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| From | Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.electronics.design |
| Subject | Re: OT: Hee! Hee! |
| Date | 2017-12-29 14:05 -0800 |
| Message-ID | <fansg5F2pqpU1@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
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On 2017-12-29 11:58, dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com wrote: > On Friday, December 29, 2017 at 2:16:30 PM UTC-5, Joerg wrote: >> On 2017-12-29 10:53, dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com wrote: >>> On Friday, December 29, 2017 at 12:43:51 PM UTC-5, Joerg wrote: >>>> On 2017-12-29 09:36, dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com wrote: >>>>> On Thursday, December 28, 2017 at 9:03:06 PM UTC-5, Joerg wrote: >>>>>> On 2017-12-28 17:17, krw@notreal.com wrote: >>>>>>> On Thu, 28 Dec 2017 12:34:29 -0700, Jim Thompson >>>>>>> <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-Icon@On-My-Web-Site.com> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> <https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/tax-bill-spawns-new-holiday-ritual-waiting-in-line-to-pay-taxes/2017/12/27/1e7ea59a-eb12-11e7-b698-91d4e35920a3_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_prepay921pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.fbd9b2130809> >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> You residents of the Tax & Spend States deserve it >:-} >>>>>>> >>>>>>> You bet! >>>>>>> >>>>>>> <https://townhall.com/columnists/betsymccaughey/2017/12/27/beware-obamacare-penalty-could-come-back-n2427231> >>>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> I have read that before and it does not compute. >>>>>> >>>>>> Quote "The penalty payers largely earned less than $50,000 a year. They >>>>>> paid the penalty because they found Obamacare unaffordable". >>>>>> >>>>>> The story is, as usual, short on details and hard data but assuming this >>>>>> is for a married couple filing jointly: Even if they had not kids a >>>>>> bronze plan would cost them almost nothing, maybe a couple of bucks a >>>>>> month. Now how is that more than $470/year? Fake news? >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> Regards, Joerg >>>>>> >>>>>> http://www.analogconsultants.com/ >>>>> >>>>> It's true, 80% of those paying the penalty earn less than $50k. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Are they married or not? If they are they can bet health care for a >>>> pittance, less than $470/year. >>> >>> No, that's just not true. I just asked a buddy who is about in this >>> category. He was quoted $803 a month, with what amounted to a $20k >>> deductible. >>> >> >> So why does this work in California? Got to the Covered CA web site >> which is our kind of Obamacare, key in the ages, then $50k combined MAGI >> and look at the results. >> >> https://www.coveredca.com/ > > In CA, where premiums have not risen as far as elsewhere, it quotes me > $559.80/month for this friend, lowest cost Bronze, with a $6k deductible. > Again, is he married? If not then he is above the treshold and can afford the insurance. > So, $7k a year for useless insurance. > Whether it is useless or not is a question of risk. It will cover a major health issue which is why my wife and I have a high-deductible policy. If the guy decides to gamble on it, a drunk driver smashes into him, flees the scene and the cops can't find him your friend is going to be screwed for life. > This person ballparks about $50k gross (a guess), but is paying off a > lot of debt too. Not much slack in that budget, not without losing the > house. > So, financially over-extended. That, of course, never enters into the equation of any legislation and shouldn't. >> >> The deductibles on bronze plans are high but not $20k. Not even close. > > Initially the Obama Administration was allowing separate deductibles for > regular care and hospitalization(?, IIRC), effectively doubling your > deductible compared to the advertised price. (They did that so they could > claim that Obamacare was keeping premiums down.) > > There were some other gotchas, too, accounting for the rest of the > 'effective' deductible. I find it boring following tyranny though, so > haven't kept track of their latest shenanigans. > Well, it ain't much of an insurance but all the other (non-Obamacare) plans are similar unless you are willing to pay through the nose or are a government worker who gets almost everything for free. >>> If you're right on the poverty line then bitrex picks up most of the tab. >>> Otherwise, not, and you're in for premiums that O/C has doubled and more. >>> >> >> https://www.healthinsurance.org/obamacare/beware-obamacares-subsidy-cliff/ >> >> The graph in here shows it even more dramatically: >> >> https://thefinancebuff.com/stay-under-obamacare-premium-subsidy-cliff.html >> >> >>>>> "Nearly 80 percent of those who paid the fee in 2015 earned less than $50,000." >>>>> e.g. https://www.bostonglobe.com/opinion/2017/11/25/obamacare-individual-mandate-tax-working-poor/LLog96t6im6s71auC4smKK/story.html >>>>> >>>> >>>> Link wants me to connect with Facebook or sign up. No way. Another >>>> publication for the trash heap. >>> >>> The information came from the commissioner of the IRS, the agency that >>> collects the penalty. >>> >> >> Then there would have to be a lot of stupid people around. $50k and >> married (filing jointly) gets you very cheap insurance. The problem >> starts if you earn above 400% of FPL but that is at around $65k. If >> healthy then the penalty is a lot cheaper. > > Some find spending time and energy avoiding those events preferable > to arranging to overpay someone to half-rescue them after the fact. What events? Getting sick? People have almost no control over much of that. A friend's neighbor just slipped off the tailgate of his pickup truck and broke his back. Stuff happens. > And others realize that if they get sick, all they have to do is hang > in until the next Obamacare jubilee and jump on the freebie wagon. > With a heart attack or a massive brain bleed? How do you stretch that out over seven months? >> However, you'd be one heart >> attack, stroke or hit-and-run smash away from personal bankruptcy. > > I'd be a lot more worried about the former--the latter's secondary! > Until you get hit. > Medical care is too expensive. That's because everyone uses insurance, > and therefore, no one competes on price, or has to. No one cares what > anything costs. (And Obamacare just carved that into Mt. Rushmore as > our new motto.) > Fully agree. Neither Obama nor anyone did anything about that. >> I was never without health insurance all my life and don't plan to be >> without the rest of it. >> >> >>>>> The subsidies taper off pretty rapidly. >>>> >>>> >>>> That is one of the biggest flaw in this stupid Obamacare law. You ake >>>> one buck more than the limits and you will be hugely penalized. >>>> >>>> >>>>> ... A healthy individual (lots of young >>>>> people, for example) wouldn't have much trouble choosing between $5k in >>>>> almost useless Obamajunk "insurance" with a giant deductible, and the >>>>> much-cheaper freedom tax. >>>>> >>>> >>>> Sure, just as I knew people who preferred to buy a fully decked-out >>>> Camaro from the "savings" of not having health insurance, pre-Obama. >>>> Sorry, but that's their problem. When they get sick, not my problem. >>> >>> Obamacare made free-riding the default setting. Now it's a 'right,' the >>> government enforces it for you (makes other people pay your insurance), >>> and you don't even have to leave your house--you can do it from your couch! >>> >>> Now that's progress! (It's very convenient.) >>> >> >> Of course people take advantage. > > As they should, in a socialist regime. That's what Obama asked them to > do. He even spent billions of their money begging them to. > > If everyone else is going to be getting your money, legally, it makes sense > to start trying to take as much of theirs as you possibly can, first. > Sure, especially since they made people pay beaucoup bucks into the system for years. Eventually people want their due. [...] -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/
