"Skinny" insurance meets Obama test

[DrLeftover]

Employers who offer the plans are recognizing they can avoid a $2,000-per-worker penalty by doing so, even though the plans often don’t cover basics like surgery, X-rays or prenatal care, let alone hospitalization.

http://bighealthreport.com/8264/employers-offering-skinny-coverage-to-side-step-obamacare-fines/

 

[DrLeftover]

(CNSNews.com) – In a final regulation issued Wednesday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assumed that under Obamacare the cheapest health insurance plan available in 2016 for a family will cost $20,000 for the year.

Under Obamacare, Americans will be required to buy health insurance or pay a penalty to the IRS.

The IRS's assumption that the cheapest plan for a family will cost $20,000 per year is found in examples the IRS gives to help people understand how to calculate the penalty they will need to pay the government if they do not buy a mandated health plan.

http://cnsnews.com/news/article/irs-cheapest-obamacare-plan-will-be-20000-family

 

[Evil Eye]

What the hell did they do to make it that high?
How can they possibly justify 5x higher prices? (As compared to here. Minimum wage is slightly higher here as well compared to your federal level.)

 

[DrLeftover]

It was done by Politicians

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/us/politics/sebelius-asked-companies-to-support-health-care-law.html?_r=0


and their lobbyist buddies

http://realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/06/02/center_for_american_progress_president_shares_part_in_obamacare_i_helped_write_the_bill.html

What did you expect?

 

[Evil Eye]

That made me wonder how ours came to be. Turns out it was more or less set up by the Nazis. (And changed in 2006.)
I guess you guys really need to be a dictatorship for a while.

http://realclearpolitics.com/video/2013/06/02/center_for_american_progress_president_shares_part_in_obamacare_i_helped_write_the_bill.html

Now that's an interesting MyBB bug (one which they don't plan on fixing any time soon).

Edit: It was inserting an invisible space into the URL thereby breaking the link. I disabled the "feature".