Posted on 06/28/2012 11:53:55 PM PDT by NoLibZone
Consumer penalties: Part of the controversy surrounding health care reform was that the law would mandate coverage for all Americans on pain of penalties. Those penalties will be tiered and rise over a three-year period that kicks off in 2014, according to the National Association of Consumer Protection:
2014: Families––$285 or 1 percent of total household income, whichever is greater. Individual adults––$95. 2015: Families––$975 or 2 percent of income, whichever is greater. Individual adults––$325. 2016: Families––$2,085 or 2.5 percent of income, whichever is greater. Individual adults––$695.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/what-obamas-affordable-care-act-will-cost-consumers-2012-6#ixzz1zAA0EjcL
(Excerpt) Read more at businessinsider.com ...
And the rich can hide and delay income, so it really has no effect on them.
It’s the middle class that has to draw a paycheck each week and is thus the one that covers the costs and deficits.
The looters love the ER becasue it’s one stop.
Exam, Blood work with immediate results and the prescription.
My wife use to see illegals for tooth aches at the ER!!!
Big monkey in the room was Kagan... she should have been forced to recuse herself from the SCOTUS decision... then it would have been tied. What a farce.
What legal immigrants come here poor? None that I ever saw going through the process.
What legal immigrants come here poor? None that I ever saw going through the process.
[The looters love the ER becasue it’s one stop.
Exam, Blood work with immediate results and the prescription.
My wife use to see illegals for tooth aches at the ER!!!]
The hospitals signed on to ObamaCare because—among other things—they thought it would cut down on the uninsured using their emergency rooms.
First $70,000 tax free (limit may have changed). Watch out for those taxes on earningz in some countries where you working and registering yoour tax home. Make our tax rates look like a bargain.
Who would have thought that a professor community agitator marxist professor that never worked a day in the private sector would come up with such brilliant “solutions” such as giving billions to phoney green energy companies that go bankrupt, bailing out unions while shafting bondholders and non-union pensioners, over $1 Trillion on “shovel ready” jobs that “I guess weren’t actually shovel ready, hah ha.” Now he gives everyone “FREE” healthcare to buy votes. How does a person love America and at the same time does not HATE Barack Obama?
That...IS funny!!
So, a “family” with 2 kids will pay the samy as a “family” with ten kids.
Talked to a small business owner last night. He’s got a wife and 4 kids. His premiums are $650 a month, or $7,800 a year, with a $10,000 deduction. He’ll be one of the first to say “fine me and give me the insurance.”
There are so many questions about these “fines”. What if daddy is killed and the insurance through work stops? Does the family immediately get fined? And how much is the fine since the family is now without a father?
What if there’s an accident and half the family is killed. Does the remaining family get a pro-rated rebate?
And as far as family, can parents and parents-in-law and grown kids move in and call themselves a family? Hell, can the neighbor move in and call themselves a family. And the big question: Can two men pretending to be gay move in and be considered a family?
I just ran the numbers.
I’d be better off paying the fine than Medicare +BCBS supplement.
You bring up another question. If a person is arrested for not paying his fine, does he get insured while in prison? Does his family?
At some point in the last 2 weeks I thought I read where these fines apply ONLY if your state has a Health Insurance Exchange and you refuse to participate.
In states without a Health Insurance exchange, the fine does not apply
26 Republican Governors have declared their states will not participate in the Health Care scheme.
50% + 1?
It’s not a fine, it’s a tax, silly. We pay those every day. /sarc
I think there are states that will not participate in Medicaide. But they’ll still have their “EXCHANGES”, whatever that is. So, will those people on medicaide now be fined because their state no longer offers it?
Dont forget free taxi rides
The welfare mother with six kids with six different last names: Who pays her premium?
The newly arrived immigrant (both legal and illegal) without a dime on them: Who pays?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/what-health-bill-means-for-you/
Your coverage:
Right now:
If you have been unable to obtain health insurance as a result of a pre-existing medical condition, you may be able to buy it through one of the “high risk pools” the law has set up in each state through the end of 2013. But the premiums in the pools vary and can be high.
Starting in 2014:
Based on your income, it appears you would be eligible for Medicaid beginning no later than 2014. The law expands Medicaid to all individuals and families with incomes at or below 133 percent of the federal poverty level. But the court found that states cannot be penalized if they decline to comply with the expansion, raising questions as to how effectively the federal government will be able to implement it.
Very good question. Medicare can't be used outside of the US, territories, and maybe possessions, so paying for medicare outside of the US is a waste of money. It would be a small consolation if Obamacare had the same pattern.
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