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Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-28 22:18 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 02:18 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 07:46 -0800
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Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 13:16 -0500
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Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 15:13 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Lasse Langwadt Christensen <langwadt@fonz.dk> - 2017-12-29 15:25 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 15:32 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Lasse Langwadt Christensen <langwadt@fonz.dk> - 2017-12-29 16:44 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 18:45 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 18:44 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 15:56 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 20:08 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 22:28 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-30 07:34 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 11:29 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-30 09:54 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 14:56 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-30 13:53 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 17:28 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-30 15:09 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-30 17:27 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-30 17:04 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-12-30 18:07 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-30 19:14 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-31 07:38 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-12-31 10:40 -0800
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Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-28 20:17 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-28 18:03 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-28 21:28 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 07:30 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 13:18 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 10:46 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 13:50 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 11:02 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-29 17:45 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 15:06 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-29 14:53 -0600
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 16:02 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-29 15:20 -0600
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 18:58 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-30 08:41 -0600
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 11:27 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-30 12:13 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 12:26 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-30 12:15 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 12:28 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com - 2017-12-29 09:36 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 09:43 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com - 2017-12-29 10:53 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 11:16 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! dagmargoodboat@yahoo.com - 2017-12-29 11:58 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 14:05 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-31 07:04 -0600
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-31 07:44 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-31 12:49 -0600
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-29 19:05 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-30 07:12 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-31 07:13 -0600
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Michael A Terrell <mike.terrell@earthlink.net> - 2017-12-31 23:43 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2017-12-31 10:45 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-29 15:08 -0600
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 14:07 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Cursitor Doom <curd@notformail.com> - 2017-12-29 20:07 +0000
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 15:52 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-29 19:10 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 15:09 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 14:09 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 18:35 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-29 16:03 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-29 19:51 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-30 07:43 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-30 11:20 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-30 11:25 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-30 09:37 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 11:32 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-30 11:42 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-30 12:29 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-31 08:24 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-31 09:32 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-30 17:13 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-30 16:52 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-31 11:00 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-31 07:19 -0600
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-31 08:35 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bitrex <bitrex@de.lete.earthlink.net> - 2017-12-31 08:46 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! Joerg <news@analogconsultants.com> - 2017-12-31 08:32 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-31 06:05 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-31 09:20 -0600
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-31 19:32 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2018-01-01 06:44 -0600
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2018-01-01 06:47 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2018-01-01 09:56 -0600
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2018-01-01 17:31 -0800
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-31 09:39 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! amdx <nojunk@knology.net> - 2017-12-31 09:00 -0600
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! krw@notreal.com - 2017-12-31 16:39 -0500
Re: OT: Hee! Hee! bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2017-12-31 19:11 -0800
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