Posted on 10/02/2013 5:30:57 PM PDT by whitedog57
Obamacare is off to a rocky start. Let’s use the Commonwealth of Virginia as an example.
Using the Kaiser Family Foundation calculator, I used a family of 5 with two adults (40 and 41 years old) and 3 children living in Fairfax, Virginia. I varied the annual salary by increments of $10,000 up to $120,000.
The annual premium for healthcare would be $11,451 in 2014. And here is the healthcare subsidy calculator.
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Under $30,000, you receive no Obamacare subsidies, probably because you pay NOTHING for healthcare!!!!
AND you receive a Federal healthcare subsidy all the way up to 400% of the poverty limit!
In 2011, the median household income for Virginia was $61,882. So, Obamacare gives you a healthcare subsidy up to TWICE median household income!
State differently, everyone making OVER $120,000 a year pays for those making less $120,000. Talk about a blatant transfer of wealth.
Not only will this be extraordinarily expensive, but it is a blatant attempt to buy votes.
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I've never figured why anyone thought of the US as isolationist. Any more than Brazil or Argentina was isolationist, that is. The real problem is that the countries directly at risk are not merely isolationists - they are fantasists. Unless countries that act this way pay the price, everyone else will fall back on Uncle Sam as the unpaid janissary of first resort. We've defended them repeatedly in the past. It's time the training wheels came off.
Bottom line is that I’m not thrilled with the idea of Uncle Sam as a military slave to the world.
That is our history. We fight and go home. We hate war.
Later on, war finds us.
$6000.00 deductible, he said. He didn’t mention his co-pays. He and his wife are in their mid-40’s and have an 11 year old child.
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