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Originally Posted by IllTestYourGirls
There are people making 60k a year that can not afford their homes. Now they are expected to buy health insurance or pay a tax. A lot of people are getting screwed and it is mostly the self employed and middle class.
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Most people making $60k a year have employer provided health insurance so they're fine. Lots of self-employed people had few to no insurance options in the past (especially if they had even the smallest thing wrong with them) so they are good to go now.
Will there be some people hurting? Yes? Will there be some people better off? Yes.
Part of being able to get the sick insured is to get more people into insurance to balance out the risk. That includes getting healthy people in so they can invest that money and grow their claims reserve.
The people that say "I'll never get sick" are lying. The one's that say "I'll deal with my hospital bills" are mostly lying if they're middle class. They're not going to have a heart attack and refuse treatment. We know that's bullshit. They're going to go to the ER and get treatment and based on the number and amount of hospital bills not being paid these days there is a chance they will never pay it.
In the past hospitals could appeal to the states for aid to cover bills that remain unpaid. Guess how states paid for that? Taxes. Taxes that everyone had to pay.
At least now it will be the person refusing to get health insurance that will be paying the tax rather than all of the other taxpayers.