One of the real disturbing things about this is that once again, people who are responsible are the ones getting screwed. You're healthy, take care of yourself and are RESPONSIBLE? Ok, now you can pay more to subsidize the lazy, fat, and irresponsible.
This is looking like a "health care" bailout, just like the mortgage bailouts.
OmniScience wrote: One of the real disturbing things about this is that once again, people who are responsible are the ones getting screwed. You're healthy, take care of yourself and are RESPONSIBLE? Ok, now you can pay more to subsidize the lazy, fat, and irresponsible.
It's so everybody can get a fair share of someone elses responsible behavior... works exactly the same as a progressive tax.
This administration is great at incentivizing people to be less productive and less responsible.
The left is angry because they are now being judged by the content of their character and not by the color of their skin.
Where is the incentive to stay healthy and get a job when you can do whatever you want, e.g. no job, eat trash and know that you will be taken care of.
OmniScience wrote: One of the real disturbing things about this is that once again, people who are responsible are the ones getting screwed. You're healthy, take care of yourself and are RESPONSIBLE? Ok, now you can pay more to subsidize the lazy, fat, and irresponsible.
This is looking like a "health care" bailout, just like the mortgage bailouts.
Surfing the tv, stumbled onto Fox News where Jim Angle is talking about high risk people having to pay higher rates with ACA than with their previous high risk policies. More enlightening though is people learning that they are given sample rates when they do get into the ACA website, not the actual cost that the new ACA policy will be which is often lower than the actual policy.
I went online to get a link to the video but it isn't on their website yet.
My HMO provided through my job was $452/mo for MYSELF a few months back. It is now $490 and nothing has changed. I bet it doubles in the next couple years.
EDIT: When I first started this job back in '02 it was $280 or something like that.
Oh, but wait, the bennies are good. $1000 deductible, $25 Primary, $40 Specialty, $50 After-Hours, $100 Emergency, $300 Hospital Admittance and I have prescription drug coverage. I once had to take an ambulance down to St. Anythony's after being in a vicious car accident. The right side of my face went partially through the windshield. Mutilated my right eye and most of my eyelid into my cheek and temple. Plastic surgeon put it all back together. It was over $25500 entirely. I paid Evergreen EMS three hundred something for the ambulance and then $100 and some change for the rest. Don't ask me how that worked out, but nowadays that's gonna be unheard of. So, $490 a month for myself really doesn't seem so bad when there's poor bastards out there that are looking at twice MY monthly premium and they have higher costs on everything, not as good a coverage along with a bunch of shyte that a lot of people don't want. I'm livin' LARGE baby, lol .
