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Brendan Mahoney Saves ObamaCare (30-year-old dude to sign up!)(Welfare)
The Wall Street Journal ^ | October 2,2013 | JAMES TARANTO

Posted on 10/03/2013 10:45:48 AM PDT by Hojczyk

Meet Brendan Mahoney, the young man who is saving ObamaCare. He's 30 years old, a third-year law student at the University of Connecticut. He's actually been insured for the past three years--in 2011 and 2012 through a $2,400-a-year school-sponsored health plan, and this year through "a high-deductible, low-premium plan that cost about $39 a month through a UnitedHealthcare subsidiary." But he wanted to see what ObamaCare had to offer.

"Once it got running, it was fast," Mahoney tells the Courant. "It really made my day. It's a lot like TurboTax." He obtained insurance through ObamaCare. Now, he says, "if I get sick, I'll definitely go to the doctor." Even better, if he stays healthy, he won't need to go to a doctor, and his premiums will support chronically ill policyholders on the wrong side of 40.

So, how much of a premium is strapping young Brendan Mahoney paying to help make ObamaCare work? Oops. The Courant reports that Mahoney "said that by filling out the application online, he discovered he was eligible for Medicaid. So, beginning next year, he won't pay any premium at all."

So the great success story of ObamaCare's first day is the transformation of a future lawyer who was already paying for insurance into a welfare case.

(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Connecticut
KEYWORDS: aca; brendanmahoney; comradebrendan; democrats; exchanges; nannystate; obamacare; obamacareanecdote; parasite
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1 posted on 10/03/2013 10:45:48 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

Just what we need more lawyers...


2 posted on 10/03/2013 10:46:51 AM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

A parasite lawyer. Is that redundant?


3 posted on 10/03/2013 10:49:32 AM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: Hojczyk

A caller to Rush’s radio show just pointed out that once this guy starts to make big bucks as an attorney, his premiums, based on his income, will skyrocket under Obamacare.


4 posted on 10/03/2013 10:56:22 AM PDT by july4thfreedomfoundation (The Second Amendment makes all the other amendments possible)
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To: Hojczyk

Turbo Tax is super complicated-ask Timmy Geithner.


5 posted on 10/03/2013 10:56:52 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad & lived with his parents most his life.)
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To: TigersEye

Well it all sounds good to Brian right now but wait till Medicaid denies him treatment for cancer that is no longer called cancer. Or while on a vacation from his job as a full time slacker/student he contracts the new super bug-syphilis and goes to a doctor.

The doctor sends him for all kinds of tests and then puts him in the hospital for a week or two and pumps him full of all kinds of drugs that kinda slows it down.

Then he gets his bills. Finds out the Doctor he went to wasn’t a “particiapting Doctor” and Brian is now on the hook for every penny of all the cost.

Guess what Brian, the IRS will then OWN you for life. SUCKA!


6 posted on 10/03/2013 11:02:33 AM PDT by VRWCarea51
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To: Hojczyk
For those that didn't read the article, here's the punchline:

So the great success story of ObamaCare's first day is the transformation of a future lawyer who was already paying for insurance into a welfare case.

7 posted on 10/03/2013 11:03:33 AM PDT by mykroar (China and Russia are playing chess while Obamas's playing 52 card pick-up.)
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To: Hojczyk

I quickly read the article and I did not see what the deductible on his health insurance is. If I have a $6,000 deductible health insurance plan I am paying $500 per month plus the monthly premium. That is not free healthcare.


8 posted on 10/03/2013 11:06:48 AM PDT by forgotten man
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To: Hojczyk

He should date Sandra Fluke, they’d make a cute couple.


9 posted on 10/03/2013 11:08:23 AM PDT by CSM (Keeper of the Dave Ramsey Ping list. FReepmail me if you want your beeber stuned.)
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To: VRWCarea51

In theory you’re right. In practice he’ll never get in to get any of those treatments due to lots of doctors retiring and thousands of subsidized LIVs making appointments for every sneeze and tickle they experience.


10 posted on 10/03/2013 11:08:53 AM PDT by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: july4thfreedomfoundation

As I can attest, not all lawyers make a killing.


11 posted on 10/03/2013 11:12:58 AM PDT by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: Hojczyk

This isn’t a news story, and isn’t even as honest as an advertisement, so I suspect it was a planted story. And we should expect to see a LOT of planted stories in the near future. It’s called “propaganda”.

If that is the case, shame on the WSJ, and it strongly slashes their credibility as an objective source for news.

Remember that right now, NBC is planning a pro-Obamacare marathon, so don’t even say such propaganda is not happening.


12 posted on 10/03/2013 11:14:51 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (The best War on Terror News is at rantburg.com)
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To: Hojczyk

Guy goes to college.
Works a few years to save up for law school.
Guy goes to law school.

Guy was responsible enough to be insured while in law school, on his own (subsidized) dime.

Guy explores health insurance options and finds that, for the next half a year or so anyway, his student status with little or no income qualifies him for Medicaid.

Guy takes Medicaid option. You wouldn’t?

This is an example of FReepers getting in a rage about something they don’t need to be raging about. Attack the stupid system, not a guy doing what most of us used to value: School, work, personal responsibility, more school to get a job. (Granted, his chosen study is horrendous, but whatever.)


13 posted on 10/03/2013 11:15:50 AM PDT by whattajoke (Let's keep Conservatism real.)
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

WSJ seemed to be lamenting the whole Obamacare debacle.


14 posted on 10/03/2013 11:16:48 AM PDT by whattajoke (Let's keep Conservatism real.)
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To: Hojczyk
You left out the money quote:

So, how much of a premium is strapping young Brendan Mahoney paying to help make ObamaCare work? Oops. The Courant reports that Mahoney "said that by filling out the application online, he discovered he was eligible for Medicaid. So, beginning next year, he won't pay any premium at all."

So the great success story of ObamaCare's first day is the transformation of a future lawyer who was already paying for insurance into a welfare case.

Un-effing believable.

This story needs to be shouted from the rooftops.

15 posted on 10/03/2013 11:19:29 AM PDT by Semper911 (When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
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Oh! You did have that quote in your excerpt. Apologies...

But it was even better the second time around!


16 posted on 10/03/2013 11:20:37 AM PDT by Semper911 (When you want to rob Peter to pay Paul, you'll always have the support of Paul.)
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To: Hojczyk

For some reason, I don’t think a 30 year-old single guy with no dependents is eligible for Medicaid unless he is disabled.


17 posted on 10/03/2013 11:20:57 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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To: forgotten man

It’s Medicaid. He won’t have a deductible. And he’ll get all his incontinence supplies for free!


18 posted on 10/03/2013 11:22:36 AM PDT by informavoracious (We're being "punished" with Stanley Ann's baby. Obamacare: shovel-ready healthcare.)
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To: AppyPappy
For some reason, I don’t think a 30 year-old single guy with no dependents is eligible for Medicaid unless he is disabled.

He wasn't... until 1/1/14 when the Medicaid expansion of Obamacare kicks in.
19 posted on 10/03/2013 11:28:51 AM PDT by whattajoke (Let's keep Conservatism real.)
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To: whattajoke

Well, isn’t his state lucky.


20 posted on 10/03/2013 11:29:37 AM PDT by AppyPappy (Obama: What did I not know and when did I not know it?)
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