Take your medicine – “We” know what’s best for you.

The New York Times reports that middle class Obama voters are less than happy with finding out that their private plans are being cancelled, and that the Obamacare plans are much more expensive than their private coverage.
The Times describes them as “frustrated”. (!)
…. “We are just right over that line,” said Ms. Chapman, who is 54 and does administrative work for a small wealth management firm. Because their plan is being canceled, she is looking for new coverage for her family, which includes Mr. Chapman, 55, a retired fireman who works on a friend’s farm, and her two sons. “That’s an insane amount of money,” she said of their new premium. “How are you supposed to pay that?”

An analysis by The New York Times shows the cost of premiums for people who just miss qualifying for subsidies varies widely across the country and rises rapidly for people in their 50s and 60s. In some places, prices can quickly approach 20 percent of a person’s income.
Experts consider health insurance unaffordable once it exceeds 10 percent of annual income. By that measure, a 50-year-old making $50,000 a year, or just above the qualifying limit for assistance, would find the cheapest available plan to be unaffordable in more than 170 counties around the country…”
To recap:  they were fine with the concept of Obamacare being “wealth redistributive” and making things “fairer”, calling Tea Party and other activists who bitterly opposed Obamacare “selfish” and “haters”.  Now, apparently, there is a limit on how much of their wealth they are comfortable having unilaterally “redistributed”.  Hmmm.
You can read the whole NYT “analysis” here:
https://tinyurl.com/Middle-Class-Frustrated
See if you can spot the obvious bias …..

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