Its not over.
IBTZ
So your wife and others now have health insurance, pray tell me the name of the company or program that is giving them this insurance and what they are paying for it. I have family members with no insurance, they’ve been paying their own way and they are less than minimum wage workers, of course they can’t go to the doctor very often and sometimes I help them, I guess I won’t have to do that anymore, the government will do it instead? You seem so well versed in all this please tell me the where and how of it. So where is all this cheap/free stuff?
This law does nothing to insure the 26-27 million americans without insurance... elderly and illegal aliens included. It may help access to insurance for those who can afford it or are legally entitled to it.
It does mean that those of us who already buy private insurance, and have seen our premiums go up for the last two years... will continue to be burdened.
But they have XBox's and big screen TVs.
Why should I have to pay for people who are here illegally? For people who are breaking the law by their very presence in the country? Health care is not a right. You want to be compassionate, fine, I'm all for compassion. You take them to the doctor and pay for it. I've paid for infertility treatments for my daughter and her husband, not covered by insurance. But don't hold a gun to my head and force me to pay for jose illegal off the street.
Before Ocare... that is just sio much malarkey. The truth is that this bill has expanded governmental power an incredible amount. Moreover today’s ruling has turned this nation upside down.
Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.
People won’t buy the coverage until they have to have it. I just ran my situation through several of the calculators that are online. Under the law in 2014 my insurance would run somewhere between $5,000 and $6,000 (purchased through the exchanges). The penalty would be somewhere between $600 and $700. I am 60+, in good health and run my own business. What I find astonishing that the exchange figures are considerably in excess of what I currently pay. In addition, if I understand it correctly, there is an additional tax on any health insurance worth in excess of $10,000 for an individual (who the heck figures out what a policy is worth anyway?).
This law has so many bad ideas and bad policies its hard to articulate them all. Someone needs find a concise way to start delivering the bad news to voters between now and the election.
“My difficulty and objection to 0bamacare was the way it was passed into law”
Then thank Olympia Snowe for letting this abomination out of Committee. Wihtout her vote, it would never had made it.
Some day, death panels will be able to decide that someone in your condition is not worth wasting scarce health care dollars on. Hopefully you have enough resources to be able to obtain health care in another country, assuming that is not made illegal. Or, you could get a waiver if you belong to a favored political class. White middle class conservative? Forget it.