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I’m an Obama supporter. But Obamacare has hurt my family.
Washington Post ^ | December 10, 2014 | Catherine Keefe

Posted on 12/10/2014 9:30:08 PM PST by grundle

Obamacare has been far more frustrating than I’d ever dreamed.

Obamacare brought us new health insurance options, but cost us our more affordable plans.

“You will keep your health insurance,” President Obama promised in 2012.

The fact that this wasn’t true would be our biggest disappointment. In November 2013, Jim learned his small-business policy would be canceled because it didn’t comply with the new mandate to cover pediatric dentistry and maternity care. So Jim went to Covered California, the state’s health insurance exchange, to look for coverage for his employee and himself.

The individual plan I had with Blue Cross was canceled, too.

2) We learned patience, but we couldn’t keep our doctors.

The only way to decrease the cost of our premiums was to get the subsidy offered by the federal government to lower- and middle-income people. And the only way to get the subsidy was by getting insurance through Covered California. But contacting Covered California, especially by phone, was maddening. The elevator music they played on hold became our winter soundtrack.

We had applied online and sent copies of our passports to California Covered for verification, but we received no bill, no confirmation of our coverage, no insurance cards. Jim spent an hour and a half on hold once before getting disconnected. He tried again the next day, waiting another two hours before getting disconnected.

After a few more calls, Jim drove to a pop-up Covered California shop in the Laguna Hills Mall on Jan. 15, 2014, the deadline for adding coverage. He hoped to avoid website computer glitches and phone hang-ups. All we had were verbal assurances, which were not enough to see the cardiologist and a urologist at the insurance-negotiated rate. R

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1 posted on 12/10/2014 9:30:08 PM PST by grundle
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To: grundle
So the evidence is in front of you, in your face, in your wallet—will you denounce Obozo?
2 posted on 12/10/2014 9:33:12 PM PST by Fungi
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To: grundle
GOOD!
3 posted on 12/10/2014 9:33:51 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.)
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To: grundle

Stupid is supposed to hurt. But with O care, the collateral damage can be just as bad.


4 posted on 12/10/2014 9:36:24 PM PST by going hot (Happiness is a momma deuce)
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To: grundle

“I love it when Obama screws me in the butt...although it hurts alot.”


5 posted on 12/10/2014 9:36:34 PM PST by Dallas59
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“I’m an Obama supporter. But Obama has hurt my family.”

Fixed for ya!


6 posted on 12/10/2014 9:37:50 PM PST by foundedonpurpose
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To: grundle

Sorry, no sympathy from me. The lies behind this hyperpartisan cramdown were obvious from the start. You voted for these people. You’re one of Gruber’s stupid people.


7 posted on 12/10/2014 9:38:07 PM PST by Unam Sanctam
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To: grundle
"Jim drove to a pop-up Covered California shop..."

Oh, I've seen those.


8 posted on 12/10/2014 9:38:55 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: grundle

You may support Obama, but he doesn’t support you.


9 posted on 12/10/2014 9:39:14 PM PST by Politicalkiddo ("How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!" - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: grundle

Hey...Catherine
..I have a name for people like you....Grubercat....stupid democrat


10 posted on 12/10/2014 9:46:06 PM PST by goodnesswins (whats a Grubercat? A stupid Democrat)
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To: grundle

Hey...Catherine
..I have a name for people like you....Grubercat....stupid democrat


11 posted on 12/10/2014 9:46:07 PM PST by goodnesswins (whats a Grubercat? A stupid Democrat)
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To: grundle

What’s the phrase? The Stupid - it hurts?

Think thats what we have here...


12 posted on 12/10/2014 9:47:05 PM PST by Regulator
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Look at it this way. Just a little payback from the Kenyan and his ‘RATS for that “white privilege” thingy.


13 posted on 12/10/2014 9:50:53 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer (DemocRATS! The Party of Treason!)
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“I’m an Obama supporter. But Obamacare has hurt my family.” by Catherine Keefe.

Catherine Keefe - Poster Woman for Battered Wife Syndrome.


14 posted on 12/10/2014 9:50:57 PM PST by Hostage (ARTICLE V)
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To: grundle
I’m an Obama supporter. But Obamacare has hurt my family.

Then you deserve the pain. Karma is like that. Those of us who didn't buy the Gruber smoke screen don't deserve it.

15 posted on 12/10/2014 9:53:33 PM PST by TigersEye (ISIS is the tip of the spear. The spear is Islam.)
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To: Fungi

Nah, he won’t, he will support his Messiah. Still see Obama stickers on cars here in LA..in a way Gruber was right, you can’t fix stupid and liberals are beyond stupid


16 posted on 12/10/2014 9:55:25 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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17 posted on 12/10/2014 9:57:34 PM PST by dfwgator
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Her LIB tears are delicious. Bwaaaaaaaahahahaaaaaaaaaa.


18 posted on 12/10/2014 10:00:11 PM PST by ogen hal (First Amendment or reeducation camp)
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To: grundle

ha ha


19 posted on 12/10/2014 10:03:15 PM PST by woofie
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To: grundle

That’s what happens when you fall for the Free Stuff pitch from the dems who will steal you blind and while telling you “there’s nothing to see here”. Useful idiots are the downfall of the country.


20 posted on 12/10/2014 10:04:56 PM PST by bluejean (The lunatics are running the asylum)
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