The ACA 2.5% of income fee, did you not know about that part?
Yes, I am angry, I don't like thieves, and ones claiming to be "entitled" by laws enacted due to personal opinions and political beliefs that /I/ do not share, are the absolute worst kind of thief.
I don't really give a shit what their third world problems are. No one handed me any money to pay any doctor bills I've paid, nor those of my children (though my husband had Blue Cross through work for those until ******* ACA killed that pan and the new costs of health insurance essentially he wasn't paying child support anymore - not that I needed, but the point stands,) nor those of my brother in law (who's a ******* dumb ass and blew 100grand on gambling in Vegas) got in a car wreck and broke his leg, nor my mother who broke her shoulder, nor my grandmother who went into a deep depression when grandpa died, nor even my other grandfather whom VA refused to send a nurse to tend to every week. Nope, not a ******* dime. I, and my family, had to paid for every penny of all that with no help from anyone else in this country.
These folks can't even handle paying for their own children to get a vaccine for school, so they come begging for help at my doorstep? Kiss off, panhandling is illegal in my municipality.
Maybe if you would settle down and stop ranting and rambling all sorts of shit -like the VA which has nothing to do with this -and actually explain what you're talking about we could communicate a little better. I am trying to understand your situation and where your coming from. Is this the 2.5 % that you're talking about?
• Individual Mandate (the tax for not purchasing insurance if you can afford it). Starting in 2014, anyone not buying “qualifying” health insurance must pay an income tax surtax at a rate of 1% or $95 in 2014, to 2.5% in 2016 on profitable income above the tax threshold. The total penalty amount cannot exceed the national average of the annual premiums of a “bronze level” health insurance plan on ObamaCare exchanges.
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If so, what I'm getting from this is that your husband lost his employer based insurance, allegedly do to the ACA- which you have not really explained either- but you won't buy insurance on the open market, so you're being assessed this 2.5% Am I correct so far?
Now, if my math is correct, that $2,000 that you mentioned is 2.5% of 80K that you alone are making. If that's the case, I really have to wonder what it is that you're bitching so perusal about.
And, you continue to avoid my questions about the cost-to both society and us as individuals of allowing large numbers to go without coverage, as well as the moral aspects that I brought up. Get a grip and try to actually deal with these issues.
"Settle down and let me steal your money"? **** that dude.
Everything I rambled is quite relevant, they are /all/ examples of medical costs I, and my family, paid out of pocket with /zero/ assistance from "the American people."
Ya know, you'd be lost in my circle of friends if that small amount of aside throws you off; I can hold 10 or more consecutive conversations in my head at the same time - I have to number them for some of my friends... Lets try that:
1. Yes, I paid the 2.5% individual mandate.
1a. ACA coverage is 1200% unwanted by me, because it is absolutely useless to me. Medical insurance as a whole is nothing more than a money sink. I do not need "emergency medical bill" protection, nor do I need to "spread out" my medical bills over my entire lifetime. I am able to pay out of pocket when the need, or desire, arises - which is why I have never had health insurance in my entire 43 years.
2. It was actually $100k I cashed out of investments. I don't do my own taxes so you'd have to ask my tax chicky-po how she "knocked down" the $20k's worth of ACA fee.
3. My husband also paid whatever his fee was, but I have no idea what he paid as our tax chicky-poo filed us separate for whatever reason - aka I didn't see his taxes.
3a. I think he makes around $40k/y on his main job, $35k/y or so on the second, and $20/y maybe on his third "part-time" job. The bastard recovered from his broken neck and went work-a-holic on me again. I've been trying to get /him/ to ******* settle down for decades, no dice. Maybe the next moose hit will do it...
4. I, and my family, paid for the aforementioned medical bills for other family members without a cent of assistance from anyone else in the country.
4a. I actually meant my ex-husband (ie the note of child support.) The rates for insurance coverage through his work increased so much that he was basically paying nothing in child support; it had gone from $400 a month to $100 a month for 2 kids.
4b. /I/ didn't need the child support personally, but the reality is that insurance costs take money out of child support and thus is a potentially negative effect of ACA's mandates.
4b(1). To get into more disastrous detail on that - when in the child support system it is required by law for parents to purchase health insurance for the children if it is available, the cost is split between the parents via adjustments to CS payments. I even talked to lawyers to try to get the mandated insurance requirement waved after the ACA increase hit, but its apparently a Fed law. So, not only did my husband end up with massively expensive health insurance, when he would have rather paid the mandated fee (like I do), but that choice was doubly taken away from him because it was in child support enforcement - and all while the kids didn't even /need/ health insurance to begin with (because I have the money in hand to pay for their medical needs no matter what.) Stupid as shit and it actually fucked with my ex-husband and his new wife's budget to the point that we had to take the whole kit and kabootle out of CSSD and he had to mail a stupid check so he didn't lose his car or house. THAT is government intrusion to the extreme imo.
4c. Commentary on VA and my brother-in-laws stupidity is unrelated, but it crossed my mind.
Addressing the rest of your post:
1. What amount I may or may not make is irrelevant. Wrong is wrong.
2. The ACA mandate forces me to either throw money out the window on insurance and/or pay a fine when I do not want, nor need medical insurance.
3. It is not my job to pay for "benefits" for others.
4. As a 43 year old woman, who hasn't been to the doctor's in like 8 years and is perfectly fine, I can guarantee you 100% that health insurance is not a necessity for survival so spare me your "morals"
