Posted on 12/13/2013 10:23:44 AM PST by reaganaut1
Many in New York’s professional and cultural elite have long supported President Obama’s health care plan. But now, to their surprise, thousands of writers, opera singers, music teachers, photographers, doctors, lawyers and others are learning that their health insurance plans are being canceled and they may have to pay more to get comparable coverage, if they can find it.
They are part of an unusual informal health insurance system that has developed in New York in which independent practitioners were able to get lower insurance rates through group plans, typically set up by their professional associations or chambers of commerce. That allowed them to avoid the sky-high rates in New York’s individual insurance market, historically among the most expensive in the country.
But under the Affordable Care Act, they will be treated as individuals, responsible for their own insurance policies. For many of them, that is likely to mean they will no longer have access to a wide network of doctors and a range of plans tailored to their needs. And many of them are finding that if they want to keep their premiums from rising, they will have to accept higher deductible and co-pay costs or inferior coverage.
“I couldn’t sleep because of it,” said Barbara Meinwald, a solo practitioner lawyer in Manhattan.
Ms. Meinwald, 61, has been paying $10,000 a year for her insurance through the New York City Bar. A broker told her that a new temporary plan with fewer doctors would cost $5,000 more, after factoring in the cost of her medications.
Ms. Meinwald also looked on the state’s health insurance exchange. But she said she found that those plans did not have a good choice of doctors, and that it was hard to even find out who the doctors were
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Yay!
Happy Dance!
confirming (again) the old saying - you get the government you vote for
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
...breathe.. breathe...
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
Yeah. But at least the stupid old cow gets free birth control, abortion coverage and maternity care!
LOL.
Unfortunately the rest of us are also getting what she so richly (or is that now poorly?) deserves as well.
Bless her heart...
Freudenschade, baby!
Quoting Nancy Pelosi: “Embrace the suck!”
Smug liberal turds getting what they asked for.
Schadenfreude
This story makes me recall a video I saw some time ago of an ex KGB agent. He said that it’s the useful idiots they shoot first because they’re the ones who go absolutely ballistic once they realize they’ve been duped.
Not so happy animals when they find out that while they are equal they are not part of the more equal than others elite
Stupidity has consequences.
It’s going to be cold in NYC in the near term. Hopefully she’ll have to scrimp on her heat to pay healthcare. Maybe she’ll even freeze in the dark!
I don’t generally wish people ill, but I have no objection when people try to force something unpleasant on others and reap the natural consequences.
Does she really think Romney would’ve stopped Obamacare? What a fool.
Or as Nancy would say .... “embrace the suck!”
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