The average monthly premium for the *lowest*-cost bronze Obamacare plan in Florida (which features a co-pay of 40%) is…$257. That’s over three grand a year. We have 3.8 million people in the state without insurance (including, by free exertion of choice, your friend and humble narrator). We have a shitload of small businesses that don’t—can’t—offer health insurance to their workers (think of your garden-variety South Florida strip mall: sandwich shop, nail salon, Chinese takeout place, chiropractor, etc.) and under Obamacare, aren’t required to... So these workers are now required by law to get coverage on their own dime. They aren’t making a lot of money to begin with—and even if they get a subsidy, they’re on the hook for well over a hundred bucks every month for something that, if they’re young and in good health and single, they really have no need for and which they most likely won’t use. (From age eighteen to thirty-five I never once visited the emergency room.) And because they are subject to withholding through their paychecks, they either add a hefty monthly bill to their budget for a service they probably will not utilize (and if they do: a 40% co-pay…?)…or they unavoidably pay the much lesser tax penalty and get bupkes in return. They can’t avoid the latter without an exemption. What an awful, awful deal for them…
Posted on: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 08:16:21 +0000
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