Posted on 10/08/2013 9:44:44 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
As a candidate for president, Barack Obama sold his signature universal health care plan with the promise that it would "cut the cost of a typical family's premium by up to $2,500 a year."
Now that the Affordable Care Act exchanges are open for business, voters are finding that the biggest problem with Obamacare isn't that some Web sites crashed last week but that the Obama promise of big savings for the average family was too good to be true.
Now that the exchanges are open for business, people who already have individual coverage have something new to not like: sticker shock. The Affordable Care Act isn't affordable after all.
Last week, I began hearing from readers whose individual policy premiums are going up, not down. A local architect sent me a notice he received from Kaiser informing him that his individual coverage will increase by $199.95 per month, or 78.9 percent. When he added his two sons, the percentage increase was even greater.
A freelance journalist told me she made $98,000 last year. But she and her retired husband, both 51, wouldn't pay $7,200 in premiums for high-deductible coverage. It's cheaper to pay the fine, she said. Besides, she added, "we're healthy."
A reader writes that her premiums will rise considerably, and she doesn't think she qualifies for a subsidy.
It is becoming increasingly clear that while poor working families will have access to their own health care policies at affordable rates - affordable, because they are subsidized - middle-class and affluent people stand to pay more. Forget that $2,500 savings.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Even now, if you mention this is happening, yiu are “CRAZY!!, “NUTZ!!”, one of THOSE people!”, “insane!”, or a “FAUX NEWS ZOMBIE!”.
People do not understand how this is going to affect them, or how much it is going to cost them. Last night, someone told me I was stupid for being against “Free Healthcare”.
Who exactly will buy it? Rich and elderly people won’t. Tax payers pay for the poor, Obama, government workers, Congress and wavered friends of Obama. Young people can’t afford it. Unions don’t want it. Corporations won’t pay for it by cutting hours or firing people.
So that leaves middle class working families. Thank you guys for financing this whole fiasco.
At least the Mexicans are smart enough to know when to leave...................
I hope you told them: TANSTAAFL.................
At least with obamacare womyn can finally kill their children anytime and anywhere (and soon at any age as well). And the sandra flukeies of the world can scroo all day and all night on your dime...hot dog!
So what if brings the economy to its knees? It’s all for the chillren anyway...
Yup! Make the average citizens more poor and get lesser health care. By the time King Obama is done there will only the poor class and the rich class. The poor will be the slaves and the rich crapping on us.
YA THINK??!!??
And they are going seriously batshit! On the one hand, the progressives think they have victory in the bag. On the other hand there's this, shown below.
I was going to post a vanity about emails that are probably very effective with idiots and government public employees, but totally ineffective towards anyone with a brain.
Behold the DSCC email. Although I registered as a Democrat in 1960 for my first election, I have not voted (D) since. Nor have I EVER signed up as "... you are a part of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s grassroots network."
These bastards lie about everything!
Here is part of the email contents requesting money "to defeat the nasty Tea party Traitors" :
...Democrats must defeat 17 Republicans to take back the House -- and new post-shutdown polls from PPP show Republicans trailing in 17 key races... ...because you are a part of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee’s grassroots network. The DSCC is the only organization solely committed to supporting Democrats in the Senate. We greatly appreciate your continued support and participation – it’s absolutely critical if we’re going to stop a Republican Senate takeover.
They "greatly appreciate" my continued support, which I have never given. It will be a cold day in hell... yet there you have it.
I will send contributions to the GOP senate candidates who are "in trouble," according to the Hussein propaganda machine.
The Morons' propaganda does serve a useful purpose.
One last point in this minirant...
The GOP propaganda and PT Barnum bullshit* is just as bad.
Grassroots-something-or-other is using the same tactics. soliciting names for phony "petitions" while actually mining for names, email addresses, phone numbers, social security numbers, bank accounts and licenses of dogs owned. OK. Maybe some of that last part is political hyperbole on my part.
Educate me; inform me; let me know what the enemy of the Republic are doing.
But don't try to fleece me and treat me as an idiot.
I am perfectly equipped to decide when, where and to whom I WANT to contribute, having facts, not bullshit* at hand.
Far more sinister than that would be my guess.
They ought to be embarassed that it took getting to this point for them to finally understand, considering that we cretins on the right understood it right away. They were so willfully blinded by the hopey changey pixie dust.
I never use the words "liberal" and "friends" in the same sentence.
Only one thing wrong with that, Norm. With incomes stagnant and/or droppping, where are we gonna get the bushel baskets and wheelbarrows of dollar bills?
American people wanted to hear Obama’s lies about something for nothing health care. American people have gotten weak, greedy and stupid. Greedy as in “free health care”....Oh yeah the rich will be taxed to pay for it.
Not true!!! The middle class will be taxed (via rip-off 0-Care rates) to pay for it. This is a wealth transfer from middle class to the poor and from white to the black/Hispanic/illegal aliens/ other poor minorities (I am obviously generalizing)
Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies
(Tell me lies, tell me, tell me lies)
Oh, no, no you can’t disguise
(You can’t disguise, no you can’t disguise)
Tell me lies
Tell me sweet little lies
WHAT??!!
Say ‘honest’!!
Anything "free" might as well be gold-plated.
To the recipients!
Right. Just read about a govt worker who was told he’ll get back pay if he signs up - has no real alternative as he has a family”””
Sounds like extortion to me. This guy needs a lawyer.
“Obama sold voters bill of goods on health care””””
Obama sold voters a bill of goods on OBAMA.
You need to learn to say:
“I told you so” In about 8 different tones & dialects.
For 3 1/2 years all my liberal friends have been laughing at me,”””
YOU need new friends......
NOW
Notice toward the end of the article this broad blames 'Washington' for Obamacare? Not Dems in the Congress, not Obama but a generalized Washington.
They know that this is a Dem disaster from start to finish and still can't admit it to themselves.
Don't lower yourself. Your ass has more knowledge, is more important than there heads. Another suggestion - get another group of friends.
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