Topic: Obamacare penalizes marriage

[LadyVirginia]

One bizarre feature of the Senate-passed health care bill is its pervasive bias against marriage. Under the bill, couples would face massive financial penalties if they marry or remain married. Conversely, couples who cohabit without marriage are given highly preferential financial treatment. If the Senate bill becomes law, saying “I do” would cost some couples over $10,000 per year.[1]

Most people feel that marriage is a healthful institution that society should encourage and strengthen. Inexplicably, the Senate health care bill takes the opposite approach. At nearly all age and income levels, the bill profoundly discriminates against married couples, providing far less support to a husband and wife than to a cohabiting couple with the same income. If the bill is enacted, married couples across America will be taxed to provide discriminatory benefits to couples who cohabit, divorce, or never marry.

Analyzing Anti-Marriage Discrimination in the Senate Health Care Bill

The Senate bill is designed to provide health care benefits that are substantially more generous for lower-income persons. The bill’s anti-marriage penalties occur because of the income counting and benefit structure rules of the bill. If a two-earner couple is married, the bill counts their income jointly; since the joint income will be higher, a married couple’s health care subsidies would be lower.[2]

By contrast, if a couple cohabits rather than marrying, the bill counts each partner’s income separately. Separate counting means that, all else being equal, cohabiters would be treated as having lower incomes and therefore receive disproportionately greater government benefits. The bottom line: under the bill, a cohabiting couple would receive substantially higher health care subsidies than a married couple even when the total incomes of both couples are identical.

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sooo get married at your church and never apply for a marriage license or register the license

[IronDioPriest]

...Most people feel that marriage is a healthful institution that society should encourage and strengthen. Inexplicably, the Senate health care bill takes the opposite approach...

Really? We're still going to give them the benefit of the doubt by labeling their direct actions "inexplicable", are we?

I am so sick to death of people who refuse to see what is before their eyes.

[Weisshaupt]

...Most people feel that marriage is a healthful institution that society should encourage and strengthen. Inexplicably, the Senate health care bill takes the opposite approach...

Really? We're still going to give them the benefit of the doubt by labeling their direct actions "inexplicable", are we?

I am so sick to death of people who refuse to see what is before their eyes.

I decided early one I would probably have to get a divorce for Tax  and Galt inspired Welfare  reasons.  You can do what the Gays have always done - Have it written up in a civil contract, get the powers of attorney signed and basically have all of the same "rights" as married people.  It cost between $800 and $1500 depending on your state, but when you haver to deal the the above, it makes perfect sense to pay it and do it.

[LadyVirginia]

...Most people feel that marriage is a healthful institution that society should encourage and strengthen. Inexplicably, the Senate health care bill takes the opposite approach...

Really? We're still going to give them the benefit of the doubt by labeling their direct actions "inexplicable", are we?

I am so sick to death of people who refuse to see what is before their eyes.

I decided early one I would probably have to get a divorce for Tax  and Galt inspired Welfare  reasons.  You can do what the Gays have always done - Have it written up in a civil contract, get the powers of attorney signed and basically have all of the same "rights" as married people.  It cost between $800 and $1500 depending on your state, but when you haver to deal the the above, it makes perfect sense to pay it and do it.

yes it does

[Libertas]

Obama_______ punishes normal life!

   Obama!

[AlanS]

I don't know why anyone is surprised. SS has been doing this for decades....