yep, i'll be subsidizing health care

[2minkey]

this is great. i won't get shit, and that itself is fine, but families making up to $88k will be sucking my wallet.

"New health insurance subsidies would be provided to families of four making up to $88,000 annually, or 400 percent of the federal poverty level. Compared with the Senate bill, Obama's proposal lowers premiums for families making between $44,000 and $66,000, according to the White House. Compared with the House legislation, it lowers premiums for families making between $55,000 and $88,000."

 

[Gonz]

C'mon, it's for the common good.

PROPOSAL SUMMARY USES WORD 'TAX' 35 TIMES...
'Increase in Fees on Brand Name Pharmaceuticals'...
Broaden 'Tax Base for High-Income Taxpayers'...
Orders 'Comprehensive Database' On Health Claims...
FORCED: 'Raises percent of income assessment that individuals pay if they choose not to become insured'...
BACKDOOR FIX: Healthcare 'Funds will be transferred to the Social Security Trust' if necessary...

I love that last line....

 

[ResearchMonkey]

this is great. i won't get shit, and that itself is fine, but families making up to $88k will be sucking my wallet.

"New health insurance subsidies would be provided to families of four making up to $88,000 annually, or 400 percent of the federal poverty level. Compared with the Senate bill, Obama's proposal lowers premiums for families making between $44,000 and $66,000, according to the White House. Compared with the House legislation, it lowers premiums for families making between $55,000 and $88,000."

I don't think it goes far enough. You should limited to $88,000 household income (including roomates or otherwise). The rest should go to people who are not fortunate enough to pay to taxes.

 

[Cerise]

Buyer's remorse, you say?

You asked for it, you got it, 0bama.

 

[2minkey]

nah, it would be way worse the other way. mccain's ticker woulda blown out because of the pressure of having to do something rather than just being a grumpystick, and palin would have taken over... resulting in a ten-fold increase in teen pregnancy and a proportionate decrease in the literacy rate.

 

[Cerise]

Oh, predictor of the future:

I bow down to your insight!

 

[Winky]

Wow before it was all said and done someone
in your income bracket would be netting the same as
those potato peelers at Wal-Mart?
Nah under that plan there would be no one left
in your bracket. We’ll all be peelers.

 

[Cerise]

I heart the Peeler!

 

[2minkey]

eew.

 

[ResearchMonkey]

Does that mean you're not gonna PM her a piccy of your "insight"?

 

[catocom]

my medicaid deductible is up to ~$150/yr now.
I make 4 doc visits a year (@$90/ea), and only had to have some heart tests done once in the last 10 years.
I wonders if I could get private insurance for that?....
(If I weren't on ss)

 

[Winky]

We will all be subsidizing Govt. health care

I wonder if you'd die if the govt. benni's were cut off?

 

[catocom]

good question.
it's possible since to churches have been going away for a while.

You'd have to pay the orphanages more then.

 

[Winky]

Where to I send the check?

 

[2minkey]

Does that mean you're not gonna PM her a piccy of your "insight"?

what, my wang?

 

[catocom]

automatic draft right off the top...just like now

 

[Winky]

No

 

[catocom]

if it makes ya feel any better though wink...
I am fiscally responsible, and have declined all the other help I'm eligible for.
I make due just in the ss.
I do also still pay a couple of grand a year in property tax, and still pay consumption taxes.

 

[Winky]

gimme MY free shit!

oh hell no, grab every penny you can
you have a right to my as of yet
unborn grandchildren's paychecks!

Besides once we go bankrupt
it will get shut off anyway?

 

[catocom]

hey, if the gov. hadn't stole the money I paid, you wouldn't have to be paying for ir.
Talk to them.

I'm just drawing what I put in.

SS ain't broke....They stole the money.