https://hotair.com/headlines/archives/2013/01/19/the-time-bomb-in-obamacare/feed/HotAir is the leading conservative blog for breaking news and commentary covering the Biden administration, politics, media, culture, and current elections.en-usTue, 09 Jun 2026 01:10:07 -0400<![CDATA[So, Lambert says, the ACA’s penalties are too low to prod the healthy to purchase insurance, even given ACA’s subsidies for purchasers. The ACA’s authors probably understood this perverse incentive and assumed that once Congress passed the ACA with penalties low enough to be politically palatable, Congress could increase them.]]>Sat, 19 Jan 2013 17:10:10 -0500<![CDATA[Allahpundit]]>https://hotair.com/headlines/2013/01/19/the-time-bomb-in-obamacare-n99380