Because apparently that’s the cheapest plan available under ObamaCare
As Jeff says
So, in essence, you can pay over $20K per year, or take the penalty — about ten times less than the premium — and still get health care. Which people will do, as they act in their own self interest.
Of course, in the end, this will bankrupt the medical system and drive private insurers out of the market, and is the intentional poison bill built into this monstrosity — along with the bankrupting of Medicare — that will eventually have us all begging for a single payer system. At which point the government will step in and “solve” the “health care crisis” for us yet again. God bless ‘em.
Yup. They’ll demand you fork over the money for crutches you don’t need, then break your legs and demand you be thankful they forced you at gunpoint to buy those crutches. Which will take 6 weeks to get to you. And you can only have 1, non adjustable one.
One constitutional amendment I would like to see the American populace push for is one that states “Congress may not exempt itself from any laws it passes”. Make them eat their own dog food for a change.
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The concierge plan doctors locally ask $1600/yr/person and I'll bet that's a whole lot better than what's being talked about.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xUfocxS-T8&feature=player_embedded
Obama & the MSM told people they were voting for free health care. Now unemployed folks believe they have free health care. They believe that when they need a doctor, a doctor will be there to treat them. It comes as a shock when they actually need a doctor, and start trying to find one.
It'll be a shock to the whole country when Emergency Rooms start turning people away. Laws mandating treatment of the indigent will either bankrupt the hospital (in which case, no ER for anybody), or the hospital will ignore the law (in which case, no ER for poor people).
I predict we'll see an upsurge in identity theft and counterfeit insurance documents, as the pool of available health care shrinks. Why pay $20,000, when I can pay a goblin $10 for your wallet?
I predict people who can't get a doctor's appointment will still try to get the medicines they need. In turn, a pharmacy that isn't getting paid, and is worried about violence, will be tempted to lie and dispense Pez.
"Any privilege, exemption, preference, deferment, entitlement or benefit (hereafter referred to as "the benefit") that is available to an individual on the basis of their elected office or employment at public expense, former or current, where that same benefit is not available to any other citizen not so employed or elected at an equivalent cost, shall constitute an implicit title of nobility within the meaning of Article I, Section 9, Clause 8, and is so prohibited."
Enforcement would necessarily require the cost of the benefit to be billed to the recipient, and the nullification of any law that prohibits a regular citizen from enjoying the benefit.