Posted on 10/28/2013 8:58:07 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
California residents are rebelling a bit against Obamacare, with thousands shocked by the sticker price and rethinking their support, saying that what seemed wonderful in principle is not translating so well into reality.
As Pam Kehaly, the president of Anthem Blue Cross in California, reported, she received a letter from one woman who saw her insurance rates rise by 50 percent due to Obamacare.
“She said, ‘I was all for Obamacare until I found out I was paying for it,’ ” Ms. Kehaly said, in the Los Angeles Times.
Several hundred thousand other Californians in coming weeks may be feeling the same pinch, as insurers drop their plans and push them onto exchanges, medical analysts say. Blue Shield of California sent letters to 119,000 residents last month announcing the plans don’t meet federal mandates.
Kaiser Permanente, meanwhile, is canceling about 160,000 of its customers’ plans — about half of its base, the Los Angeles Times said. A majority of those who are being booted off their plans will face a rate increase from Obamacare.
“This is when the actualy sticker shock comes into play for people,” said Gerald Kominski, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research, in the Los Angeles Times. “There are winners and losers under the Affordable Care Act.”
Jennifer Harris, Fullerton resident, said she was shocked to receive a letter from her Health Net Inc. insurer that her plan — which costs $98 a month — was being dropped. The cheapest plan she said in the Los Angeles Times that she found is $238 a month....
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The stories will still confuse the “low-information voters”, and that’s what they are, “low information”.
To the American people, this picture is the symbol of all good and decent about the USA.
They will think differently within the next five years IMO.
“socialized medicine will not work here.”
Socialized medicine has never worked anywhere. I lived under socialized medicine for twenty years; I know whereof I speak, and I kid you not. (Does anybody else miss Steve Allen?)
“fellow conservatives who play the low hanging fruit game”
Oh, come on, take one for the team.
Where would we be without all those California stereotypes? Governor Moonbeam, surfer dude, valley girl, starlet, cynical agent, corrupt movie magnate, Charles Manson...
I guess we could make jokes about the Amish, but they’re not funny.
At some point you run out of cheeks to turn.
Scrap’s w/libtards keep me busy enough. Don’t
need to have to contend w/ignorant “friends
on the right
““Shoulden’t Obama voters be forced to pick up the tab for our exploding bills?”
How about forfeiture of all assets, revocation of citizenship, and a one-way ticket to Abu Dhabi?”
I would settle for 2 different Tax bills. If you want to vote for Democrats you alone should bare the burden of their “programs”. The same should be true of Republicans.
We should have 2 different Tax codes, taxes you choose by vote. Let the thieves argue openly for own greedy thief.
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