Please say it is not so! Is it possible there is a marriage penalty tucked away in The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? It is fairly obvious when you take a closer look at the health insurance bill. On average the well hidden and little discussed marriage penalty will ultimately cost we the people with a marital status two thousand dollars or more per annual health insurance policy than it will cost a single male and female.
Maybe we would all be better off to get divorced and still continue to live together under the same roof. This is exactly what occurs with our senior citizens so they can continue to collect on their major benefits.
It is really sad when your parents reach sixty-five and must go through the motion of being divorced in order for both of them to be eligible to collect their social security benefits and health care. Why does the government go out of its way to punish married people? However, this is nothing new and now it seems the government has buried the increase of expenses into the health insurance reform bill.
This health insurance bill is no different from anything else, like taxation. How many times during this health insurance debate have you heard the Congress talk about taxation? Did this not continue through the Presidential debates?
It is also stated in the health insurance bill explaining how those individuals with an annual income of two hundred thousand dollars or couples with an annual combined income of two hundred fifty thousand dollars will remain unharmed and not liable to higher taxation.
It was pointed out during one of the town hall meetings it was asked if it is two hundred thousand dollars for a single individual, why is it not four hundred thousand dollars for a married couple. The same is now going to apply to the new health insurance bill as it slowly is introduced to us the people in small increments.
What is becoming very interesting lately is how everything is now being based on an annual salary of twenty-five thousand dollars. This has been repeated a number of times of late during the discussions regarding the passage of the health insurance reform and sends a very chilling message.
If after the health insurance reform is put into place a few years from now, will there also be a shift in salaries across the land? Is an annual income of twenty-five thousand dollars going to be the norm?