You changed jobs and have a lapse in your health coverage?
IRS fine
You don't have the money to pay your monthly preimum?
IRS Fine
You can't afford what "WE" think you shoul be able to afford?
IRS Fine
Can't afford to pay the IRS fine?
Thats ok, we'll just garnish your wages.
Think mandated healthcare is going to be cheap? It might be free for the indegent (can't squeeze blood from a stone) but it will cost the middle class plenty. Enforcement fines will go back into the system to pay government salaries and support more pork spending. Who knows maybe they'll build another tea cup museum with the money.
How anyone could think that Hilarys plan is better than Obama's is beyond me. Neither one will pass congress anyhow but I think it's crazy that blue collar workers are voting for her because of this plan. Clearly they have no clue. I think having a mandate is nuts, and that is what Hillary wants.
People don't want to pay a fine if they can not buy into insurance. Sounds like fun. obama plan includes fines also. If you have children
neither will pass No, Obama supporters have no clue. They are voting for a guy who has no substance and speaks about change and hope as if those things got things done in the white house....
Civil Rights accomplishments were done not because of hope but because thousands of people took action and united to march in protest against these injustices. It's very easy to wish and hope things will happen but thats not really the reality in this world. At least Clinton has shown that she can talk polices that concerns the American people. Obama has so far been a no show when it comes down to action. Hillary 08*
Obama is a Warlord yeah, obamas welfare for millions plan is far better Stop giving taxpayer BILLIONS to countries that don't need it like Israel and Egypt, and countries that need it but squander it like countries in central Africa then US citizens will be able to have universal coverage they already paid for with their TAXES that are going overseas. Very true and you can bet plenty of working poor will NOT be able to be covered because there is NO reform of insurance AND even if there is an increase in the number of insured it's a roll of the dice whether that will help or not as the big insurers pay claims when they FEEL like it, not when they SHOULD, and the government does nothing about that or their violations of antitrust law either.
When 75% of the people who declare bankruptcy over medical bills ARE INSURED, then insurance is CLEARLY not the answer.
"Aldrich鈥檚 situation is "asinine" but increasingly common, said Dr. Deborah Thorne of Ohio University. Thorne, co-author of a widely quoted 2005 study that found medical bills contributed to nearly half of the 1.5 million personal bankruptcies filed in the U.S. each year, said that ratio has likely worsened since the data was gathered.
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Like Aldrich, Thorne said, three-quarters of the individuals in the study who declared bankruptcy because of health problems were insured. "
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20201807/
Linda Peeno, MD testified that SHE had often denied treatment JUST to save the insurance company money http://www.thenationalcoalition.org/DrPe...
Furthermore:
"the vast majority of health insurance policies are through for-profit stock companies. They are in the process of 鈥渟hedding lives鈥?as some term it when 鈥渦ndesirable鈥?customers are lost through various means, including raising premiums and co-pays and decreasing benefits (Britt, 鈥淗ealth insurers getting bigger cut of medical dollars,鈥?15 October 2004, investors.com). That same Investors Business Daily article from 2004 noted the example of Anthem, another insurance company. They said the top five executives (not just the CEO) received an average of an 817 percent increase in compensation between 2000 and 2003. The CEO, for example, had his compensation go from $2.5 million to $25 million during that time period. About $21 million of that was in stock payouts, the article noted.
A 2006 article, 鈥淯.S. Health Insurance: More Market Domination, More CEO Compensation鈥?br>
(hcrenewal.blogspot.com) notes that in 56 percent of 294 metropolitan areas one insurer 鈥渃ontrols more than half the business in health maintenance organization and preferred provider networks underwriting." In addition to having the most enrollees, they also are the biggest purchasers of health care and set the price and coverage terms. 鈥溾€橳he results is double-digit premium increases from 2001 and 2004鈥攑eaking with a 13.9 percent jump in 2003鈥攕oaring well above inflation and wages increases.鈥?quot; Where is all that money going? The article quotes a Wall Street Journal article looking at the compensation of the CEO of UnitedHealth Group. His salary and bonus is $8 million annually. He has benefits such as the use of a private jet. He has stock-option fortunes worth $1.6 billion."
--Save America, Save the World by Cassandra Nathan pp. 127-128
"Insurance Companies Robbing Patients
Robbing patients to pay CEOs leads to unprecedented medical insurance corporation greed.
Thursday, January 3, 2008 8:52 AM
By: Michael Arnold Glueck & Robert J. Cihak, The Medicine Men"
http://www.newsmax.com/medicine_men/medi...
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