rocky Balboa was unveiled in Rocky III, "Truly a ting o' beauty."