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In reply to the discussion: My wife and I were triply-screwed by health care insurance . . . [View all]zeemike
(18,998 posts)33. And who does that massive tax credits go to?
The private insurance company...not for health care.
When the simple solution would be to provide that money to Medicare and let people sign up for that instead, and pay at least 20% less for it....because there is profit to be made from this massive tax subsidy.
But even with the subsidy people working for minimum wage cannot afford it...but must buy it or pay the fine...for them it is a burden...and one that will get greater as prices go up and wages go down or remain the same.
And I reserve the right to criticize it whenever I like...whether I have read the thousands of pages of this law or not.
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It's a question I've asked myself 2-1/2 times over each month for the past 20 years. . .
Journeyman
Dec 2013
#8
Which is why Obamacare provides massive tax-credits for the working poor...
ConservativeDemocrat
Dec 2013
#30
Can you support your claim that Health Insurance is not making as much as they used to?
bvar22
Dec 2013
#60
Your message is "the ACA helps the insurance companies and not the rest of us".
riqster
Dec 2013
#54
I won't even start to say what the infernal 'free market' health insurance con did to my family...
freshwest
Dec 2013
#11
older people making over 400% FPL really get nailed. I've mentioned this numerous times.
antigop
Dec 2013
#15
I got beaten up over this a few weeks ago. My wife and I make a hair over the $72K cutoff
Flatulo
Dec 2013
#49
Should sign the "waiting list" to get on fox-nonsense to share your horror story...
Hulk
Dec 2013
#16
Makes me wish like hell our Dems would start pushing memes and framings about the GOP - like
calimary
Dec 2013
#22
I am glad for you, but the ACA is not an incremental step forward toward health care
Doctor_J
Dec 2013
#23
1200 a month is still a grand theft. It's better than before but that doesn't mean it's good.
Gravitycollapse
Dec 2013
#24
As I pointed out upthread, I'm just some schlub from the Southland, trying to get by . . .
Journeyman
Dec 2013
#25