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March 13, 2013 at 3:18 am in RiverTowns.net
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One thousand five hundred people die each year because of a “problematic alcohol culture” in Wisconsin, according to Paul Krupski of the Health First Coalition. A federal court jury in Minneapolis is about to decide whether three members of an American Indian gang are guilty of racketeering.
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All these coalitions and action committees can stay out of the people’s business. We are free to do what we want and not be constantly bombarded with study after study to change how we choose to live our lives. Enough already. Get a new hobby and keep your nose in your own business.
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Nothing to worry about, Obamacare will solve all the health and social problems of this country.
Somewhere in the 7.5 FOOT high stack of Obamacare regulations that have been issued to date are regulations pertaining to alcohol (and smoking, and obesity, and recreational drug use, and planned death.) For a picture of the regulation pile: redstate.com/2013/03/12/big-government-small-people/
And just so all you Obama voters who think they are getting “affordable insurance”: first, fill out out the 15-page application (3-person family), allow “real-time” check on your citizenship, identity and income (that’s IRS database info), and THEN proceed to trying to pick out an insurance plan.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jtfD5wmiNc7sUfvQzES7vHJZpcWQ?docId=f3f34515dbd940aead0c117e6444f677
“Affordable” insurance is only a pipedream to the low-information voters who voted for Obama. The isurance premium itself might be “cheap”, but paying for all these government workers to handle all the regulations is going to take a lot of taxs.
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Derks, do you really believe that? I don’t. Please give me some examples and numbers that might convince me.
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It’s hardly a surprise derks didn’t get back to you, Wiz.
Pay attention derks: “This means that under Obamacare, young adults will pay significantly higher premiums than they would have prior to Obamacare, and older adults will pay only slightly lower premiums.” What was that about “more affordable?”
Just out via Heritage (because the MSM can’t expose their bias), reporting on a House-Senate committe report on the Obamacare impact on health insurance. In WI, expect a 34%-106% increase. Two important reasons for this:
“1.Age rating restrictions. Obamacare limits variation in premium costs to a ratio of 3 to 1 based on age. But as Heritage research shows, “The natural variation by age in medical costs is about 5 to 1—meaning that the oldest group of (non-Medicare) adults normally consumes about five times as much medical care as the youngest group.” This means that under Obamacare, young adults will pay significantly higher premiums than they would have prior to Obamacare, and older adults will pay only slightly lower premiums.
2.New benefit mandates and cost-sharing rules. Heritage expert Ed Haislmaier explains, “The new law adds a number of health care services that insurers must cover and in some cases restricts the ability of insurers and employer self-insured health plans to impose limits on the amount of services patients can consume. This combination will drive up health plan costs and premiums for both individual insurance and employer-group coverage.” In addition, Obamacare prohibits cost sharing on many preventative services, which will dramatically increase utilization of those services—pushing premiums even higher.”
heritage.org/2013/03/18/obamacare-projected-premium-increases-by-state/
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derks, You are so sorely misinformed. You equate $14500 in NEW taxes “affordable”?? Thats the cost for the AVERAGE family annually according to the CBO. Its a joke and hopefully will be repealed. It helps no one and only feeds Washington with more of my money.
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Why do you asume I’m “rich” derks? Because I’m opposed to more government intrusion in my life?
My tax guy will get a good belly laugh when I tell him about your comment.
I checked into health insurance 2 years ago. For $500+ a month I could get a plan with a $5000 deductable. After checking into why so much, it comes down to state mandated insurance coverage. If Congress had eliminated state boundaries and allowed my to buy insurance from a company in say, Idaho where they don’t mandate coverage for drug/alcohol testing and treatment, I would have been able to afford insurance. But rather than doing some common sense thing like that, Obama and the Dems decided to create more regulations and paperwork, which = higher cost.
Why don’t you realize if the government (state, federal) would quit “mandating”, I could have afforded insurance?
No insurance in 2014 = $97/month “tax penalty”
No insurance in 2016 = $517/month “tax penalty”
And expect employer-paid health insurance to be taxed sometime in the future…my tax guy told me state employees are getting 1099s for the cost of state paid heath insurance. As he said, Uncle Sam is collecting info so they can figure out how to collect more tax dollars.
My tax guy is going to need more health insurance. Because of the “fiscal cliff”, some 1099s that came out are being revised which means tax forms have to be redone. Keep telling us how good things are going to be derks..
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That’s your big comeback to the reality that goverment mandates (state and federal) cost we the people more money?
I’m going to be laughing my head off at all the libs when they scream about Obama and the Dems nationalizing 401K accounts to pay the debt run up by all the give-away programs. By then dear, your guns will have been confiscated under Sen Feinstein’s gun control law and you’ll be wondering how you gave your freedoms away.
http://news.coinupdate.com/us-government-takes-two-more-steps-toward-nationalization-of-private-retirement-account-assets-0842/
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That wasn’t a big comeback dear. Did you think that was a big comeback?
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sorry, should have helped you out by including a /sarc/ tag
and no dear, you fulfilled all expectations
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oozing out from the Obamacare stack of regulations:
another $63 annual tax which is supposed to only last 3 yrs and decrease in yrs 2 & 3….we’ll see about that
Vet bills also will increase because of Obamacare, thanks to new taxes on medical equipment and supplies
tell us AR and derks….wouldn’t it have been cheaper to end mandates so people could buy the coverage they needed? I don’t drink or use drugs, why am I forced to buy coverage for that?
redstate.com/2013/03/15/your-surprise-obamacare-taxes-of-the-week/
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