First let me preface this by saying if you're not an American, please just leave this topic alone. This is a issue unique in it's nuances, to those of us who live under the law. Okay, I personally have no skin in the game as far as the Obamacare law goes, because my VA fulfills the Mandatory Minimum. However I have a co-worker who's pretty stressed out over the law. For him it would cost 750 a month for healthcare, however he get the credit so it bumps it down to 250. That's still pretty much a whole paycheck. Now when it comes time to do his taxes, this credit counts as income, so normally he'd get a return, instead he owes two thousand dollars. The whole reason he got the insurance in the first place is because last year they took over seven hundred dollars from his refund last year as fine. How the bloody hell does any one justify this?
I'm still confused as to how the hell Obamacare is supposed to help people. Before I got insurance through my current job, I was stuck at my last job having to choose between giving up a week's pay for health insurance that I neither needed nor wanted, or paying a fine for being uninsured. Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't forcing people to buy a product kinda fly in the face of American freedom?
The ACA is a crony capitalist "reform" that guarantees the health insurers millions of new customers as a quid pro quo for not being able to deny people with pre-existing conditions. It is nothing like genuine single payer healthcare; it forces one to buy the same broken product (private insurance) we had before the "reform" went into effect. Furthermore, even having insurance in the USA isn't necessarily some sort of blessing, as some plans require people to pay a hefty deductible out of pocket before the rest of the bill is covered by the insurance company.
