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Senate HC Bill Forces Yearly Insurance Fees
CNSNews.com ^ | December 15, 2009 | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 12/16/2009 12:07:21 PM PST by misharu

Forget the public option. Even without it, the health care bill presented in the Senate by Majority Leader Harry Reid (D.-Nev.) would make some middle-class American families pay what amounts to a $15,200 annual federally-mandated insurance fee, according to facts revealed in analyses published by the Congressional Budget Office.

The fee would result from the facts that the bill requires individuals—but not employers—to purchase health insurance plans and that families that earn up to 400 percent of the federal poverty level would be given government subsidies to purchase insurance in government-regulated insurance exchanges while families earning more than 400 percent of the federal poverty level would be denied government subsidies.

A family of four—two parents and two children—earning $88,200 would be at 400 percent of the poverty level this year, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. A family of four earning $88,201, therefore, would not be eligible for a federal subsidy to buy insurance under the Senate health-care bill. If the mother and father in such a family could not get employer-based health insurance—because their employers decided not to buy their workers insurance—the family would be required by law to purchase a policy with its own money that would cost an estimated $15,200 per year, according to the CBO.

More at http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/58533

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TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obamacare; senatehealthcare

1 posted on 12/16/2009 12:07:22 PM PST by misharu
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To: misharu

The content of any version of federal health care is unconstitutional since Article 1 Section 8 does not specifically grant Congress the power to regulate health care. People need to drive this point home with their Congress critters!


2 posted on 12/16/2009 12:21:25 PM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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To: misharu

Now if the parents in that family of four earning $88,200 happened to be wild-eyed liberals who wet their pants for Obozo well, we’d just have to call that “poetic justice”


3 posted on 12/16/2009 12:23:37 PM PST by technically right
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To: Man50D

Doesn’t anyone in congress ever consult the judicial branch? I would think so since they are mostly lawyers. I’m sorry but to me that’s just one of the early steps in project management.


4 posted on 12/16/2009 1:06:30 PM PST by blackdog
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To: misharu

Let’s see this tax, I mean subsidy scale. What about a family of four earning $50,000?


5 posted on 12/16/2009 1:08:23 PM PST by blackdog
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To: blackdog
Doesn’t anyone in congress ever consult the judicial branch? I would think so since they are mostly lawyers. I’m sorry but to me that’s just one of the early steps in project management.

Several Congress critters are lawyers but it doesn't take a lawyer to understand the Constitution. Our founding fathers specifically did not write it in legalese so We the people could understand the Constitution.
6 posted on 12/16/2009 1:09:34 PM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax, you earn it, you keep it! www.FairTaxNation.com)
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