"I'd literally need to be dying before I would start paying this ridiculous deductible for routine care."
Under ObamaCare, those who work for a living incur massive premium and deductible increases to subsidize those that cannot or will not provide their own insurance. In the universe of ObamaCare, unless you are among the privileged dependency class that enjoys free health care, gone are the days when cautionary calls can be made to the doctor because a child has a stomachache or bad cough, because such calls will cost you five hundred bucks or so.
As with so many utopian policies of the progressive Left, ObamaCare is rife with unintended consequences that inflict pernicious pain and damage on society............"
The ultimate pain will be summer and fall of 2014....when folks walk in and need treatment.....to find that their deductible is now $5,000 instead of the $1,500 usual. And their Christmas allowance for Xmas of 2014 will be half of what it is currently.
The President won’t be able to explain the economics of this plus-up deal and the election of November 2014 will be a harsh reality for the Democrats.
Imagine this President waking up in January of 2015, and having 60 Republican Senators and a majority of Republican Representatives...and trying to invent some new chaos on his own.
Sixty eight percent? About the same percentage of people who opposed the ACA, and that means about 32% of the US population will be exempt or already on a government program.