1.2 MILLION Texans sign up for ACA (Obamacare) insurance!

Except I only made about 28k last year, and I still was able to afford my health insurance BEFORE Obama Care. Its amazing, I can afford to pay for my own healthcare and Im not a millionaire. Probably has a lot to do with the fact I haven't spent $3000 on rims.

But to be honest, I wouldn't even have it if it wasn't mandated.

I'll take my chances with a heart attack at 26.

 

I paid for my HC out of pocket until I was in my mid-thirties and I'm appalled that you aren't free to do the same on account of the unconstitutional artifices of the Obama Administration and the SCOTUS.

 

They are forced to sign up or pay a fine.

*******n liberals are stupid!

 

That's exactly what liberals consider a victory, doing what they want you to do.

They don't do anything to convince us something is good for us, so they must force us to do it instead.

 

they did and do, then the gop started it's usual lying campaign to undermine the aca bill

now they're still trying to abolish it, but i'm pretty sure they won't be able to

you realize that a heart attack is just one of many possibilities, right?

 

Why wouldn't they sign up? I'd be willing to bet that nearly all of them will get a welfare-sucking SUBSIDY to pay a large percentage of the costs.

Want to take a look a real Texas tragedy? Feast your eyes on this information from http://www.hhsc.state.tx.us/medicaid/about/PB/PinkBook.pdf :

The Medicaid Numbers

Medicaid as a percentage of Texas budget, SFY 2013: 26.2 percent
Percentage of Texas Medicaid budget spent on children, SFY 2013: 27 percent
Dollars spent on Texas Medicaid, FFY 2013, including Supplemental Health Care Payments: $33 billion
Texas Medicaid payments to nursing homes, FFY 2013: $2.4 billion
Texas Medicaid prescription drug expenditures, SFY 2013: $2.7 billion
Percentage of Texas Medicaid clients under age 21, SFY 2013: 82 percent
Percentage of Texas children on Medicaid or CHIP, CY 2013: 43 percent
Percentage of nursing home residents covered by Medicaid, SFY 2012: 64.1 percent
Percentage of births covered by Texas Medicaid in SFY 2013: 53.2 percent
Percentage of Texas Medicaid clients in managed care, SFY 2013: 80 percent
Unduplicated number of Texans receiving Medicaid, SFY 2013: 4.67 million
Average number of Texans with Medicaid each month, SFY 2013: 3.57 million
Percentage of Texas population covered by Medicaid, SFY 2013: 17.5 percent

We are becoming a nation of stupid, nauseating beggars, with NO sense of personal responsibility or pride.

 

Bragging about that is like a robber saying....All I do is point the gun at 'em and they give me money.

 

Paying out of pocket for health care works until it doesn't. For example, I had a CT scan last month and got the bill today. List price (for those without insurance) - $7,511.00. After the hospital filed with the insurer, my part was $101.38. The only reason I make this point is to inform those who are currently young and healthy that while they are unlikely to get a nasty disease any time soon, they sure are liable to be injured in an accident, taken to the nearest hospital, and immediately treated. And, absent insurance, treatment could run into big bucks, possibly ruining a person's economic future.

 

Good honest post for a change.

I was having conversation with my accountant the other day, and here's what she told me - it appears, lots of her clients initially overstates their qualifications for subsidised insurance and as a result, got themselves cheap policies. Throughout the year, they were happy as a clowns, praising affordable Obamacare. And now, they leave her office pissed, because they have to pay back all or part of subsidy.

How's that for irony?

 

Ever hear of catastrophic heals insurance, coupled with HSA?

 

In my case, paying for my HC out of pocket worked the entire time I chose to do so.

I would also add that it would have been cheaper for me to continue to pay for my HC out of pocket to this day instead of purchasing health insurance.

You can't say for certain that young and healthy people "sure are liable to be injured in an accident". It didn't happen to me when I was young and healthy and it still hasn't happened to me now that I'm older. That canard is just a lame excuse to force young and healthy people to surrender their right to determine their own HC choices and pay into ObamaCare.

 

Okay.

A law is passed that forces people to purchase health insurance at the penalty of paying fines.

People see the fines associated with noncompliance of the new law.

They sign up.




This is shocking....somehow?

 

using statistics, you can predict how many, within a range, will be injured in an accident

 

I'm glad it did and that you needed little or no care.

Even better, but as you are getting older, surely you realize that "stuff happens" and, these days, that "stuff" is expensive.

Not a canard, but just reality. Younger people are far more likely to die in an accident than from an illness. That would also mean that they are also more likely to be injured, and require even extended care, in a less than life-threatening accident. And the bills they rack up can easily approach or pass six figures which either they pay or you pay. My "choice" is that they either have insurance to cover those situations and/or sufficient funds of their own to pay the full freight ($2 million in ready cash would be appropriate).

 

Shouldn't this thread be merged with the other 20+ threads celebrating people signing up for something they are forced to sign up for ?

 

it's not a celebration, it's a debunkation of gop lies about the aca

 

That's typical of young and healthy people. I was anything but extraordinary in that respect.

As you get older, you usually have more income and savings at your disposal, and over-spending on health insurance is a luxury that one can afford.

Yes, a canard. No one is certain to get into an accident, much less certain to get injured in an accident.

If that's your choice then you should provide the funds out of your own pocket. Otherwise, people should remain free to make their own choices (and I fully expect that one day they will again).

 

the aca is not about one person, it's about all our citizens

and i can guarantee you that a large number of people will be injured in accidents this year