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What ObamaCare is Really About!
I'm a 54 year old consulting engineer and make between $60,000 and $125,000
per year, depending on how hard I work and whether or not there are work
projects out there for me. My girlfriend is 61 and makes about $18,000 per
year, working as a part-time mail clerk. For me, making $60,000 a year,
under ObamaCare, the cheapest, lowest grade policy I can buy, which also
happens to impose a $5,000 deductible, costs $482 per month. For my
girlfriend, the same exact policy, same deductible, costs $1 per month. That
's right, $1 per month . I'm not making this up. Don't believe me? Just go
to www.coveredca.gov, the ObamaCare website for California and enter the
parameters I've mentioned above and see for yourself. By the way, my zip
code is 93940. You'll need to enter that. So OK, clearly ObamaCare is a
scheme that involves putting the cost burden of healthcare onto the middle
and upper-income wage earners. But there's a lot more to it. Stick with me.
And before I make my next points, I'd like you to think about something: I
live in Monterey County, in Central California. We have a large land mass
but just 426,000 residents - about the population of Colorado Springs or the
city of Omaha. But we do have a large Hispanic population, including a
large number of illegal aliens, and to serve this group we have Natividad
Medical Center, a massive, Federally subsidized county medical complex that
takes up an area about one-third the size of the Chrysler Corporation
automobile assembly plant in Belvedere, Illinois (see Google Earth View).
Natividad has state-of-the-art operating rooms, Computed Tomography and
Magnetic Resonance Imaging, fully equipped, 24 hour emergency room, and much
more. If you have no insurance, if you've been in a drive-by shooting or
have overdosed on crack cocaine, this is where you go. And it's essentially
free, because almost everyone who ends up in the ER is uninsured. Last year,
2,735 babies were born at Natividad. 32% of these were born to out-of-
wedlock teenage mothers, 93% of which were Hispanic. Less than 20% could
demonstrate proof of citizenship, and 71% listed their native language as
Spanish. Of these 876 births, only 40 were covered under [any kind of]
private health insurance. The taxpayers paid for the other 836. And in case
you were wondering about the entire population - all 2,735 births - less
than 24% involved insured coverage or even partial payment on behalf of the
patient to the hospital in exchange for services. Keep this in mind as we
move forward. Now consider this: If I want to upgrade my policy to a low-
deductible premium policy, such as what I had with my last employer, my cost
is $886 per month. But my girlfriend can upgrade her policy to the very
same level, for just $4 per month. That's right, $4 per month. $48 per year
for a zero-deductible, premium healthcare policy - the kind of thing you get
when you work at IBM (except of course, IBM employees pay an average of $
170 per month out of pocket for their coverage). I mean, it's bad enough
that I will be forced to subsidize the ObamaCare scheme in the first place.
But even if I agreed with the basic scheme, which of course I do not, I
would never agree to subsidize premium policies. If I have to pay $482 a
month for a budget policy, I sure as hell do not want the guy I'm
subsidizing to get a better policy, for less that 1% of what I have to fork
out each month for a low-end policy. Why must I pay $482 per month for
something the other guy gets for a dollar? And why should the other guy get
to buy an $886 policy for $4 a month? Think about this: I have to pay $10,
632 a year for the same thing that the other guy can get for $48. $10,000 of
net income is 60 days of full time work as an engineer. $48 is something I
could pay for collecting aluminum cans and plastic bottles, one day a month.
Are you with me on this? Are you starting to get an idea what ObamaCare is
really about? ObamaCare is not about dealing with inequities in the
healthcare system. That's just the cover story. The real story is that it is
a massive, political power grab. Do you think anyone who can insure himself
with a premium policy for $4 a month will vote for anyone but the political
party that provides him such a deal? ObamaCare is about enabling,
subsidizing, and expanding the Left's political power base, at taxpayer
expense. Why would I vote for anyone but a Democrat if I can have babies for
$4 a month? For that matter, why would I go to college or strive for a
better job or income if it means I have to pay real money for healthcare
coverage? Heck, why study engineering when I can be a schlub for $20K per
year and buy a new F-150 with all the money I'm saving? And think about
those $4-a-month babies - think in terms of propagation models. Think of
just how many babies will be born to irresponsible, under-educated mothers.
Will we get a new crop of brain surgeons and particle physicists from the $4
dollar baby club, or will we need more cops, criminal courts and prisons?
One thing you can be certain of: At $4 a month, they'll multiply, and
multiply, and multiply. And not one of them will vote Republican. ObamaCare:
It's all about political power. YOUR THOUGHTS????????
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