It's Official - Obama - It's a Tax!!!

Obama admits...

“By the way, if you’ve got health insurance, you’re not getting hit by a tax,” President Obama said. “The only thing that’s happening to you is that you now have more security because insurance companies can’t drop you when you get sick.”

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Right from the horses-assed mouth.

It's finally ok to call it a tax since Obama no longer has to sell the lemon to the people like he did in the first 18 months.

Tax is not a dirty word. If it forces the deadbeats who can AFFORD it to pay for it, instead of using the emergency rooms, I'm all for it. (In fact, I'm for single-payer...But we may have to wait until the Dems take the House back for that...)

Democracy4Sale wrote: Tax is not a dirty word. If it forces the deadbeats who can AFFORD it to pay for it, instead of using the emergency rooms, I'm all for it. (In fact, I'm for single-payer...But we may have to wait until the Dems take the House back for that...)

You're going to grow old waiting for that. Oh wait... you're already...

Democracy4Sale wrote: Tax is not a dirty word. If it forces the deadbeats who can AFFORD it to pay for it, instead of using the emergency rooms, I'm all for it. (In fact, I'm for single-payer...But we may have to wait until the Dems take the House back for that...)

So if TAX is not a dirty word, why did Obama say over and over that the mandate wasn't a tax, then had government lawyers argue that it was indeed a tax? And if it's not a dirty word, can we expect Obama to talk about the ACA and this new tax as one of his great accomplishments before the election? I'll bet we never hear the word tax within a mile of the ACA..

Cue the crickets please...

Democracy4Sale wrote: Tax is not a dirty word. If it forces the deadbeats who can AFFORD it to pay for it, instead of using the emergency rooms, I'm all for it. (In fact, I'm for single-payer...But we may have to wait until the Dems take the House back for that...)

The deadbeats stiffing emergency rooms aren't the ones who can afford to pay for health insurance and choose not to do so. The group of.people stiffing the emergency rooms are the same group of people whose health insurance is going to be subsidized by all the tax hikes contained in the ACA along with the income taxes that everyone else but them are paying. You will be paying more for your insurance because you are subsidizing the cost of paying for the cost of insuring them just as much, if not more than you were paying for the cost of your care when they were skating on their emergency room bills. Companies which manufacture everything from syringes to imaging devices are going to be tax collectors as they pass the taxes charged, plus a profit as with every other cost, onto the Co.sumer in the form of higher prices on their goods. The cost of treating the indigent in emergency rooms on your dime isn't going to disappear - a very large subset of those freeriders, illegal aliens, are exempt from the individual mandate that the citizens of the States are now saddled with. Now that the rest of the free riders have their insurance paid for with other people's money, they too will be headed to the doctor's office whenever they have a sniffle. The increased frequency will more than offset the cost of less frequent trips to the emergency rooms where they were being tended to by residents earning $40K a year instead of private practice MDs earning in excess of $100K annually.

The ACA is a jackpot for doctors, hospitals, Big Pharmacy and the insurance industry - they are all going to be making out like bandits thanks to this legislation. The rest of us - not so much. We're going to be the ones stuck for paying for all of it, including the additional profit that all the providers are going to realize as a result of the legislation.