Obamacare: The cheapest healthcare plan will be $20,000 per year for a family plan
The IRS is now starting to get involved in the implementation of Obamacare and according to this article the tax collection agency is estimating that in 2016 the cheapest Obama-approved healthcare plan will cost the average American family $20,000 a year.
That kind of takes the ‘affordable’ out of the “Affordable Care Act” doesn’t it? But of course Obamacare was never designed to bring down the cost of healthcare, it was designed to make more people dependent on the federal government.
People who cannot afford to pay $20,000 a year will simply have to drop their health insurance and pay the fine and the government is hoping that eventually so many people will be without health insurance that the support for a single payer system will reach the point where the federal government can finally finish the take over of the healthcare industry. And that was the goal all along.
Barack Obama must think that this is going according to plan…..
America's Watchtower 
So what’s the problem? Don’t we ALL have an extra $20K just lying arond??
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I’ll have to dig into my secret stash! 🙂
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have you priced health insurance on the open market recently? To suggest that it could be as high as $20k for a family of 5 in 3 years isn’t farfetched at all. The majority of us have gotten our health insurance through our employers, but for those who have to purchase it on the open market, these outrageous figures have been a reality for a long time. I shopped around for me and my wife and daughter about ten years ago and the best quote I got at the time was about $1200 per month – $14.4k per year, and that was in 2003. To think that for a family of 5 it might be $20k by 2016 isn’t unreasonable at all, given the historical trend of medical inflation.
It’s not PPACA that’s brought the cost of healthcare insurance to its current level, it’s a host of variables, one of which is a Congress so in thrall to the pharmaceutical industry that it refuses to permit Medicare, the world’s largest customer of pharmaceuticals, to negotiate for lower prices on behalf of the American people.
Take good care, and may God bless us all!
TGY
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And, you all think Venezuela is bad. Steve, I could not afford to go back and live in the United States. The insanity doesn’t stop.
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Now that is just sad Jim.
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So, COF – do you live in Hugo Chavez’ “paradise?” How is your health insurance provided? And how much does it cost you?
TGY
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Yes he does.
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Apparently nobody read the actual IRS document. It didn’t say that $20k would be the cheapest available, it used the $20k figure as an example, apparently guesstimating and rounding figures. It uses $5k as the “average national cost” of the bronze plan for an individual adult. and $20k as the annual average for a family of 5. Anyone who understands the meaning of the word average (which apparently doesn’t include the article’s author Melanie) knows that “average” cannot mean “cheapest.”
That having been said, what makes the $20k figure so outlandish?
Take good care, and may God bless us all!
TGY
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But I thought Obamacare was supposed to bring the price down.
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Those of us around in 1965 know that medicare started the upward spiral which will logically conclude where it was always intended to – Central Planning.
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So very true!
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