Ever feel like your brain is going to explode? It happens to me when something becomes so convoluted that I can't make any logic out of it. If you've done any investigating at all into Obamacare, you'll understand what I mean.
First, just for fun, I went to The Kaiser Family calculator and found that a family of 3 on the Silver Plan, earning $40,000 will pay $2587 a year. The government (you and I) will pay $4093 for that same family. If the family made $50,000 they would pay $4112 and the government would pay $2568.
My first thought was, how does a family that can't figure out how to get a voter ID navigate through all this? Then I remembered. We are paying $15.00-$40 an hour for more than 100,000 "navigators" with no special qualifications to help them.
Then I wondered, what percent of the people on Obamacare will be eligible for subsidies? Oh, my poor brain. The answer is FORTY EIGHT percent. And they will receive an average of $5548 a year. Is that forever?
At this point, the eyes were glazed, heart rate elevated, head pounding. But I had to look at one more thing. What is the anticipated tab for all this? Answer- one hundred and thirteen billion by 2019. And then I got it. I understood what Nancy Pelosi was saying. It's too big and complicated. If you try to understand it-your head will explode.
Cristine A. White
Englewood, FL
