{"id":6238,"date":"2010-11-17T19:31:17","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T23:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/?p=6238"},"modified":"2010-11-17T19:31:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T23:31:17","slug":"unconstitutional-masscare-law-creating-criminals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/2010\/11\/17\/unconstitutional-masscare-law-creating-criminals\/","title":{"rendered":"Unconstitutional Masscare Law Creating Criminals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bostonherald.com\/news\/politics\/view.bg?articleid=1296920\">Boston Herald<\/a> reporting..<\/p>\n<p><strong>Health panel brings out big guns<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>The state\u2019s health insurance connector \u2014 the highly touted agency that aims to bring cheap medical care to the masses \u2014 has turned into a legal pit bull by aggressively going after a growing number of Bay Staters who say they can\u2019t afford mandated insurance \u2014 or the penalties imposed for not having it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Commonwealth Health Insurance Connector Authority is cracking down on more than 3,000 residents who are fighting state fines, and has even hired a private law firm to force the health insurance scofflaws to pay penalties of up to $2,000 a year.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>All told, more than 7,700 people have appealed state fines for not having health insurance, according to connector spokesman Richard Powers. The agency has hired several private attorneys at $50 an hour to hear many of the appeals, and some 3,150 of them have been denied \u2014 and the losers told to pay up.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I certainly hope our new legislative body will get us out of Obamacare as a priorty in 2011.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Boston Herald reporting.. Health panel brings out big guns The state\u2019s health insurance connector \u2014 the highly touted agency that aims to bring cheap medical care to the masses \u2014 has turned into a legal pit bull by aggressively going after a growing number of Bay Staters who say they can\u2019t afford mandated insurance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6238"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6239,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6238\/revisions\/6239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.nhteapartycoalition.org\/tea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}