While, granted, it stings to lose out on more potential revenue, what Obama did secure was an extension of unemployment insurance benefits, a continuation of tax provisions like the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), the childcare tax credit and college tuition tax breaks – all of which disproportionately affect the poor and the middle class.
And here's what I found out: As long as you've used your COBRA and CalCOBRA options and did not discontinue them prematurely, a set of federal laws called HIPAA (the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) mandates that you be offered continuation insurance regardless of pre-existing conditions.
Not doing so could impact coverage and jeopardize the continuation of insurance," said Laura Strykowski, an Allstate spokeswoman.
Because Obamacare renders illegal (with exceedingly narrow "grandfathered" exceptions) the continuation of any insurance plan deemed by Washington regulators not to meet their arbitrary standards for adequacy.
For example, a few months after the attacks, it came to light that some victims' families were dissatisfied with the provision we had made for the continuation of health insurance.
Mr. Boryska left his job in construction after he became ill, and the family is covered under a continuation of his former insurance.
The employer mandate was included in the Affordable Care Act — which I helped design as an adviser to the Obama administration — in order to ensure the continuation of employer-sponsored insurance after the creation of state-sponsored health care exchanges.
