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- etiquette email | January 5, 2015
The real deal is that the “Affordable Care Act” is neither affordable nor does it provide better care. Even mandating insurance, spending scores and scores of billions on subsidies and medicaid, and guilting parents into keeping more expensive family plans when their children are grown, out of college, and a 1000 miles away until they are married or 26, this awkward law still leaves 3/4 of the number of uninsured that we had when it started. Even worse, many have worse coverage for their needs and finances then when the law was passed. It is a disaster. Millions lost coverage, the doctors they wanted, and are stuck with co pays and deductibles they can’t afford.
Biden is not the real deal nor is the “Affordable Car Act”.
Right on Real Deal. My personal experience is that my plan in June, 2014 cost $368.00 and covered all the required mandated programs, except pediatric dental and birth control. I am in my late 50’s and don’t need them, but I lost the plan (remember…”if you like your plan, you can keep it”? and the $1800.00 deductible to be saddled with a plan that cost $495.00 and raised my deductible to $6300.00. Gruber was right. If they had actually spelled out what was going to happen, it never would have passed and for good reason. I am disgusted with government and mandates.
Call the wahmbulance. The whiners are out in force today.
my plan in June, 2014 cost $368.00 and covered all the required mandated programs, except pediatric dental and birth control. I am in my late 50’s and don’t need them
Yes you do. If anybody needs them, so do you. Do you resent paying school taxes too? Maybe you do.
Obamacare is not fee-for-service; it is a public insurance pool. I think you are missing the point of an insurance pool.
I am missing the point if an insurance pool? Wrong, comrade. My previous policy was part of a pool- a pool I joined after comparing other pools (policies) that were available. Not a one size fits all approach. I need it because others need it? Absolutely preposterous. I need to have the ability to tailor a health plan that fits my needs.
wait for the other shoe to drop. For example, colonoscopies may not be fully covered ( and they are part of essential, mandated preventative care as part of Obamacare) if polyps are found. It then becomes treatment and will be billed accordingly. That was not true with my old policy.
By the way, I have no issue with school and property taxes. I chose to own my house, not rent it.
” I need to have the ability to tailor a health plan that fits my needs.”
Need? Or want? Do you know the difference? I wonder, since you’re under the impression that renters don’t pay property taxes simply because they aren’t billed directly for them.
Yes, I need to be able to choose my own, individually tailored plan because I am a free market capitalist and need the private industry to have the option and ability to provide free choice. I know that liberals and statists have a problem grasping such a concept. Also, renters don’t pay property and school taxes. They pay rent. The rent payment is what the market will bear, not the tax situation. There’s that market concept again.
“I need to be able to choose my own, individually tailored plan because I am a free market capitalist and need the private industry to have the option and ability to provide free choice.”
That’s not a need, that’s a want. And there is no such thing as a “free” market, because every market is regulated to some extent. Fail.
“Also, renters don’t pay property and school taxes. They pay rent.”
And that rent includes property and school taxes. Are you really this stupid or are you trying extra hard?
“There’s that market concept again.”
You wouldn’t know a concept if it hit you in your thick head. If you people were any stupider we’d have to water and fertilize you.
No, it is a need for the reasons specified. You may consider it a want solely because you are very comfortable being told what to do and how to do it. I am not. It is repulsive to me and therefore a need.
No such thing as a market and everything is regulated. Have you been paying attention. The real estate MARKET crashed approximately 6 years ago. Why haven’t the prices been regulated higher?
I won’t lower myself to your level and call you stupid or that you are a blockhead.
Back to real estate taxes. If the tenant paid the taxes, then why have my properties rents stagnated even while taxes, insurance and utilities have gone up. Because of market forces, of course.
“It is repulsive to me and therefore a need.”
No, you still don’t understand the difference. If it didn’t exist, you would continue to. Therefore it is a want, not a need.
“Back to real estate taxes. If the tenant paid the taxes, then why have my properties rents stagnated even while taxes, insurance and utilities have gone up. Because of market forces, of course.”
“No such thing as a market and everything is regulated. Have you been paying attention. The real estate MARKET crashed approximately 6 years ago. Why haven’t the prices been regulated higher?”
Wow, you’re even stupider than I thought. I said you wouldn’t understand a concept, not that there’s no such thing as a market. And of course there’s no such thing as a “free” market. The real estate market is anything but free.
Consider your ability to write off your investment properties, for example. A homeowner who lives in his house can’t do that, but you can. Yet you want to whine about it.
Your inability to manage your business is nobody’s fault but your own. I know plenty of landlords whose rents have increased as the market has rebounded. Most of them have more wisdom and grace than you do, too — maybe that has something to do with it.
You’re not a blockhead. You’re a piece of shit.
Well said. You have style, grace and a very elegant manner of speech, but unfortunately, no practical knowledge. As a homeowner my property taxes are deductible. So are capital improvements, such as a roof, new kitchen, etc.
With rentals, it is true that some expenses are deductible, and I can even depreciate it, but when sold, there is a 25% recovery tax on that depreciation. In reality, rentals may or may not cover expenses, depending on the market (that is quite real, I assure you) and other conditions. The real advantage is the perceived investment and appreciation. That is only realized when sold and a capital gains tax kicks in taking 20% as of now. You know plenty of landlords that are doing well. I frankly doubt it and you have no personal experience other than heresay and conjecture. You sir are a blockhead and a poorly informed one at that, but I won’t call you what you called me. I am a gentleman and may God bless you. Life is hard. Even harder when you are stupid. Take a basic economics course and clear the cobwebs between your ears.
Christ on a crutch, what an asshole. Landlords get every break the US tax code writers could think of. I can’t depreciate my house; you can depreciate your rental properties. Mortgages for both kinds of property are supported by tax breaks for interest payments. The list goes on and on.
One needn’t know any landlords — and I do, sadly for your conjecture — to track the cost of renting property. Check the ads, sporto. Rates have increased plenty over the past six years.
Or one could simply use a search engine. Here, for example, from USA Todaiy in Nov. 2012:
“Apartment rents will go up again next year for the fourth consecutive year as the economy improves — good news for landlords but tough on renters.
Rents for apartments — which make up about half of all rental housing — will jump 4.6% nationally next year after a 4.1% increase this year, the National Association of Realtors predicted Monday in its commercial forecast.
Rents will keep rising, more than 4% a year for 2014 and 2015, says market researcher Reis.
“The pendulum has definitely swung back in favor of landlords, not renters,” says Ryan Severino, Reis senior economist.”
Are you ready to stop now that you’ve revealed yourself as a selfish, stupid, but very polite moron?
My previous policy was part of a pool- a pool I joined after comparing other pools (policies) that were available.
What you are describing is a private pool, engineered to exclude those at risk. Obamacare is a public pool. Get over it.
I understand your indigestion over Obamacare mandates. They suck, but they suck less than what we had before, and they suck far less than what free market capitalists would provide. I can’t wait until we can repeal Obamacare and replace it with national health care.
I need it because others need it? Absolutely preposterous. I need to have the ability to tailor a health plan that fits my needs.
Nobody has greater ability to tailor their health care than the American upper class. If you are not in the “upper class” – enjoy your Obamacare subsidies and new guarantees, and stop complaining.
Do you really want the American servant class who serves your meals, folds your clothes, and makes up you hotel room to come to work sick because the wants of free-market capitalists? I have one word to help conservatives understand why health care for all is important – Ebola.
I am not in the “upper class” and I get no subsidies. I subsidize the lower classes and non working class with my tax dollars. I am in that very narrow slice of life that has to get up in the morning and punch a clock to make a living. You’re welcome, Comrade.