The Law of Totally Intended Consequences
The ObamaCare hits just keep coming:
While subsidies in the law will shield some people, other consumers who make too much for assistance are in for “premium rate shock,” Mark Bertolini, who runs the third-biggest U.S. health-insurance company, told analysts yesterday at a conference in New York.
Remember, Obama is just spreadin’ the wealth around a little bit because it’s a good thing.
After you wipe away your tears, remember that this particular wealth transfer is on top of the increased payroll taxes and the increases on capital gains that “the rich” will begin paying on January 1.
Let me quote you one more line from the report:
The prospect has spurred discussion of having Congress delay or phase in parts of the law, he said.
It feels just a wee tiny bit like maybe this is a conversation lawmakers should have been having back in 2009, you think?
Well thankfully they passed it so we now know all the awful things that are in it.
Is it time for the pitchforks, rope and torches yet?
Nah.
Might be a good time to stock up on tomatoes, tho.
There’s still the very real question (that will absolutely go before the Supreme Court) if insurance purchased through the state exchanges are even eligible for those subsidies at all.
http://www.americanbar.org/newsletter/publications/aba_health_esource_home/aba_health_law_esource_0912_sanders.html
If the Supreme Court says “no” which is extremely likely, then the entire Obameecare scheme self destructs. Premiums will skyrocket and employers will simply take the penalty rather than the massive cost of providing insurance, as will most Americans when they realize insurance premiums would bankrupt them. Those penalties won’t come close to covering the cost, which will ratchet up insurance premiums to 2, 3, 5 times what they are now because insurance companies won’t be able to deny coverage to the very sick who are left in the pool.
Meanwhile, hidden Obameecare taxes kick in for everybody else which will end up funding the system and voila! De facto government health care for all!
And all it will cost you is a crushing tax burden that will leave you with nothing, no job, no hope, no future, government food handouts, and a permanent 90% of America on welfare.
But you’ll have your health care as a right. Right up until the state pulls the plug on you when that right is revoked for cost reasons.
Enjoy, young people who voted for Obamee!
Sometimes you get your public option, just like you wanted.
And EXACTLY like you deserved.
Ah, Roberts will just call all that a “tax” and head out to his next upscale dinner party.
Here’s another one that I discovered on a recent trip to my doctor for a yearly physical (Supposedly free with Obamacare).
Thanks to Obamacare, they don’t cover many of the blood tests needed on a yearly physical that would be of use to a mature man – Liver function (Good for people that “celebrate” a lot like me and Stephen), testosterone, etc… Those, which used to be covered in my policy.
So instead of “free”, or my normal co-pay, I’m out $60. Or would have to do without. Nice. Wait until that moment of clarity comes.
In 2009, Jon Stewart had to teasingly give his audience permission to laugh at Obama jokes/satire/criticism. These Obama-heads, I-shit-you-not, had to get the OK to laugh. They were frozen.
Laughing, the most honest and sincere expression that we have. They suppressed it?!
And these people…oh, I give up…
Washington State’s Senate just went GOP. Yes, I just said that.
Two Democrats are caucusing with the GOP, and they’re handing the GOP the Ways and Means and Healtcare committees in the State Legislature. And the Dem who won as Governor (Jay Inslee) barely won the seat (52%-48%). And again, this is Washington State- which now has the State’s Obamacare dealings controlled by the GOP.
So far, only 15 states have set up Obamacare systems within their states.
The more people see what’s in Obamacare, the more they don’t want it.
It’s going to be a fun two years for Obama, trying to force this crap sandwich on the states.