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Congress and their staffers HAVE TO go to the exchanges.
"Members of Congress and their staff members will have to use health insurance exchanges next year as part of the health law, but will keep federal government contributions towards the cost of their premiums, Democrats have confirmed."
How are you supporting anyone? Have you been relegating your tax payments to not go towards emergency room visits for people that did not have insurance? Why would people actually purchasing health insurance for themselves and their families bother you so much? Is that like not feeding the child of the welfare recipient because the child was born after the mom started to recieve welfare?. That is what your advocated for on another thread so I am not surprised that it irks you so that some people might now have the peace of mind and security that comes with affordable heathcare.
We will have MILLIONS of more people to pay for now than before! With the same amount of taxes going in. Why is that so hard to understand?
i went to the dentist years ago, back in 07. gave em like 100 bucks up front and they did like 1,500 in dental work. they said they would bill me. i just never paid it and that was that. still owe them 1500. never reported on my credit report or anything.
Most dentists in my neck of the woods will no longer perform work unless the patient has demonstrated the ability to pay at the time of service. Most insist on payment in full at the time of service, regardless if you have dental insurance. They will file an electronic claim on your behalf if you are insured with instructions to reimburse you. Those who do implants and other costly procedures often have affiliations with banks who will loan the patient money and pay the dentist. Interest rates are quite high.
Have you considered DIY dental work going forward?
How are the subsidies paid for? Are my taxes going up?
There are essentially two big funding streams for the Affordable Care Act. The first are cuts to Medicare reimbursements. We heard a lot about this during the presidential campaign, when Mitt Romney would talk about the law cutting $716 billion from Medicare. These are cuts largely to the rates that we pay doctors who see Medicare patients, and also what we pay private insurers that cover these subscribers.
The other big funding source are taxes on different health care industries like hospitals, insurance companies and, more relevant in recent days, medical device makers. There's a debate about whether those taxes will get passed on to consumers, but, as it stands, they're not direct taxes on you as an individual.
There is one tax that is applied to some individuals, which began last year: The Affordable Care Act raised taxes on investment income for people who earn more than $200,000.
Estimated wait time to get thru by phone is 20 minutes...Well, whadaya know!
I heard that the truth of the matter is that all those RW conservatives that are vehemently opposed to Obamacare are swarming the sites and switchboards to jam them and show the world that Obamacare doesn't work on day one. Basically a 10 million internet flash mob of attempted health insurance destruction.
And if taxes on teh hospitals and inurance companies go up, long with device makers, YOU as the consumer pay for them..
Is it really that difficult for you to understand?
How can someone not understand this? I dont know all the ins-and-outs of this ACA stuff but when taxes, costs, prices, hell - anything goes up the consumer pays for it. There is no Monopoly money here folks
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