Obamacare Christmas Gift: Individual Mandate Exemption for Cancelled Insurance Policies

If your insurance policy was cancelled because it did not comply with Obamacare’s standards (read: your insurance company couldn’t afford to maintain your coverage anymore), the Obama administration has a little Christmas miracle for you: you will be exempt from Obamacare’s contentious individual mandate, for the time being.

The Obama administration says that this will affect “fewer than 500,000” people (Isn’t that still more than have signed up for Obamacare on the crippled exchange site?), but it’s good news nonetheless. The individual mandate is probably the worst part of Obamacare (and that’s saying something).

To help put it in perspective, let’s pretend health insurance is something else, like tea. The civil government wants everyone to have tea. So it raises the price of tea for rich people, so it can give tea to poor people for free. Then it requires that everyone have tea. Tea makers can’t afford to make the same quality of tea and still make a profit, so they add dried mulch shreds into their blends. Then the civil government hides the tea exchanges so that hardly anyone can actually purchase tea from a government-approved distributor, and when poor people finally do get into the shops, most of them find out they would have been eligible for this same low-quality tea even before the civil government decided to radically alter its laws and spend trillions of dollars doing it. Bottom line: rich people are forced to buy a lower-quality product at higher prices, so that poor people can get tea they could have gotten anyway, while corrupt business interests and the civil government make even more money off of honest, hard-working Americans. At least the original American patriots weren’t forced to buy tea. And even still, they had had enough. Where’s our limit?

If this isn’t overreaching tyrannical demagoguery, I don’t know what is. Some might argue that my analogy doesn’t work because tea is not a necessity, but health insurance is. But health insurance is not a necessity. Hospitals were originally charitable institutions run by churches. Rich people paid for them so poor people wouldn’t have to. This was different from Obamacare in two central ways: First, it was voluntary. Second, it actually worked pretty well.

Aside from this, health insurance is made necessary by the currently ludicrous cost of healthcare. It shouldn’t be this expensive. It actually isn’t. Health insurance companies have made healthcare more expensive, and the civil government’s magically bottomless wallet has also inflated prices. Because where there is dead meat, there are vultures.

And saying that car insurance and health insurance are basically operating under the same principle is stupid. I have to buy car insurance so that other people’s property is protected from my errors of judgment. The more errors of judgment I make, the  more expensive my car insurance premiums become. The more risky my demographic, the higher my cost. Obamacare’s individual mandate works in an opposite way. Healthy people pay way more for worse health insurance, so that high-risk, low-income freeloaders can pay nothing. This would be like charging good drivers higher insurance premiums, so that sixteen-year-old, legally blind, speed demons with a history of traffic accidents could keep driving—for free and with impunity.

Over the course of many years, private, voluntary charity has given way to public, compulsory welfare. The results have been horrendous. I am at least happy about one thing. For the time being, a blow has been struck to the individual mandate. But in order for this disastrous piece of legislature to be fully destroyed, individuals need to begin investing voluntarily into effective charitable institutions.

6 responses

  1. THEY NEED TO EMPTY THERE BANK ACCOUNT EXCEPT FOR THE AMOUNT OF THE CHECK.THE HACKERS ARE JUST WAITING FOR YOU TO WRITE IT.

  2. There is a 2007 YouTube video of Obama speaking at an AFL-CIO meeting where he tells them that his plan is for a one-payer government healthcare program. He admits that he cannot do it in one step, that he needs an intermediate step to complete his agenda. Obamacare is that intermediate step, to demolish the healthcare we had with such a mess that we will be lining up and begging to go on his one-payer government program. What he is doing now is demolishing the private insurance part of healthcare by forcing them to provide insurance to all those who apply, whether they pay up for it or not. How many people would pay up knowing that the insurance company is obligated to provide insurance without payment? From this standpoint Obamacare is succeeding very well for Obama and his corrupt crew, but it’s Hell for the rest of us….

  3. Did I miss something here? Your (& usually spouse & kids’) health coverage has been cancelled and god-like’s GIFT to you is suspension of the law “requiring” you to BE insured in the 1st place? Is it my brain-deadedness or were you just granted permission “to BE uninsured while you (& family) are IN FACT uninsured” anyway?

    This god-like O-“CULT LEADER”…who’s nothing more than festering pond scum…BUT..(chuckle-chuckle)….he ‘feels your pain’, so he’s ALLOWING you to risk your family’s health…(be sick or play in traffic or on a cliff) but worry not…it’s OK…you WON’T be penalized. (you’ve been given a holy ‘cult’ official getoudajail FREE card)!

    I’m almost tempted to say ALL these ‘lucky ‘excused’ people should exhibit a symptom or two…hey…why not get YOUR WHOLE FAMILY involved… and crowd a local emergency room. Unfortunately, it would be disastrous for society, the country & true victims, and that’s the only reasons I’d say not to do it.
    AS WE ALL WATCH, the slime spreads out more & more wherever we look.

  4. The Dictator has spoken….

    Hail the great and powerful Obama…

    Healthcare is officially owned, operated, regulated, and RATIONED by the Socialist State, so
    What is next, Gasoline or Food ?

    Goodbye Constitutional Republic,

    Welcome to the new USSA…….

  5. This guy changes his mind about every ten seconds. The only thing consistent about his comments are his desire to destroy this country!

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