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Obamacare's winners and losers in Bay Area
Mercury News ^ | 10/7/2013 | Tracy Seipel

Posted on 10/07/2013 9:10:26 AM PDT by PapaBear3625

...Yet, like many other Bay Area residents who pay for their own medical insurance, they were floored last week when they opened their bills: Their policies were being replaced with pricier plans that conform to all the requirements of the new health care law.

Vinson, of San Jose, will pay $1,800 more a year for an individual policy, while Waschura, of Portola Valley, will cough up almost $10,000 more for insurance for his family of four.

(Excerpt) Read more at mercurynews.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: obamacare
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Sticker-shock is just starting to set in. The middle-class is seeing just HOW MUCH they will be paying extra, thanks to ObamaCare, and they are NOT going to be happy.

The Repubs just have to stall a little bit longer, and ObamaCare's negatives will turn into an albatross around the necks of Reid, Pelosi and Obama.

1 posted on 10/07/2013 9:10:26 AM PDT by PapaBear3625
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Funny how they do not state the other winners who are exempt from this bull crap...

Redistribution bubble politics for idiots is what it is.


2 posted on 10/07/2013 9:11:52 AM PDT by lavaroise
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To: PapaBear3625

I have been reading the posted comments to this article all morning. Very entertaining in a schadenfreude sort of way.


3 posted on 10/07/2013 9:12:32 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Is John's moustache long enough YET?)
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To: PapaBear3625

Stall as in shut down as much as possible until the word gets out!

It really shouldn’t take too long.....


4 posted on 10/07/2013 9:12:57 AM PDT by hoosiermama (Obama: "Born in Kenya" Lying now or then)
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To: PapaBear3625

Bay area. Losers? I know there are a lot of good folks in kali and they are “stuck” there for many and various reasons. Too bad such a beautiful place is run by didiots like moonbeam jerry and his ilk. Population centers full of “gim-mes” control the election outcomes and like lbj said, give them just enough and I’ll have them “N’s” voting democrat for 200 years. Looks like it worked.


5 posted on 10/07/2013 9:14:45 AM PDT by rktman (Inergalactic background checks? King hussein you're first up.)
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To: hoosiermama

It will blow up in the first 3 months of the year, when the uninformed find out what deductibles and co-insurance really mean. You can tell them all you want and they will not get it. They still believe O bummer is giving them free healthcare.


6 posted on 10/07/2013 9:16:59 AM PDT by americanbychoice3
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Yup, you can tell them all you want but until they experience it they’ll never believe it. They believe what they want to hear until they experience it. This is why it must be continued and not delayed or defunded. The shut-down must continue though... it must continue to negotiate the debt ceiling.

obastard care will fail and the sheeple will demand it to end but the ending will be another mess as well. When has government ever done anything right since the Interstate system was built? What?


7 posted on 10/07/2013 9:22:49 AM PDT by Sequoyah101
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To: PapaBear3625
stall a little bit longer, and ObamaCare's negatives will turn into an albatross around the necks of Reid, Pelosi and Obama

If this goes right, Dem's may never win another election. If not, we still suck.

8 posted on 10/07/2013 9:23:27 AM PDT by showme_the_Glory (ILLEGAL: prohibited by law. ALIEN: Owing political allegiance to another country or government)
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Vinson, of San Jose, will pay $1,800 more a year for an individual policy, while Waschura, of Portola Valley, will cough up almost $10,000 more for insurance for his family of four.

But they get enough free birth control for anyone, no matter how "active" in return for that $1800 or $10k. Free is good. That has to count for something.

9 posted on 10/07/2013 9:28:19 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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Best line in the article:
"Of course, I want people to have health care," Vinson said. "I just didn't realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally."

Well who did you think was going to pay for it you moron? Turns out free is pretty expensive.

10 posted on 10/07/2013 9:28:24 AM PDT by Gamecock (Many Atheists take the stand: "There is no God AND I hate Him.")
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To: PapaBear3625

I can’t tear myself away from that article’s Comments section. It just keeps on giving.


12 posted on 10/07/2013 9:41:22 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Is John's moustache long enough YET?)
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Yeah....they comments are hilarious


13 posted on 10/07/2013 9:44:57 AM PDT by goodnesswins (R.I.P. Doherty, Smith, Stevens, Woods.)
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Portola Valley? he can afford the hit..

just up the road from atherton and palo alto.

liberal bastions of dough raising for dems for years


14 posted on 10/07/2013 9:49:30 AM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi)
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Somewhere, P.T.Barnum is laughing.


15 posted on 10/07/2013 9:49:47 AM PDT by Windcatcher (Obama is a COMMUNIST and the MSM is his armband-wearing propaganda machine.)
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"Of course, I want people to have health care," Vinson said. "I just didn't realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally."

Agreed. That is one of the best lines ever. And there's something else in the article, which makes that great line even greater:

"Cindy Vinson and Tom Waschura are big believers in the Affordable Care Act. They vote independent and are proud to say they helped elect and re-elect President Barack Obama."

One more time:

"Of course, I want people to have health care," Vinson said. "I just didn't realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally."

16 posted on 10/07/2013 9:52:40 AM PDT by edwinland
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"I was laughing at Boehner -- until the mail came today,"

Waschura said, referring to House Speaker John Boehner, who is leading the Republican charge to defund Obamacare.

"I really don't like the Republican tactics, but at least now I can understand why they are so pissed about this.

Delusional liberals almost see the light.

17 posted on 10/07/2013 9:55:04 AM PDT by Moonman62 (The US has become a government with a country, rather than a country with a government.)
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Hey, the really great thing about KommieKare is you don’t have to actually buy it until you’re really ill and really need health insurance! At that point, who cares what it costs! In the mean time, just use the ER for free like all the illegal aliens do.

Sure, theoretically you’ll be fined for not having insurance, but who cares? The fines for not having insurance are peanuts compared to actual insurance and Congress forbids the IRS from collecting the fines other than subtracting them from any refund you might get. So just make sure you never get a refund. Besides, if you don’t file taxes you don’t have to pay the fines anyway, and several groups are exempted from buying KommieKare based on religious grounds too, plus there are at least two dozen hardship grounds for not paying the fines as well.

KommieKare is a socialist’s wet dream come true: everyone gets everything for free and no one ever has to work to get it! So, take a chill pill everyone and enjoy the ride on the KommieKare train wreck express! (Just remember, you were warned but didn’t listen, oh, and not a single Republican in Congress voted for this monstrosity.)


18 posted on 10/07/2013 9:57:58 AM PDT by catnipman (Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!)
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To: goodnesswins

Wait ‘til Vinson sees his bill after 30 million more deadbeats are added by amnesty.


19 posted on 10/07/2013 10:07:42 AM PDT by Paine in the Neck (Is John's moustache long enough YET?)
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To: PapaBear3625

Rush must be following your post....he spent several minutes with this story.


20 posted on 10/07/2013 10:11:09 AM PDT by Ben Hecks
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