tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959556.post2643301732639938701..comments2024-02-21T17:30:40.448-05:00Comments on An Objectivist Individualist: Americans On Medical Care Subsidies Under ObamaCareCharles R. Anderson, Ph.D.http://www.blogger.com/profile/09610765984333672076noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959556.post-50094726549251067132013-08-15T16:40:06.768-05:002013-08-15T16:40:06.768-05:00Thanks for the post, Dr. Anderson. The reason it&#...Thanks for the post, Dr. Anderson. The reason it's 193 million Americans and not 242 million is because everyone making under $45.9k INCLUDES everybody who will be on Medicaid and on the insurance exchanges aged 25-64.<br /><br />To get there: <br />Children on Medicaid now = 31 million<br />Medicare Enrolled = 49 million<br />Workers making $45,960 or less, aged 25-64, includes Medicaid adults and insurance exchange adults = 113 million<br /><br />You're double-counting the Medicaid adults and the insurance exchange adults.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04039449128420660374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959556.post-5727241544815938922013-08-11T20:05:52.905-05:002013-08-11T20:05:52.905-05:00The fine for those with substantial income may be ...The fine for those with substantial income may be much higher than $675 in 2016. The minimum fine in 2016 is $675. In 2014, the minimum is as low as $95. We see little about this because it is complicated and hence something to be skipped over.<br /><br />Yes, Congress and the President say this is a fine and not a tax. The Supreme Court says it is tax and not a fine. If it were a fine, it would be unconstitutional! Of course, it is unconstitutional in any case.Charles R. Anderson, Ph.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/09610765984333672076noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8959556.post-89606576254837109582013-08-11T09:10:43.692-05:002013-08-11T09:10:43.692-05:00That $695 fine (not tax, as the criminal governmen...That $695 fine (not tax, as the criminal government says) is the first time I have seen a number put on it, so thanks for that. I live on less than that each month, in Social Security benefits (no one wants to recognize my only alternative, my unprecedented scientific discoveries, which are too revolutionary for this fear-ridden time, when dogmatic avoidance behavior of the hard, underlying truth is the overriding element in most human judgment), so I have known I would be eligible for the "subsidy", but as far as I have found out so far, that just means if I don't want to lose a month's income to that Obamacare fine, I will have to "apply" to the government (essentially, begging them to give me what I don't want to have any part of). What that means, at least presently--before the "exchanges" structures (whatever they end up being) start up--is applying for state Medicaid, which where I live is a yearly task, of providing personal financial details to "prove" I deserve it. I won't do it, no matter how much I need affordable health care. So I feel somewhat in the position of Socrates, or any prophet unrecognized in his own time--at fundamental odds with the ruling power, an unstable government in a crumbling society, very much given to tyrannous action, to which obedience in any form is a mere stopgap, and inevitably vain, effort. If the Republican leadership saw and felt as I do, they would be initiating new impeachment proceedings against Obama every week. But to get to my position, you have to understand that the <a href="http://theendofthemystery.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-system-is-broken-incompetent.html" rel="nofollow">system is broken</a>, and those in charge are technically insane (in denial of reality, due to their ingrained, too-long-unquestioned dogmas). This insanity has blown up in just the last 10 years, the same time period I have been trying to get my discoveries recognized, of the objective, physical origin of all of mankind's "ancient mysteries" and man's consequent fundamental religious attachment to the same negative, recurring dogmas. We are, to put it bluntly, in a climactic period in human history, and our society has taken the negative path, of blind, old dogma, instead of that of openness to new knowledge and new understanding of ourselves, our world, and our place in the greater scheme of things. It is revolution either way--and that is just what no one is ready to accomodate.Harry Dale Huffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03210275295826050501noreply@blogger.com