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ThomCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Click to send private message to this authorHealth Care, Section 7203 and 7201 problemWhy is it that our representatives are being so much more hostile to Citizens than to the insurance companies, assuming that people will be the ones abusing the system, and need to be criminalized harshly?If you can't afford to buy health insurance (minimum cost is $5,300 per year per person) you get taxed instead. If you can't afford that tax, you go to jail for a up to year and get fined up to $100,000.:wtf:If you are still poor and can't afford health insurance a second time, it is 2 years and $500,000.But in comparison, if the insurance company abuses you by continuing to cancel your insurance or by denying you care the only options offered to you is to appeal to an federal agency that can choose whether or not to investigate. The investigation is not mandated. If they choose to investigate and then decide that the insurance company did anything wrong they can Recommend to the state enforcement agency that they do something about it. The federal agency is hobbled from doing anything directly.If the State agency isn't controlled by the insurance companies and chooses to investigate on their own too, and also finds any wrongdoing, then they can choose to impose a fine and/or order service to be continued.The fines for the insurance company aren't mandated to be large, and there are no big onerous penalties comparable in any way to being put in jail. The goal is assumed to be to correct the situation, not to criminalize anyone.Why are "We the people" criminalized, fined huge amounts and threatened with jail for denying companies money, but if we can get though this huge bureaucratic process to prove we were abused they are merely corrected and slapped on the wrist for threatening our lives and well being?Our reps are writing this bill with the built in assumption that people need to be treated like criminals all the time, and corporations are the victims that need to be protected.Just like when they wrote the "bankruptcy reform" laws, we are the bad guys doing wrong and corporations are the victims who need relief.
dflprincess Donating Member (1000+ posts) Journal Click to send private message to this author Click to view this author's profile Click to add this author to your buddy list Click to add this author to your Ignore list 1. Because we aren't able to match what the insurance companies pay in "campaign contributions"and they figure at election time we have no choice but to vote for the Democrats no matter how badly they've abused us.
ThomCatOur reps are writing this bill with the built in assumption that people need to be treated like criminals all the time
redqueen (1000+ posts) Wed Nov-11-09 11:27 PMResponse to Original message 12. Where did you get the $5300/year minimum from? (nt)
When Pelosi was trying to ram this through the HOR last Saturday, the DimRats defeated ELEVEN amendments that would have required congress critters to use the public option.
