How many uninsured Americans will use their tax refund/child tax credit/earned income credit and?

tax rebate to buy health care coverage?

How many uninsured Americans will use their tax refund/child tax credit/earned income credit and?
Me too, Mother. I pay $300/mo as well, right out of my paycheck. And if I didn't have coverage, I'd get coverage. It's all about priorities folks. That's what Mother is driving at.





My refund/rebate will be going toward paying off debt. I am bracing for inflation and high interest rates. It's all about responsibility, folks. Conservative to the core.
Reply:Probably none. Have you ever seen a quote for health insurance? It's HUNDREDS of dollars per month for an individual. The average rebate won't buy much coverage for the average American family.





I hope this isn't the new universal health care plan: Give tax refunds so people can buy health insurance for their families two months out of the year!!!








Additional: $300/month? You should consider yourself fortunate... I've never seen an independent, unsubsidized rate so low for a family. Cobra plans are nearly $300/individual.





Obama 2008
Reply:probably NONE. If that was high on the priority list they would have already had insurance with last years money. But family coverage cost over a thousand dollars a month, and that is for insurance that is very good anyway.





If I got Insurance where I work for the Whole Family : it would cost 13650 a year, then I would still pay the first thousand in bills, and then 20% there after, and they will not pay more then $100,000 a year.


So basically I would be paying almost $15,000 before the insurance pays a penny.
Reply:None. They will spend it on stuff that they want and do not need. That is the problem with poor people: most of them buy stuff they do not need and then complain they do not have enough. Most poor people have big screen tvs, and live in a home that many own.





They live in poverty because they cannot manage money and have shown they are not responsible with money.
Reply:Probably none, since they have other things to worry about due to the neo- conservative eradication of the middle class in the US, you know stuff like rent, groceries, gas, life's little luxuries.
Reply:wouldnt scratch my insurance bill...
Reply:Well since my coverage costs 700 a month, I would be lucky to buy one month of it with a rebate check.
Reply:What insurance company do you have??


Have you used it for a serious illness??
Reply:Not many. Too bad many of them prefer going to the Emergency room knowing they won't pay instead of paying $5 a week towards their bill. $5 dollars a week sounds like a decent health care plan to me.
Reply:Probably most will pay bills with it. Electricity,heat,groceries,and gasoline have really taken a toll on middle America these last several years.
Reply:Well mother after reading the posters above maybe now you have a better understanding of the cost of insurance and understand how foolish your question turns out to be, well at least I hope so
Reply:My tax refund of $1300 might pay for two months of family coverage....lest we forget the deductible or the $25 to $50 for a doctor visit and then of course the $50-$100 PER prescription.
Reply:Given that health insurance for a family can easily run $500-600/month, I don't think any tax refund for low-income families is going to cover it.
Reply:Unfortunately, that's not a long term solution. I've seen many families have pay $600 per month.
Reply:if they waste that money on healthcare, then who is gonna buy them that plasma and that xbox and all that new bling?


anyway it won't be to much longer before they can get free healthcare anyway