Obamacare penalty to price out lower-income smokers

[ScreamingEagle]

Millions of smokers could be priced out of health insurance because …more of tobacco penalties in President Barack Obama’s health care law, say experts. The Affordable Care Act allows health insurers to charge smokers buying an individual policy up to 50 percent higher premiums starting next Jan. 1. For a 55-year-old smoker, the penalty could reach nearly $4,250 a year. A 60-year-old could wind up paying nearly $5,100 on top of premiums.

Penalty could keep smokers out of health overhaul - Yahoo! News

 

[ScreamingEagle]

.....where's the CARE in Obamacare.....?

 

[syrenn]

What.... they will charge for a pre existing issue?

 

[Lakhota]

Obama has been hard on smokers.

 

[syrenn]

Obama has been hard on smokers.

what part of pre existing condition didnt you get?

 

[S.J.]

Good thing our cigarette smoking president exempted himself (and all his friends) from the new law.

 

[Lakhota]

Obama has been hard on smokers.

what part of pre existing condition didnt you get?

Duh, I get it. I was talking about his SCHIP tax.

 

[RosieS]

Simple solution: quit smoking and have the same amount of $$ or more to spend from not buying coffin nails anymore. Win- win.

Regards from Rosie

 

[OKTexas]

.....where's the CARE in Obamacare.....?

Where's the Affordable in the Affordable care act.

 

[OKTexas]

Simple solution: quit smoking and have the same amount of $$ or more o spend from not buying coffin nails anymore. Win- win.

Regards from Rosie

Ok, let's see how honest you can be, what is the justification for this?

 

[dblack]

Yep. This shit's all about dictating behavior.

 

[OKTexas]

Yep. This shit's all about dictating behavior.

Just like 99% of the tax code.

 

[Oldguy]

Millions of smokers could be priced out of health insurance because …more of tobacco penalties in President Barack Obama’s health care law, say experts. The Affordable Care Act allows health insurers to charge smokers buying an individual policy up to 50 percent higher premiums starting next Jan. 1. For a 55-year-old smoker, the penalty could reach nearly $4,250 a year. A 60-year-old could wind up paying nearly $5,100 on top of premiums.

Penalty could keep smokers out of health overhaul - Yahoo! News

Uh....most health insurance companies are already doing that. Life insurance companies too.

No, I don't like it, but this is hardly something new to Obamacare.

 

[dblack]

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Millions of smokers could be priced out of health insurance because …more of tobacco penalties in President Barack Obama’s health care law, say experts. The Affordable Care Act allows health insurers to charge smokers buying an individual policy up to 50 percent higher premiums starting next Jan. 1. For a 55-year-old smoker, the penalty could reach nearly $4,250 a year. A 60-year-old could wind up paying nearly $5,100 on top of premiums.

Penalty could keep smokers out of health overhaul - Yahoo! News

Uh....most health insurance companies are already doing that. Life insurance companies too.

No, I don't like it, but this is hardly something new to Obamacare.

What's new is we no longer have the freedom to refuse to do business with them.