Tag Archives: Coverage

Obamacare slaps $15,000 annual fee on middle-class families

Story from Human Events. (H/T DoublePlusUndead via ECM)

Excerpt:

Fact 5: Your family insurance plan — if your employer drops your coverage and you are forced to buy it on your own — will cost about $15,000 per year when the legislation is in full force in 2016.

Page 19 of the CBO letter to Reid says the average premiums for insurance plans under the final version of the bill should be “quite similar” to the estimates the CBO and Joint Committee on Taxation made in a Nov. 30 letter to Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind.: “Although CBO and JCT have not updated the estimates provided in that letter, the effects on premiums of the legislation incorporating the manager’s amendment would probably be quite similar.” Page 6 of the CBO’s letter to Bayh said: “Average premiums per policy in the nongroup market in 2016 would be roughly $5,800 for single policies and $15,200 for family policies under the proposal.”

The Senate health care bill gives employers two powerful incentives to stop offering health insurance coverage to their workers. First, if an employer does offer coverage, its lower-wage workers will lose the federal insurance subsidy they would otherwise get. Secondly, if an employer does not offer coverage, the $750-per-worker fine it faces will be far less than the premiums it would pay if it did offer coverage.

Where does this leave a mom and dad with two children and an annual income greater than $88,200? It leaves them without employer-based health insurance and facing a federally mandated $15,000-per-year insurance bill.

Because $90,000 is too much money for a family to make – Obama likes to spread the wealth around. And the people who vote for him are happy to get that wealth spread to them.

Associated Press: Obama’s health care plan would allow coverage for abortion

The story from the left-wing Associated Press is here.

Let’s be clear. The Democrat health care plan would spend taxpayer money collected from pro-life taxpayers on abortions that take the lives of innocent unborn persons.

Excerpt:

Health care legislation before Congress would allow a new government-sponsored insurance plan to cover abortions, a decision that would affect millions of women and recast federal policy on the divisive issue.

It turns out that this is a CORRECTION of an earlier story by the AP printed a few days back that was NOT ACCURATE.

According to LifeNews.com: (H/T Gateway Pundit)

Two days after LifeNews.com exposed an Associated Press article that mislead its readers on the abortion funding contained in the government-run health care plans, AP has backtracked. The news service is now reporting that the bills Congress is considering will result in taxpayer-funded abortions.

AP features a new article today with the headline, “Gov’t insurance would allow coverage for abortion.”

This is what “Christians” who voted for Obama have accomplished – subsidies for abortions that will increase the number of abortions. Intentions don’t matter in life, only results matter. The results of electing Democrats will be more innocent lives lost. All for want of a little knowledge.

Obama’s health care plan will provide coverage for illegal immigrants

Story from NewsMax. (H/T doubleplusundead via ECM) Warning: Vulgar Language!

Republicans tried to stop it, but…

Excerpt:

On Friday, Democrats moved one step closer to giving free health insurance to the nation’s estimated 12 million illegal aliens when they successfully defeated a Republican-backed amendment, offered by Rep. Dean Heller, R-Nev., that would have prevented illegal aliens from receiving government-subsidized health care under the proposed plan backed by House Democrats and President Barack Obama.

Click through to the doubleplusundead post to see what Democrat Senator Bob Menendez said at a La Raza health care conference.

This is exactly the kind of thing that causes Americans to oppose legal immigration. If people who come here had to pay their own way and stay out of legal trouble, then we could open the doors wide and naturalize them after 5 years of clean, productive, self-sufficient living. But the Democrats are looking for people who are not self-sufficient. They want the votes of people who can’t make their own way. And they want you to pay for it!