Obamacare’s Marriage Penalties and Divorce Incentives

““Consider a low-income American supporting a family of four deciding whether to take a part-time job that pays $36,000 a year or a full-time job that pays $42,000 a year.  According to my research, accepting the higher-paying job could result in the family losing over $10,000 a year in health-care subsidies.”

[David Gamage — who …worked for two years in the Obama administration] continues:

“ObamaCare’s new subsidies may also create penalties for marriage and incentives for divorce….”

““Consider a couple with children in which one of the parents earns most of the family’s income. If the couple marries, the family would lose thousands of dollars of subsidies that could otherwise be used to pay for health insurance for the children and the lower-income spouse.””

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/obamacare-s-perverse-incentives_659923.html

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