Posted on 06/13/2023 4:33:16 PM PDT by Olog-hai
For over a decade, I’ve been helping politicians talk about health care and the Affordable Care Act. But in the past weeks the health care system hit me like an avalanche consuming a mountain. In the blink of an eye, I went from someone who thought they understood the minutiae to realizing all the Beltway smarts in the world couldn’t prepare me for this journey.
In 2010, as a staffer working for House Democrats, I crafted messaging as we attempted to make some of the most expansive changes to our health care system in a generation.
There was hand-wringing, whipping, multiple votes, House and Senate versions that had to be reconciled, and finally, in 2010, the passage of the Affordable Care Act. As President Biden put it, at the time, it was a “Big **ing Deal.” Democrats held a large majority in the House and Senate and many of them took a hard vote that would lose them their seat in Congress. […]
The Tea Party, which was the right-wing fringe element du jour, claimed there would be death panels. I have yet to see a death panel, but right now I’m seeing how the law works in real time.
My husband underwent brain surgery to remove a benign brain tumor and has been in a neuro-intensive care unit for two weeks. His stay has been longer than expected and all of a sudden I’m focused on the math. Out-of-pocket maxes, deductibles, coinsurance. One would need a college degree in health insurance to navigate their system — and that is by design. …
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Sorry for what your husband has to go through. What a fool you are.
“Out-of-pocket maxes, deductibles, coinsurance. One would need a college degree in health insurance to navigate their system “
You bought the ticket. Enjoy the ride.
Die
Why would a high paid house staffer be on Obama care?? This does not pass the smell test
Keep the same price but cover less but most of all, cover the politically correct stuff.
Karma
Sounds almost like you're expecting one.
Not CongressCare.
you, you half-wit, never understood the meaning of “Death Panel.”
Hey, look at me!
I’M STUPID!!!!
No need to get all wee-weed up, babe.
Maybe she should have worked harder on the euthenasia part...
It’s always nice to see some payback to the elitists who forced this crap on us.
Tell it to Dear Abbey-—dumbaxx.
It is Obama Care and it passed in 2009. Hussein told us the name and that he owned it.
Many people lost their jobs in the spring of 2009 and I lost my shop.
Hussein O changed to name the last few months he was in office to misdirect the blame for the damage it caused.
Learn how to code
My thoughts exactly!
I guess I was lucky, I had great coverage low deductible no copay insurance from 2012 to 2020. Course I worked in health I s for some of the big boys. My Medicare advantage coverage is just as good.
Oh well.
Votes have consequences.
5.56mm
Wait until she experiences the global thermonuclear war that her friends are about to serve up for her. Insurance woes will seem like a walk in the park.
Obama promised it would save the average American &2500/year. No, it costs me a $2500/year. I want the old medicare back. This one was wrote by insurance companies FOR insurance companies.
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