l****z 发帖数: 29846 | 1 Americans Pay IRS Penalty to Escape From ObamaCare
by John Hayward4 Jan 2016116
Even the New York Times is conceding that the huge number of Americans
willing to pay a special tax to escape from ObamaCare is newsworthy,
although the paper tries to sugar-coat the bad news as much as possible:
Two years after the Affordable Care Act began requiring most Americans
to have health insurance, 10.5 million who are eligible to buy coverage
through the law’s new insurance exchanges were still uninsured this fall,
according to the Obama administration.
That number appears to be shrinking: Administration officials said last
month that about 2.5 million new customers had bought insurance through
HealthCare.gov, the federal exchange serving 38 states, since open
enrollment began on Nov. 1. The number of new enrollees is 29 percent higher
than last year at this time, suggesting that the threat of a larger penalty
may be motivating more people to get covered.
But plenty of healthy holdouts remain, and their resistance helps
explain why insurers are worried about the financial viability of the
exchanges over time. They say they sorely need more healthy customers to
balance out the costs of covering the sicker, older people who have flocked
to exchange plans.
Translation: people won’t buy Obama’s lousy insurance, not even when
forced to buy it at gunpoint. Obvious left-wing solution: use bigger guns.
This is one of the biggest disasters in the history of American government,
and that’s saying something. It’s also one of the biggest lies ever
peddled to the American people. ObamaCare is fraud on an unprecedented scale
. Remember, it was sold to the American public as a voluntary exercise – “
if you like your plan, you can keep your plan, period.” Barack Obama smugly
assured skeptics that his health care plan would be so awesome that
millions of Americans would rush to drop their old plans and buy into
ObamaCare, saving thousands of dollars in the process.
Instead, premiums are up, and sky-high deductibles make the resulting health
“coverage” virtually useless. The only reason many people are buying into
this scheme is that Obama is frog-marching them into it. The New York Times
analysis frankly acknowledges that word-of-mouth isn’t helping.
People aren’t embracing the Affordable Care Act. The only thing “improving
” its catastrophically low enrollment figures is the threat of higher
penalties… which could not have been assessed in the first couple of years,
because that would have triggered a full-blown revolt against Obama and his
party.
The penalties already paid represent one of the biggest tax increases on the
middle class in living memory, precisely as ObamaCare critics warned… and
it’s a tax people are paying for the “privilege” of getting nothing. They
’d rather pay the IRS than give the money to Barack Obama’s cronies in the
insurance industry for a low-quality product.
That means it’s time to roll out the scare tactics. “We understand some
people may be thinking through their choice of coverage, but going without
health insurance is a serious gamble that can be catastrophic if wrong,”
argued Health and Human Services spokesman Ben Wakana.
Ah, the fearsome battle cry of the Obama ineptocracy: You little people are
stupid and don’t know what’s good for you.
On the contrary, the people passing up on ObamaCare are making entirely
rational decisions. They’re voting with their wallets, and if they vote the
same way with their ballots in 2016, we can finally end this nightmare.
The NYT article begins with the example of an engineer named Clint Murphy
who concluded it’s still better to pay the higher 2016 penalty than to
purchase pricey health insurance – in fact, he describes the decision as a
no-brainer.
Another subject of the article, 61-year-old Susan Reardon, said she figures
it’s better to pay the tax penalty and pay for her fibromyalgia medicine
out-of-pocket than shell out over $12,000 in premiums and deductibles for
useless ObamaCare coverage. She felt it’s “better just to die” if
something catastrophic happens to her, and challenged the IRS to “come and
get me” for the Obama tax.
Some of the other unhappy campers interviewed by the Times described
themselves as living in fear because ObamaCare has forced them to make do
without health insurance. Some were willing to pay the inflated Obama
premiums at first, but bailed out as soon as they actually tried to use
their “benefits” and were hit with jaw-dropping deductibles. What ringing
endorsements of the President’s scheme!
Incidentally, even though Congress refused to give Obama’s cronies a fat
taxpayer bailout in the omnibus spending bill – one of the very few good
things about it – the Administration is still looking for ways to go around
the Constitution and loot the Treasury to cover what it calls an “
obligation of the U.S. government for which full payment is required.”
If we don’t kill ObamaCare soon, we will get shaken down for billions of
dollars to prop up the insurance companies… and that will become another
epic middle-class tax increase, on top of the one we’ve already been hit
with, to sustain a scheme very few taxpayers approve of.
All of the Democrats’ political spin evaporates before the amazing number
of people who are willing to pay a special tax to exercise the rights that
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