O, Sweet Saint Of San Andreas

Yes.

But with a good part of our own population using various sanctioned schemes to reduce incomes on paper, we are hardly in a position to laugh and shake our heads.

Yes.

But with a good part of our own population using various sanctioned schemes to reduce incomes on paper, we are hardly in a position to laugh and shake our heads.

It's not just granola land that is affected by Obamacare. This same disaster is piling up ruin in everyone's lap this month and next.

Outrageous premiums, sky-high deductibles, ridiculous and unnecessary "full coverage" for everyone if they can afford it. All you have to do is tell the government all your darkest medical and financial secrets. And taxes and fines for non-compliance.

So work less in order to beggar your neighbor via the tax system -- a perfect government scheme to lift everyone out of poverty. sarc. Why it's like an individual transfer payments scheme. Typical socialist system: the road to success lies in the ability to demonstrate failure.

So work less in order to beggar your neighbor via the tax system -- a perfect government scheme to lift everyone out of poverty. sarc. Why it's like an individual transfer payments scheme. Typical socialist system: the road to success lies in the ability to demonstrate failure.

Sorry for the double post. There seems to be a glitch in the preview system.

Studying the Gaming of the OBAMACARE Health System will be some future University course.

On the other hand, do socialist / communist countries abide such studies?

Because that is where the USA is headed under the Obama led Democrats!

"Wow, make even less money and get free healthcare! A little less and you can get free food stamps. A little less: section 8 housing! Man I love where this is headed. No work, free stuff. Just dont tell those evil capitalists about our little plan...somebody has to be the chump in this game. "

A smart commentator made that observation in the comment section of the article. No need to add to it, it says it all.

This is what "spreading the wealth" looks like. Its a stealth income cap. Freebies for those under 400% above the (imaginary and moveable) poverty line, no freebies for 401% above. Communism by another path.

Solution? Load up on freebies and work one less week a year. Or, make so much money that $15k/year for insurance doesn't dent your bank book. Which is hard for a normal mortal with 50%+ tax rates. (There is a third way, have a "friend" in the insurance biz who cooks your books for you. This is the Soviet Method.)

For the reason why this scheme is working so well, see the EBT card story this weekend. http://www.ksla.com/story/23679489/walmart-shelves-in-springhill-mansfield-cleared-in-ebt-glitch

Summary, the food stamp cards (EBT) server had a glitch, so the cards showed no limit to funds available. Every food stamp card holder in LA instantly went to Walmart and loaded their carts. When the glitch got fixed, everybody left the carts and walked away. That's a lot of frozen food to be sitting in carts in the aisles my friends.

Net result, Walmart was effectively emptied in a couple of hours.

All of which was -stolen- food, of course. Most of which I'm sure is going to show up in the garbage over the next few days since the people who -stole- it are too stupid and/or ignorant and/or lazy to preserve it in any way. Imagine what they'd do after being hungry for two days.

Obviously those same people and others like them will be loading up on all the healthcare services they can get, pretty much all wasted just like the food left in the aisles of Walmart.

In related news, doctors are making people pay up their deductibles -before- they see them. Cash and carry, visit the pay window at the hospital before they give you your morphine shot and sew you up. Just like in the 1950's.

I'm telling you right now, that's going to be what starts the next US revolution. Food stamp/Obamacare computer glitch, major riot, major starvation, civil war.

She was just having a blonde moment.

http://suyts.wordpress.com/2013/10/14/sigh-san-fran-journo-make-less-so-you-can-get-zerocare-subsidy/

Bills, barter and Bitcoin.

A great example of how socialism actually works. If everyone stops working they will not only get welfare and food stamps, but also subsidized health care. The nation can just go to the money tree and all will be well.

Yeah well, we have seen this before....

The EU is a classic example....black market, black money....is the standard reaction to socialism.

"If they can adjust (their income), they should," says Karen Pollitz, a senior fellow with the Kaiser Family Foundation. "It's not cheating, it's allowed."

Gee whiz!!! What a bright and cheery idea! Does "senior fellow" have any meaning,does a person have to have any qualifications to be a SF,or can just any idiot whom the foundation likes become one with that status?

I assume the Kaiser Foundation was started as a tax dodge by the Kaiser Coal family. How ironic that this and so many Foundations started with good old fashioned capitalist money,have become SO communist.

One of the great things about B.C. is that there are so many caves in the hills to hide in,if we ever have to.

On a slightly different note, the 400% vs. 401% dilemma is a proverbial trap, because it destroys any incentive to improve your income and get off the subsidies. This is by design, and is the standard practice for all welfare schemes. Similarly, a person on welfare will be penalized on their welfare check for almost every extra dollar they might earn; and, if you manage to get a low paying full time job, you just might get cut-off completely resulting in a net gain income of '0', while now having to put-in the 40 hours.

This is a "fundamental transformation" of America because now hard working folks making less than 400% of the poverty rate will be ensnared in the welfare trap, as they've been effectively forced onto subsidies by monumental increases in the price of health insurance.

Atlas Shru.....ah, whatever.....

Growing the permanent underclass that vote the correct way at the expense of the economy. Collapsing the system according to the Cloward and Piven manual. Pimping the mindless into slavery - it's what progressives do.