Our socialist government found a way to tax the middle class to pay for universal health care. It is not called a tax, but an insurance premium.

Do you object? Then you are a heartless racist.

And of course, if you complain that your health insurance isn't affordable, Obama supporters will reply, "You're not looking hard enough!" All the while, they have their benefits and don't have to look themselves.

Actually, when it is before the Supreme Court, it suddenly becomes a tax.

My insurance is going up by $55 per pay period, or about $1300 per year. I acknowledge that, compared to what's happening to a lot of people, that's not much. On the other hand, it probably exceeds the amount of the raise that I will get next year. And consider: that's about the cost of a nice long weekend at the beach. That trip I won't be taking deprives a lot of people of some income: the hotel I would have stayed in, the restaurants I would have eaten at, the gas stations where I would have bought gas on the drive down, the beach-umbrella guy that I would have rented an umbrella and chairs from. Since I will gain nothing for that additional $1300 that I will pay, that's basically wealth destroyed.

Call it "affordable" care and people will just assume it will be.

And, despite mounting evidence to the contrary, your liberal political allies will continue to insist publicly that it is "affordable" and that cancelling it will throw people into the street without any healthcare coverage at all.

"Our socialist government"

Yes, it sucks, but Andrew - do you call it that when we give billions to corporations? Or is that the free market at work?

Because those billions are going to health care corporations now. Socialism, right?

Socialism is a social and economic system characterised by social ownership and control of the means of production as well as a political theory and movement that aims at the establishment of such a system.

~Wikipedia

So yes Gog that is socialism. It is not a free market. It is a government controlled market. Exactly what can be sold and at what price is controlled by the federal government. And to take it further not purchasing is prohibited by law. Pretty much a text book definition of socialism.

What did you expect? The system relies on a large number of healthy people paying in, but they were left out of the pay-in structure when their employers were exempted - just before the election - to avoid having the people with employer-paid plans slapped upside the head with the reality of the costs of universal healthcare coverage and risk them voting for someone else.

Our family contribution went up $150 a month. Not a lot compared to many, but that's $150 we simply can't afford to lose! Fuck Obama and every asshat that voted for him. Feel free to pay my increases, democrats, since you wanted this shit "fair".