Posted on 10/04/2013 6:19:02 AM PDT by The Old Hoosier
Over at Business Insider, Henry Blodget retells the story of Butch Matthews, a diehard Republican who tried Obamacare and liked it. The 61-year-old retired business owner from Arkansas was paying $1,069 per month for a catastrophic health plan. Now, he’s paying $0 for a very robust plan with only a $750 deductible...
...If Obamacare becomes the new home of elderly free-riders with lots of savings and no income who are just waiting to go on Medicare, then Republicans don’t need to shut down the government or do anything else to stop Obamacare — the program is completely doomed already....
(Excerpt) Read more at conservativeintel.com ...
Well of course it’s doomed already....as intended by the Obama leftists. Single-payer, government run healthcare and everything else, is what these Godless leftists are after. Well, that and our guns and freedoms.
The only question I keep asking is....why the hell are we letting them destroy America??? They don’t outnumber us. We outnumber them.
Wake the hell up, Americans!
The Leftists are coming! The Leftists are coming! And they’ve been coming for about sixty years (or more) now.
I do believe they’ve almost ‘arrived’.
A few trillion dollars of freshly minted Federal Reserve notes will cure that doom (can't even count on the Chinese to bail us out of this).
The system counted on limiting old people's premiums to a maximum of three times (I think I have the number right) young people's premiums. Since their actual cost is a lot more, that means they were counting on young people to overpay for their insurance as a hidden welfare program rather than the more honest, transparent but unpopular method of taxing them to pay for subsidies for older people.
It’s very pathetic that this former biz owner is such a useful idiot. Kind of disappinting that the author missed this point too: what good is cheap insurance and a lower deductible IF NO DOCTOR WILL SEE YOU or the wait for care is LOOOOONG because of Obama Care reimbursement schedules?
What will Mr. Matthews think if he dies waiting to be seen?
How the heck was he able to get into the 0bamascare system and sign up?
Yep. It was designed to fail.
People are not going to sign up. The insurance is cheaper off the exchanges and healthy people do not want to subsidize unhealthy others. Millions of poor left uncovered, obviously this was never about covering the poor.
The “fix” they will promise in 2016 is “nationalized healthcare”.
If they wanted to try something simple that would be aimed at offering coverage to the poor they could have created a Medicaid Expansion Payroll Tax to subsidize them.
That was never the point of course. This was about power, control and enriching leftist groups with grants and contracts while forcing everyone into a government program.
I believe that the clamor to “get rid of those who have outlived their usefulness” will rise faster than the decline of Obamacare popularity among large portions of the younger population.
Evil is afoot and takes many forms to accomplish its goals.
(”Just because you are paranoid, does not mean that someone is NOT out to get you.” -— “Who said that? I know you’re hiding around here somewhere”...)
:-)
The income tax was a means for Democrats to take a cut of the working man’s WAGES. Obamacare is a means for the Democrats to take a cut of the working man’s/woman’s BENEFITS. Wake up young people.
Good question. Something is not right with this story.
It’s a naive article that assumes the govt. will run it like the govt. would require an insurance co. to. But the govt. will just print money, they don’t have to balance the books and have proper reserves.
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It sounds like he has enough money squirreled away that he will simply run to the nearest cash clinic across the border or off-shore.
If you like your doctor, you can keep him/her. I guess they’ll all be forced to work for the government.
The author has nothing but respect for Matthews? He’d do the same thing given the chance? Good heavens! Some conservative. This is exactly what liberals want us to do - make decisions based only on our own best interest. Right vs wrong don’t factor in.
They counted on everybody being as stupid as their base...
bttt
Doctors will be forced, as a condition of their licensing requirements, to treat a certain percentage of Obamacare patients.
Decide based solely on personal interest? Sounds like WWARD to me. (What would Ayn Rand do?")
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