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 individualsbut not employersto 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 fourtwo parents and two childrenearning $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 insurancebecause their employers decided not to buy their workers insurancethe 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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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!
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”
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.
Let’s see this tax, I mean subsidy scale. What about a family of four earning $50,000?
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