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“I Was All for Obamacare Until I Found Out I Was Paying for It”
Posted By Daniel Greenfield On October 28, 2013 @ 10:12 am In The Point | 12 Comments
It’s an old familiar story. You think that you’re getting a free lunch. Only to find out that you’re paying double. Because free is expensive as hell.
Middle-income consumers face an estimated 30% rate increase, on average, in California due to several factors tied to the healthcare law.
Pam Kehaly, president of Anthem Blue Cross in California, said she received a recent letter from a young woman complaining about a 50% rate hike related to the healthcare law.
“She said, ‘I was all for Obamacare until I found out I was paying for it,’” Kehaly said.
But who did the nice young lady think was going to pay for it?
I could understand her reasoning if she were living in a housing project with six of somebody’s else kids like her mother before her and her grandmother before her without having earned any money or paid her way. But if you work for a living and pay taxes, then there’s no excuse for not knowing how the game works.
This is all about wealth redistribution. And that’s all about middle class tax hikes. The hikes go from those who know how to game the system to those who don’t.
With ObamaCare, you’re either getting freebies or you’re paying for it. Like the rest of the government, you’re in two categories. Either someone else pays for you… or you pay.
All that nonsense about the 1 percent is smoke and mirrors. It’s not even the 47 percent. More like the 23 percent that gets a free ride and votes early and often.
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