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  • ACA, The Gift That Keeps On Giving.....?

    Obamacare, the Christmas "gift" almost no one wants....
    "A piece in Saturday’s The New York Times tells the story of Doug and Ginger Chapman, ages 55 and 54, a middle class couple “sitting on the health care cliff.” Their annual income of around $100,000 a year makes them ineligible for a subsidy in New Hampshire (if they earned under $94,000, it would cut their costs by half). They have to replace their family insurance which includes the two of them and their two sons. The premium cost alone, not including any deductible is $1,000 a month, or 12 percent of their income.

    The Times’ analysis found the following:

    “The cost of premiums for people who just miss qualifying for subsidies rises rapidly for people in their 50s and 60s. In some places, prices can quickly approach 20 percent of a person’s income. Experts consider health insurance unaffordable once it exceeds 10 percent of annual income. By that measure, a 50-year-old making $50,000 a year, or just above the qualifying limit for assistance, would find the cheapest available plan to be unaffordable in more than 170 counties around the country, ranging from Anchorage to Jackson, Miss.”
    "GET OFF MY REEF!"

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    My individual health insurance plan wasn't cancelled but I got a letter stating my premium is increasing 27 percent . I'll turn 65 in September . Maybe I'll get a break on Medicare but I hear OBAMA is screwing that up as well.
    GEORGE A. BRANARD, COLOR SERGEANT, CO. L, 1 ST TEXAS INFANTRY, HOOD'S TEXAS BRIGADE, C.S.A. : S.C.V.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by plugger View Post
      My individual health insurance plan wasn't cancelled but I got a letter stating my premium is increasing 27 percent .
      You gotta pay for all the free stuff somehow! And....its just the tip of the iceberg, just wait. Aint it great?

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      • #4
        I'm only 43 with no conditions and mine is going up 23% January....

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        • #5
          We need to start a new party, "the math party". If the numbers don't add up, it doesn't get passed.
          "Nobody's so poor that democrats can't get rich screwing 'em."
          boom

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