# Obamacares Fate, Votes in Today **URL:** \ **Category:** Shift518 Off Topic\ **Created:** [June 28, 2012, 7:15am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamacares-fate-votes-in-today/264228 "2012-06-28T07:15:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 177
**Author:** ![Upstate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b3f665/32.png) [@Upstate](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Upstate)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2012, 7:41am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamacares-fate-votes-in-today/264228/177 "2012-07-11T07:41:28Z")
> [@Jordan Heads](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/jordan-heads/50114/4): > > Maybe I am missing something here. > > -You _work_ for someone who has health benifits… your covered. > -You _work_ for someone who doesnt have health benifits… maybe your significant other does and adds you as a dependant. > -You & your significant other _work_ for someone who doesnt have health benifits… one of you buys a private policy and your covered. > -You _dont work_ so your fucked. Get a job and pay for it. Generally when you don’t work you’d be under a certain income threshold and would therefore be eligible for Medicare. This law is really aimed at people in our age category, the 21-35 year old, and it’s a response to the skyrocketing healthcare costs associated with baby boomers getting old and feeble. The way insurance works is like social security: you pay into the system when you’re young and likely not using it and the old who need it are using the money you’re paying in. Then when you’re old the young are paying your costs and so on. The problem is there’s more old using it than young paying in. It’s basically a big ponzi scheme. So by requiring everyone to have it you’re pumping more money into the system which, theoretically, should lower the cost. Unfortunately we won’t know if this works for another 2-3 years. --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/obamacares-fate-votes-in-today/264228)._