Break ObamaCare’s
Back: Do Not Purchase Health Insurance
by John Nolte 8 Jun 2015
Running around uninsured for the first time in my adult life
has not been easy. The tax penalty isn’t cheap (2.5% of your taxable income)
and there is the constant uneasy fear of an expensive medical problem, a cancer
or car accident, the kind that can bankrupt you.
History has shown, though, that there is almost always a
personal price to pay for social change through civil disobedience — a price
I’m willing to pay to help break the back of ObamaCare, an immoral and
illegitimate government program sold with serial-presidential (and media) lies
and enacted into law using one-party procedural tricks.
Like a vast majority of Americans, I was happy with our
imperfect health care system prior to the passage of ObamaCare. In-between
employer insurance opportunities, I had always purchased an affordable
catastrophic plan with a high deductible. It was the best of both worlds —
allowing me to pay out of pocket most of my care while enjoying the peace of
mind that comes with an emergency insurance policy.
ObamaCare made these wonderful catastrophic policies
illegal.
Actually, what ObamaCare did was make these catastrophic
plans unaffordable.
ObamaCare’s insanely high deductibles really are
catastrophic plans; just very expensive ones — in my case, close to three times
the cost of my last catastrophic plan.
Paying the tax penalty and my medical costs out of pocket is
still cheaper than purchasing ObamaCare. When you are uninsured, an entirely
different world opens up for you. Doctors charge less. Pharmacies charge less.
Everyone charges less.
Under ObamaCare, I would have to pay close to $400 for a
monthly premium, and my $6500 deductible would ensure I pay out of pocket for
almost all of the same services I’m paying out-of-pocket for now. Because
I would be “insured,” I would also pay more for these services. My uninsured
discount would no longer apply. On top of this, ObamaCare premium costs are
expected to explode by double digits next
year.
Even accounting for the tax penalty, my annual health care
costs would more than double under ObamaCare. And I’m someone with more
than one monthly prescription who visits the doctor regularly. I take my health
seriously and oftentimes am tempted to break weak and purchase ObamaCare
for fear of a catastrophic health event.
I won’t, though, because I want to do my part to break the
back of ObamaCare. I just can’t live with the idea of doing anything that will
benefit Obama’s and the media’s serial lies. And as an American, I surely can’t
abide being forced into doing anything. Giving in can get to be a habit, a
dangerous habit.
Hopefully, the Supreme Court will
do the right thing this month and end these illegal ObamaCare subsidies going
to able-bodied adults. The idea that we the taxpayers are making insurance
companies rich by paying for any part of someone else’s over-priced health
insurance premium is almost too maddening to comprehend.
The greedy takers enjoying these subsidies aren’t eligible
for disability, Social Security, or Medicaid. Like my wife and I did to make
ends meet when necessary, these people need to work harder, second and third
jobs, not steal from those of us who have.
Either way the Court rules, ObamaCare can still collapse
under its own weight if enough people refuse to sign up. Even with its mandate,
ObamaCare is already millions of people behind projected enrollment figures,
which could finally break its back:
[A]s of now, HHS says that just 10.2 million signed up and
paid premiums (which only met HHS’s downwardly revised target). That means that
the number of enrollees will have to double next year to meet CBO projections
of 21 million.
Regardless of what the Supreme Court decides about the
legality of federal exchange subsidies later this month, reaching 21 million
will be a challenge. Especially because in the first two years, Obamacare may
have already signed up the low-hanging fruit — those who had the greatest need
for health insurance.
The number of enrollees isn’t of arbitrary importance,
either. Insurers require a broad enough pool of enrollees to manage their risk
and keep premiums stable. …
But if this doesn’t work, and enrollment substantially lags
in 2016, insurers could be spooked enough into stepping away from the
exchanges, driving up rates even further and placing the program’s
sustainability in doubt.
A new Washington Post poll
shows that ObamaCare is currently as unpopular as ever. Only 39% of Americans
support the illegitimate program, while a full 54% oppose.
This is not surprising.
ObamaCare has been all pain, no gain (except for the lazy,
able-bodied takers enjoying our subsidies). All the promises from Obama,
Democrats, and the media were lies. Emergency room visits haven’t decreased.
Costs have exploded, not decreased. We did lose the insurance and doctors we
liked. We did lose a lot of choices. Religious liberty is constantly under
attack.
Worst of all, a terrible precedent has been set. For the
first time in America, Americans are required by the federal government to
purchase something for “their own good” — and not because we choose to do
something like drive a car or live in a city. There is no opting out of
ObamaCare, no way to escape it.
Except through risky civil disobedience.
Supreme Court
John G. Roberts
Jr. is the chief justice for the U.S.
