“I actually made it through this morning at 8:00 A.M. I have a preexisting condition (Type 1 Diabetes) and my income base was 45K-55K annually I chose tier 2 “Silver Plan” and my monthly premiums came out to $597.00 with $13,988 yearly deductible!!! There is NO POSSIBLE way that I can afford this so I “opt-out” and chose to continue along with no insurance.
I received an email tonight at 5:00 P.M. informing me that my fine would be $4,037 and could be attached to my yearly income tax return. Then you make it to the “REPERCUSSIONS PORTION” for “non-payment” of yearly fine. First, your drivers license will be suspended until paid, and if you go 24 consecutive months with “Non-Payment” and you happen to be a home owner, you will have a federal tax lien placed on your home. You can agree to give your bank information so that they can easy “Automatically withdraw” your “penalties” weekly, bi-weekly or monthly! This by no means is “Free” or even “Affordable.”
The $4000 fine was cheaper but still unaffordable under the "Affordable" Care Act. That some will be subsidized is meaningless. A tax is a tax (erroneously assuming the Supreme Court didn't break the law in it's ruling).
“I actually made it through this morning at 8:00 A.M. I have a preexisting condition (Type 1 Diabetes) and my income base was 45K-55K annually I chose tier 2 “Silver Plan” and my monthly premiums came out to $597.00 with $13,988 yearly deductible!!! There is NO POSSIBLE way that I can afford this so I “opt-out” and chose to continue along with no insurance.
I received an email tonight at 5:00 P.M. informing me that my fine would be $4,037 and could be attached to my yearly income tax return. Then you make it to the “REPERCUSSIONS PORTION” for “non-payment” of yearly fine. First, your drivers license will be suspended until paid, and if you go 24 consecutive months with “Non-Payment” and you happen to be a home owner, you will have a federal tax lien placed on your home. You can agree to give your bank information so that they can easy “Automatically withdraw” your “penalties” weekly, bi-weekly or monthly! This by no means is “Free” or even “Affordable.”
The $4000 fine was cheaper but still unaffordable under the "Affordable" Care Act. That some will be subsidized is meaningless. A tax is a tax (erroneously assuming the Supreme Court didn't break the law in it's ruling).
Absolutely nothing rings true about this story. First, all the verifiable facts are false. For example, the increase in taxes for not having health insurance is nowhere near $4,000 a year--the fine maxes out at $2,065, and that is only if you have a six-figure income or an uninsured spouse and lots of uninsured kids. If he is going to grossly lie about the details of his story that can be easily verified, is he also grossly lying about the insurance premiums? Undoubtedly.
In any case, the average cost of staying alive with Type I diabetes is on the order of $40,000 a year. I can't believe anybody with this condition would rather pay $40,000+ out of pocket than purchase health insurance.
It’s relatively easy to agree that only Homo sapiens can speak about things that don’t really exist, and believe six impossible things before breakfast. You could never convince a monkey to give you a banana by promising him limitless bananas after death in monkey heaven.
Analytics wrote:Absolutely nothing rings true about this story.
That's putting it much too nicely. I might assume it is an Onion piece, but those are actually somewhat believable.
But I wouldn't expect much more from that source, where they believe that all the mass shootings and the Boston bombings were "false flag" attacks, carried out by the US government as a pretense to confiscate everyone's guns.
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