"The residents of Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Northern Mariana Islands just won the lottery, because the royal Obama court hath decreed that they shall be free from the seething morass of suck known as ObamaCare.
Well, the rest of us have been warning the same damn thing, so how did the territories get a waiver that the fifty states can only dream of?
It turns out His Majesty's Department of Health and Human Services originally told the territories they were stuck in the suck with the rest of us, but then after thorough examination of the actual written law...
I know, I know, you probably just got dizzy and needed to step away from your computer for a moment. Take a few deep breaths.
... anyway, they actually read the Affordable Care Act and its regulatory appendages, and discovered that it specifically refers to "states" in the major regulatory controls - mandated benefits, compulsory coverage for people with pre-existing conditions, etc.
The territories are not "states," and they're already immune to the individual mandate requiring people to buy insurance, as well as the network of subsidies propping up ObamaCare purchases.
There are a few ACA tentacles still wrapped around the territories, such as "the ban on lifetime and annual limits, a ban on rescission, and a coverage of preventative benefits (which includes contraception coverage)" but it looks like the rest of ObamaCare is kaput out there."
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