Unaffordable Health Care

Our Creator already offers affordable health care, but that's a subject for another article.  In watching all these various court cases, extensions and changes in the Affordable Health Care Act, I'm wondering about something.  Since the IRS is in charge of this mandatory insurance, and the federal subsidies are not going to be available in states that don't increase their medicaid rolls, the plot has taken a twist.

We already know without federal subsidies most of the people who signed up for this ACA can't afford the actual insurance premiums.  Most Americans that do not have insurance, don't have it, because they can't afford it.  Very few people really want to spend 4 to 8 hours waiting for an ER nurse to look down her nose at them while she takes their history, only to wait several more hours for an ER doctor to order tests.  I see this ACA going two ways very soon.

First, we'll have socialized medicine for the elderly and children . . . That will place the children completely in the hands of the government.  Second, I see the tax penalty remaining in place, only with many more payers because the subsidies become unavailable.  We've all played MONOPOLY.  Remember "POOR TAX?"

The upper income of the "working class" formerly known as the Middle Class, who have employer provided insurance will continue, at least for a time, business as usual, but the lower income working class whose employers do not provide coverage or enough hours to qualify, or the employee simply cannot meet their share of the cost of coverage, will be penalized.  Much of the "working class" of the country doesn't earn enough to pay income taxes, but the penalty comes off the top . . .

Increased minimum wage would only make the money worth less and raise the poverty level to a higher number.  The Affordable Care Act is not about the health insurance of Americans, it's about expanding power and generating revenue for the government.  When the IRS assesses and collects a penalty for one's inability to afford health insurance, that's called a Poor Tax!