Circum Spective

SUCKS TO BE OLD IN OBAMA-LAND

Have you heard the good news:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Americans would be fined up to $3,800 for failing to buy health insurance under a plan that circulated in Congress on Tuesday. Just as auto coverage is now mandatory in nearly all states, Baucus would require that all Americans get health insurance once the system is overhauled. Penalties for failing to do so would start at $750 a year for individuals and $1,500 for families. Households making more than three times the federal poverty level - about $66,000 for a family of four - would face the maximum fines. For families, it would be $3,800, and for individuals, $950.
 

But that's not even the part I want to talk about. This is: The Baucus plan would require insurers to take all applicants, regardless of age or health. However, smokers could be charged higher premiums. And 60-year-olds could be charged five times as much for a policy as 20-year-olds.

What?! Five times as much for being old? How is that right?

And what about obese people? Will they be required to pay five times as much? They better be. Or is the "fat lobby" in congress too powerful?

What about old and obese? Ten times as much?

How about users of crack and meth? Fifty times as much?

What about caffeine abusers? And people who intentionally deprive themselves of enough sleep (by watching television and surfing the internet for porn all night -- for example)? Seven and a half times as much?
 

Why is Obama so down on elderly people? 

I guess it sucks to be old in China or Russia, huh?

I never realized until now that Socialists and Marxists and Communists were so hard on older people.