argiel1234 (390 posts)
I cant afford up to 8% of my income. Im under the poverty level right now and I could never find 8% of my meager pay to buy private insurance. I will also not be able to pay the tax (up to 2.5% eventually). I would literally have to cut out my transportation costs, and/or food or a utility bill every month to cover the difference.
This has been bothering me for some time now
Ultimately it will be 2.5% of peoples income.
I dont see anything addressed in there for people who qualify for Medicaid but their state refuses to expand it.
Would we be exempt from both the requirement to buy private insurance AND the tax?
Im seeing a huge hole in this law thats going to ensnare millions of people who are eligible for medicaid but states refuse to enroll them. They would still be required to buy insurance(up to 8% of their income) or pay 2.5% tax and STILL not have insurance.
PoliticAverse (4,394 posts)
8. Since the op is below the federal poverty level the op's premium won't be subsidized.
The ACA intended such people would be covered by Medicaid but since the Supreme Court overturned the all-or-nothing requirement for states to participate in the ACA Medicaid expansion people below the FPL will simply be left without any coverage
say someone makes $15,000 a year, which by any measure is close to poverty. They are going to be required by law to either pay 2.5% of their income in a new tax and STILL not have health insurance, OR pay up to 8% of their income to buy private insurance with high co-pays and high deductibles that they might not even be able to afford to use.
Im sorry but this is beginning to anger me.
Im now upset about this as this law was not thought out very well at all, especially considering leaving it up to governors and the SC was always going to play out.
This WILL anger many millions of people who live paycheck to paycheck and will either be hit with a new 2.5% regressive tax increase or pay for garbage insurance.
Someone making 12k a year does not have 2.5% or 8% of their income to piss away.
This law needs to be amended or many millions are going to be very very angry when they realize how ****ed they are.
This, my friends, is why I was not angry at Chief Justice John Roberts. Better to have the very leeches that begged for this crap to scream for it to be gotten rid of than be used as a propaganda piece for all eternity.
Roberts understood the obamacare law very well and (I believe) set it up so that Congress holds the key to its survival or death. He knows what is coming and knows the moochtards will be the ones screaming the loudest for it to be "fixed". Putting it back in the hands of Congress allows the Republican controlled House to offer the bullet to the democrats to kill the broken legged horse.
Interesting, isn't it? Obama, the master 8D chess player, has set himself up for a
smothered mate. What better way for a legacy to be written - have the egomaniac sign the document that overturns his own crowing achievement.
We here at the Cave know that people are going to have to suffer some real pain before they wake up. The pain is coming, it is coming and those who wanted it are going to beg for it to be taken away.