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 to http://www.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 the city of 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 (per Google Earth)
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 than 1% of what I have to fork out each month.
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 make 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.
ObamaCare: It's all about political power.Remember folks, November 2016 is just around the corner. If you want to continue this kind of redistribution of wealth, then don't "forward" this email. But if you are sick and tired of the money grab by the current administration, then "forward" this email to everyone in your Address Book. VOTE IN 2016!!!!
One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors. Plato
Thursday, January 14, 2016
A Good Read ... Thx Judi C!
Orange County FL ltd to editor ...Thx Sarah R!
> Dear Editor:
> So many letter writers have based their arguments on how this land
>is made up of immigrants. Ernie Lujan for one, suggests we should tear
>down the Statue of Liberty because the people now in question aren't
>being treated the same as those who passed through Ellis Island and
>other ports of entry.
>
> Maybe we should turn to our history books and point out to people
>like Mr. Lujan why today's American is not willing to accept this new
>kind of immigrant any longer. Back in 1900 when there was a rush from
>all areas of Europe to come to the United States, people had to get off
>a ship and stand in a long line in New York and be documented. Some
>would even get down on their hands and knees and kiss the ground. They
>made a pledge to uphold the laws and support their new country in good
>and bad times. They made learning English a primary rule in their new
>American households and some even changed their names to blend in with
>their new home.
>
> They had waved good-bye to their birth place to give their children
>a new life and did everything in their power to help their children
>assimilate into one culture. Nothing was handed to them. No free
>lunches, no welfare, no labor laws to protect them. All they had were
>the skills and craftsmanship they had brought with them to trade for a
>future of prosperity.
>
> Most of their children came of age when World War II broke out. My
>father fought alongside men whose parents had come straight over from
>Germany, Italy, France and Japan. None of these 1st generation
>Americans ever gave any thought about what country their parents had
>come from. They were Americans fighting Hitler, Mussolini and the
>Emperor of Japan. They were defending the United States of America as
>one people.
>
> When we liberated France, no one in those villages were looking for
>the French-American or the German-American or the Irish-American. The
>people of France saw only Americans. And we carried one flag that
>represented one country. Not one of those immigrant sons would have
>thought about picking up another country's flag and waving it to
>represent who they were. It would have been a disgrace to their parents
>who had sacrificed so much to be here. These immigrants truly knew what
>it meant to be an American. They stirred the melting pot into one red,
>white and blue bowl.
>
> And here we are with a new kind of immigrant who wants the same
>rights and privileges. Only they want to achieve it by playing with a
>different set of rules, one that includes the entitlement card and a
>guarantee of being faithful to their mother country. I'm sorry, that's
>not what being an American is all about. I believe that the immigrants
>who landed on Ellis Island in the early 1900's deserve better than that
>for all the toil, hard work and sacrifice in raising future generations
>to create a land that has become a beacon for those legally searching
>for a better life. I think they would be appalled that they are being
>used as an example by those waving foreign country flags.
>
> And for that suggestion about taking down the Statue of Liberty, it
>happens to mean a lot to the citizens who are voting on the immigration
>bill. I wouldn't start talking about dismantling the United States just
>yet.
>
> (signed)
> Rosemary LaBonte
>
> KEEP THIS LETTER MOVING. FOR THE WRONG THINGS TO PREVAIL THE
>RIGHTFUL MAJORITY NEEDS TO REMAIN COMPLACENT AND QUIET!! LET THIS NEVER
>HAPPEN!!
>
> I sincerely hope this letter gets read by millions of people all
>across the nation!
>
Too funny not to pass on ... Thx Judi C!
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