Lose Insurance Under Obamacare, Speak Up, IRS Audits You

American Thinker ^ | 11/29/2013 | Ethel C. Fenig

[SeekAndFind]

It was tragic that Bill Elliot of South Carolina was stricken with cancer; reassuring that his excellent insurance covered his expensive but medically advanced treatment and he was doing well.

And then came another tragedy--in the form of an elitist, totalitarian, Know It All Government, almost worse than the cancer. The Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, deemed Elliot's fine insurance policy unacceptable--probably because it didn't include maternity coverage--and offered him another policy with higher, "affordable" premiums that Elliot couldn't afford. As he told Megyn Kelly of Fox News, he didn't want to burden his family with the unaffordable affordable premiums so he decided to do without insurance and "let nature take its course."

But then...good news! Health insurance broker C. Stephen Tucker learned about Elliot's plight from Fox News and helped him keep his insurance.

Uh, no! Another tragedy. Mustn't upset the Big Man in the Big White (racist, I know) House from Chicago who wasn't joking more than four years ago when he told the Arizona State University Board of Regents that it was good he received an honorary degree from the school otherwise they "will soon learn all about being audited by the IRS." Yep, suddenly--and not coincidentally--Elliot and Tucker are being audited by the IRS, joining a list of other organizations and individuals who are also suddenly enduring an IRS audit or other problems after disagreeing with Obama such as several Tea Party and conservative groups, prominent black physician Dr. Ben Carson who has publicly criticized Obamacare, Catholic professor Ann Hendershott who also had the audacity to publicly disagree with Obama and even the billionaire owners of the Chicago Cubs.

Remember, President Barack Obama (D) learned his politics in Chicago with its Chicago Way's "progressive politics" as he bluntly explained in June, 2008 by paraphrasing Eliot Ness,

[Arrowhead1952]

probably because it didn’t include maternity coverage

Yup, all men need maternity coverage included in their insurance. < /sarc>

[LostInBayport]

The insurance company is forced to include into the policy of a 60 year old male coverage for pediatric dental, maternity, etc. on a list of stuff he will never need to use, so this forces the rate up. Why does it force the rate up when the insurance company can be confident that he will never use those plan features.

Just a guess: they don't consider whether or not he will use those plan features. They are providing the coverage and charge accordingly. It is like the grocery checkout. The cashier has no idea whether you will ever eat any of the food coming down the conveyor belt, but you're still going to pay for it. In this case, it is your government that is piling the conveyor belt with foods you hate.

[Biggirl]

Would the fair tax help those who are low income?

[Windflier]

The story as it stands is merely an anecdote that something bad happened to a person.

Did you just wake up from a six year long sleep, or do you just enjoy being a contrarian?

Your statement is a naked defense of the most heinous regime this country has ever seen. I can hardly believe that a Freeper wrote it.

[Tau Food]

I think the only way to put the brakes on Obamacare now would be a massive boycott of the entire health care system. If millions of Americans just refuse to participate, the system will be forced to change.

For several months now, I have abstained from going to doctors or taking prescription drugs. I have been as happy and as healthy as ever before. I think most people will be surprised to find that they will live longer, healthier and happier lives without doctors.

If enough people boycott, this system can be stopped! But, if you participate, you tacitly support the system.

[SoCal Pubbie]

“I’m criticizing specifically the absence of actual evidence, of the type you describe, in the article.”

How about the third sentence in the article?

“The Affordable Care Act, Obamacare, deemed Elliot’s fine insurance policy unacceptable...”

“To disprove my point, one would have to demonstrate that nobody had ever lost their coverage prior to this year.”

No, one would not have to do that. One need only show that policies are being dropped because they do not comply with Obamamcare. No statistics from previous years are needed to show that, because that’s NEVER happened before.

[CitizenUSA]

Why does covering all these additional items add to the insurance costs of those who won’t use them? That’s a good question. The answer is simple. It’s called shared expense, aka wealth redistribution. The 60 year old male who doesn’t need an abortion, for example, has his premium jacked up so that a 20 year old female who likes hooking up can have “free” abortions. In the interest of “fairness,” Obamacare makes everyone share the burden of paying for all sorts of stuff most of them will never likely need. The people who do need them will obviously pay much less than those things would have otherwise cost. It’s called socialism.

[Auntie Dem]

Not every IRS letter is an audit. Most are just notices of a correction of math errors, or the result of Form 1099 matching. If your bank reported to the IRS that they paid you $500 in interest, but your tax return only reported $400 the IRS pointing that out to you is not an audit. An audit is when the IRS calls you into their office, or come to yours, and require you to provide receipts for deductions, or make inquiries about the details of a reduction to determine if the current law allows it to be deductible. Their are insufficient facts about these particular “audits” to know if they are really being audited.