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White House: Get ACA Insurance Coverage, Launch Start-Ups
dcblogs writes that the Obama Administration is urging tech entrepreneurs "to sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act, and said having the coverage will give them the 'freedom and security' to start their own businesses. 'There is strong evidence that when affordable healthcare isn't exclusively tied to employment, in more instances people choose to start their own companies,' wrote White House CTO Todd Park in a post to launch its #GeeksGetCovered campaign. Bruce Bachenheimer, a professor of management at Pace University and director of its Entrepreneurship Lab, said the effort is part of a broader appeal by the White House to get younger and healthier people to sign-up for Obamacare, and is in the same vein as President Obama's recent appearance on Between Two Ferns." Removing the tax structures that make companies by default intermediaries in the provision of health insurance, and allowing more interstate (and international) competition in health finance options would help on that front, too, aside from who's actually footing the insurance bill.
was on my own with a full-time consultancy, but I scaled it back to off-hours and went back to a forty-hour-a-week corporate job for the health insurance.
I call bullshit. You had a "full-time consultancy" but couldn't afford a few hundred bucks a month for health care? Right.
I don't respond to AC's.
$6K/year is about right for real health insurance. What you had previously was "junk insurance" - them paying for and covering the bare minimum. If you were diagnosed with leukemia, your HSA would have been wiped out in the first week and your insurance company would have dropped you as soon as it could legally get away with it. A course of leukemia is going to set them back a cool million bucks, so they'd do ANYTHING they could to retroactively decide you lied on your insurance application and they didn't have to do anything.
Occasionally living proof of the Ballmer peak.
Most people are going to just get pregnant (intentionally or not) and then figure out how to deal with the costs, which probably means minimizing the amount of prenatal care they get, which is a terrible idea for the health of the unborn kids (who have no influence over the care they receive but have to live a lifetime with the consequences of it)
But see, that's why conservatives want to get rid of Obamacare and sex ed and make contraceptives and abortion illegal. That way, we'll have more and more children born to mothers without insurance who don't want them, meaning larger and larger tax writeoffs for hospitals, meaning less federal revenue. And in the meantime, we can cut taxes, too, but let's get rid of the child tax credit so we don't have to give the parents of those unwanted children any more money. That'll starve the government so they're forced to drastically cut spending, costing millions of jobs of public sector workers and contractors, because they are lazy, inefficient, and in general, the enemy, and then we can cut unemployment benefits and social programs to harm them even further.
Yes, it will be difficult at first, but the private sector, with their new lower taxes, will take most of that new-found money and distribute it as dividends. Can't you see, it's for our children's future! Not the unwanted ones and poor ones, I mean, because they deserve what God gave them.