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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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To: grundle

Morons


21 posted on 12/10/2014 10:07:01 PM PST by Rome2000 (SMASH THE CPUSA)
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To: grundle
"Jim drove to a pop-up Covered California shop..."

And here they are....

Check out the body language:

Guy on left: clenching face in anguish

Lady: hand clenched, red face.

22 posted on 12/10/2014 10:11:22 PM PST by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: goodnesswins

Well said!


23 posted on 12/10/2014 10:13:00 PM PST by Fungi
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To: spokeshave

Words fail me.....


24 posted on 12/10/2014 10:13:40 PM PST by LongWayHome
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To: grundle

Isn’t she suffering from Stockholm Syndrome?

RIP and good luck Dinsdale!


25 posted on 12/10/2014 10:30:05 PM PST by JeffChrz (2014--Yay!)
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To: grundle
"I’m an Obama supporter."
(that's your main problem)
26 posted on 12/10/2014 10:34:26 PM PST by Minutemen ("It's a Religion of Peace")
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To: LongWayHome
Guy with the pen....Your voting record is OK...but I don't see any voting signs in your front yard....and there are no bumper stickers on your car....

(to self.....this sure is better than Polar Bear Hunting...easier on the knuckles.....just a few taps on the keyboard sends them spinning straight to the hospice...)

27 posted on 12/10/2014 10:35:32 PM PST by spokeshave (He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people,)
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To: grundle

“Catherine Keefe is an essayist, poet, editor, and writing instructor at Chapman University in Orange, California.”

Doesn’t mention but I’ll add she’s an ignorant fool to boot
and from California. That figures. And these worthless dregs
are moving to Texas in droves.


28 posted on 12/10/2014 10:35:39 PM PST by Slambat
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To: grundle

these people are suffering from battered-wife syndrome.

battered obama-supporter syndrome...?


29 posted on 12/10/2014 10:38:13 PM PST by Secret Agent Man ( Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: grundle

Notice she starts out “I’m an Obama supporter”. She didn’t say “I USED to be an Obama supporter.”


30 posted on 12/10/2014 10:58:38 PM PST by VerySadAmerican
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To: grundle

Fog clearing from those liberal eyes there, babe? Tough about that butthurt, ain’t it.


31 posted on 12/10/2014 11:01:45 PM PST by glock rocks (Whenever I find myself in a conundrum, I ask myself: What would Elvis do?)
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To: Fungi

Nope. I know some of these assclowns and NO amount of evidence will change their view. Delusional!


32 posted on 12/10/2014 11:12:32 PM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: grundle

Consider it reparations for your white privilege, honky.


33 posted on 12/10/2014 11:13:46 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Doctrine doesn't change. The trick is to find a way around it.)
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To: goodnesswins

Grubercrat = stupid Democrat...nice try at coining a new phrase but its already a given that Democrat means stupid.


34 posted on 12/10/2014 11:25:37 PM PST by databoss
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To: grundle

What kind of total idiot has a small business and supports Odumbo?


35 posted on 12/10/2014 11:30:25 PM PST by angry elephant (Endangered species in Seattle)
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A masochist and sadist — against her family no less.

Marxists suck.


36 posted on 12/10/2014 11:36:13 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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This is the same damn mentality that gave Hitler the power to kill millions.


37 posted on 12/10/2014 11:37:16 PM PST by Gene Eric (Don't be a statist!)
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To: Unam Sanctam

“You voted for these people. You’re one of Gruber’s stupid people.”

My sentiments exactly.

I wish there is a LIKE button. :)


38 posted on 12/10/2014 11:38:24 PM PST by stilloftyhenight (...shut it down)
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To: grundle

“I’m an Obama supporter. But Obamacare has hurt my family.”

The ignorance of that statement is astounding. That’s like a German in the 1930’s saying she’s a Hitler supporter, though she didn’t really care for the war or what Hitler was doing to the Jews.

It’s “Progressives” like Catherine Keefe that Jon Gruber was referring to as the stupid voters that had to be mislead, because we conservatives knew Obama was lying all along and everything that has happened with Obamacare is exactly what we knew and SAID was going to happen. That’s the real irony about Jon Gruber: the only people that needed to be mislead were Obama’s own true believers. True believers like Catherine Keefe, who no doubt can’t wait to vote for Hillary or Elizabeth Warren, at least those ones who manage to survive Obamacare.


39 posted on 12/10/2014 11:41:51 PM PST by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: grundle


40 posted on 12/10/2014 11:43:24 PM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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