Thank you Obama.... For screwing many Americans like these two.
http://nypost.com/2015/05/25/obamacare-is-penalizing-me-for-pursuing-my-dreams/
My doctor looked confused. “Well, you’re required to have it now, right? So you’ll be covered?”
If only it were that simple.
ObamaCare has hit people like me the hardest. I left a desk job at The Post to dedicate my time to teaching yoga and developing a career in health and wellness (the irony of sacrificing my health insurance for this is not lost on me).
I’m teaching on a freelance basis. My husband is also a full-time freelancer, or a “perma-lance,” if you will. Our household income puts us just barely in the lower-middle-class bracket.
And we will end up paying top dollar to have any type of insurance.
So we’ve decided we’re just going to pay the Affordable Care Act’s individual-mandate penalty: 2 percent of household income or $325 per person, whichever is more (of course).
Paying this and paying cash individually for whatever services we require is still far cheaper than buying a health-insurance plan.
I explained all this to the kind and concerned doctor, and worried that he would judge me for making such a careless decision.
Instead, with an air of frustrated resignation, he responded, “I wish I could record your story and play it for people who think that ObamaCare is the answer.”
http://nypost.com/2015/05/25/obamacare-is-penalizing-me-for-pursuing-my-dreams/
My doctor looked confused. “Well, you’re required to have it now, right? So you’ll be covered?”
If only it were that simple.
ObamaCare has hit people like me the hardest. I left a desk job at The Post to dedicate my time to teaching yoga and developing a career in health and wellness (the irony of sacrificing my health insurance for this is not lost on me).
I’m teaching on a freelance basis. My husband is also a full-time freelancer, or a “perma-lance,” if you will. Our household income puts us just barely in the lower-middle-class bracket.
And we will end up paying top dollar to have any type of insurance.
So we’ve decided we’re just going to pay the Affordable Care Act’s individual-mandate penalty: 2 percent of household income or $325 per person, whichever is more (of course).
Paying this and paying cash individually for whatever services we require is still far cheaper than buying a health-insurance plan.
I explained all this to the kind and concerned doctor, and worried that he would judge me for making such a careless decision.
Instead, with an air of frustrated resignation, he responded, “I wish I could record your story and play it for people who think that ObamaCare is the answer.”
