FOUR Dollars a MONTH!
Take
from the better paid and give the fake poor people along with free
phones, food stamps, subsubidised housing, kids that we support, and
promises of never ending free stuff.
What ObamaCare is Really About
I'm
a 54 year old consulting engineer and make between $60,000 and $125,000
per year, depending on how hard I work and whether or not there are
work projects out there for me.
My girlfriend is 61 and makes about $18,000 per year, working as a part-time mail clerk.
For
me, making $60,000 a year, under ObamaCare, the cheapest, lowest grade
policy I can buy, which also happens to impose a $5,000 deductible,
costs $482 per month.
For
my girlfriend, the same exact policy, same deductible, costs $1 per
month. That's right, $1 per month. I'm not making this up.
Don't believe me? Just go towww.coveredca.gov,
the ObamaCare website for California and enter the parameters I've
mentioned above and see for yourself. By the way, my zip code is 93940.
You'll need to enter that.
So
OK, clearly ObamaCare is a scheme that involves putting the cost burden
of healthcare onto the middle and upper-income wage earners. But
there's a lot more to it. Stick with me.
And before I make my next points, I'd like you to think about something:
I
live in Monterey County, in Central California. We have a large land
mass but just 426,000 residents - about the population of Colorado
Springs or Omaha.
But
we do have a large Hispanic population, including a large number of
illegal aliens, and to serve this group we have Natividad Medical
Center, a massive, Federally subsidized county medical complex that
takes up an area about one-third the size of the Chrysler Corporation
automobile assembly plant in Belvedere, Illinois (see Google Earth
View). Natividad has state-of-the-art operating rooms, Computed
Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Imaging, fully equipped, 24 hour
emergency room, and much more. If you have no insurance, if you've been
in a drive-by shooting or have overdosed on crack cocaine, this is where
you go. And it's essentially free, because almost everyone who ends up
in the ER is uninsured.
Last
year, 2,735 babies were born at Natividad. 32% of these were born to
out-of-wedlock teenage mothers, 93% of which were Hispanic. Less than
20% could demonstrate proof of citizenship, and 71% listed their native
language as Spanish. Of these 876 births, only 40 were covered under
[any kind of] private health insurance. The taxpayers paid for the other
836. And in case you were wondering about the entire population - all
2,735 births - less than 24% involved insured coverage or even partial
payment on behalf of the patient to the hospital in exchange for
services. Keep this in mind as we move forward.
Now consider this:
If
I want to upgrade my policy to a low-deductible premium policy, such as
what I had with my last employer, my cost is $886 per month. But my
girlfriend can upgrade her policy to the very same level, for just $4
per month. That's right, $4 per month. $48 per year for a
zero-deductible, premium healthcare policy - the kind of thing you get
when you work at IBM (except of course, IBM employees pay an average of
$170 per month out of pocket for their coverage).
I
mean, it's bad enough that I will be forced to subsidize the ObamaCare
scheme in the first place. But even if I agreed with the basic scheme,
which of course I do not, I would never agree
to subsidize premium policies. If I have to pay $482 a month for a
budget policy, I sure as hell do not want the guy I'm subsidizing to get
a better policy, for less that 1% of what I have to fork out each month
for a low-end policy.
Why
must I pay $482 per month for something the other guy gets for a
dollar? And why should the other guy get to buy an $886 policy for $4 a
month? Think about this: I have to pay $10,632 a year for the same thing
that the other guy can get for $48. $10,000 of net income is 60 days of
full time work as an engineer. $48 is something I could pay by collecting aluminum cans and plastic bottles, one day a month.
Are you with me on this? Are you starting to get an idea what ObamaCare is really about?
ObamaCare
is not about dealing with inequities in the healthcare system. That's
just the cover story. The real story is that it is a massive, political
power grab. Do you think anyone who can insure himself with a premium
policy for $4 a month will vote for anyone but the political party that
provides him such a deal? ObamaCare is about enabling, subsidizing, and
expanding the Left's political power base, at taxpayer expense. Why
would I vote for anyone but a Democrat if I can have babies for $4 a
month? For that matter, why would I go to college or strive for a better
job or income if it means I have to pay real money for healthcare
coverage? Heck, why study engineering when I can be a schlub for $20K
per year and buy a new F-150 with all the money I'm saving?
And
think about those $4-a-month babies - think in terms of propagation
models. Think of just how many babies will be born to irresponsible,
under-educated mothers. Will we get a new crop of brain surgeons and
particle physicists from the dollar baby club, or will we need more
cops, criminal courts and prisons? One thing you can be certain of: At
$4 a month, they'll multiply and multiply and multiply. And not one of
them will vote Republican.
ObamaCare: It's all about political power and the transfer of wealth.
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