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Originally Posted by crockett
I'm not sure how close Obamacare ended up being to the Healthcare system that is in MA, but I can tell you as some one that is living in MA the plan the state offers is way better and about 1/4 the cost of what I'm paying now with Humana. When I first moved up here I had to go on the state system before I got my own insurance. I was paying around $60/month and had everything I have now, except dental.
With my own insurance, I'm over $300/month.. I'd go back to the states insurance in a heart beat if they would let me. It was actually pretty good.
With your example, of your factory workers not taking the insurance as the majority, well that's because $400/week take home is not very much money. Paying insurance or not paying it, that's just not a lot to live on at today's prices.
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Obamacare will end up simply being another tax on the masses. That 70% nonparticipation won't change. Our plan is to give our employees a 1% x-mas bonus so they can pay the tax. I don't know what the average payrate is for Americans, but I know that in the Midwest a job for over $12 an hour is considered good. Retail jobs pay $10, agricultural under $10 THe average hourly in our company is about $15 and as I said, 70% won't take it.