tracking your insurance status, imposing penalties under individual and employer mandate, forcing people into government health (including the middle class through subsidized policies) and imposing national health care.
The “Exchange” is not a marketplace. It’s a federal website (”state” in name only) on the federal Hub.
The bill sets up a federally-controlled board of seven political appointees in charge of maintaining 24/7 online IT connections with the Federal Data Services Hub.
In MN, The board is exempt from many state laws including rulemaking (you’ll have no meaningful right to object to anything it does) and the Minnesota Government data practices Act (you’ll have no transparency, no access to government records, no protections and no penalties).
They will save a LOT of money with ObamaCARE.
For example, the imported “doctors” from Somalia and other
Islamic terrorist-laden countries promise
to not even bother to wash their hands for dhimmis.
That will make the free-loading Somali Muslims in their DFL paradise very happy. They can bring all their relatives to live in MN, close to their blind sheik terrorist leader.
And I got a letter, yesterday. Seems the premiums in my company’s health plan are going up 45%, effective next month.
We’d applied to the other small group insurers in the state (all three of them, because it’s not like we’d want any real competition in health insurance), and they were more expensive, still.
Is that like being the least-diseased prostitute in the whorehouse?
The drive-bys are trying their best to make Obamacare sound like a great deal.
But the fact of the matter is, public and private businesses are dumping their employees by the droves onto the exchanges. So for the first time in their working lives, a huge number of people are going to actually see what health insurance costs and have to write a personal check for it. (In reality, they always paid for it, as it was part and parcel of their employment package, but never had to write the check themselves.)
In most people’s minds, if they don’t pay for it directly, it’s FREE.
There will be a revolt of some sort. I just hope the revolt is targeted at Democrats who voted for this monstrosity.
And they will be for the first 12 months, after which the fund will be bankrupt
No no no. They don’t understand. People don’t want to pay ANYTHING for health insurance. It was free for them previously because they didn’t want to pay for it. If their pay check suddenly goes down by $200 a month, their car will be repossessed.
My sister pays NOTHING for health insurance because she doesn’t have it and “can’t afford it”. But she can afford a car payment and a $150 a month cell phone.
Also, the software to run this STILL doesn’t work right, so these “costs” are just estimates at this point.
As per my employer, my coverage meets the mandated minimums, but will go up aprox $925 annual.
And my last two family practice doctors have both quit rather than switch to the Obamacare framework. The doc we have now, I can’t understand because of his heavy foreign accent.
“How much is your premium” is the wrong question.
The proper question is “How much is the cost of your health care coverage and who is paying for it?”
In most cases, the patient (assuming he/she accesses the health care system) pays a certain amount, depending upon co-pays and deductibles as well as the type of coverage. But the rest of the cost is borne by taxpayers (to pay for the subsidies for low income patients and program administration) and/or consumers (in the form of higher prices should the employer continue to participate in plans for their employees).
Over time, the actual cost of health care for the individual will rise or the quality of actual health care will go down...or both. Either way, the cost to the taxpayers and consumers will steadily rise as government spending continues to rise in the administration of the health care law.
This has been the case for Medicaid (low income families and children) and Medicare (basically elderly) for several decades now. The difference, of course, is that the rest of the people in the country have now been forced into the mix.
Enacting this law was a significant first step for those who dream of transforming this country into a European style Socialist Democracy form of government.
The logical next step is to default to a “single payer” system when the level of complaints about this new system reach a “critical mass” (probably within one generation).