ObamaCare: Paying for nothing?

My mother passed away when she was 54 years old. She started working when she was 16, so she paid into the Social Security system for about 38 years. I don’t know exactly how much she contributed of course, but if she paid 6% on an average lifetime annual salary of $30,000, she would have paid over $68,000. This does not include the significant interest that would have accrued over all of those years. Since she died before she was old enough to collect any of this money back, she just gave away about 6% of her earnings throughout her life and got absolutely nothing in return for it.

I have always wondered why nobody ever points this out, and I still do. But let’s take a moment to see how this reality applies to ObamaCare. A couple with two kids making a total of a mere $44,000 a year will have to pay $2,763 to a private insurance company under this government mandate.

Personally, I am 50 years old, and my ex-wife is 53, and neither of us has been to a doctor in 23 years. The only reason that number isn’t 30 years is because of our son’s birth, and we paid for that out of pocket.

So if a couple and their kids were simply healthy for 23 years like my family has been, they would pay the government over $63,000 out of their meager $11.00 an hour paychecks for something they did not need or use. This is ridiculous, and it will result in people looking for reasons to go to the doctor instead of reasons to avoid doing so, which will bog down the system and decrease the quality of care for people who really need it. Different people who oppose this tax do so for different reasons, but this is my pet peeve about it. It isn’t even something that many of us will even use, yet we have are going to be forced by the government to pay into it.