As the Government hurtles towards an unfunded shutdown and a growing proportion of the populous identifies as ‘lower class,’ another wrinkle in the implementation of the Affordable Care Act has emerged.  Under Obamacare, your sexual orientation and tenacity are going to be part of you permanent record.  Contrary to concerns over privacy and common sense, those doctors who refuse to ask (and report to the Govt your answers), risk financial penalties from Medicare and Medicaid.  You could write your Congressman or Senator to complain, but they will undoubtedly have trouble empathizing, because Congress is exempt.

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->Amid slow economic recovery, more Americans identify as ‘lower class’

->Obamacare will question your sex life

->Make Congress get insurance the same way the little people do? Hill denizens howl in fury. 

->Armed with a family recipe and a flair for marketing, C. James “Jim” Koch popularized craft beer in the United States and turned Boston Beer Co. into the second- largest American-owned brewery. It also made him a billionaire.

->Lawrence Summers, who was considered the leading candidate to succeed Ben Bernanke as Federal Reserve chairman, has withdrawn from consideration

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