If Congress passes the Senate health-care plan, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office, American families will be required by federal law to buy a federally approved health insurance plan that will cost a minimum of $12,000 per year--and, on average, will cost $15,000 per year -- whether their employer or the government helps them with the premium or not. Beginning in 2014, the Senate plan would require all individuals to buy health insurance. Anyone who does not obtain insurance through an employer would be forced to buy it out of their own pocket. Families of four that...
(CNSNews.com) – If Congress passes the Senate health-care plan, according to an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office, American families will be required by federal law to buy a federally approved health insurance plan that will cost a minimum of $12,000 per year--and, on average, will cost $15,000 per year -- whether their employer or the government helps them with the premium or not. Beginning in 2014, the Senate plan would require all individuals to buy health insurance. Anyone who does not obtain insurance through an employer would be forced to buy it out of their own pocket. Families of...
Health Overhaul To Expand Medicaid To All Poor Adultsby Rick Schmitt March 8, 2010 Marilyn Matthews has no job, no health insurance, and until now, no chance of qualifying for Medicaid. She's unquestionably poor — her last regular paycheck was more than three years ago — and would meet the income criteria for Medicaid. The rub is that Matthews, 51, is a healthy adult with no children. While Medicaid is the main government health insurance plan for the poor, the joint state-federal program has excluded Matthews and millions of other adults with no dependent children since the 1960s. Medicaid has...
(CNSNews.com) - In the history of the United States, Congress has never forced individual Americans to buy any good or service. That would change if the health care bills approved by either the House or Senate ever became law. Each would require individuals to buy a health insurance plan approved by the government. Since Congress started debating these bills, CNSNews.com has been asking members of Congress: Where does the Constitution authorize Congress to force individuals to buy health insurance? The legislators have given a variety of answers. Some could give no answer at all. The video embedded here puts their...
Dear Mr. President, We are still a free country with a constitution and our God-given unalienable individual rights. You can't just order people to purchase your health insurance plan. The congress does not have the constitutional authority to enact your socialist health care plan anyway. The federal government has no authority to involve itself in health care issues. And your plan is most definitely socialism whether you care to admit it or not. And it's unconstitutional. But I do love your methodology. No matter what the problem, all we have to do is throw more federal money at it and...
Non Union workers will be forced to pay the difference!Two neighbors do the same kind of work. One is a member of a union and the other is not. Both work in fields which require a substantial health insurance plan. So why is it that the neighbor in the non-union job will now pay a 40% tax on a premium health insurance plan and the union neighbor will get a waiver on that tax until 2018? It's another smack in the face to fairness that has been all too common in the Democrat conduct of health care "reform." First there...
City playground supervisor Dennis Gibson drives to work in a 2001 Saturn with 89,000 miles on it. His car is nowhere near a Cadillac, but under a version of the health-care bill passed by the U.S. Senate, his health insurance plan almost is. The premium for his family's insurance, which includes dental, vision, and coverage for his wife and two daughters, runs $22,380 a year, just below the $23,000 threshold that could be subject to taxation as a way to fund the nation's health-care overhaul.
(CNSNews.com) – Sen. Richard Lugar (R-Ind.) said he does not have “any idea” where in the Constitution Congress was finding the authority to mandate that individuals purchase a health insurance plan. “I don’t have any idea,” he told CNSNews.com in the Capitol building last week. “We’ll just listen to the debate this afternoon.” Lugar was on his way to take part in a series of procedural votes last Wednesday that would advance the Senate health-care bill toward final passage, which ultimately came on Christmas Eve. One of the votes was a constitutional “point of order” raised by Sens. John Ensign...
The scuttling of the public option from the Senate health care bill has infuriated organized labor and left their leaders in a bind about how to proceed. Top labor officials of several unions are meeting with their executives today, and some plan to meet on Thursday, to devise their strategies, now that the Senate has dropped the public option, a government-run health insurance plan to compete with private insurers. It was the central provision for which labor has been fighting. A sense of urgency was building, as a deadline bears down on the Senate. In order to pass a bill...
WASHINGTON — The Senate majority leader, Harry Reid, said Tuesday night that he and a group of 10 Democratic senators had reached “a broad agreement” to resolve a dispute over a proposed government-run health insurance plan, which has posed the biggest obstacle to passage of sweeping health care legislation. Senator Ben Nelson, left, Democrat of Nebraska, was a co-sponsor of an amendment to ban any health plan bought even partly with federal subsidies from covering abortion. The proposal was defeated, 54 to 45, with two Republicans voting against it. Mr. Reid refused to provide details. Other senators said the tentative...
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