{"id":55664,"date":"2015-10-15T05:30:38","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T10:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55664"},"modified":"2015-10-14T07:38:35","modified_gmt":"2015-10-14T12:38:35","slug":"passive-aggression","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=55664","title":{"rendered":"Passive-Aggression"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:<\/p>\n

Obama-care is the federal program, but Minnesota Democrats rushed to set up our own parallel Minnesota Care system so every Minnesota family could easily find affordable health insurance.\u00a0 But insurance companies are dropping out of Minnesota Care to avoid administrative hassles and taxes to reduce overhead, and that makes their plans even more affordable than the Minnesota Care plans.<\/p>\n

The Democrats\u2019 proposed solution? <\/a>\u00a0No, not decrease administrative hassle or lower taxes to make Minnesota Care competitive.\u00a0 Certainly not.\u00a0 No, the proposed solution is to impose administrative hassles and taxes on insurance companies who are NOT participating in Minnesota Care, so that everybody is equally hassled and taxed.\u00a0 The name of the guy proposing that \u2013 Jim Schowalter \u2013 may sound familiar.\u00a0 That\u2019s because he was Mark Dayton\u2019s Commissioner of Budget who oversaw setting up the Minnesota Care system at a cost of half-a-billion dollars, now he\u2019s the chief lobbyist for the insurance companies in the system.<\/p>\n

I say there\u2019s something fishy about this story.\u00a0 It\u2019s all about people losing their plan and paying more for it.\u00a0 But if you like your plan, you can keep your plan and every family saves $2,500 \u2013 we know this because The Light-bringer told us so.\u00a0 There\u2019s something not right about this new story.<\/p>\n

Joe Doakes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s the Minnesota way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails: Obama-care is the federal program, but Minnesota Democrats rushed to set up our own parallel Minnesota Care system so every Minnesota family could easily find affordable health insurance.\u00a0 But insurance companies are dropping out of Minnesota Care to avoid administrative hassles and taxes to reduce overhead, and that makes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66,311],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care","category-mnsure-debacle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55664"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55665,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55664\/revisions\/55665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}