With the original Senate bill that was passed, and according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office, American families will be required by federal law to buy a federally approved health insurance plan that will cost a minimum of $12,000 per year with an average cost closer to $15,000 per year.
If a family earns more than $88,200 a year (or whatever 400 percent of the poverty level equals in any given year), they are on their own for the cost. The Senate bill does not require employers to purchase health insurance for their workers but will penalize them if they don’t. The maximum penalty would be $750 per year for each worker they did not insure who subsequently received a federal subsidy to buy insurance. As you can see, the penalty is less than the cost of even a basic insurance plan and will therefore be taken by many companies.
Based on the analysis by the CBO and the statement by CBO Director Douglas W. Elmendorf in a letter to Sen. Olympa Snowe (R-Maine), the “Average premiums among all types of plans in 2016 would be about $5,800 for single policies and about $15,200 for family policies,”
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Yesterday I received an email from our Blue Dog Democrat (who endorses baby killing)representative, Baron Hill. He was bragging about what an honor it was to vote in favor of this horrible bill that has now been signed into law. His email was full of false facts that he used as his excuse to vote for it: claims like the family premiums will go down $2,500 per year; the bill is revenue neutral; 32,000,000 people will now have health insurance; NO federal funding for abortion. One has to wonder if he read the bill that he voted for. If he did, he misread it and he is misrepresenting what is in the bill to his constituents. Come on November. It will be an honor for me to vote for whomever is running against this poor excuse of a representative.
ReplyDeleteHill is a lap dog for Nanny Nancy. There was never any doubt how he would vote. Expect him to vote party line the rest of his term. He is earning his next job after his defeat the next election.
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