I’m
> a 54 year old consulting engineer 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 http://www.coveredca.gov/
> <http://www.coveredca.gov/&gt;
> , 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 (per Google Earth)
>
>
> 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 than 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 make 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.
>
>
> ObamaCare: It’s all about political
> power.
>
> Remember folks, November 2016 is just around the corner. If
> you want to continue this kind of redistribution of
> wealth, then don’t
> “forward” this email. But if you are sick
> and tired of the money grab by
> the current administration.
>
> One of the penalties for refusing to
> participate in politics is that you end up being
> governed by your
> inferiors. Plato
>
>
>
>
>