Posted on 03/11/2016 2:51:38 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
Health Reform: By now, ObamaCare was supposed to have 21 million enrollees. A new study says it’s not likely to ever attract even 15 million. Even for government work, that’s a big miss.
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Chief roberts blessed this upon us
The good news - 16,000 new IRS agents will make sure all penalties will be collected by force if required.
They DID just buy a lot of ammo and weapons. Those irs ninjas want to get their rocks off.
“Health reform” has cost my family a fortune. I want to sue! Even before Obamacare was “official” the insurance companies felt free to raise our rates at extremely inflated percentages every year for years leading up to it — 56%, 32%, 40%, etc. And we have received NOTHING in return except the same old same old crap. Now we are forced to buy benefits we don’t even use. Don’t tell me how the insurers have lost out!!!
For every insured person (we'll call this A) who is covered for triple bypass surgery, hip replacement or cancer treatments, the insurance carrier needs to have some number (we'll call it X) of other insured customers who don't have any medical expenses at all.
Insurance carriers are facing a major financial dilemma because the ratio of healthy people to sick people (X/A) is declining rapidly.
P.S. -- This is one big reason why every government agency and industry in the U.S. is hell-bent on allowing free and open immigration. They need to get that "X" number higher even if it means importing these people from Third World dumps all over the planet.
That seems to be an unreasonable assumption (that immigrants would have a lower chance of having health problems than native citizens).
Those who did not sign up for Obamacare must pay a penalty of $383.
6 out of 10 working poor who signed up for Obamacare must pay a penalty of $579 (per AP and H&R Block).
So Obamacare is a tax on the healthy working poor who must subsidize the obese, cigarette smoking, alcoholic and drug addicted unhealthy poor?
$383 and $579 on average. The harder the working poor family worked, the more they are penalized above the $579.
This was in Cali, Colombia (keep that in mind)...the services were professional, courteous and thorough. Not being a Colombian citizen I was required to pay the cash going rate. The week's total for everything was equivalent $651 US. The difference??????
Colombia has no welfare class, gimmiedats, freeloaders and lawyers who sue everyone at the drop of a hat. Everybody works - sink or swim.
The very first thing President Trump should do is Issue an Executive Order Mandating that ALL PUBLIC EMPLOYEES NATIONWIDE Immediately Enroll in Obamacare. Under threat of CRIMINAL PROSECUTION of Course.
Every City, County, State, and the TAXPAYERS will Save $$BILLIONS of Wasted Dollars on High Priced Inferior Health Plans, Our Public Employees deserve the Very Best, Low Cost, High Quality Health Plan the Nation has to offer, that my friends, according to President Obama, The Media,Hollywood,.. and Virtually EVERY PUBLIC EMPLOYEE UNION is OBAMACARE.
I heard someone claim success that 29% without insurance had insurance now. Is that not a failure with 71% not insured, where, the law requires everyone be insured.
Obamacare is not perfect, but at least those of us who liked our health care plan were able to keep our health care plan.
Obamacare is not perfect, but at least those of us who liked our doctors were able to keep our doctors.
Obamacare is not perfect, but at least the average family of four has saved $2500 a year on Obamacare, solving our family financial problems.
Obamacare is not perfect, but at least they are not wasting our tax dollars by covering illegals with Obamacare (Obama claimed it wouldn’t happen, and Congressman Joe Wilson famously said “you lie!”). http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2009/sep/09/joe-wilson/joe-wilson-south-carolina-said-obama-lied-he-didnt/ http://www.politico.com/story/2015/07/california-may-let-undocumented-immigrants-buy-obamacare-120249
Obamacare is not perfect, but at least nuns with the “Little Sisters of the Poor” now have free abortion and birth control pills, solving a major national problem.
That seems to be an unreasonable assumption (that immigrants would have a lower chance of having health problems than native citizens).
For example, studies in Canada showed that smokers saved the Healthcare system quite a bit of money - by dying relatively soon after retirement.
It’s plausible that immigrants could be much less healthy, but more cheaply treatable, at least early on, before they join the elderly population...which is sort of two things.
But you have to remember that the immigrants are generally much younger than the Americans they are replacing.
If you need any evidence of this, just consider this:
Despite the ridiculous rates of escalation in health care costs over the years, there are some medical procedures that have gotten considerably cheaper over time. Two perfect examples of this are laser eye surgery and cosmetic plastic surgery.
These two procedures have one thing in common: They aren't covered by most health insurance plans. As a result, doctors who perform them must price their services according to the capability of their customer base to pay for these services directly.
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