Sec. 202 (p. 91-92) of the bill requires you to enroll in a “qualified plan.” If you get your insurance at work, your employer will have a “grace period” to switch you to a “qualified plan,” meaning a plan designed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services. If you buy your own insurance, there’s no grace period. You’ll have to enroll in a qualified plan as soon as any term in your contract changes, such as the co-pay, deductible or benefit.
Sounds like I’m going to be forced to the “qualified plan”, who really believes that any current plan is a “qualified plan”?
It isn’t going to cost you more:
An individual earning $44,000 before taxes who purchases his own insurance will have to pay a $5,300 premium and an estimated $2,000 in out-of-pocket expenses, for a total of $7,300 a year, which is 17% of his pre-tax income.
This is pretty close to me. I currently pay around $2500/year in premiums and $1000/year out of pocket. This for a plan that certainly isn’t a “qualified plan”, as it provides access to Brain Surgery.
What about those Illegals?
Sec. 59b (pp. 297-299) says that when you file your taxes, you must include proof that you are in a qualified plan. If not, you will be fined thousands of dollars. Illegal immigrants are exempt from this requirement.
Figures, you go to jail the person here Illegally isn’t. The Illegal is probably getting better healthcare than you as well.
You have seen this on Insty, but here it is again:
At the end they ask the question: “If Obama Care passes, could this story be yours?”
NO!
No, it couldn’t be my story and I’ll tell you why.
Because I am an American, and I wouldn’t have anywhere to go. The ONLY reason the Canadian System can exist is because Canadians (like the woman in the video) can escape the system by crossing the border to the south and get care that is denied them in Canada. If we get ObamaCare™, where would we Americans go for the care that will be denied? Where will the current flow of Canadians go?
NOWHERE, THAT’S WHERE!
Well.. that’s not entirely true… We would go to our beds (or Lay-Z-Boys) and wait for our family to get our painkillers until the pain and boredom finally send us to our (early) graves.
A rather large package was delivered to my home recently from the US Census Bureau along with a postcard stating that I will be receiving said package and that I am REQUIRED BY LAW to fill it out and return it in short order.
I can’t believe the shear volume of information “my” Government wants from me at gunpoint.
Why does the Government want to know how many toilets I have in my house? I understand the need for the Census and that it is Constitutionally mandated, but really…
Shouldn’t it be a postcard asking me how many people live at this address? (fills in 1 blank with “3″… DONE!)
What is the minimum I can fill in to avoid the $5000 fine for non-compliance?
So you’re a young man, say about 20 years old. On the night of September 14th, the police arrest you and three of your friends. It seems an 18-year-old woman has accused the four of you and another man or raping her that night. She’s a student at Hofstra University.
You’re handcuffed, taken to jail, booked and tossed into a cell. You’re facing up to a 25-year stretch in the penitentiary if you’re found guilty.
The lesson to learn from this? Make sure you have someone film all your sexual encounters with a cell phone.
But luckily, one of your friends had a cell phone and he photographed the whole scene. There was no rope and no screaming, just consensual sex.
The “young lady” recants quickly (2 days!)
So young man, you ought to feel OK. You only spent two days inside and the DA has dropped the charges, so everything’s back to normal. Just forget all about your picture in all those papers, right under that word. After all, everyone else will. Won’t they?
Best of all… The names of the men in the case are published along with their mug shots, the name of the woman isn’t released even after admitting to the crime of false reporting.
In the survey released Wednesday, all but one of the Fed’s 12 regions indicated that economic activity was “stable,” showed “signs of stabilization” or had “firmed.”
Just in case you didn’t know, “Dead” is also a “stable” condition.
