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Dozens of Widows Dropped from Health Care Due to Obamacare in Alabama
Weekly Standard ^
| April 17, 2014
| DANIEL HALPER
Posted on 04/17/2014 9:50:00 AM PDT by grundle
Over two dozen widows in Alabama were dropped from their health care plans due to Obamacare, WHNT reports:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jywc3c1MYUw
"More than two dozen widows who were married to retired Madison county employees, lost their health insurance coverage earlier this year. And now one commissioner says it's time to give it back to them. The change was sparked by the new federal health care law, but whether or not coverage can actually be restored really isn't clear," said the anchor.
Says the reporter, "Madison county commissioner Roger Jones says no one realized just how much the new federal health care law would change things, especially for the spouses of some of his former employees."
"A lot of these people are on fixed incomes, low fixed incomes. Some of them are living on Social Security and very little else and health insurance is very important to them," says the county commissioner.
"The widows who were dropped in January had always been covered under the county's old self-insured health care plan. But officials tell us the program had to be abandoned when they were informed that new regulations in Obamacare would amount to an extra $25 million dollars per year, money that chairman Dale Strong says the county simply didn't have," says the local reporter.
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KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; obamacare; zerocare
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posted on
04/17/2014 9:50:00 AM PDT
by
grundle
To: grundle
Deuteronomy 27:19 ESV / 89 helpful votes
Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow. And all the people shall say, Amen.
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posted on
04/17/2014 9:56:36 AM PDT
by
MeshugeMikey
( "Never, never, never give up". Winston Churchill)
To: grundle
'Moochin' War Widows...'
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posted on
04/17/2014 10:06:37 AM PDT
by
Fedupwithit
(Your rights don't exceed mine. Get over it.)
To: grundle
The death panels figure they won’t need insurance in the camps.
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posted on
04/17/2014 10:15:59 AM PDT
by
TexasRepublic
(Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves)
To: grundle
Obamacare: “If you like your Eldercare, you can keep your Eldercare.”
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posted on
04/17/2014 10:41:15 AM PDT
by
goldstategop
(In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
To: grundle
To all you stupid bastards who voted for and support this monstrosity, the clock is ticking.
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posted on
04/17/2014 10:54:37 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi - Revolution is a'brewin!!!)
To: grundle
"
More than two dozen widows who were married to retired Madison county employees, lost their health insurance coverage earlier this year. And now one commissioner says it's time to give it back to them."
County governments around the country were dropping insurance coverage for lower paid employees 3 years ago. It's the only way administrators could get adequate raises to reflect their educations and regulatory professionalism.
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posted on
04/17/2014 12:53:16 PM PDT
by
familyop
(We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
To: NormsRevenge
To all you stupid bastards who voted for and support this monstrosity, the clock is ticking.And to all you stupid bastards that would support the likes of Rand Paul......nevermind......FURP!
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posted on
04/17/2014 7:15:17 PM PDT
by
houeto
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
To: NormsRevenge; Gay State Conservative
To all you stupid bastards who voted for and support this monstrosity,Including you people here on FR who stayed home because you wouldn't vote for Romney.
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posted on
04/17/2014 7:17:39 PM PDT
by
ladyjane
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