This is the part that I HATE:
If Congress passes the Senate health-care plan, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office, American families will be required by federal law to buy a federally approved health insurance plan that will cost a minimum of $12,000 per year–and, on average, will cost $15,000 per year — whether their employer or the government helps them with the premium or not.
Beginning in 2014, the Senate plan would require all individuals to buy health insurance. Anyone who does not obtain insurance through an employer would be forced to buy it out of their own pocket. Families of four that make up to 400 percent of poverty level–currently $88,200 per year–would receive a subsidy from the government to help pay for their premiums. That subsidy would attenuate as their income increased and would disappear when their income reached the 400 percent of poverty level.
Families earning more than $88,200 a year (or whatever 400 percent of the poverty level equals in any given year) would be entirely on their own. Under the Senate bill, employers would not be required to purchase health insurance for their workers, and if they decided not to do so, the maximum penalty they would have to pay would be $750 per year for each worker they did not insure who subsequently received a federal subsidy to buy insurance. The $750 penalty on employers who decided not to insure their workers would be far less than they would pay in premiums for the $12,000 minimum required plan.
I highly suggest that you go read the rest of that; because it is very important to read. I do smell a supreme court challenge to the law requiring people to buy insurance. This is one of the reasons why I believe this bill might actually fail; because the idea of the Government forcing the American people to buy insurance goes against the whole idea of freedom and liberty.
I do notice that there will subsidies for those who are in the low-income bracket. I just wonder, what are all the qualifiers for those of us, who are unemployed and cannot afford to get insurance? Are they going to come after me and toss me in jail, if I cannot afford to get insurance? I mean, would I have to put out the money, which I do not have, to get insurance and hope that I get a subsidy at a later day or would I get it up front?
You see, it is all these questions and the Congress’s unwillingness to explain all of this; is what has me a bit upset. But our side is not helping with all of the stupidity. I just want straight answers, and not stupid talking points from robotic partisan parrots.
I want answers and I am not seeing them. This is not good. Not good at all. 😡
We need to band together to fight this. We need to fight
to get our country back from the libs.
I agree. Thanks for the comment.
they are not democrats they are communists they want to turn USA into Soviet Union! It looks like the main purporse of Osama’s excuse me Obama’s 😈 administration is just destroy USA!!! Next they want to free 30 millions of illegal immigrants from prisons and legalize them so they will win the second election!!! They act against democracy!!! How do they sleep at night after all!!! We have to fight and elect only republicants because they are truly want the best for USA!!! 😡
Lera… That’s a bit harsh. But I’ll let it stand.
i just love that it wont cover abortions whith the publics money. i also think you guys are missunderstanding the bill because this is not just for the “lazy people” this is for hard working american who cant’ afford to get healthcare because they probally make a dollar more than someone who does get healthcare. if a woman wants to get an abortion she should have to paye for it since it’s so private and since most people never seem to do enough to prevent an unwanted pregnancy, so their easy way out is to use the publics money and get rid of it.NOT FAIR!!!!
As an objective foregin observer (british) I have to say that by not having any form of state sponsored healthcare, America has always looked somewhat backwards to the rest of us in the western world. It should be obvious that a healthy workforce is the bedrock of a healthy economy when it is considered that the skills and the knowledge that drives the economy is held within the minds of the workers. Allowing some low paid yet skilled workers free or low cost healthcare enables companies to maintain their operating parameters in a more predictable fashion and leads in turn to better management and therfore higher profits.
It follows then, that to have a state run system reduces costs to individuals at point of need, and also liquidises capital which would otherwise be funneled into the financial administration of the hospital, (not to mention the space it would save allowing for more treatment space) allowing for better responses to trying situations such as major road accidents or terrorist attacks.
One question to ask with regard to the necessity of employers to insure their workers is, how much do they lose each year in sickness related losses? I would be surprised if it were not more than the insurance costs.