Chairman Obama, Democrats: Opt in to Government-Run Healthcare or Pay 2.5% of Gross Income as Penalty
By Josh Price
This must be stopped!
House Democratic leaders, pledging to meet the president’s goal of health care legislation before their August break, are offering a $1.5 trillion plan that for the first time would make health care a right and a responsibility for all Americans. Left to pick up most of the tab were medical providers, employers and the wealthy.
Under the House Democrats’ plan, the federal government would be responsible for ensuring that every person, regardless of income or the state of their health, has access to an affordable insurance plan. Individuals and employers would have new obligations to get coverage, or face hefty penalties.
The legislation calls for a 5.4 percent tax increase on individuals making more than $1 million a year, with a gradual tax beginning at $280,000 for individuals. Employers who don’t provide coverage would be hit with a penalty equal to 8 percent of workers’ wages, with an exemption for small businesses. Individuals who decline an offer of affordable coverage would pay 2.5 percent of their incomes as a penalty, up to the average cost of a health insurance plan.
Let me translate this liberal AP report: buy in to the universal healthcare plan or be forced to pay 2.5% of your gross income as a penalty–and that’s on top of your usual income tax.
Boys and girls, if this version is passed and signed into law we’ll have a dictatorship–I’m not entirely certain that we aren’t there already.
House GOP leadership has put together a flowchart of this bill. Good luck with your heart, liver, kidney, or whatever transplant.
We have to mount a response to this socialized healthcare bill that’s even greater than our opposition to the 2007 attempt at so-called comprehensive immigration reform.
The next several weeks are going to be bumpy–buckle up.
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Seems AWFUL voluntary to me, doesn’t it?