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  • Also....what about the breeder families...5-6-7 kids...what the hell are they going to have to pay. There has to be some scale taking them in to account.

    I am sure at some point we will actually pay some class of individual a bonus check for signing up.

    But...the good news is state after state is lining up against this croc of crap....at some point there will be enough who don't care what the government or supreme court may say....they aren't going to listen, then it is game on.

  • It's a farce dude....most of the people making in the higher end don't pay that much now.

    In time employers are going to figure out it is cheaper to pay the fine then it is to offer insurance....so the top end earners....88K a year will be paying much more for insurance.

    Sorry....88K is shit for a family of 4 and in no way is it in what I consider the elite class.

    You people make me sick.

    You need to set your sights higher then a measly 88K per year household income.

    A person making minimum wage and working 50 hours a week make nearly half the 44k figure.

    This is the fleecing of the middle class by the FREELOADER class.

    It is also going to encourage even more freeloaders. Once people figure out if they make more and have to pay more, the morons are going to sit on their ass.. Subsidized housing and foodstamps prove that...if people start getting close to making too much money, they quit long enough to keep the freebies coming in.

    As long as the Dems give stuff to the morons of the country, you'll stay in control a long, long time.

    So what's your interest in the game....are you young and dumb or are you getting something??

    @ballpeen said:

    In time employers are going to figure out it is cheaper to pay the fine then it is to offer insurance....so the top end earners....88K a year will be paying much more for insurance.

    BINGO. I just saw my neighbor at Giant Eagle, he is nurse for the Cleveland Clinic. That is exactly what he and some doctors speculated, he foresaw this happening. Even where he works, lol! At the Cleveland Clinic! WHAT????

  • Oh, Heck....I know you aren't dumb, and don't know how old you are, nor care.....just keeping it real.....sorry if i insulted you...I am just fired up over this...this is the beginning of the end for this country....we're done.

    We don't have a smart population as a whole, we don't have enough jobs to support the population, and we have a class of population who has been provided for for so long they can't provide for themself.

  • Oh, Heck....I know you aren't dumb, and don't know how old you are, nor care.....just keeping it real.....sorry if i insulted you...I am just fired up over this...this is the beginning of the end for this country....we're done.

    We don't have a smart population as a whole, we don't have enough jobs to support the population, and we have a class of population who has been provided for for so long they can't provide for themself.

    @ballpeen said:

    Oh, Heck....I know you aren't dumb, and don't know how old you are, nor care.....just keeping it real.....sorry if i insulted you...I am just fired up over this...this is the beginning of the end for this country....we're done.

    We don't have a smart population as a whole, we don't have enough jobs to support the population, and we have a class of population who has been provided for for so long they can't provide for themself.

    I really think this discussion has been somewhat civil today. I think that people on both sides are confused and concerned. I think Heck has been taking it in strides and for the most part everyone else has been giving some good input without throwing the Obama is a Retard card out there. And I am sure Heck will agree, all opinions are good because it gets to root of the matter. It's when individuals throw the "me not like Obama card" and don't speak there mind on the issue. It's done and voted on, let's get over it and discuss the issue at hand.

  • @ballpeen said:

    In time employers are going to figure out it is cheaper to pay the fine then it is to offer insurance....so the top end earners....88K a year will be paying much more for insurance.

    BINGO. I just saw my neighbor at Giant Eagle, he is nurse for the Cleveland Clinic. That is exactly what he and some doctors speculated, he foresaw this happening. Even where he works, lol! At the Cleveland Clinic! WHAT????

    @kosar_for_president said:

    BINGO. I just saw my neighbor at Giant Eagle, he is nurse for the Cleveland Clinic. That is exactly what he and some doctors speculated, he foresaw this happening. Even where he works, lol! At the Cleveland Clinic! WHAT????

    It's why the fine is so low. In short order everybody is going to have to be on the plan so the people making a modest living of 40-50K can support the masses.

    250K isn't exorbitant IMO...and they get hit with another 3.8% just so the slugs down the road can be insured while they watch Oprah during the day.

    You get the insurers out of the mix, then the government can set fees that MDs charge.

    20 years from now we won't have nearly as many MDs in this country...the work won't be worth the pay.

  • Profits will supersede, when it all boils down, so will we see more factories close up and go to foreign countries?

    The progressives are not done yet, this is just one step of legislation/programs to be forced be upon the american people against their will.

    At the present time, we have seen how progressive politicians will employ their own ideology over practicality.

