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To: sergeantdave
The goal is to reach the estimated 30 million people who qualify for enrollment through the marketplaces.

The number will be at least four times that large before this disease runs its course. Marginal businesses are already dropping their coverage and agreeing to pay fines instead. Many others are turning full time employees to part-timers in order to avoid being socked with mandated coverage.

For the rest of us, the coverage will just get more expensive and crappier.

10 posted on 06/22/2013 7:01:22 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: Vigilanteman
There are going to be some that actually benefit from Obamacare. The problem is that many people are going to feel the opposite effect.

If you are a family of four, without any employer based coverage, making around $50k total a year, your monthly premiums are going to be about $450 a month. Not cheap, but still heavily subsidized.

So who is really getting screwed, besides all the people that pay heavier taxes to pay for the program? Single males, who won't get much of a subsidy, but get to pay an insurance rate that covers women in their most fertile years. The upper middle class who enroll in this program, who will see there isn't any difference between making $85k and $95k because every extra dollar made either goes for income tax or health insurance as the government subsidy goes to zero.

The biggest screw of all, that same family of four above if dad is offered employee and not family coverage. While before he could have elected for high deductible or catastrophic coverage before, now in order to have insurance he will have to enroll in at least a "bronze" plan, but doesn't qualify for a subsidy. How many $50k families can afford $1200-1500 a month in premiums. That's a house payment. The democrats went on and on about the "doughnut hole" in the medicaid part D legislation. It is nothing compared to the black hole many Americans are going to face with this screwup in the ACA bill.

12 posted on 06/22/2013 7:25:12 PM PDT by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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