'surprise' new fee-obamacare

[3kings]

Originally Posted by Danzig

http://hosted2.ap.org/APDEFAULT/3d28...b6a09e119fcc79


WASHINGTON (AP) — Your medical plan is facing an unexpected new fee. It's to help cover people with pre-existing conditions under President Barack Obama's health care overhaul.

The $63-per-head fee — buried in a recent regulation —will hit health plans serving an estimated 190 million Americans, mostly workers and their families.

oh, but the best line, saved for last:


The fee is temporary, raising $25 billion over three years'.




anyone want to hazard a guess at just how temporay it will turn out to be?

Of course the $63. fee is temporary, it will be raised annually.

[Patrick333]

Originally Posted by 3kings

Of course the $63. fee is temporary, it will be raised annually.

Right you are. It won't be $63 for long.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by 3kings

Of course the $63. fee is temporary, it will be raised annually.

probably correct!

[GenuineRisk]

Eh, those of us living in more populated states have had for decades to pay a universal access fee on telephones so that people who chose to live out in bumf*ck nowhere could have phone service, as it's not profitable for phone companies to provide service to less populated areas and the only way to get them to do it was for the government to fund it. Somehow we survived and the nation did not fall to communism. I suppose I'll survive paying $63 a year so my fellow Americans with cancer and diabetes and hypertension can get health insurance.

As it is, each family already currently pays $1000 a year for people without health insurance who get their medical care at the emergency room. If $63 a year reduces the $1000 a year we currently pay, I consider that a good deal all around.

[GenuineRisk]

Note- for the record though, I support universal Medicare.

[joeydb]

I support universal self-reliance.