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DID YOU TRY TO SIGN UP? (True stories only please!)
October 3, 2013 | MrChips

Posted on 10/03/2013 7:56:35 PM PDT by MrChips

Did you try to log on to the government health care exchange? Did you get through successfully? What did you find out? What were the premiums? Did you sign up? Was it easy? Was it a nightmare? Tell your story here . . .


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: obamacare
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To: Texas Fossil

My wife and I are kind of in a special situation for about two years. I will be retired and under medicare buying a supplement policy of some sort. She will be retired with me but too young for medicare. We will be comfortably retired but having income at about 23% of what we had with us both working at real fine jobs. We will get nailed and sucked dry by this deal for that two year period.

We will be forced to risk our savings by buying the minimal plan and then loosing a third of our lifetime savings if a major medical event occurs to her and have to live the next 15 to 30 years with much less income and emergency money.

I honestly think she will just say she prefers to die if ill.


21 posted on 10/03/2013 9:10:01 PM PDT by KC Burke (Officially since Memorial Day they are the Gimmie-crat Party.)
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To: KC Burke
She will be retired with me but too young for medicare.

If she can be classified as disabled, she can get medicare along with the disability payment from SS.

22 posted on 10/03/2013 9:19:55 PM PDT by DeFault User
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To: KC Burke

What?

I thought this was supposed to be the AFFORDABLE Care Act!


23 posted on 10/03/2013 9:22:36 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: MrChips

I have employer insurance but checked out “covered california.” It was about $2000/mo. for platinum with no deductible or $1200/mo. for bronze with $10,000 deductible. Between that and income taxes I would be saying sayonara to 50% of my income. Real affordable. Blatant transfer of wealth. Why bust my butt???


24 posted on 10/03/2013 9:26:02 PM PDT by informavoracious (We're being "punished" with Stanley Ann's baby. Obamacare: shovel-ready healthcare.)
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To: advertising guy

25 posted on 10/03/2013 9:29:10 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: smokingfrog

lmao....my cat still will not talk to mama


26 posted on 10/03/2013 9:31:34 PM PDT by advertising guy ( if your cell phone is in the front pocket....it wasn't a butt dial..............just sayin)
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To: MrChips

I had already been logging onto the state exchange website for the last month to price plans.

But since they sent me a paper application I will use that instead of the online app when I actually apply.

It’s true someone could make transcription mistakes from the paper form but they do scan it when it comes in so entries could always be verified later. With the online stuff the data could be altered at any time.


27 posted on 10/03/2013 9:32:02 PM PDT by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: KC Burke

You can get some short-term insurance for about a year.


28 posted on 10/03/2013 9:35:49 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: MrChips

True Story. Nope


29 posted on 10/03/2013 9:43:19 PM PDT by eyedigress ((zOld storm chaser from the west)/ ?s)
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To: smokingfrog

I need over two years and the market prices for private will float to pool levels due to what the market will bear. Who wants to give cheap coverage when Siebelious calls the shots.


30 posted on 10/03/2013 9:43:23 PM PDT by KC Burke (Officially since Memorial Day they are the Gimmie-crat Party.h)
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To: DeFault User

It is my understanding to get Medicare when you are not 65 and disabled, you need to be collecting SS disability for 2 years in order to qualify. To get SS disability may take years.


31 posted on 10/03/2013 9:46:22 PM PDT by Guardian Sebastian (Mother of God, pray for us and our country.)
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To: KC Burke

I’m convinced 0bamacare is just a sneaky way to either bankrupt or get rid of all of us old farts.


32 posted on 10/03/2013 9:48:16 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: DeFault User

She has no major illness or disability. She does however break bones and tear joints regularly and I think her gastro system will become debilitating.

Disabled, not probably attainable without fraudulent claims as I see it now and there are too many leeches already.


33 posted on 10/03/2013 9:53:31 PM PDT by KC Burke (Officially since Memorial Day they are the Gimmie-crat Party.h)
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To: smokingfrog

Of course they want us gone. We have votes, guns and bibles.


34 posted on 10/03/2013 9:54:45 PM PDT by KC Burke (Officially since Memorial Day they are the Gimmie-crat Party.h)
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To: informavoracious

You should qualify for the subsidy.


35 posted on 10/03/2013 10:00:40 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: smokingfrog

I have. And 2 others. They vary wildly.


36 posted on 10/03/2013 10:21:15 PM PDT by MrChips (MrChips)
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To: luckystarmom

Nope. Income too high for just two people.


37 posted on 10/03/2013 10:22:52 PM PDT by informavoracious (We're being "punished" with Stanley Ann's baby. Obamacare: shovel-ready healthcare.)
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To: MrChips

You’d think they would at least be in the general ballpark.
There are bronze, silver, gold and platinum plans, that should all have roughly similar coverage.


38 posted on 10/03/2013 10:27:49 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( ==> sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: informavoracious

Crazy! Instead of the Affordable Care Act it should be called the Crazy Expensive Health Insurance For Desperate Wealthy People with Pre-existing Conditions Act


39 posted on 10/03/2013 10:46:19 PM PDT by luckystarmom
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To: Guardian Sebastian

Medicare kicks in two years after the Application Date, not the Approval Date.

If it takes a year to get approved for Disability, Medicare Eligibility will be effective one year later.


40 posted on 10/03/2013 10:59:02 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Due to the Federal Government Shutdown, the Tagline is closed.)
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