In May 2010, a couple of months after the then Democrat-controlled Congress passed the Affordable Care Act, aka ObamaCare, then House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) offered a creative pitch to pass the bill. Describing ObamaCare as an “entrepreneurial” bill, Pelosi advised artistic Americans to quit their jobs with the assurance that the new health care law would pick up the tab for their health insurance.
“We see it as an entrepreneurial bill,” Pelosi said in 2012. “A bill that says to someone, if you want to be creative and be a musician or whatever, you can leave your work, focus on your talent, your skill, your passion, your aspirations because you will have health care. You won’t have to be job locked.”
Last week’s Supreme Court decision allowed ObamaCare’s individual mandate to purchase insurance to stand, not as a penalty but as a tax. Americans who followed Pelosi’s advice and quit their jobs to pursue their “passion” will run headlong into that tax, $2,300 per years on top of income taxes for individuals, starting in 2014 unless they purchase insurance that meets stringent government requirements. Or, unless the Congress and president decide to repeal the health care law.
It’s interesting how they speak in specifics to support the benefits of a proposal while at the same time advising people that they will need to pass the bill to find out what was in it. Caveat Emptor…
Or unless they get a waiver. But that will mean some have to pay and some do not. And naturally, we will go down the road towards making sure those folks with waivers have health care no matter what, so those that pay will eventually pay more.
So the message will be this–if you are responsible and give up your grand but impractical dreams just to take a job that pays the bills, a job you might not even like, you are still going to end up paying your bill and someone else’s while that someone else goes off and pursues his grand but impractical dream while laughing at you for taking the daily train to Rochester that allows it to all happen. Because there is no way the left is not going to work to get those folks health care. For as long as they need it paid for.
Basically, it’ll be like having ungrateful teenagers, except they will be 30 and of no relation to you, but probably with the same lack of practicality and talent. This is our Progressive future. We’ll make heroes out of those who could only bring things to a halt; villains out of those who daily make it happen.
Apparently Nancy didn’t know what was in the bill, since we hadn’t passed it yet.
Free-lancers in this country are screwed. Many go without health care simply because they can’t afford it. Well, now they can – by law. This is going to be a big disaster.
This obamanation of a bill got passed, the Supreme Court ruled and still Palosi (and others) don’t seem to understand what happened. The tax, as onerous as it may be, is still cheaper than any likely insurence espaecially after the effect of cost increasing regulations. So, those who still have a job will mostly lose their insurence, those who could not afford insurence will still not be able to afford it and this group, now possibly 70% of the population, will be hit with this tax. Many, maybe most or all, will look at the guarentied coverage and conclude that it make no sense to buy insurence until you need it. Just like what happened in Massachusets. And the States are no longer required to step in. This is not the guaranty of new customers the insurence companies were looking for. It is not the cleaver ecouragement to personnal responsibility the policy wonks thought they were producing. It is simply an unworkable mess.
I’ll just quit my job and go live in Nancy’s basement. I’m sure there is plenty of room in her house….
This lady is truly embarrassing. Who are the crony capitalist that keep funding her campaign. The middle class bay area resident who keep voting for this lady should wake up and vote her out.
– all be film makers with mommies who are billionaires and Speaker of the House.