Starting next year, the IRS will assume responsibility for telling Americans just what kind of health insurance they must buy in order to … well, breathe free air, or something. Taxpayers will have to submit proof of health-insurance coverage along with their W-2s, and that health insurance has to meet minimum guidelines, which are classified by the IRS as “bronze,” the lowest of four tiers identified for tax purposes. And the average cost of a bronze plan for a family of four? Such a family will have to fork out twenty thousand dollars in health insurance
Cheapest Qualifying Family Health Insurance Plan Will be $20K
Obama, sticking it to the middle class like the corporate shill he is.
Insurance companies are big bad scary corporations so you have to pay them at least twenty thousand dollars a year in order to not be fined by the government. Makes perfect sense.
(via antigovernmentextremist)
Dr. G. Keith Smith adds: “Individuals wouldn’t buy this on their own in a free marketplace, so corporate healthcare “persuaded” enough in D.C. to make people buy what many saw as unnecessary. Ho hum.”
(via laliberty)