In a week where you discover Team Obama has nothing but contempt for you, it should warm your heart that they’re now going to gouge you even more if you didn’t sign up for this mess. Sorry, stupid Americans.
Americans will see their bank accounts shrink if they don’t sign up for Obamacare in its second enrollment season.
Uninsured Americans who decide not to enroll will face a penalty of $325 per person, more than tripling the $95 penalty those who did not enroll had to pay the first time around.
Children under the age of 18 will be fined $162.50. The maximum amount an uninsured family will be penalized is $975 under the flat-rate method.
Oh, they’re fining minors now? Awesome. War on Children, yo!
“The penalty is meant to incentivize people to get coverage,” Laura Adams, senior analyst of InsuranceQuotes.com, told CBS News. “This year, I think a lot of people are going to be in for a shock.”
CBS News reports that many Obamacare plans will be charging more as a 27-year-old earning 250 percent of the poverty rate will now have to pay an average of 7 percent more for the lowest-cost bronze plan. The analysis from Investor’s Business Daily found that the lowest-cost silver plan will rise 9 percent and the lowest-priced catastrophic policy will go up by 18 percent.
Not only that, you’re sure to experience a wonderful time trying to sign up on their billion-dollar website. Curious how this news didn’t seep out before the midterms, huh?
Adams stated that very few uninsured Americans don’t understand the penalties they are facing.
“There is very little awareness of this,” she told CBS News. “Until people understand the financial consequences, they don’t have an incentive.”
Well, this stuff happens when you live in a secretive dictatorship.
Emily Rooney from WGBH asked Gruber, "You've been under a lot of fire for remarks of yours that recently went viral, and you've gotten a lot of nasty, upsetting e-mails. But your larger point was about how much politics you have to play in order to get something done. So do you essentially stand by what you said?"
Excuse me? "how much politics you have to play?" Ms Rooney is condoning lying and deceiving intentionally because that is just "playing politics"?
Newspeak is here, we've completely lost our standard for conversation.
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“Show me a young Conservative and I'll show you someone with no heart. Show me an old Liberal and I'll show you someone with no brains.” ¯ Winston S. Churchill
But, but, I don't get it. Bambi promised again and again health insurance premiums would decline an average $2500 per family, per year. Is that still to come?