    In the next few months we will see Cap n Tax, Immigration reform, Gun control. The progressives twisted the arms of all of those in the democratic party to get HC reform passed. All you had to do is look at the face of Stupak as he sold out America, and how he sold out his vote along with the supposed other pro life democrats to see what is going on here.

    So Heck is following his marching orders and showing everyone all of the Free Candy that we will be getting! Hoping to sway public opibion into excepting that the will of the people was not met.

    And you want to know how this will effect jobs? Just wait they are not done yet. And how long will it be before we are enslaved to the government to pay nothing more than Higher taxes while the jobs will be leaving.

    So lets here more about all the free candy!!!!!!! And while your at it tells us how will it be paid for. May I remind you this is a 1 Trillion dollar spending law!

    @mr.-t said:

    At the present time, we have seen how progressive politicians will employ their own ideology over practicality.

    I actually love this comment.

  • @westside-steve said:

    Actually an eager 22 year old with a degree at 22K trumps a 48 year old rustbucket making 50K.

    Sad but true.

    WSS

    It depends on the industry. Especially those that live and die by mistakes.

    @kosar_for_president said:

    It depends on the industry. Especially those that live and die by mistakes.

    Sure I suppose so.

    Often middle agers are set in their ways.

    And often not as eager to put in a 14 hour day.

    Or as willing to learn the new systems.

    Or as hip to the latest technology.

    Or as willing to serve a 35 year old manager.

    Or work for a 24 year olds pay.

    And more apt to get sick and cost the company money.

    But of course there are places you wouldn't want a newcomer.

    But you see a lotof fiftysomethings looking for positions.

    I've been fortunate but it isn't gonna last forever.

    WSS

    WSS[/b]

  • @kosar_for_president said:

    BINGO. I just saw my neighbor at Giant Eagle, he is nurse for the Cleveland Clinic. That is exactly what he and some doctors speculated, he foresaw this happening. Even where he works, lol! At the Cleveland Clinic! WHAT????

    It's why the fine is so low. In short order everybody is going to have to be on the plan so the people making a modest living of 40-50K can support the masses.

    250K isn't exorbitant IMO...and they get hit with another 3.8% just so the slugs down the road can be insured while they watch Oprah during the day.

    You get the insurers out of the mix, then the government can set fees that MDs charge.

    20 years from now we won't have nearly as many MDs in this country...the work won't be worth the pay.

    @ballpeen said:

    You get the insurers out of the mix, then the government can set fees that MDs charge.

    You know this sort of screws doctors, in a general sense. Ok people say doctors are not going to take it and up and move shop. Where the f*ck are they going to practice? India?

  • @kosar_for_president said:

    It depends on the industry. Especially those that live and die by mistakes.

    Sure I suppose so.

    Often middle agers are set in their ways.

    And often not as eager to put in a 14 hour day.

    Or as willing to learn the new systems.

    Or as hip to the latest technology.

    Or as willing to serve a 35 year old manager.

    Or work for a 24 year olds pay.

    And more apt to get sick and cost the company money.

    But of course there are places you wouldn't want a newcomer.

    But you see a lotof fiftysomethings looking for positions.

    I've been fortunate but it isn't gonna last forever.

    WSS

    WSS[/b]

    @westside-steve said:

    And more apt to get sick and cost the company money.

    Trust me I see some law suits coming on this.

  • @ballpeen said:

    You get the insurers out of the mix, then the government can set fees that MDs charge.

    You know this sort of screws doctors, in a general sense. Ok people say doctors are not going to take it and up and move shop. Where the f*ck are they going to practice? India?

    @kosar_for_president said:

    You know this sort of screws doctors, in a general sense. Ok people say doctors are not going to take it and up and move shop. Where the f*ck are they going to practice? India?

    Up and comers won't go in to medicine. Why be the best and brightest, spend 4 years in college, 4 years in medical school, amassing maybe 80K student loans, then spend 4 years as a intern working 80-90 hours a week for minimal pay, then finally get your own practice at age 31-32 to make 70K a year??

    Only a dummy would do that. MD's might be kind of goofy in the social sense, but they aren't stupid. If they can get through med school and the rigors of training, they can find other ways to make modest pay at far less cost....cost in many ways.

  • 3.21.10.....now and forever more, Dependence Day.

  • This kind of rhetoric is going to seem strange in a few years. It always does.

  • It's also a bit entertaining, since it seems many of you in here are on, or have recently been on, or would like to be some form of government assistance. Some have even received government-run health care.

    But don't let that stop you. Lousy freeloaders.

  • E.M.S. to dispatch we aint moven till we know whos payen for this crap........

