Posted on 04/06/2014 4:57:22 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
While the federal government was trumpeting the benefits of Obamacare to boost enrollment earlier this year, about 1,800 families in New Jersey were receiving letters telling them their children would be losing their health coverage last week.
The Affordable Care Act — the federal law that mandates everyone have insurance — effectively killed FamilyCare Advantage, a low-cost option for kids in New Jersey.
Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey was the only insurance carrier that agreed to offer the FamilyCare Advantage plan, which covered most medical, dental and vision needs for the relative bargain of $144 a month per child.
But it didn’t offer mental health treatment and several other services Obamacare requires, and that was the fatal flaw, said Sen. Joseph Vitale (D-Middlesex), who sponsored the law creating the program.
(Excerpt) Read more at nj.com ...
Finally, a group of people that, with reasonable certainty, all voted Obama.
But we’re for the children much like we’re for womens rights
But we know who will be blamed: the evil insurance companies.
To quote Dirty Harry “More Lies;” to paraphrase bh0 “Who cares, those 1800 families aren’t big bucks donors to my political organization.”
What a disaster
And, parents...if you don’t reinstate health insurance for your children...no matter the cost...you will be arrested for child abuse.
Yeah, but that $144 month plan didn’t cover the morning after pill and sex change operations.
“But we know who will be blamed: the evil insurance companies.”
And republicans.
Quote I saw from one liberal:
“This is a republican idea, after all”
Not a big thing to the “messiah.”
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