Lose Insurance Under Obamacare, Speak Up, IRS Audits You

American Thinker ^ | 11/29/2013 | Ethel C. Fenig

[Arrowhead1952]

probably because it didn’t include maternity coverage

Yup, all men need maternity coverage included in their insurance. < /sarc>

[LostInBayport]

The insurance company is forced to include into the policy of a 60 year old male coverage for pediatric dental, maternity, etc. on a list of stuff he will never need to use, so this forces the rate up. Why does it force the rate up when the insurance company can be confident that he will never use those plan features.

Just a guess: they don't consider whether or not he will use those plan features. They are providing the coverage and charge accordingly. It is like the grocery checkout. The cashier has no idea whether you will ever eat any of the food coming down the conveyor belt, but you're still going to pay for it. In this case, it is your government that is piling the conveyor belt with foods you hate.

[Biggirl]

Would the fair tax help those who are low income?

[Windflier]

The story as it stands is merely an anecdote that something bad happened to a person.

Did you just wake up from a six year long sleep, or do you just enjoy being a contrarian?

Your statement is a naked defense of the most heinous regime this country has ever seen. I can hardly believe that a Freeper wrote it.

[Tau Food]

I think the only way to put the brakes on Obamacare now would be a massive boycott of the entire health care system. If millions of Americans just refuse to participate, the system will be forced to change.

For several months now, I have abstained from going to doctors or taking prescription drugs. I have been as happy and as healthy as ever before. I think most people will be surprised to find that they will live longer, healthier and happier lives without doctors.

If enough people boycott, this system can be stopped! But, if you participate, you tacitly support the system.

[SoCal Pubbie]

“I’m criticizing specifically the absence of actual evidence, of the type you describe, in the article.”

How about the third sentence in the article?

“The Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, deemed Elliot’s fine insurance policy unacceptable...”

“To disprove my point, one would have to demonstrate that nobody had ever lost their coverage prior to this year.”

No, one would not have to do that. One need only show that policies are being dropped because they do not comply with Obamamcare. No statistics from previous years are needed to show that, because that’s NEVER happened before.

[CitizenUSA]

Why does covering all these additional items add to the insurance costs of those who won’t use them? That’s a good question. The answer is simple. It’s called shared expense, aka wealth redistribution. The 60 year old male who doesn’t need an abortion, for example, has his premium jacked up so that a 20 year old female who likes hooking up can have “free” abortions. In the interest of “fairness,” Obamacare makes everyone share the burden of paying for all sorts of stuff most of them will never likely need. The people who do need them will obviously pay much less than those things would have otherwise cost. It’s called socialism.

[Auntie Dem]

Not every IRS letter is an audit. Most are just notices of a correction of math errors, or the result of Form 1099 matching. If your bank reported to the IRS that they paid you $500 in interest, but your tax return only reported $400 the IRS pointing that out to you is not an audit. An audit is when the IRS calls you into their office, or come to yours, and require you to provide receipts for deductions, or make inquiries about the details of a reduction to determine if the current law allows it to be deductible. Their are insufficient facts about these particular “audits” to know if they are really being audited.