(02-17-2015 06:06 PM)dawgitall Wrote: (02-17-2015 05:39 PM)Hambone10 Wrote: (02-17-2015 03:55 PM)dawgitall Wrote: Ok but I'm 100% serious as well. What is considered affordable is relative. If $300 a month isn't affordable to you then I guess you will have to just pay the tax and hope you don't have any major medical expenses. If you make 50k a year you will have to pay 1k tax. If that is the case then you saved $2,600 if you have no medical expenses. Please just don't get sick this year.
Not bothering to read the rest of this thread... but it is important to note that you can pay the tax AND spend $2500 on healthcare and STILL be ahead of the game... and you could have spent $3500 last year and still been ahead... and of course that ignores the multiple OOPs for the bronze plan. If you have a $2500 OOP, that's $6,000.
Essentially a relatively healthy person buying a bronze plan for $300/month is spending $3600 on 2-3 office visits per year plus a catastrophic policy that most people will rarely/barely use.
Far too many people just don't get what insurance is... fundamentally.
As I have said repeatedly, affordability is relative. If someone is comfortable with rolling the dice health wise then just pay the 2% tax. They will get health care regardless, but if they have a major medical issue that year they may well deplete their savings if they have any and go deeply into debt. All I ask is that they pay their bills (after negotiations) and don't leave the doctors and hospitals eating the cost, thus costing the taxpayers. If paying for insurance knowing that you might not use at least an amount equal to what you pay out is okay because you are protected if expenses exceed what you spend then buy it. There will always be people that choose the former, just take full responsibility if you do.
now we're getting into the philosophical side.....
if one doesn't have means to support life, then one doesn't have means......that means the doctors that went to school have to suffer and believe in the 'creed' they took......lmfao....just like raising ones right hand before serving testimony or becoming a priest
therefore, why would 'those' give a shite? (sorry, prolly not how lib prof taught thingys)
there is no doubt a multi-tiered system is asinine (between those that can and those that cannot)
however, one is going to pay for it regardless.....if one is 50 yrs of age, one has seen how the cost of insurance has changed over time.....
it's amusing that people think obummer is the reason......he has zero to do with it.....
I am going to continue to say the premise has to happen or businesses have to be destroyed for equitable survival....
I challenge anyone to argue otherwise.....(unless you're in my camp of something that can't talked about yet)
euthanasia after limiting birth.....but that's a hundo down the road where people pray to god their kids don't live long enough to see.....dammit boy....I said it......lmfao.....