iamwhatiseem
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- Aug 19, 2010
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Very simple question.
What is Obamacare?
Is it mandated health insurance, or is it mandated catastrophic insurance at health insurance prices?
What is health insurance?
By definition...
...a practice or arrangement by which a company or government agency provides a guarantee of compensation for specified loss, damage, illness, or death in return for payment of a premium.
Does Obamacare do this? That is, in a realistic sense perform this?
How much health cost does an individual have to achieve in order for Obamacare to kick in?
In my state, a family of 4 cost roughly $14,000 a year, with a $5000 deductible. (Bronze)
So an employed, middle class wage person would have to pay out $19,000 in healthcare before Obamacare pays one red cent.
Is that honestly healthcare insurance?
Or is it really catastrophic care insurance - at an extraordinary high cost?
Not only that, but after the $19,000 in paid out cost - the plan is only 70/30 copay!!
So why do supporters celebrate Obamacare?
Subsidies? You don't really pay because of subsidies?
Well...true if you are unemployed, or have a crappy job.
But what about the majority of Americans who have good jobs? Who don't get subsidies.
Is Obamacare really a means in which to make middle class people pick up the tab for the poor? At what point does it make sense NOT to get a good job?
Is Obamacare really health insurance??
What is Obamacare?
Is it mandated health insurance, or is it mandated catastrophic insurance at health insurance prices?
What is health insurance?
By definition...
...a practice or arrangement by which a company or government agency provides a guarantee of compensation for specified loss, damage, illness, or death in return for payment of a premium.
Does Obamacare do this? That is, in a realistic sense perform this?
How much health cost does an individual have to achieve in order for Obamacare to kick in?
In my state, a family of 4 cost roughly $14,000 a year, with a $5000 deductible. (Bronze)
So an employed, middle class wage person would have to pay out $19,000 in healthcare before Obamacare pays one red cent.
Is that honestly healthcare insurance?
Or is it really catastrophic care insurance - at an extraordinary high cost?
Not only that, but after the $19,000 in paid out cost - the plan is only 70/30 copay!!
So why do supporters celebrate Obamacare?
Subsidies? You don't really pay because of subsidies?
Well...true if you are unemployed, or have a crappy job.
But what about the majority of Americans who have good jobs? Who don't get subsidies.
Is Obamacare really a means in which to make middle class people pick up the tab for the poor? At what point does it make sense NOT to get a good job?
Is Obamacare really health insurance??