  • It's also a bit entertaining, since it seems many of you in here are on, or have recently been on, or would like to be some form of government assistance. Some have even received government-run health care.

    But don't let that stop you. Lousy freeloaders.

    @heckofajobbrownie said:

    It's also a bit entertaining, since it seems many of you in here are on, or have recently been on, or would like to be some form of government assistance. Some have even received government-run health care.

    But don't let that stop you. Lousy freeloaders.

    Hey f*ck you Heck, lol. I said it from the start I am not being objective. And as I said before I am not being cynical, I am here for the facts, not some childish sociological experiment on what side of who I "stand" for.

  • Just a question.

    So the fine is $650(round number) if you don't carry insurance. The cost of a plan might be $2000 or more a year.

    What is to keep people from deciding to just pay the fine and then signing up for insurance once things start to go wrong??

    With pre-existing conditions now out of the mix for being denied insurance, you can just sign up when you get pregnant or show some signs of a problem.

    People won't be gambling they will never get sick....they are just gambling they won't get hit with something that strikes immediately....which is the case most of the time.

    Most accidents are auto or work related, so your auto insurance will cover that, and you have a 50% shot it is the others persons fault, and your employers insurance will cover a work related accident.

    Expect premiums much higher than projected.

  • It's also a bit entertaining, since it seems many of you in here are on, or have recently been on, or would like to be some form of government assistance. Some have even received government-run health care.

    But don't let that stop you. Lousy freeloaders.

    @heckofajobbrownie said:

    It's also a bit entertaining, since it seems many of you in here are on, or have recently been on, or would like to be some form of government assistance. Some have even received government-run health care.

    But don't let that stop you. Lousy freeloaders.

    I get Tricare, but I EARNED it through my career in the military. There is a big difference between being a non-working slug wanting everything handed to you and earning a benefit through years of hard service.

  • T, please be objective here, how does this effect your business? It's done with, let's speak business here, how does this help you and people looking for jobs and your hiring outlook.

    @kosar_for_president said:

    T, please be objective here, how does this effect your business? It's done with, let's speak business here, how does this help you and people looking for jobs and your hiring outlook.

    Here's one possibility.

    You own a business that employs less than the required number to be forced to pay for a policy.

    You may well balk at exceeding that limit.

    Also is there any provision that prevents the employer from taking a higher percent from the employees pay for it?

    WSS

  • This doesn't adversely affect jobs and hiring... how?

    not good.

    btw, Heck, we all PAY INTO SS. We EARN the SS by PAYING INTO IT.

    that's a cheap try at "moral equivalency".

    Happens all the time with some people...

  • @kosar_for_president said:

    BINGO. I just saw my neighbor at Giant Eagle, he is nurse for the Cleveland Clinic. That is exactly what he and some doctors speculated, he foresaw this happening. Even where he works, lol! At the Cleveland Clinic! WHAT????

    It's why the fine is so low. In short order everybody is going to have to be on the plan so the people making a modest living of 40-50K can support the masses.

    250K isn't exorbitant IMO...and they get hit with another 3.8% just so the slugs down the road can be insured while they watch Oprah during the day.

    You get the insurers out of the mix, then the government can set fees that MDs charge.

    20 years from now we won't have nearly as many MDs in this country...the work won't be worth the pay.

    @ballpeen said:

    It's why the fine is so low. In short order everybody is going to have to be on the plan so the people making a modest living of 40-50K can support the masses.

    250K isn't exorbitant IMO...and they get hit with another 3.8% just so the slugs down the road can be insured while they watch Oprah during the day.

    You get the insurers out of the mix, then the government can set fees that MDs charge.

    20 years from now we won't have nearly as many MDs in this country...the work won't be worth the pay.

    Two things fer certain insurance premiums are going to go up- can't deny coverage to seriously disabled kids- great for the families with newborns with Down's or other serious birth defects that are going to cost millions over the kids lifetime. Actually, I don't mind that part of of the "reform" at all.

    What does bother me is Obamahood robbing from the rich to give to the poor. If you're really loaded, say making a million or more, most of your income isn't salary- it's investment income- and the Dems just decided you need to give 3.8% of it for the good of the country. I'll take some consolation that Socialists like Michael Moore and his uber-rich Hollywood cronies just took a major one op the tailpipe to further their agenda.

    And the funding for this government expansion (as I said elsewhere) is pure government crackpipe economics. Cutting Medicare by billions ain't happening- the AARP Grey Panthers will guarantee that. + the Dems will never, ever let their working UAW bretheren pay a dime of tax on the gold plated insurance plans they now have.