5 Painful Lessons from MA Health Care

[MJinZ]

he is one of the most annoying posters on this board.
even more annoying than the blahblahyoutoo guy.

:awe:

The first intentionally humorous post I've seen from you!

 

[MJinZ]

I'd like to know where you get that figure from, and what it means. If you mean that the portion shown on your paycheck stub as a deduction for healthcare is 75% of the cost you are grossly mistaken. I'm self-employed and pay 100% of the health insurance for my wife and myself, both in excellent health, mid-50's. We pay north of $8,000 per year for a catestrophic type plan, or over $150 per week. Talking to friends who also pay their own health care, our plan is cheap to normal. If we had more typical health coverage, the cost would be much higher-when I left my last traditional employer seven years ago they were paying in excess of $14,000 per year for Blue Cross for my family.

Many people don't realize that deduction shown on your paycheck as a deduction for health insurance is little more than a token portion of the true cost.


Get unemployed, or self employed, and you will find out quickly what it really costs-especially when the fed govt's subsidy of COBRA benefits expires.

Uh, it means exactly that. If my yearly healthcare shows up as $2500 on my paycheck, then my employer pays at least $7500.

 

[EagleKeeper]

Many of our small businesses Western MA have folded and left due to the heathcare bill. IMO, it's hurt our state more than it's helped. The money from Boston gushes on the eastern side of the state, and trickles to the western side...

Money can not swim across the Conn river:hmm:

 

[soulcougher73]

And yet, oddly enough, all the people in those 'efficient' socialized medical systems came to the US and its free market health care system to get their surgeries and procedures done.

Of all the bills the Federal government has passed in the past decade, the four that really have pissed me off have been 1)Obama-care, 2)TARP, 3)Obama Stimulus 1, 4)Obama OmniSpending. All of these have resulted in massive debt, and will result in inflation and tax increases to pay for them, the proverbial death spiral.

Really? All? Got a link to prove that? Or just spouting off what some talking head told you?

 

[sMiLeYz]

Really? All? Got a link to prove that? Or just spouting off what some talking head told you?

I'm sure they come to the U.S. to get checkups, dental work, and buy our drugs. OH WAIT...