Last week we made the pilgrimage to the altar of The Public School to meet with the priests teachers and get the curriculum overview. This will be the first year (2nd grade) where we have to put in what I would call a strenuous effort to work with teh Sinlet and counter the religion of the State, otherwise known as Environmentalism. We have joined this battle already against various TV shows that teh Sinlet likes, “Bindi the Jungle Girl” being the worst offender. It seems that virtually every animal is endangered and “needs our help”. I have even noticed that the star sometimes has trouble with this line, when a 10 year old can see the ridiculousness of every animal needing help to the point where even heavy editing can’t hide it, you need to look at the script again. (CRIKEY!)
It is also the first time Mrs. Sinner and I will have to battle each other over Evolution. This is way harder than the rampant Environmentalism because Mrs. Sinner is a wild-eyed, batfrisch crazy “Young Earth Creationist” and I am a rational human.
Wait… that’s not fair… I haven’t been proven to be rational or human.
I want to state in no uncertain terms that I find “Young Earth Creationism” to be a complete load of crap.
THERE!… I said it.
I find anyone that seriously believes that the Earth is 6000 years old a complete lost cause (unfortunately this includes Mrs. Sinner). YEC (”Young Earth Creationism”, I like that acronym) boils down to “Because it says so in the Bible and the Bible is to be taken literally”. I can’t argue you from that with reason because the position is fundamentally anti-reason. There is no point even talking about it because any point will be countered with “you will believe this or you are going to Hell”.
There’s the rub, there is no point talking with Mrs. Sinner on this subject, but I must.
The curriculum calls for teaching “variation and heredity”, which should be as noncontroversial as anything can possibly get. For a simple and identifiable example of these concepts, just look at how our kids inherit some, but not all, of our features yet are not clones of us. YEC people must reject these concepts in order to cling to their worldview.
On to the BLEG portion of the post…
How do I bring up the subject and have a rational discussion with Mrs. Sinner with the aim of dissuading her from pulling teh Sinlet from class during science segments?
My goal is not to challenge anyone’s deeply held religious beliefs, nor to get into a “divorce level” argument over how and when I will go to Hell. I simply want to have teh Sinlet exposed to a objective science and learn the simple concepts of “variation and heredity”. If she understands these concepts and (hopefully later in life after understanding more about the entire matter) decides to reject them and follow her mother into a blissfully ignorant and unthinking lifestyle I’m OK with that.
I grew up in a very religious family in the Presbyterian tradition. Creationism was taught at home and evolution was taught in school. My mother (God rest her soul) was a strong believer and made darn sure I was exposed to her beliefs. The difference between my mother and my wife seems to be that mom was secure in her belief and was not afraid to have the school expose me to other points of view. I have been given a rare and wonderful opportunity to have been exposed to the teachings of the church and to objective science and allowed to make up my own mind. I suspect if mom were alive today she would disapprove of my choice but stand strong in my right as a human being to follow my own path. I would like to give the same opportunity to my daughter even if she were to choose to disagree with my choices and become a YEC follower.
The main thing I would like to teach teh Sinlet is that there are good people in the world that don’t blindly follow the church’s teachings. These people are not evil or going directly to hell, not to pass GO nor stop at Disneyland, but people that have different beliefs and are not a threat to her own beliefs.
Excuse me sir, but being down here under your heel I can see that one of your jackboots is untied, I wouldn’t want you to trip over that lace while trampling over my rights (and neck).
Theres more, go ahead and check to tweets, but this follows the general pattern when the world is lucky enough to have someone sane in the room when religious bullflop is being trotted out. Appeal to (a greater) authority, get challenged, clam moral superiority and shut down debate.
Here’s the twist… “Sane Person” above is Frank J. Flemming, noted internet humorist and all around insane bastard. “Zealot” is the less-and-less alluring and more-and-more annoying Meghan McCain.
I know that they are really just a front group for the hard left in America that deals in the art of giving out goodies to Seniors to get membership dues and numbers, which they use to push a hard left agenda in DC.
SO… I have their number, but this really throws me. How does an organization posing as being an advocacy group for Seniors come to the conclusion that HR-3200 is to be supported? Any real Senior would be wise to look more closely at the organization that supports advance care planning consultation.
