“If you like it, you can keep it”: ObamaCare set to trigger insurance policy cancellations

Hotair ^ | 05/30/2013 | Erika Johnsen

[Irenic]

That’s what we should have told Chicago— if you like it, you can keep it.

[MarkL]

I really liked my company’s “Buy Up” medical insurance plan, which allowed for lower copays and additional coverage for a higher monthly premium.

The Obama regime called the “Buy Up” a “cadillac, gold plated” policy, which is why my company is discontinuing it. I certainly don’t blame my company, which already pays the vast majority of my premiums as a “benefit,” since they needed to avoid the 40% tax the regime was going to hit them with.

As usual, any time the government names something, like “affordable,” you can take to the bank it’s going to be far LESS affordable. In my case, I’ll be spending at least an additional $4000 a year in medical expenses, which used to be covered. But at least it should allow me to take the medical deduction on my taxes next year, even though they raised the minimum you have to spend in order to deduct it, as well as the amount you can deduct.

Thanks to Nan, Harry, and of course, Barkey, I won’t be participating in the economic recovery next year!

Mark

[EQAndyBuzz]

10,000 a year here and not only is the premium going up, but my deductible is going up with it.

[CSM]

When I lose my policy, I will not sign up for the exchanges. When they send the fine, I will not pay it. Eventually, they MUST issue a warrant to arrest me for not paying the fines and when they do, I will ignore its command. Eventually, they will have to act to enforce that warrant and then they will knock on my door, when they do I will not answer it. Eventually, they will be forced to kick the door in and when they do they will be met with resistance and they will pay a price.

Of course, I know that I will pay the ultimate price, but they must be willing to shoot me dead in order to mandate their health insurance utopia. It is that way with every one of their desires, but this one is my bright line.

[nascarnation]

Eventually, they MUST issue a warrant to arrest me for not paying the fines.

I'd like a link to that info. All I've read is that they are authorized to garnish income tax refunds.

[MarkL]

That means much of the burden of the law will be on the hipster generation of Americans in their 20s and 30s, who will have to choose between paying a tax or paying for insurance they may not want. …

What's the big deal? These are the same people who will be expected to finance social security, medicare, and the national debt... Thanks much, we older people really appreciate you taking on the burden by voting for Barkey and the dems. That's very generous of you...

Mark

[MarkL]

I'd like a link to that info. All I've read is that they are authorized to garnish income tax refunds.

Eventually the IRS will come after you to imprison you. Just ask Wesley Snipes.

Mark

[nascarnation]

So this is your opinion, and not based on the current law?

Just trying to clarify.

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

0bamacare is Unconstitutional. Why should Americans comply with something that’s Unconstitutional? The evil of John Roberts’ decision cannot be overstated. I applaud your stance!

[CSM]

“I’d like a link to that info. All I’ve read is that they are authorized to garnish income tax refunds.”

There is no link, it is the only way that ANY law can be enforced. Every law is only valid because of government guns. In addition, I do not pay extra throughout the year, so I do not get refunds.

[SkyDancer]

Ya, free health care for all. Now go and find a doctor or a hospital.

[SeekAndFind]

What we need is for hundreds of thousands of you to do the same thing.

They won’t be able to enforce it.

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[DaxtonBrown]

{I’d like a link to that info. All I’ve read is that they are authorized to garnish income tax refunds. }

It’s really implicit in the law, not explicit. Once you have say $100 billion in uncollected Obamacare taxes, the IRS will be forced to start Gulags.
http://www.futurnamics.com/gulag.php

[Nowhere Man]

Of course, I know that I will pay the ultimate price, but they must be willing to shoot me dead in order to mandate their health insurance utopia. It is that way with every one of their desires, but this one is my bright line.

Well, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn seems to agree.

“And how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether he would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling with terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand?... The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt! If...if...We didn't love freedom enough. And even more – we had no awareness of the real situation.... We purely and simply deserved everything that happened afterward.”

[Nowhere Man]

0bamacare is Unconstitutional. Why should Americans comply with something that’s Unconstitutional? The evil of John Roberts’ decision cannot be overstated. I applaud your stance!

Well, I still am convinced that he (Roberts) was brought off or "The Man" has something on him and is blackmailing him to tow the line.

[Nowhere Man]

brought = bought

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

We’re in the midst of learning we are under a Dictatorship. No doubt Holder dragged out some manila folders on Roberts..

[Prince of Space]

Thanks. That passage has inspired me and only strengthens my resolve.