That’s what we should have told Chicago— if you like it, you can keep it.
I really liked my company’s “Buy Up” medical insurance plan, which allowed for lower copays and additional coverage for a higher monthly premium.
The Obama regime called the “Buy Up” a “cadillac, gold plated” policy, which is why my company is discontinuing it. I certainly don’t blame my company, which already pays the vast majority of my premiums as a “benefit,” since they needed to avoid the 40% tax the regime was going to hit them with.
As usual, any time the government names something, like “affordable,” you can take to the bank it’s going to be far LESS affordable. In my case, I’ll be spending at least an additional $4000 a year in medical expenses, which used to be covered. But at least it should allow me to take the medical deduction on my taxes next year, even though they raised the minimum you have to spend in order to deduct it, as well as the amount you can deduct.
Thanks to Nan, Harry, and of course, Barkey, I won’t be participating in the economic recovery next year!
Mark
When I lose my policy, I will not sign up for the exchanges. When they send the fine, I will not pay it. Eventually, they MUST issue a warrant to arrest me for not paying the fines and when they do, I will ignore its command. Eventually, they will have to act to enforce that warrant and then they will knock on my door, when they do I will not answer it. Eventually, they will be forced to kick the door in and when they do they will be met with resistance and they will pay a price.
Of course, I know that I will pay the ultimate price, but they must be willing to shoot me dead in order to mandate their health insurance utopia. It is that way with every one of their desires, but this one is my bright line.
What's the big deal? These are the same people who will be expected to finance social security, medicare, and the national debt... Thanks much, we older people really appreciate you taking on the burden by voting for Barkey and the dems. That's very generous of you...
Mark
Ya, free health care for all. Now go and find a doctor or a hospital.
In keeping with the airline counter analogy, it’s like forcing you to buy a $300 airplane ticket every month just in case you need it. No matter that you only fly once a year, mainly because you can’t afford more than that.
Wonder how long before big brother drops all pretenses and starts dictating what kind of house we can own, what kind of car we can drive, what kind of food we can eat, what kind of job we can hold, etc etc etc, all backed up by the lovely punishment of fines...er taxes if we don’t obey. We all know the real reason for Obamacare being such a wet dream for dear leader.
If I wasn’t a strong believer in the immorality of the initiation of force, there’d be a lot of useful idiots walking around with broken noses. One has to be a complete retard to vote for this kind of thing and think pigs would start flying just because big brother said it would happen.
Look for the revolt to begin.
Great plan! Guess they overlooked the fact that their policies killed the economy and half of the "Golden Goose'ers" don't have a fargin job!