Posted on 11/05/2013 2:41:11 PM PST by Biggirl
Fox news....also agree. Rapidly deteriorating. Greta has to fight to find herself in her new time-slot.
BUT, have you been watching Kelly File? She has OWNED ObamaCare for the last week-—AND has devoted the majority of her time to that subject (at least 75%). Nothing else on TV news like it. No one else comes close.
Better than Brett. She got off to a rocky start. but she has picked up steam quickly.
Before ObamaCare was passed we knew the damage it would do, but now the facts are coming out. Kelly hasn’t put it all together yet, but her program is laying out the evidence-— piece by piece.
No one in print journalism has put it all together either. Some estimate 17% of our economy, but that’s just $.
1) Doctors shoved out
2) Hospitals shoved out
3) Free (subsidized) premiums for people who can only afford the “bronze” plan, BUT they have huge deductibles. If they couldn’t afford the premiums for a better plan, how will they afford the deductible layout in a healthcare crisis? How will that be resolved?
4) At best, eventually everybody will be in some squalid HMO. I have always belonged to a PPO - any specialist, any hospital, anywhere. GONE. If not now for some, everyone in a year or two.
5) Conceivably, an average healthcare consumer not on Medicaid could spend $7-12,000 before their insurance company ever pays a dollar or two.
6) People living in rural areas are screwed. No choice, except the one (or maybe two) dictated for your area. Guaranteed sub-standard care if you have a complicated medical need.
7) Hospitals (as businesses) are laying off staff just to financially acclimate to ObamaCare. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
It is difficult to go from the micro (how ObamaCare will directly affect me, you, our relatives, friends, neighbors, etc) to the macro (the squeeze on doctors, hospitals, businesses, economies-— the drain of the new medicaid expansion, the theft of Medicare $, the drain of doctors who can’t earn a living treating Medicaid patients.
If you haven’t thought out all of these ramifications, read this. It went viral:
This post, by Edie Littlefield Sundby, appeared in the Opinion section of the Wall Street Journal.
http://money.msn.com/health-and-life-insurance/article.aspx?post=35353927-9b86-4569-9152-1dc8dc88f169
Several days after Edie’s article garnered nationwide attention, this happened:
Blue Shield gives California policyholders three-month reprieve
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3087792/posts
A three-month bone for Edie and the other Californians who can feed off an additional 3 months.
Forget the mandated death-panels. Thousands upon thousands of Edie’s will die just from lack of care/treatment.
This post may qualify as a rant. :-) Don’t have my facts sourced, as I customarily do. I might even be wrong on some points, BUT this I know: I haven’t even scratched the surface of the calamity our nation is sleep-walking into. Businesses are in limbo over the chaos that is ObamaCare. The employer mandate will kick in in 1 year.
I’m not unique in pointing out these observations, but when they are pointed out, it is generally in the context of future elections and ObamaCare dying under its own weight.
My question is WHO is going to resurrect WHAT and WHEN out of the healthcare ashes?
Lastly:
Expert: At least 129 million will ‘not be able to keep’ health care plan if Obamacare fully implemented
http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/04/expert-at-least-129-million-will-not-be-able-to-keep-health-care-plan-if-obamacare-fully-implemented/?print=1
Guaranteed to be substituted by a more expensive and sub-standard policy.
The federal government (us tax-payers) could have subsidized a “Cadillac” plan of his/her choosing for every uninsured American for the next decade and fared better than this ObamaCare dislocation. But as we knew from the beginning, it never was about healthcare,
Priebus-liar put $3mm into the AG’s race, not KC’s.
Sarvis was a dem plant, bankrolled to split Tea Party/GOP vote.
yes I will as soon as I drag out the books w/ dates, quotes etc for basic supports...then grammatical fixes and word management....as well I will do a vanity and post it
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