This
is the latest of the horror stories resulting from Obama care. In a
similar situation, there are two brothers in southern California, one
works for the government ( City of LA), the other is an auditor for a
major accounting firm. For nearly identical coverage next year one will
be paying $196/mo the other $530. You can guess which is which. Keep in mind, this is the first iteration of this mess – just wait till the D.C. Marxist Democratic Party and the Obama administration have a couple years to “tweek” it!
Dr. James P. Wickstrom
I'm a 54 year old consulting engineer in California and make between
$60,000 and $125,000 per year, depending on how hard I work and whether or not there are work projects out there for me.
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 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 (see Google Earth
View).
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 that 1% of what I have to fork out each month for a low-end policy.
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 pay for 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. And not one of them
will vote other than Democrat.
ObamaCare: It's all about political power.
And,
if you think this information is important, pass it along to all your
friends, and especially to your congressional representatives, and let's
STOP this underhanded madness and internal destruction of America!