Posted on 10/07/2013 8:25:47 AM PDT by Kaslin
The Wall Street Journal’s James Taranto:
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.
He tried logging in to the exchange’s website at 8:45 a.m. yesterday…” He said the system could not verify his identity.” So he called the toll-free help line, whose operator also encountered computer trouble. “But then he logged on a second time, he said, and the system worked.”
“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.
Remember that the next time someone says that people on Medicaid have no other options. HT: Jack McHugh
He looks pretty proud of himself alright.
Grad students comprise a high percentage of the Food Stamp recipients under this regime.
Oh good, another leech.
and America takes another one in the........
I wonder how much difficulty he might have when he tries to find a doctor who accepts Medicaid?
Arrggh.
amyway -> aNyway
I don’t doubt that Obamacare is going to be a great deal, in the short term, for some recipients. That’s the “beauty” of wealth redistributionist policy. Impoverish your political foes by taking their property and tying them up with rules and regulations, while you create a loyal, dependent group of people to retain power.
Someone is always on the upside of wealth redistribution. It lasts until the takers, the parasites, overwhelm the givers, the host, to the point that it collapses, a la USSR. BTW, parasites don’t generally give up and drop off until the host dies. If a tick knew it was killing the dog, maybe it would drink less deeply, eh? Probably not.
in any case we would just end up with another...lawyer?
Welfare class, exempt class... hmm... what a disaster cover up that is.
I love the smell of stealth tyranny in the morning, stupid caseless lawyer approved.
Turbo tax is the key word there.
Nothing is free. His parents’ inheritnce will pay for this and will be left without veteran friends or anything.
Hear that squeezing sound folkes, this is “ for the next guy” marxist in power smells like purge.
No one is going to be exempt from this inferno wheel in the end. It is whhy dictators cling to power and socialists never step down nicely ultimately ... death care around the corner....
Is Obama going to drink the cool aid first?
It does not seem he has plans for it.
They need this big crisis and revolution more than we do apparently.
A shameless moocher slave is born.
Welfare case?
Lawyer?
There’s a difference?
His thing has nothing to do with health but as a kool aid vehicle for Obama to stay in power and be exempt from it all.
Congress itself miht as well start setting up its own train tracks to the guillotine because the Obama brotherhood is here and within all ranks.
Bred crumb RINOs of course will be content...
Another narcissist opinion making caseless loser “Im the lawyer” idiot.
Nice to know we are in the hands of attorney fee scammers...
Obviously he got through the loopholes. This stuf was designed by lawyers so he law bureaucrates could stand between patient and doctor makin sure no treatment would occur but for himself.
The thing that bothers me is that he is getting his medical insurance free because he “qualifies” for Medicaid. His government loans he has to pay back...sorta—plenty of them haven’t paid them back.
No, another stupid ignorant leech
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