The people I know without health insurance can’t afford it. Now they will have to pay a fine that most likely will be equal to the coverage premium that they could not afford in the first place. Does not make much sense.
Why do they call this Affordable? I can see if premiums were around $20-30 a month.
Obama Admin. Actuary Finds Unsustainable Status Quo Cheaper than Obamacare
http://spectator.org/blog/2009/11/16/obama-administration-actuaries
One of President Obama’s primary justifications for pushing health care legislation has been that the status quo is “unsustainable” because of the skyrocketing cost of medical care in the United States. The way to rein in costs, he argues, is to do adopt the policies that he and his fellow Democrats are proposing. But a new report by the government actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, a branch of the Obama administration’s Department of Health and Human Services, has found that the exact opposite is true. CMS took a close look at the health care bill that was passed by House Democrats and endorsed by the White House, and it found that not only would the bill not reduce health care costs — it would increase them. Time and again, we have been reminded that the United States spends a higher percentage of its GDP on health care than any other nation — about 16 percent. As Obama but it in his June speech to the American Medical Association, “If we fail to act, one out of every five dollars we earn will be spent on health care within a decade.” Yet if we adopt the legislation supported by Obama — which finances expanded coverage through tax increases and Medicare cuts — health care spending will actually rise to 21.1 percent of GDP, according to CMS, compared to 20.8 percent if we simply do nothing.
Why do they call this Affordable?
Almost everything radicals give a name or title is the opposite of what it sounds.
The saddest part of all this is what g’mnt does to the actual working poor.
By actual I mean the people who try to get by without the help of the g’mnt.
Which, sad to say, are fewer and fewer people who do not give in and take the g’mnt cheese.
I grew up “poor”.
Although my friends family who got the full government package. Lived in a clean modern “project housing” that was toasty warm in the winter and cool in the summer. They had a big color tv with cable (HBO), always had a running car, and plenty of food. Oh, and healthcare.
As far as I could tell they what was wrong with the old man was he had a limp and was a little over weight. He never had any difficulty setting up at the Flea Market.
Likewise, his wife was a little plump.