The new medicare laws passed by congress contain the following ways in which to enforce people to spend a minimum of $ 15.000 a year for their health care in the US.
So if you are one of the 30 million unemployed and on benefits or food stamps for a limited period before you are kicked out of the system at least you will have a bed and some grub in the future when they haul your ass into one of the privately run prisons. Or will you?
Apparently this is the capitalist idea of “free healthcare” for everybody but it sounds like a scam to me.
oday, Ranking Member of the House Ways and Means Committee Dave Camp (R-MI) released a letter from the non-partisan Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) confirming that the failure to comply with the individual mandate to buy health insurance contained in the Pelosi health care bill (H.R. 3962, as amended) could land people in jail. The JCT letter makes clear that Americans who do not maintain “acceptable health insurance coverage” and who choose not to pay the bill’s new individual mandate tax (generally 2.5% of income), are subject to numerous civil and criminal penalties, including criminal fines of up to $250,000 and imprisonment of up to five years.
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Tags: $15.000, Healthcare, Jail, Scam