Do I have to divorce my wife because she has a job and I don't?

Sad to say this ..
Obie could give a flying rip about any of us CITIZENS ..
no matter what ..
even if I divorce myself ..
I'll be paying much HIGHER Costs (already adding up and it is in the double digits the way the costs are rising) ..
and yet .. be denied Health Care .. at the same time ..

You don't get free healthcare unless you qualify based on your income. If you want to divorce your wife, that is your decision, Obama doesn't care and neither do I.

Yep, that pretty much sums up obamacare in a nutshell doesn't it... nonexistent bedside manner.

No, that sums up the current healthcare status quo. Don't telle me, you're one of those Palinbots that still believes in death panels?

Do you mean the 15 member bureaucratic non-medically trained rationing board called the "Independent Payment Advisory Board"?
No of course not, don't be silly...

You are among many without insurance. If you recently lost your job, were you on COBRA? Starting in 2014, you and your wife can shop the exchanges mandated by the law. She doesn't have to go with her company's plan. They may be better than what your wife's plan offers. It all depends on your state. Health care costs vary greatly from state to state. All insurance companies will have to make some amendments, so your wife will be getting that notification. ACA has mechanisms in place that curtail big jumps. That also may be in your favor because the insurance companies do not want to lose customers. Far from it.

No one is forcing you to buy insurance. You may choose to pay the penalty instead. ( $95 per year or 1% of yearly income). No one will come haul you away and jail you if you refuse . ACA specifically forbids that.

Well that's interesting news...funny how that didn't come out right before obama signed the damn thing.
Thanks!

What no one knows is how the exchanges will work or how insurance companies will respond. Uncharted territory. That too will depend on the state. I have heard ( which isn't worth much) that comparison shopping won't be difficult, much like looking through travel brochures.

The government does things like that. My third wife was told she should divorce me to get government benefits - of course she didn't.

Ya have to wonder...

I do pay for my husbands health insurance. If my paycheck takes anymore hits it won't be worth going to work.

I told my wife that it would be cheaper (after obamacare fully kicks in) for her to quit and get unemployment insurance paybacks (something she's paid into for 26 years!) than take another pay cut. Even at 3/4 of her original pay scale, it would pay more than she's bringing home now...she's seriously thinking about it.

Obama care will force you to Divorce your wife so she does not have to pay $2500. per year for you. So how does Obamacare help the middle class--by adding a huge tax unlike any other tax in history!

That's what we're afraid of. obamacare is really going to kick in next year Jan. 1 and her paycheck will take another hit. God, I hope I have some kind of job before then but around here, companies are already considering more layoffs to help pay for this monstrosity!
Divorce may be our only option...I'm not kidding.

I guess if you marriage is based on money .

If it were we would have divorced long ago, we don't have any which is my point. Will obama force me to divorce her just so I get free health care as promised or is he going to rape her already inconsiderable paycheck some more?

Only if you want to darlin'. But who would want to let you go?

As to your concern, the Health Care plan isn't even going to start to take effect until next year and most of it in 2014. Hopefully by that time, you will understand just what it means for you. However, considering the enormous cost of heralth care in this country, I never cease to be amazed that even Conservatives are opposed to Reform. Modern day presidents from Nixon to Clinton have been trying to address this issue and the very first president to bring it to the table was Teddy Roosevelt.

Thanks sweetie! And liberals as usual think conservatives don't want to change a thing. I'm all for health care reform. The pre-condition clause in obamacare is something I like, granted the only thing. Whatever happened to portability? Why are the libs protecting insurance companies on that issue? Torte reform? No change there. Why are the libs protecting insurance companies, hospitals and attorneys on that? I want health care reform, just not the Gestapo version coming from obama.

But I get off topic like you did. So what about it? Will obamacare force my wife to pay for my health insurance since she's the only one with a job?

There are other points of the Plan you should look seriously at too. Insurance companies can no longer drop you if you become too ill or raise your premiums because of it. Nor will insurance companies be able to deny you coverage because you have a pre-existing condition.

Sure, the Pubs have said they plan to dismantle the plan next year and then apply their own Reform, but I think we both know that while they will work tirelessly and politically to do so, they have no alternative plan and no interest in finding one. Had they really been concerned, they had 8 years to do so, 6 of them in majority. This has been on the back burner for decades and when they could have gotten a handle on it, they didn't.

If we yanked all the pork out of this current plan (the bribes), got portability, torte reform then I would be more sanguine about obamacare (shoot, most of it was written by Republicans years ago!) But that's not going to happen as the new TAX law stands now. And I don't know which planet you live on but everyone around here has seen their health insurance climb, their service be reduced, prescriptions go waaaay up despite promises to the contrary from obama.

You can't lay the greed of the pharmaceuticals, and most importantly the insurance companies on this administration. It was only the pill makers who sat at Bush's Medi-care Part D table and he imposed a law forbidding U.S. citizens from crossing the border for cheaper prescriptions. (There was a bus load of seniors who left our city once a month until then). Pubs were all for a major part of the bill before, because it was a tremendous benefit to the big insurance companies. However there is a caveat in this Bill that says if a person doesn't need to use his insurance, they should have some monies returned. THAT was enough for the Pubs to lay waste to it. God forbid the guy on Main Street having any benefits, eh?

As far as TORT. Tord is already practically the law of the land. I know in my state it sure is. I can see frivilous, expensive suits being eliminated, but what if they took out your wrong kidney? Even that has a minimum limit.

There is no doubt that there are things to be worked out, but its a start. One that's long overdue.

P.S. I'm currently out of state and found a computer to check on my sodyhead friends. I'll have to discuss this further when I get back next week....my time is up. Have a great weekend.

Love ya sweetie as always!
Have fun and be careful...

Yep ... as always the Dems are the biggest contributors to the moral decay of American society.

Taxes! Taxes! We don't need more freakin taxes!