# Bricker, You're a Jackass Extraordinaire **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [May 12, 2012, 11:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734 "2012-05-12T23:13:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 41
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2012, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734/41 "2012-05-13T03:16:28Z")
Here’s the original post in its entirety. Note that there is not one word in there about whether or not an employer must reimburse their employees for refunds they receive from the insurance companies. Read carefully now. It’s not there, I promise you. You know how I know this? I WROTE IT. > [@The Patient Protection Act Is About To Put $1.3 BILLION Back In Consumers' Pockets](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-patient-protection-act-is-about-to-put-1-3-billion-back-in-consumers-pockets/621665/1): > > \*"We aren’t exactly out of “the fog of controversy” that then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi said we’d have to be out of before we could see the benefits of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, but we’re about to see just how right she was. … to the tune of $1.3 billion that will go back into healthcare consumers’ pockets because of the 80/20 rule written into the law. That’s $1.3 billion that can be used to save people’s homes. $1.3 billion that can help put food on empty tables. $1.3 billion that can put gas in people’s cars so they can get to job interviews, that can buy clothes for kids who’ve outgrown them, that can purchase much-needed school supplies, that can be set aside for retirement. > > That’s $1.3 billion that will be going back into our economy, helping lift us further out of the recession we’ve barely been scraping our way out of—because Republicans in Congress blocked every effort by President Obama to put people back to work. It’s $1.3 billion that was supposed to be used on patient health care … and wasn’t!"\* > > [http://www.winningwordsproject.com/the\_patient\_protection\_act\_is\_about\_to\_put\_1\_3\_billion\_back\_in\_consumers\_pockets](http://www.winningwordsproject.com/the_patient_protection_act_is_about_to_put_1_3_billion_back_in_consumers_pockets) > > What are the chances we’ll hear about this on Fox News? LOL Just kidding. Seriously, though, can we not at least all agree that this is a good thing? > > Discuss. And then we get Mr. Hyde in post #5 telling us that … pay attention to the **bolded bit** … > [@The Patient Protection Act Is About To Put $1.3 BILLION Back In Consumers' Pockets](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-patient-protection-act-is-about-to-put-1-3-billion-back-in-consumers-pockets/621665/4): > > Unless you have individual insurance you don’t get a dime. **If you are under an employers plan your employer gets the money back, not you personally.** That’s why the $1.3bn is going back to only around 16m Americans, if you aren’t a corporation or a small business owner or someone with an individual plan, you are not getting a rebate. But for those that do get rebates–congratulations, you made an interest free loan to the multibillion dollar insurance company that you buy health insurance from! You can also expect that as the years go on health insurance companies will get better and better at making sure fewer and fewer dollars fall under this requirement. > > Now that I think about it, a lot of the people getting rebates are probably Republicans, since this money will disproportionately be going to people like small business owners, or corporations (which aren’t human people at all.) To which I replied in **post #11** … AKA, NOT THE FUCKING OP … > [@The Patient Protection Act Is About To Put $1.3 BILLION Back In Consumers' Pockets](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-patient-protection-act-is-about-to-put-1-3-billion-back-in-consumers-pockets/621665/11): > > Bzzzzt. **The law requires businesses to return it to the employees.** > > > [@Mark Halperin](#): > > > > The rebates will average around $127 for the over 3 million individuals who receive them directly. Small employers covering almost 5 million people will receive around $377 million (an average break of $76), while larger employers covering about 7.5 million people will get approximately $541 million (an average of $72). **According to administration officials, employers are obligated to pass those savings onto their employees.** > > > > Read more: [http://thepage.time.com/2012/05/11/h](http://thepage.time.com/2012/05/11/h)…#ixzz1ucfNp5Nr > > … And THAT is the post to which Brickass was referring when he took to insulting my reading habits IN GREAT DEBATES in his post that reads: > [@Bricker](#): > > Shayna, read the law itself, **and not some “administration official” with a self-serving lie**. I know it’s hard to read yourself away from the echo chamber of publications that reinforce your view, but it’s possible. I read the SDMB in large part because so many people here don’t share my viewpoint, and I’m willing to hazard a guess that you don’t do something similar. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bricker-youre-a-jackass-extraordinaire/621734)._