Now that the government owns your healthcare, they can make you do what they want. You Smoke? Pay more! Overweight? Pay more! Drive an V8? Pay more! Own a gun? Pay more!
Now that the government owns your healthcare, they can make you do what they want. You Smoke? Pay more! Overweight? Pay more! Drive an V8? Pay more! Own a gun? Pay more!
“more expensive for them than Americans with other unhealthy habits.”
Like sodomy?
Are homos getting higher premiums?
I smoke and cigarettes never gave me AIDS or STDs.
Smokers cost less in healthcare because they die sooner.
I thought they were already charged higher premiums. How does this change things?
Vote Republican? PAY EVEN MORE!!!!!!!!!!
Make druggies, queers and other sodomites pay double or triple too.
"You are all fools. WE do not care, because
WE do not LIVE UNDER the laws and taxes we pass for YOU."
I used to smoke, but I lost all my cigars in an unfortunate boating accident.
How much will hussein have to pay?
Too funny as this will effect mostly current Obama supporters.
All Your Liberty Are Belong to Government
Smokers are already paying huge taxes for health care.
First smokers. Then the overweight. All so that the government can take our money and pay for abortions, sex “change” operations, and AIDS treatment.
There is NOTHING in your life that couldn’t fall under the rubrik of “affects the healthcare system”.
Of course, like a later poster said, this will exclude behavior choices like sodomy, etc.
Fascism.
I have a feeling that older smokers won't comply with Dear Leader's plan.
“A 60-year-old smoker charged with the penalty could be paying about $8,411 per year for health insurance, which is about 24 percent of a $35,000 income and is considered “unaffordable” under federal law.”
Unaffordable? There’s living expenses too. May as well die if you’re going to be charged that much on 35k a year.
Hey Obama, why don’t you just line us up and put a bullet in our collective brain pans?
Well they all followed Madame Pelosi who proclaimed that we’ll know what’s in it after we pass it. 20K for health insurance for a small family, 5k extra for smokers and fatties. The illiterate American voting public got exactly what it asked for.....4 more years of Bam.
could subject smokers to premiums that are 50 percent higher than usual, starting next Jan 1. Health insurers will be allowed to charge smokers penalties that overweight Americans or those with other health conditions would not be subjected to.
Yet-—Don’t worry they will get around to fat people, people who ride motorcycles or go skiing, people who own guns.
Once they get started they will not know where to stop.
“Health insurers will be allowed”
“Health insurers will be allowed”
“Health insurers will be allowed”
“Health insurers will be allowed”
I wonder what lobby is to rake it in, hammer and sickle?