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 ...
Got a link to that?
The volume of made-up facts in the last month or so has skyrocketed exponentially.
Most, I suspect, issued from the White House basement, hoping to suck in the gullible "conservatives"...
and when you’ve lost ‘em in San Fran....
While waiting in the local ER, two Hispanic parties with sniffles like symptoms pointed to the sign that they needed Spanish and were ushered right in.
Meanwhile, my daughter is writhing in pain and spends 30 minutes more waiting even after they take our insurance card and $100 co-pay.
You have liberal friends? You are a more tolerant person than I am. I do not have any liberal friends at all.
You must have meant to post to the person I was quoting.
And for those who have $200 a month disposable income, it will destroy the auto industry, since people who might have been able to afford a new car every 3-6 years will now have to go far longer, 10+ years between new cars. I wonder what Trumka and Hoffa will have to say about this?
Mark
“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.”
And they hated you for pointing it out.
If this thing gets fully implemented, no matter how complete a failure it is, there will be no going back. There never is, no big expansion of government and encroachment of our rights is ever, ever corrected, no matter how much a majority of the population abhors it. If it’s not nipped in the bud, then it will be here to stay, and it won’t only be as bad as it is now, it will get worse as they rob more and more from Peter to paper over the cracks caused by Paul (in the process encroaching more and more on the little freedom remaining to us). The low-info won’t notice their gradual loss of real freedom, because hey, look, now we can scr*w as many things, in as many ways, in as many places and at all times, as we want-now that’s “freedom”! (to these morally degenerate slaves).
They’ll be telling us what time to go to bed
Senator Cruz is correct, as you echo here
Everyone knows itt
His ratings are high. TV and Internet. He knows what everyone knows
Who would have guessed that a 2,000 page bill written by special interests would raise the costs of the service being provided by those special interests? Who would have guessed that requiring coverage for unwanted services would increase the expected demand for those services and thus raise prices? ObamaCare news - always the unexpected!
Just try finding a doctor who will accept Medicaid. Happy hunting.. And if you do, odds are, you won’t understand a word he says to you.
Just try finding a doctor who will accept Medicaid. Happy hunting.. And if you do, odds are, you won’t understand a word he says to you.
>> my liberal friends have been laughing at me, talking down to me and lecturing me about the goodness and joys of Obamacare.
Too intelligent to read the bill.
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