CBC member: Health insurance penalties 'indefensible'

thehill.com ^ | September 27. 2009 | Jordan Fabian

[goldi]

I was listening to Peter Morici, University of Maryland economics professor, yesterday on C-Span. He says wait until these unemployed college kids find out that they can be hit with a hefty fine for not having healthcare insurance THAT THEY DON’T WANT OR NEED. Morici says this is a bad program overall.

These kids are the ones that are going to be paying for this big time, through the nose, and the government knows it. They desperately need them in the program. How are these students supposed to be able to pay off their student loans (Obama’s forced volunteeerism?) or put a downpayment on a house if they have to pay several thousand dollars a year for healthcare?

[goldi]

I was listening to Peter Morici, University of Maryland economics professor, yesterday on C-Span. He says wait until these unemployed college kids find out that they can be hit with a hefty fine for not having healthcare insurance THAT THEY DON’T WANT OR NEED. Morici says this is a bad program overall.

These kids are the ones that are going to be paying for this big time, through the nose, and the government knows it. They desperately need them in the program. How are these students supposed to be able to pay off their student loans (Obama’s forced volunteeerism?) or put a downpayment on a house if they have to pay several thousand dollars a year for healthcare?

[Vaduz]

levy,taxes,fines,taxes,fines,taxes fines congress at work.

[Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!]

Exactly and they get by going to a local urgentcare out of pocket. With the Rx’s they need being as cheap as Walmart’s $4 plan. If they are carted into an ER they are billed later. They are written off as charity if they are minority but the white kids daddies get billed or they send the college kid the bill.

[SunkenCiv]

Rep. Artur Davis (D-Ala.), an often contrarian member of the Congressional Black Caucus