Who here pays over $5000 non fica/non medicare federal taxes per year?

[Bread and Circus]

[Emillereid]

1. My husband and I do.

[Okie4Obama]

2. My husband and I pay double that.

And we make way less than 250k a year.

[Bread and Circus]

4. And how much does your overall health insurance cost to you or your employer?

[JuniperLea]

6. Approx $7000

I see where you're going with this...

[Bread and Circus]

8. Yep, and can you imagine how much that will suck for people trying to get by

on less than 40K of household income per year?

[Okie4Obama]

10. I went years without health insurance...

..as a stay at home mom because my husband's previous employer charged almost as much as our rent to cover me. Luckily I was in my early 20s and I didn't get sick. My uncle spent one week in the hospital before dying of leukemia, his stay was 152 thousand dollars. If something had happened like that to us, we would have been bankrupt. I know how lucky we are that we are now considered "upper middle class" and relatively secure financially.

[Bread and Circus]

15. Yeah, imagine if your income was marginal but you had diabetes, dyslipidemia, and depression

and your spouse had psoriasis and crohn's disease. Think about trying to get insurance for less than $500 per month.

[JuniperLea]

19. McCain tries to make it seem like it's such a great give-away!

But he hides the hand that is taking away a lot more. Obama is right. This amounts to a tax on health insurance.

[Okie4Obama]

7. I actually know this answer...

because my husband's company gives us a statement of what his benefits cost us each year. For our family of three, it costs his company 11k. We also have a 2k deductible. I called BS immediately when I heard about McCain's "plan."

[Bread and Circus]

9. Thank you. Even for people that can take full advantage of the tax credit (and a lot won't)

they will still go into the hole. And for those that can't take advantage of the credit because their taxable income is too low or they are other wise topping out via other tax credits, will really be screwed over.

[truthN08]

3. My husband and I do as well

I mean my husband alone pays more than 5k.

[JuniperLea]

5. I do...

I give the gov enough money to buy a small, fuel efficient car every year... while I drive one that's six years old.

[Perky]

11. I Do and I am self-employed. I pay about $10K a year for health insurance

[REACTIVATED IN CT]

12. Not me.

And my employer pays over $5000 a year for my health insurance - single coverage at group rates.

Obama's campaign really needs to do an ad on this that spells it out. People (LIV's) don't think past "ooh, a $5000 tax credit"

[yourguide]

13. me.

[Born_A_Truman]

14. We pay five times that amount...

Kids are grown, married filing jointly. I'm not complaining. When I was a single mother I was on assistance for two years, Medical paid for two cancer surgeries and I have paid that back many times over in taxes.

[Okie4Obama]

16. I'm with you...

...as a child, when my father left, we were on welfare and food stamps for eight months while my mom found a job after being out of the workforce for 15 years. I agree with Joe Biden that paying your taxes is patriotic, you are helping your fellow Americans, whether they are hungry, sick, or getting an education.

[TornadoTN]

17. My wife and I pay over that amount as well

Married, filing jointly - I'm late 20's, wife is early 30's. One child, age 3. We're all in very good health and athletically fit, save for my asthma.

To save money, I carry my own insurance through my company, while my wife covers herself and our son through hers. There really isn't such a thing as "family" coverage anymore in our area. It's all Employee +1 or +2 and so on.

[alsame]

18. Me. I'm self-employed and my premiums are over $7,200 per

year. For me only. No dental, no vision, just basic health coverage.

[aasleka]

20. I have OK insurance, I work for local government

Between me and my employer we pay about 800 +- a month in health insurance. Do you REALLY think that National Healthcare would cost as much?
I think a national healthcare plan would cost 400 a month plus I could kick in 2-300 a month for additional benefits and the Doctors and industry would still be doing fine.