Who’s up for dropping their health insurance for a year to see how that goes?

Odysseus on November 10, 2012 at 6:22 AM

You don’t actually have to drop your health insurance. You merely have to file your tax return without disclosing your insurance information.

Thanks for the response, astonerii — and so sorry to hear that. Wow. Unaffordable insurance is effectively uninsurable …

ShainS on November 10, 2012 at 10:20 AM

If I could hold a job, I could probably get insurance. Problem is my jobs last about 18 months on average before I have had a few too many migraine missed days to be considered “reliable”.

astonerii on November 10, 2012 at 9:19 AM

Thanks for the response, astonerii — and so sorry to hear that. Wow. Unaffordable insurance is effectively uninsurable …

If you don’t mind me asking, how so (just curious)?

ShainS on November 10, 2012 at 9:06 AM

Migraines. Lots and lots of migraines. I got malaria, they failed to diagnose and treat it for over 2 months. Its a lovely disease. You wake up in the morning all happy and what not, got to work, work your tail off, head out to each lunch and at exactly, to the second every day 10 minutes to noon you get a fever, sweating, vomiting. You go see your local Corpsman and get told you are faking it, then head to your cot, try to sleep but cannot until around midnight you finally collapse and wake up in the morning all better. Rinse and repeat, day, after day after day. Then they send you on a forced march through the mountains and around noon you get dizzy and walk off a 40 foot ravine ledge. Good times. But that is still not enough for them to actually treat you, no no no… more weeks of going through the same ritual. Then one day you go in an have a temperature above 106 and they decide maybe you are not faking it. They put you in the back of an open Humvee and hook you up to two IVs and open them up full flow and drive you to the Air Force base hospital where at admission your temperature is 107.5 degrees and they promptly put you in an ice bath. Then they finally treat you for malaria and you get better, well, except the brain damage that occurred that causes my migraines.
Uninsurable might be exaggerated, Unaffordable insurable is the reality.

I came out of the Marines uninsurable.

astonerii on November 10, 2012 at 8:28 AM

If you don’t mind me asking, how so (just curious)?

Who’s up for dropping their health insurance for a year to see how that goes?

Odysseus on November 10, 2012 at 6:22 AM

I’ve never had health insurance. I came out of the Marines uninsurable.

Good luck with that in SCOTUS. I’d bet even Roberts isn’t going to write in missing words.

And the House would never amend Obamacare to clean up any messes.

Wethal on November 9, 2012 at 9:16 PM

I wouldn’t be so sure on either one of those.

Couldn’t this go back to court once people are taxed? It is my understanding that once it takes affect and a person is taxed then it can be challenged.

Russ86 on November 9, 2012 at 9:31 PM

According to the constitution, Congress can only pass taxes that are apportioned among the states. Therefore, if California has 12% of the population, 12% of the tax must come from there. The only exception to that rule is the income tax since it was passed in a separate amendment. So, theoretically, if the amount of this “tax” is not apportioned, then the tax is unconstitutional. However, someone has to pay that tax to make the claim. Who’s up for dropping their health insurance for a year to see how that goes?

States need to do just this. Use the Tenth Amendment and protect States’ sovereignty.

davidk on November 9, 2012 at 9:03 PM

this would be all well and good if the States actually had any power. The States are just administrative districts of the federal government these days.

Federalism no longer exists.

They are going to tax people into poverty.

Blake on November 9, 2012 at 9:12 PM

Barack 3:16 For Obama so loved the poor that he created millions and millions more.