Posted on 08/19/2013 6:45:42 PM PDT by xzins
Jeffrey offers a hypothetical example, basing his calculations on the Kaiser Family Foundations online subsidy calculator.
A 50-year-old divorcee with three children who earns $47,100 a year would be faced with an annual health insurance premium of $11,140. However, since her household income is only 200 percent of the FPL for a family of four, she would receive a subsidy of $8,172 to keep her insurance cost to 6.3 percent of her income, or $2,967.
Our single mom meets a 56-year-old man who makes $63,000 a year and pays an annual premium of $7,041 with no subsidy because his income exceeds 400 percent of the FPL for an individual.
As long as the two remain unwed even if they choose to cohabit they will pay a total of $10,008 in insurance premiums each year, with taxpayers picking up the rest of the tab. But if they decide to tie the knot, their combined income will make them both ineligible for a subsidy, and they will therefore have to pay the full cost of their insurance, which will now come to $18,181 a year, or 16.5 percent of their income.
At most, only two million married couples (out of nearly 60 million married couples in the country) are projected to benefit from the health insurance tax credit in any year through 2021. Almost half of the beneficiaries of the tax credit will be unmarried individuals without dependent children.
...it is clear that ObamaCare ...rewards people who dont marry, dont work and dont take care of their own children. It punishes people who do marry, work hard and take care of their own children. And that is just one more reason it needs to go..
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what welfare did to the black family, obamacare will do to the entire population.
I am not sure but neither of them have those diseases.
What is for sure is that more and more people are going to start having problems with getting the meds they need with the government making all the decisions.
People are also busy getting procedures done ahead of full Obamacare implementation.
Yes, as I understand it, they will not be an option in the future.
I was talking about how to do it now so that it makes sense.
It’s sad they are taking that freedom away from us. We were going to retire early, and use the HSA option. It would fit us perfectly. Now we have to get Obamacare, pay more - much more, and get substandard insurance.
“Where? I thought you need a marriage license before the church will do any marriage ceremony. [California]”
Everywhere. A church can marry you in a religious ceremony without your obtaining a state license. Some won’t do it, but there is nothing to prohibit them from marrying you in a religious ceremony. In the secular sense, you won’t be married, but in the religious sense you will.
Ancient history now, but in the past certain states wouldn’t issue licenses to marry to mixed race couples. The Catholic churches in particular would simply marry the couples in a religious ceremony and in effect tell the state to go pound sand.
“Indeed, I ask where as well! I know homosexuals did it for years, but I know of no clergy who will without the license.”
You’ll have to look. I know that Catholic priests have the option to do so, but generally won’t absent a grave consideration. E.g. state prohibition on mixed race marriages.
I think it will be more common in coming years as various churches become unwilling to play ball on an ever evolving definition of legal marriage...which is likely to include an arrangement with 3 women, two men, and a wombat named Bob.
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