[ SECRET POST #2476 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2476 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Obamacare

[(Anonymous)]

This is a good summary of the situation, but I'd like to add to the "Against" side the penalties. The first year it's $95 per person per year or 1% of taxable income, whichever is *highest*. The second year it's $325 per person per year, the third $625, and after that it will increase by inflation or 2.5% of taxable income.

If you qualify to pay the $95 the first year, you obviously can't afford health insurance and certainly not those exponentially increasing fines. So those people will sort of be between a rock and a hard place financially.

Re: Obamacare

[(Anonymous)]

DA--except that, as originally conceived, people poor enough to qualify for that 95 bucks would have fallen under that 'expanded medicare' umbrella. It's just a bunch of states opted not to expand medicare and so there are lots of people that are too well-off to qualify for medicare at 100% or less of federal poverty-level wages per year, but poor enough that they would have qualified under the expanded, 139% of poverty level cutoff. But since they can't get medicare, they have to go insurance-hunting on the health-care exchanges. I'm still not clear on whether they can get government subsidy money to buy a health plan like people in states that are implementing the whole deal.

Re: Obamacare

[(Anonymous)]

And as an anon below pointed out, people who would have qualified for the expanded Medicaid but live in states that opted out of it are exempt from having to pay the fee for not having coverage.