Monday, October 12, 2009

Obamacare: A Preview

Here’s a preview of what will happen if Obamacare gets enacted: Fines (or jail) for having “inadequate” medical insurance.

What’s next? Obamacare SWAT teams, probably. After all, even the Fish and Wildlife Service has a SWAT team.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Blog Archive » Fined for Inadequate Insurance.

Wendy Williams and her husband liked their health insurance plan. The premium and annual deductibles made sense for them, and a more “gold-plated” plan was not worth the money. Yet Massachusetts’ health care regulators disagreed, and forced the Williams to pay a $1,000 fine if they wished to keep their insurance plan — a plan they prefer to a comparable state-approved alternative.

It wasn’t always this way. When the Massachusetts mandate was first adopted, their plan was just fine. But then the rules changed. The state no longer accepts their insurance plan, even though they are fully insured and are not imposing their health care costs on other taxpayers.

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