Special Reports & Tweets - 20130926_SpecialReport-2_Alex
Aired: 2013-09-26
Duration: 02:13


=== Obamacare's Hidden Costs (02:13) ===

[00:00:00]  Obamacare raises the price on everything related to health care, even the health care for the lawmakers and their staff.
[00:00:06]  But the trick is that every American is actually paying for every lawmaker and their staff's health care.
[00:00:12]  Right now they have an Obamacare fix that will actually include a 75% subsidy because lawmakers and staff say their insurance is too expensive without being subsidized.
[00:00:22]  So Senator David Vitter proposed an amendment that would end subsidies for the President, VP Cabinet, Secretaries, and all political appointees.
[00:00:31]  I think John Roberts, you know, he loves Obamacare so much.
[00:00:34]  Supreme Court Justice.
[00:00:35]  He should get it.
[00:00:36]  Right now he's getting a federal employee subsidy.
[00:00:38]  He's not part of Obamacare.
[00:00:40]  So he makes the rest of America, through I think convoluted constitutional logic, he makes us get Obamacare, but he's exempt.
[00:00:48]  Another glitch which hits Americans right in their pocketbook is the family glitch in the law.
[00:00:53]  Congress defined affordable as 9.5% or less of an employee's household income.
[00:00:59]  The error is in that it applies only to the employee and not their family.
[00:01:05]  So if the rest of the family is not covered by the employee's insurance, they cannot get subsidized through the exchanges.
[00:01:11]  These glitches are what happens when lawmakers like Pelosi make decisions.
[00:01:16]  But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.
[00:01:20]  In the lower premium networks, families may not pay a lot per month, but their doctors that they might need later, their specialists, may not be in the network, so they'll have to pay an out-of-network fee, which will end up costing them a lot more.
[00:01:34]  And on CNN Money, a person in California making under $17,235 a year pays $57 a month in insurance, plus out-of-pocket costs.
[00:01:40]  A person making under $28,725 a year will have to fork out about $193 a month, plus out-of-pocket costs.
[00:01:45]  A person making under $28,725 a year will have to fork out about $193 a month, plus
[00:01:53]  out-of-pocket costs.
[00:01:54]  Surprisingly, Wyoming has the highest premium at $516 a month.
[00:01:59]  And that's just in this category for an individual.
[00:02:02]  So what will people do when they have to make a choice between paying for their health care and paying for their car payment or their mortgage?
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