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peacebird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 02:49 PM
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What is covered by this insurance people will have to buy? What does the bill say?
What things are guarenteed covered? What are the co-pays and deductibles? What is the minimum monthly cost to purchase it
Is this all spelled out in the bill? All the minimums that the lowest rung of insurance must cover and for how much?

Also - what are the penalties if people still don't buy the insurance?

thanks....
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 02:52 PM
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1. Of those questions, the one I know the answer to was given to me by
Edited on Sat Dec-19-09 02:53 PM by FrenchieCat
Sen. Harkin on the Randi Rhodes radio show. He said that the penalty is $95.00 with waivers for certain income groups.

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peacebird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 02:57 PM
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2. $95? is that a monthly charge? or yearly?
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 03:05 PM
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6. It is annually......
But I think it is supposed to go up every year until 2016.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 03:01 PM
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4. Great, a $95.00 sop to the government
because I refuse to shell out thousands for a silly health care policy that won't cover most of what is likely to go wrong with me. There's no choice there but to pay the fine and continue paying costs out of pocket.

Oh, the insurance company would be forced to write me a policy. They would just charge the maximum under law and refuse to pay for anything related to my disqualifying illness, meaning it would be a glorified accident policy.

This is why I didn't bother living in a studio in the War Zone instead of a house in order to pay insurance 15 years ago, the last time they would have written a policy. The same condition prevailed: we won't cover anything related to what you need the insurance for.

Someone here yesterday said health insurance was like an umbrella that dissolved in the rain. I think that analogy is the best I've seen.
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 02:59 PM
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3. I don't see how any of this shit is ever going to be law
This is bullshit designed to do one thing and one think only and that is to make President O look bad. That is a fact...
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peacebird Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 03:02 PM
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5. off topic - LOVE the quote madokie!
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 04:19 PM
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9. Peace
:hi:
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madrchsod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 03:08 PM
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7. the worse thing is he let it happen.....
he walked softly and did`t carry a big stick....
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Dec-19-09 03:39 PM
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8. Early on it seems that way
is all I can say for now
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