7 Prickly Questions for ObamaCare

cawacko said:
Athletics on the whole keep people healthier. Eating junk food, smoking etc. basically does nothing positive. Couldn't peer pressure given to us by others be a good thing?
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We should form protest groups for the benefit of fatties across America. Stand outside of McDonalds and lob jars of fat (the fat in the jars, not the jars themselves... cause that would hurt) at those entering. Mock them mercilessly until they go home in shame. Or perhaps we should just have our idiots in DC make all junk food illegal... along with fattie producing fast food places like McDonalds. Shut down Coca Cola and Pepsi. Eliminate the Ho Hos, ding dongs and potato chips etc... Sugar.... well that is illegal now too.
 
After they get through with those laws, next would come the exercise regime. Five mile run (or 15 mile bike ride) every morning. Five lashes for every minute it takes over 45. Because come on now... any one can train to run a 9 minute mile. After the warm up run, 100 push ups, 100 sit ups, 100 squats, 100 lunges per leg, 5 minutes of non stop jump rope and then a fifteen minute stretch program to help get fattie limber again.
 
TuTu Monroe said:
Question 6: Will millions drop their insurance coverage because of ObamaCare?

We could be looking at a surge in creative ways to game this loopy new system. Say you’re a freelancer who pays $10,000, out of pocket, for insurance. Now that no insurer can turn you down for a “pre-existing condition,” you can drop your own policy and go bare. Pay the feds’ new penalty fee of, what, $695 a year? Then, after you are diagnosed with lung cancer or after you get hit by a city bus, go ahead and buy insurance again. If you never get sick, you reap a going-bare windfall of $9,000-plus a year.
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I am reading that it's $695 or 2.5% of income, whichever is higher. That does not really change the above scenario, though unless the guy is making about $400k. Also, there seems to be no teeth in the IRS's ability to enforce the penalty.
 
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