So far, my personal experience with the Affordable Care Act brings one word consistently to mind:
Extortion. So when politicians and beltway operatives say things like “Obamacare is the law and people need to accept that,” I’m bitterly disappointed. I’m angry and I know that the person uttering those words has probably never written a personal check for his or her health insurance premiums.
As someone who does pay for her own premiums, I like to think we can do better than suffer the type of extortion that I am experiencing as a self-employed American.
In 2015, my husband and I (both of us are self-employed) will pay $733 each month for our “Bronze” level health insurance plan. Yes, Bronze is the lowest (and the cheapest) of three levels of Affordable-Care-Act-qualified plans.
Our family deductible is $11,000. That’s very high. Here’s a reminder of what a deductible is, courtesy of healthcare.gov:
More @ U.S. News & World Report
Yup.
ReplyDeleteand that penalty of 1 or 2% of income for noncompliance is going to be much more than $400/family member.
Just make sure that you owe the government and not the other way around so they can''t collect it.
DeleteThis infuriates me, something MUST be done
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Delete“Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.”
― H.L. Mencken
28. "Some people are alive because it is illegal to kill them."
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I unrealistically thought this ghetto health insurance was going to be like France
ReplyDeleteor Germany's Universal Health Insurance, the best in the world. I mean, this is
the USA. What a joke. What an insult. Reading that many hospitals and free
clinics are all closing. I feel the free clinics are being forced to close. They were
the last resort and one just paid what one could afford if anything. The one
here in Asheville closed and has been around for 30 yrs. This, too, is communism.
I wonder what would happen if Grady in Atlanta closed. LOL (never happen)
the free clinics are being forced to close.
DeleteAbsolutely and of course Obamacare was devised to purposely collapse.