Supreme Court, the chancellor for the Smithsonian
Institution, and an honorary member of the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club (Gainesville, VA).
Note: Joseph R. Biden Jr.
is a regent at the Smithsonian
Institution, and the vice president for the Barack Obama administration.
Shirley Ann
Jackson is a regent at the Smithsonian
Institution, and a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
David M.
Rubenstein is a regent at the Smithsonian
Institution, a co-chairman for the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and the president of the Economic Club of
Washington.
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. was the president of the Economic Club of Washington, is the president emeritus for the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club (Gainesville,
VA), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), Valerie
B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg
conference participant (think tank).
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution (think
tank), the Committee for Economic
Development, and the Human Rights
First.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society,
and William D. Zabel was his divorce
lawyer.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Commercial Club of
Chicago, Members Directory A-Z (Past Research)
Tuesday, December 17, 2013
Walter
E. Massey is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and was regent at the Smithsonian
Institution.
Alan
G. Spoon was a regent for the Smithsonian
Institution, and a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development.
Donna
S. Morea was a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, and the EVP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
Barack
Obama’s signature policy initiative is Obamacare,
and was an intern at Sidley Austin LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP was the lobby firm for the Pharmaceutical
Research and Manufacturers of America (Big Pharma).
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP.
Dora
Hughes is a senior policy adviser for Sidley
Austin LLP, and was a counselor at the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for Kathleen Sebelius.
Kathleen Sebelius’s
counselor at the U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) was Dora
Hughes, and was the secretary at the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Barack Obama administration.
Howard
K. Koh is the assistant secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Barack Obama administration, and is Harold H. Koh’s brother.
Harold
H. Koh is Howard K. Koh’s brother,
was the legal adviser at the U.S.
Department of State for the Barack
Obama administration, a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a director at the Human Rights First.
Shirley Ann
Jackson is a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a regent at the Smithsonian Institution.
John G. Roberts
Jr. is the chancellor for the Smithsonian
Institution, an honorary member of the Robert
Trent Jones Golf Club (Gainesville, VA), and the chief justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
William
D. Zabel is the chair for Human
Rights First, was a trustee at the Foundation
to Promote Open Society, and George Soros’s divorce lawyer.
George
Soros’s divorce lawyer was William
D. Zabel, and was the chairman for the Foundation
to Promote Open Society.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Human Rights First.
Mark
A. Angelson was a director at the Human
Rights First, and a partner at Sidley
Austin LLP.
James
D. Zirin was a director at the Human
Rights First, and is a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.
Dora
Hughes is a senior policy adviser for Sidley
Austin LLP, and was a counselor at the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) for Kathleen Sebelius.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Sidley Austin
LLP was the lobby firm for the Pharmaceutical
Research and Manufacturers of America (Big Pharma).
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP, and his signature policy initiative is Obamacare.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Donna
S. Morea was the EVP for the CGI
Group Inc., and a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development.
Alan
G. Spoon was a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, and a regent for the Smithsonian Institution.
John G. Roberts
Jr. is the chancellor for the Smithsonian
Institution, an honorary member of the Robert
Trent Jones Golf Club (Gainesville, VA), and the chief justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Joseph R. Biden Jr.
is a regent at the Smithsonian
Institution, and the vice president for the Barack Obama administration.
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is the president emeritus for the Robert Trent Jones Golf Club (Gainesville, VA), an honorary trustee
at the Brookings Institution (think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a director at the
American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), a senior counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP,
was the president of the Economic
Club of Washington, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant
(think tank).
Akin,
Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP is the lobby firm for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers
of America (Big Pharma).
Wilmer
Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr was the lobby firm for the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers
of America (Big Pharma).
Cameron F. Kerry
was an associate at Wilmer Cutler
Pickering Hale and Dorr, is U.S.
Department of State secretary John
F. Kerry’s brother, and a fellow at the Brookings Institution (think
tank).
Shirley Ann
Jackson is a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a regent at the Smithsonian Institution.
John G. Roberts
Jr. is the chancellor for the Smithsonian
Institution, an honorary member of the Robert
Trent Jones Golf Club (Gainesville, VA), and the chief justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
Teresa Heinz
Kerry is married to U.S. Department
of State secretary John F. Kerry,
an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and the chair for the Heinz Endowments.
Heinz Endowments
was a funder for the Brookings
Institution (think tank).
Shirley Ann
Jackson is a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a regent at the Smithsonian Institution.
John G. Roberts
Jr. is the chancellor for the Smithsonian
Institution, an honorary member of the Robert
Trent Jones Golf Club (Gainesville, VA), and the chief justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.
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