Posted on 11/14/2013 5:11:16 AM PST by IBD editorial writer
Taxes: Once upon a time, President Obama promised he wouldn't raise taxes on the middle class. Millions of those getting insurance cancellation notices are finding out how fraudulent that promise was, too.
Matthew Fleischer, a freelance writer in Los Angeles, recently learned ObamaCare will force him off a plan he likes, and a comparable policy will cost him nearly $800 more next year.
"Most young, middle-class Americans I know are happy that millions of previously uninsured people will receive free or heavily subsidized insurance under the Affordable Care Act," he wrote in a Los Angeles Times op-ed. "We just didn't realize that, unless we had health insurance at work, we'd be the ones paying for it."
Adam Weldzius, a nurse practitioner in Illinois, came to the same realization after finding that his premiums will go up nearly $3,000 a year. "I believe everybody should be able to have health insurance, but at the same time, I'm being penalized. And for what?"
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The timing of cancellations like yours will impact people’s minds as the build-up to the 2014 elections gets into full swing.
There will be serious payback against Obama, IMO.
Not really, when a Democrat says “middle class”, it’s code for “workers”. (If you substitute the phrases “workers” or “proletariate” for all instances of “middle class” used as a noun and “workers and their families” for all instances of “middle class families” Democrat talking points since about the year 2003 have become identical to Communist Party talking points — the reverse substitution makes CPUSA literature sound just like the Democrats.)
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