Politics within the Health care Law

Philip Scott Andrews, a journalist for the New York Times, stats how people in America will gain coverage when the health care plan fully develops over the country in his article "Health Care Reform": “The Congressional Budget Office predicts that 23 million uninsured people will gain coverage through exchanges and that all but five million of them will qualify for subsidies, averaging more than $6,000 a year per person. Subsidies, in the form of tax credits, will be available to people with incomes from the poverty level up to four times that amount ($23,050 to $92,200 for a family of four)” (Andrews)

Why is it that when we work it is mandatory that we either take the coverage our employers give us or we have to prove that we have coverage through a different coverage? The employer doesn’t question the quality of the insurance or what it might or might not cover over all. How will we know what type of insurance the government is going to offer as we see how Medicare coverage affects us? How can 23 million people not be covered now that Medicaid and Medicare has enveloped so many people. $6000 per person the federal government is willing to give in a form of tax credits for poverty level families. It is amazing to me that for a house size of four that we as Americans can’t afford to live on $92,000 a year. How does the government expect us to buy insurance before the tax credits? Will this amount be given back to us through our employers or is the first year that the insurance coverage is due do the American citizens take the hit on the taxes so they can afford the rigorous monthly amount? How can we let congress make us shift in our seats when they can’t even decide how people are going to be covered? 



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Kerry Harron, a writer for Forbes magazine, shows the Ameican people about the amount of money a house can bring in and still be on medicaid in her article, "The Best Ways To Find Health Insurance if You Are Self-Employed In 2012":“A Towers Watson survey of 552 of the nation’s largest employers found that retirees under age 65 pay an average of $633 per month for individual coverage and $1,633 monthly for family coverage. Current employees with similar coverage were paying $432 and $1,249.Your spouse will pay a higher premium for family coverage, but it will still be less than an individual policy. Annual premiums for employer-sponsored family health coverage increased to $15,073 ($5,429 for single coverage) last year, up 9% from 2010, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation/Health Research & Educational Trust. On average, workers pay $4,129 and employers pay $10,944 toward those annual premiums” (Hannon).

With all the expense that healthcare are providing it seems outrageous to believe that any American can afford these steep premiums. Will it come a time when we stop going to the doctors because we can’t afford the premiums and then we won’t be able to afford the copayments that come with the plans. I know understand how the family plans appear to be a greater savings but for the low budget plans will the copayments be out of reach for the working families? Will this spiral into a time where more people get sick and no one is listening? Are we just going to turn a blind eye at what is going on and never look up to see the truth?

Works Cited

Andrews, Philips Scott. "Health Care Reform." New York Times [New York] 08 Jul 2012, n. pag. Web. 9 Jul. 2012.

Hannon, Kerry. "The Best Ways To Find Health Insurance if You Are Self-Employed In 2012." Forbes. 01 Jan 2012: n. page. Web. 9 Jul. 2012.

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