The Health Insurance Tax
Homer Mandrill
" I have health insurance that I pay good money for and work hard for.
I am
tired of people that own $100,000 homes showing up at the hospital
with no
health insurance and then filing for bankruptcy letting others pay
their health care bills through higher prices. 17 million people that
don't have health insurance have assets in excess of $100,000 dollars
according to
2005 census data."
Rob must be talking about Harris County, Texas.
Free health care in Harris County (Houston) is based
on the gold card. Anybody can apply for a gold card,
regardless of "$100,000 homes". The eligibility clerk
only wants to see your IRS 1040 report from the preceding
year. This tax report must be in ink and he/she will base
your gold card eligibility on your net income for that
year. The fact that you own a Mercedes or have a
mansion in River Oaks has NOTHING to do with your
rights to receive health care at any of six area clinics
as well as hospital admission for a chronic illness.
If the eligibility clerk finds that your income is too high,
you will be assigned a co-payment category.
Only the destitute and the homeless do not have to
make co-payments. And there is no reason for them
to resent the presence in the waiting room of a sick
taxpayer who arrives at the clinic in a Jaguar or an
Escalade.
Cheers, David H
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