Milton Wolf
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"We are witnessing the unmistakable collapse of an American presidency."That from me in October 2010, the piece entitled Obamacare’s Unkeepable Promises. Yet another unkeepable promise crumbles and this one's gonna sting a little:The percentage of American adults who lack health insurance coverage has not only increased during the presidency of Barack Obama, but it has continued to increase since Obama signed his signature piece of legislation last year mandating that by 2014 every American carry health insurance, according to a Gallup survey released today.Read the whole piece. We've traded the country for the ObamaCare magic beans and Barack knows it. He was against his mandate before he was for it. Remember what he told Hillary in the debates?I mean if a [health insurance] mandate was a solution, we could try that to solve homelessness by mandating everybody buy a house.
This is a sad situation indeed. We met with our insurance broker not long ago to review what the company will do for the upcoming year. We are facing a 17.5% increase in our insurance cost but were told to be glad because the average increase this year for companies will be 24-32% and most will pass that entire increase onto their employees and then some. We were then told that our $500.00 deductible plan was not going to be available because under Obama care that might be included as a golden plan which would be subject to tax to the insurance company. We looked at the only two other insurance companies that provide insurance to companies like mine and they offered no cost deduction worth changing for. My partner and I looked at the costs and decided to absorb the increase for our employees so they will not see a cost increase next year but we only subsidize the cost of the employee not the dependents. The few people like myself who insure their families will see a major cost increase.
ReplyDeleteI asked our rep how long it would be before we could opt out under Obama care and pay our per employee fine for not providing health care and I was told we could do so in 2014. Here are the facts as I see them. Every company who wishes to make a profit and does not hire hundreds if not thousands of people will immediately drop health care for their employees in 2014 because the very design of this plan is to create uncertainty, drive up costs and force the majority of small employers to drop health care for employees just to survive. They said this plan does not create a one payer system and in fact that is true. It forces the back bone of America, the small business owners to make the decision to drop their heath care and that will force people onto a one payer system. A matter of semantics perhaps but this plan was designed to do nothing more than to force small companies to drop health care and therefore put millions of Americans into the ranks of the uninsured. We have seen nothing yet comrades just watch what happens in 2012, 2013 and 2014 unless something changes...
unless something changes..
ReplyDeleteHopefully.