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 ...
Looks like your state is mulling it seriously now, after many months of saying “no.”
Even if the Obamacare loving future attorney makes only $50,000 per year, he will have huge deductibles and premiums.
If the guy has a wife and kids, the family’s medical expenses, even for minor ailments, will add up to a high percentage of his income.
Of course, the media is having a ball making this guy a poster boy for the .....ahem.....”success” of Obamacare.
He says his “premiums” will go to helping other people over 40. Are there Medicaid premiums?
he didn’t say that. The WSJ writer said that - as a set up to the joke of it all on the next line.
I sure hope so
Bottom line: Obamacare offered him nothing and he probably won't get Medicaid either because he is a student.
I don't think so.
It’s poorly written, but I believe before he found out he was eligible for expanded Medicaid, he expected that any ObamaCare insurance premiums paid for by his healthy self would prop up some over-40 sickie. Wasn’t that altruistic of him?
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