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ObamaCare: One Big Lie

Mike

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As a candidate for president, Barack Obama sold his signature universal health care plan with the promise that it would “cut the cost of a typical family’s premium by up to $2,500 a year.”

Now that the Affordable Care Act exchanges are open for business, voters are finding that the biggest problem with Obamacare is not that some websites crashed last week but that the Obama promise of big savings for the average family was too good to be true.

Now that the exchanges are open for business, people who already have individual coverage have something new not to like: sticker shock. The Affordable Care Act isn’t affordable after all.


Last week, I began hearing from readers whose individual policy premiums are going up, not down. A local architect sent me a notice he received from Kaiser Permanente informing him that his individual coverage will increase by $199.95 per month, or 78.9 percent. When he added his two sons, the percentage increase was even greater.

A freelance journalist told me she made $98,000 last year. But she and her retired husband, both 51, wouldn’t pay $7,200 in premiums for high-deductible coverage. It’s cheaper to pay the fine, she said. Besides, she added, “we’re healthy.”

A reader wrote that her premiums will rise considerably, and she doesn’t think she qualifies for a subsidy.

It is becoming increasingly clear that while poor working families will have access to their own health care policies at affordable rates — affordable because they are subsidized — middle-class and affluent people stand to pay more. Forget that $2,500 savings.

…With his slick, deceitful sales pitch about lowering people’s premiums, Obama now has to contend with voter expectations. Democrats sold this package as a big bonanza for American families who have been squeezed too hard. Now many are finding out not only that there is no $2,500 in savings but also that instead, surprise, their premiums just went up.

The administration won’t say how many people have enrolled. Wonder why.

Voters never should have believed that Washington could offer more health care benefits to more people and that it would end up saving families thousands of dollars. It was too good to be true, and now the bill is coming due. LINK
 

Steve

Well-known member
qualifies for a subsidy.

— affordable because they are subsidized —

the liberals have long sold TAX CREDITS as subsidies..

in reality and the real world.

a tax credit lets you keep some more of your money..

a subsidy gives you someone else's money..

in the corporate world and for those of means,.. both mean more real money..

but not for the working poor and many in the lower middle class..

they get all their money back,, many get some of yours as well when they file taxes and get a return.. most have plenty of deductibles..

BTW a deductible is a TAX credit..
and for the poor a earned income credit is a subsidy..

so could one of those misguided liberal explain how a tax credit helps the poor and working class if they already get back all the money they paid in plus a bit more?

it wont.. and the liberal idiots in DC have whined about tax credits so long they can't understand the difference between a tax credit and a subsidy..

so when the monthly bill comes in.. expect a second wave of shocked uninformed voters. ..
 

Steve

Well-known member
As for you tax payer living in a state that decided to add the medicaid provision..

consider this.. out of 9500 who enrolled in one state..

of those 8500 were eligible for FREE medicaid..

who do you think is picking up the TAB?



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