Also that an additive that has been quashed by the oil companies can turn water into gasoline with a few drops...
But, but, but....
If we HOPE for CHANGE long enough and hard enough it will really happen - just like the dream.
Won't it?
Posted on 12/27/2013 12:27:31 PM PST by SeekAndFind
They cost so much relative to my taxable income that I’m exempt. ;-)
The best part of it is also that bronze happens to make up the vast majority of Nancy Pelosi’s forehead.
No, because of the Out Of Pocket Maximum rules...
The insurance companies and hospitals/doctors are expected to eat a lot of costs...
Roughly:
the out-of-pocket limit in 2014 for medical and drug costs combined will not exceed $6,350 for individuals and $12,700 per family, as the PPACA stipulates.
From what I can tell there are even some silver plans that don't cover primary care. People that haven't bought insurance before are going to get caught by this and be stuck in that policy until next year. The policies that do cover primary care cost $10-50 dollars more per month in premiums. All the attention has been on the nonfunctional website. The media have done a really poor job informing the public of these other serious pitfalls.
Correction, the hospitals/doctors and insurance companies will not eat the costs, the taxpayers will pay them.
The Democrats have delivered HIGHER taxes, fees, fines,
deductibles, copays, with fewer docs, longer waits
and death for every family except all the EXEMPT
in DC, and their families, and their staff and mistresses.
There is some beautiful symbolism the republicans could use to start the drumbeat of repeal: the reset button. So simple, so effective, so in-your-face to Hillary.
I think the “free birth control” for young people is roughly akin to the circuses in “bread and circuses”.
The Dems still defend it saying, what’s your plan for helping the uninsured?
One answer is that when this is over there will be more uninsured than there were before. Because if you couldn’t afford insurance before, how are you going to afford it now that it costs 3 times as much and still doesn’t pay for anything?
My doc charges medicare $200 for an office call. Medicare allows only $130, Of which I pay 20% ($26), medicare pays 80% ($104).
He charges for an "extended visit" every time. Some of those extended visits last 5 minutes or less, not counting the time the nurse takes to weigh me and check my b.p. and pulse.
You know that a significant number of people believe that a perpetual motion machine is possible to build, right? Also that an additive that has been quashed by the oil companies can turn water into gasoline with a few drops...
“, not counting the time the nurse takes to weigh me and check my b.p. and pulse. “
Which, of course, is required by the government.
Not comletely true. They’ll have to cough up the deductable before the insurance comany pays anything, but they’ll be paying the negotiated rate from the beginning, and the difference between “rack rate” and the negotiated rate is much of the “high cost of health care”.
Because you can’t motivate the public to do anything about it until it impacts them directly. For most, that’ll come in ‘14, with a significant amount of it arranged to happen just after the election.
As a young adult who should be supporting Obama 100% according to the MSM, I checked my states exchange website. The basic bronze plan is almost $300/month with a $6,300 deductible before insurance covers 60% of the costs.
Or to put it another way, once I spend almost $10K out of pocket, insurance begins to cover part of my expenses. I’m choosing option “a” and “c.” Hopefully I won’t be geting a refund this year so the IRS won’t be getting my “fine.”
But, but, but....
If we HOPE for CHANGE long enough and hard enough it will really happen - just like the dream.
Won't it?
You could have a savings account to go along with it. Or set up a Tax Sheltered Annuity that allows withdrawals without penalties.
Give a little thought to the phrase “no lifetime maximum” in terms of what it means if you apply it to a business’s expenses and you’ll have your answer.
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