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Are you going to get health insurance?

Are you going to get health insurance because Obamacare mandates it?

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Kal'Stang

Kal'Stang

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Are you going to get health insurance just because Obamacare mandates it? A simple yes or no question.
 
Not yet, I'm waiting for the affordable part to kick in.
 
I don't understand what the motivation would be for young people.
 
No, I'm going to get health insurance because I need it.

Although part of me is happy that the mandate will kick in soon. I like to think of it as a mixture of a "poor tax" and a "stupid tax". It's quid pro quo. He gave all the meek Obama voters everything they could want, and this is just a form of reimbursement.
 
Not quite yet. I recently changed jobs, and am not really sure what I will do about health insurance. I may just pay the fine for now.
 
I'm keeping my crappy AARP Supplemental Insurance for the time being. non-ACA approved as a "junk" policy, and it is, but it's cheap.
I'm self employed, and i keep myself as healthy as I can, so far I've managed to live without a compehensive plan.

I'd like to make it to Medicare, in a few years and not go the Medicade route,
I had a free clinic before this, so if I gotta pay more I will (being way ahead of the costs game for my age), but I'm not making any hasty decision.
Figure I'm good at least for another year with this junk.
 
Kal'Stang said:
Are you going to get health insurance just because Obamacare mandates it? A simple yes or no question.
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I think health insurance is a huge scam. I already signed up for health insurance for the first time in my life. My policy takes effect January 1, 2014. I do think it is important to obey the law. Our leaders make decisions with the best interest of the country at heart. Even a bad plan works better when we all do the thing we are supposed to do.

Yes. I will get health insurance just because Obamacare mandates it. You bet. Working together as Americans is a patriotic thing to do. Just because I disagree with it, don't understand it or have a better idea doesn't mean I should sabotage my country. That's a very destructive mentality to have. Great empires always collapse from within. It doesn't bother me too much when we have dissenting opinions. It does break my heart when people refuse to do the patriotic thing just because it's inconvenient or too costly. Be an American. Obey the law. The more no's that I see in this poll, the sadder I get.

Did I mention that I believe all insurance salesman should be tortured 18 hours a day for 20 years and then be released on the condition that they stop being disgusting scam artist? I hate health insurance with a burning passion in my belly but I bought a policy to comply with the law.

Make sense? I don't have to get my way all the time. There is such thing as being a grown up.
 
I will pay the fine. Plus I will wait until all the bugs get worked out, actually set in stone and it becomes affordable.
 
Kal'Stang said:
Are you going to get health insurance just because Obamacare mandates it? A simple yes or no question.
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Can you define the question please?

I'm getting health insurance but not because the King insisted. So, am I a YES or a NO?
 
I think the government should stop spending so much money on things we don't need.

Then, we could possibly have free healthcare all around. Like Canada.
 
Because of the Mandate? No. Because it is part of my compensation? Yes.

If I for some reason don't get it through my job?

....I would be very hesitant to put my personal information on that website. It's like buying from a site that you know won't protect your credit card number / pin / etc.
 
specklebang said:
Can you define the question please?

I'm getting health insurance but not because the King insisted. So, am I a YES or a NO?
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The question is pretty straight forward. If you're not getting insurance because of the mandate but because you actually want to for <insert reason other than obamacare here> then you would be a no.
 
vasuderatorrent said:
I think health insurance is a huge scam. I already signed up for health insurance for the first time in my life. My policy takes effect January 1, 2014. I do think it is important to obey the law. Our leaders make decisions with the best interest of the country at heart. Even a bad plan works better when we all do the thing we are supposed to do.

Yes. I will get health insurance just because Obamacare mandates it. You bet. Working together as Americans is a patriotic thing to do. Just because I disagree with it, don't understand it or have a better idea doesn't mean I should sabotage my country. That's a very destructive mentality to have. Great empires always collapse from within. It doesn't bother me too much when we have dissenting opinions. It does break my heart when people refuse to do the patriotic thing just because it's inconvenient or too costly. Be an American. Obey the law. The more no's that I see in this poll, the sadder I get.

