Criminalizing Health Care Freedom

Gordon Shumway · #1 (**permalink**) 11-21-2009, 09:06 PM

RealClearPolitics - Criminalizing Health Care Freedom

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The highly partisan bill the House just passed includes severe penalties for individuals who do not purchase insurance approved by the federal government. By neatly tucking these penalties into the IRS code, the so-called reformers have brought them under the tax-enforcement power of the federal government

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The Congressional Budget Office stated on October 29 that the House bill would generate $167 billion in revenue from "penalty payments." Individual Americans are expected to pay $33 billion of these penalties, with employers paying the rest. Former member of Congress and Heritage Foundation fellow Ernest Istook has concluded that for this revenue goal to be met, 8 to 14 million individual Americans will have to be fined over the next ten years, quite an incentive for federal bureaucrats.

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Who will be included among those subject to civil and criminal penalties if this provision becomes law? For starters, any family of four whose combined income in 2016 is above $102,100 ($88,200 in today's dollars) and that chooses to pay all its medical expenses out of pocket rather than pay the $15,000 a year that the CBO says will be the lowest-priced insurance option for families. Also any healthy twentysomething in a city with high costs of living who chooses to take the risk of going uninsured. And by outlawing the popular high-deductible plans that are currently among the lowest-cost health-insurance solutions, the new law would only increase the number of Americans on the rolls of those who cannot afford insurance. The CBO itself estimates that at least 18 million Americans will still be uninsured in 2016.

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...if the feds decide the refusal is felonious, the culprit may spend five years in federal prison and be fined up to $250,000. You could end up in a cell in Leavenworth even if you have paid all your family's medical bills yourself.

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Of course, the prospect of winding up in prison for failing to maintain government-mandated insurance may be of no personal concern to the president or members of Congress. They each receive a Cadillac version of health-care coverage funded by those same American taxpayers who, in the reformers' vision, will be federal criminals if they have the audacity to make their own decisions about medical insurance.

The audacity of hope & change.

All we have left is hope because things are about to change.

nursej007 · #2 (**permalink**) 11-21-2009, 10:00 PM

The most fascinating aspect is that there are people right here on this board who will STILL support Dear Leader and his Obamacare from their cells in Leavenworth.

MrLiberty · #3 (**permalink**) 11-22-2009, 11:22 AM

I was watching FOX News Sunday and I heard something about this bill I didn't realize. I knew that none of it took effect until 2014, but, if it passes they start collecting their taxes and fees from us from the 2010. That is the only way they could figure out how to make it look like this will be revenue neutral. By 2019 it will be a budget buster, but what the hell most of the idiots who voted for it will be out of office by then and whatever congress is in office will have to figure out how to clean up the mess.

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