reply to post by Logarock
Not so much..
If you calculate the highest forced premium (2.5%) at .. lets say $70,000 (middle class) .. the premium comes to: $1,750/yr as a fine.
This equates to: $145.83 per month.
Anyone who's paying for insurance knows that $145 is cheap insurance.
Add the husband and or wife: $291.60 aint bad either.
(It is my understanding under this new law that children are exempt from the "head count" due to poor people having more kids.
Especially in light of this: The Government is now FORCING the Insurance companies to accept pre-existing conditions. Don't have insurance, then
get cancer, just get insurance to cover the costs. Since the Insurance companies cannot allocate single groups to one or two people, they force them
into pools, the pools premium rises per condition.. lets say you have 3 healthy people paying $200 a month for health insurance.. a new guy comes in
with heart disease, arthritis, diabetes .. everyone's new premium is not $450 to cover the costs of all those conditions, because its against
regulation to force all of the costs onto one person (it defeats the purpose of insurance) ..
Essentially.. people will be forced out of policies due to higher costs.. or, at the very least.. those with pre existing conditions won't be able to
afford private insurance, so they pay the fee (which is hella cheaper anyways) and get subpar insurance (the Government is notorious for not spending
money on adequate care, ask any vet) ..
It is, in a sense, a baby step towards complete socialized medicine. It will NOT raise money for the Government.. the Government WILL NOT profit from
this endeavor.. it will soon become the single most expensive social undertaking this country has ever seen.. and god forbid the insurance companies
start folding and consolidating.. million more will be added to unemployment, and our nations largest purchaser of debt may move to other markets (no
one holds more US debt outside of the Fed Reserve than insurance companies.)
Interesting times ahead.