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I'm ready for my health insurance to be subsidized! Can't make enough money to pay for it myself and still have over 10 years before I can retire to get it through Medicare.
I'm going to have to get a second job so i can pay. Obama did this for all the lazy blacks who don't want to work. This may benefit the poor white people too but I know that he specifically did this for blacks . I'm far from rich and I work fifty hours a week to support my family and now I will have to work an additional 10 hours a week to support these ungrateful little bums who have all the oppurtunity but no motivation.
Yes;my company adopted the mandates in ACA year ago October. Its meant many changes and higher cost overall to company and especially dependent coverage cost for employees. New hires who retire before 65 and when they get Medicare are effected the most.
I'm going to have to get a second job so i can pay. Obama did this for all the lazy blacks who don't want to work. This may benefit the poor white people too but I know that he specifically did this for blacks . I'm far from rich and I work fifty hours a week to support my family and now I will have to work an additional 10 hours a week to support these ungrateful little bums who have all the oppurtunity but no motivation.
I, quite frankly, can't believe you actually posted this racist tripe.
Well, at least it might benefit the 'poor white people' too so that can ease your mind.
No, actually, I get my insurance from the federal government. I hope it doesn't hurt your feelings too badly if I decline to post my financial papers on the internet.
It is not my feelings that are hurt, only your credibility. Easy enough to edit out all personal info and prove the documents exist.
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My insurance company has informed me that my current policy will no longer be available next year and the closest replacement that meets the government standards will be more expensive but have not set rates yet.
My sister that works part-time and does not get or want coverage from her employer has been informed her hours are being cut from 35 to 28 because of the law.
A friend and his former partner has spent the last year splitting their business from one entity of 114 employees to two companies each with less than fifty employees... many employees have been informed that they will be retained only as contract workers.
And now my neighbor who works for UPS has been informed that his wife will have to get a separate policy from the state exchange.
All this to insure some people but the painting contractor I spoke to this morning says most of his employees won't sign up for coverage... as far as they are concerned health care is free and they just go to the emergency room when sick or injured.
The unintended consequences of this law seem pretty severe.
Employers have been raising and passing on the costs of health care to employees for 2 decades. Can we attribute that to the absence of Obamacare? There is a lot more to health care then showing up at the ER when injured.
The ER only has to treat "emergency medical conditions". Seems immoral to do otherwise.
An emergency medical condition is defined as "a condition manifesting itself by acute symptoms of sufficient severity (including severe pain) such that the absence of immediate medical attention could reasonably be expected to result in placing the individual's health [or the health of an unborn child] in serious jeopardy, serious impairment to bodily functions, or serious dysfunction of bodily organs."
Signed into law by none other than President Ronald Reagan, the EMTALA (Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act) was part and parcel of the 1986 Omnibus bill known as COBRA.
...but IMHO those businesses just had a convenient excuse to cut costs and increase profit. If it wasn't the ACA, it would have been something else. They are just using this as a convenient excuse. Anymore most businesses don't give a rat's behind about the employees...
Agree! And businesses have been doing this for many years. This is just a good excuse to avoid taking responsibility for their decisions and choices.
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