Did I mention that I believe all insurance salesman should be tortured 18 hours a day for 20 years and then be released on the condition that they stop being disgusting scam artist? I hate health insurance with a burning passion in my belly but I bought a policy to comply with the law.

Make sense? I don't have to get my way all the time. There is such thing as being a grown up.
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Following The Law just for the sake of it being the law is a good way to get ones rights taken away. It can also be just as patriotic to scoff at the law. Indeed it if wasn't for people scoffing at the law prohibition would still be around, segregation would still be around, and the underground railroad would never have happened.....just to name a few instances where scoffing the law created huge change.
 
A bit of a flawed poll..... I am getting health insurance because I need it for my family; not be because of the mandate.
 
upsideguy said:
Elaborate,
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I do not like the idea of insurance to begin with. Keep paying money to these people, so that if/when you should need it, they'll pay part of the costs. Why not be your own insurance agent and then you'll have more saved up.

Healthcare should be free. People spend so much money to the government and they spend it on pointless stuff and also for foreign aid to countries that hate us. Why not spend it on things that ACTUALLY matter.
 
Kal'Stang said:
The question is pretty straight forward. If you're not getting insurance because of the mandate but because you actually want to for <insert reason other than obamacare here> then you would be a no.
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Just making sure I wasn't misunderstanding.

I avoided insurance until I was 55 but of course, medical care, while never cheap, wasn't the ridiculous price of today. I'd probably feel the same now - I'd rather keep the money and take my chances. Medicare is very reasonable and I'm thrilled to have it available to me.

Since I'm emotionally incapable of placing myself in a new young body with updated abilities, I depend in these discussions to have a sense of it. It's the big news of the year, I might as well try to grok what's going on.
 
Kal'Stang said:
Then your answer would be "no". How is that flawed?
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Because a "no" answer gets lumped into that conclusion that the mandate is not a motivator and you can blow it off... In my case, and I bet a majority of others. the mandate is a non-factor.
 
Kal'Stang said:
Following The Law just for the sake of it being the law is a good way to get ones rights taken away. It can also be just as patriotic to scoff at the law. Indeed it if wasn't for people scoffing at the law prohibition would still be around, segregation would still be around, and the underground railroad would never have happened.....just to name a few instances where scoffing the law created huge change.
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300 million people with 300 million ideas cannot possibly be a good thing. More can be accomplished when people work together such as the examples that you sighted. When a bunch of selfish whiney babies do whatever the want to, it will never yield the results of concerted efforts of people working together to end prohibition, to integrate society or to abolish slavery.

It's not the same thing at all. 300 million people doing their own thing is not the same as 10 million fighting for one cause, 10 million fighting for another cause, so on and so forth. Individualism is the theme of today. Nothing can ever be accomplished with this widespread mentality.
 
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specklebang said:
Can you define the question please?

I'm getting health insurance but not because the King insisted. So, am I a YES or a NO?
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You are a no. The question implies you are submitting to the law against your will. Your purchase of health insurance seems to be a coincidence. You have to read the OP carefully it doesn't say because Obama says so. It says because Obamacare says so. This was a law passed by the majority of congress, the majority of the senate, signed by the president, upheld by the constitution and it was tested in the state of Massachusetts under the leadership of Mitt Romney. The OP is a little misleading.

It should read, "Are you going to get health insurance because the Affordable Care Act requires it?" or "Are you going to be buying health insurance simply because it is required by law?" or "Are you buying health insurance because of an idea introduced by Mitt Romney?"
 
Veteran's have excellent VA healthcare benefits and don't need to sign up for Obamacare.
 
cpwill said:
Because of the Mandate? No. Because it is part of my compensation? Yes.

If I for some reason don't get it through my job?

....I would be very hesitant to put my personal information on that website. It's like buying from a site that you know won't protect your credit card number / pin / etc.
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The law doesn't require using the website. Don't be so dramatic.
 
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