Posted on 11/08/2013 3:18:24 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
San Francisco architect Lee Hammack says he and his wife, JoEllen Brothers, are “cradle Democrats.” They have donated to the liberal group Organizing for America and worked the phone banks a year ago for President Obama’s re-election.
Since 1995, Hammack and Brothers have received their health coverage from Kaiser Permanente, where Brothers worked until 2009 as a dietitian and diabetes educator. “We’ve both been in very good health all of our lives – exercise, don’t smoke, drink lightly, healthy weight, no health issues, and so on,” Hammack told me.
The couple — Lee, 60, and JoEllen, 59 — have been paying $550 a month for their health coverage — a plan that offers solid coverage, not one of the skimpy plans Obama has criticized. But recently, Kaiser informed them the plan would be canceled at the end of the year because it did not meet the requirements of the Affordable Care Act. The couple would need to find another one. The cost would be around double what they pay now, but the benefits would be worse.
“From all of the sob stories I’ve heard and read, ours is the most extreme,” Lee told me in an email last week.
I’ve been skeptical about media stories featuring those who claimed they would be worse off because their insurance policies were being canceled on account of the ACA. In many cases, it turns out, the consumers could have found cheaper coverage through the new health insurance marketplaces, or their plans weren’t very good to begin with. Some didn’t know they could qualify for subsidies that would lower their insurance premiums.
So I tried to find flaws in what Hammack told me. I couldn’t find any.
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Suckers.
I know I should be more sympathetic to them, but for me, it’s a real Nelson Muntz moment. We tried to warn them...
Most 0Zombies will still love him same as the Russians loved Stalin and blamed his underlings if they were tossed in prison or there was only moldy food on the shelves. There are no masters if there are no one willing to be slaves
You two should die and reduce the surplus population!
Should they be consoled or should we gloat? It’s a touch choice.
This is how I put it on my Facebook post for these sheeple.
Again for those who Stood and Still Stand Against this Unconstitutional Beast I feel for you, For those who called names and totally believed the Lies without any thoughts I have very little sympathy for you. If you are now Awake and willing to Stand Against the Beast let me know! We can work on your Education and Judgment first then maybe you will be worth of Standing against the Beast!
Yep. Eat it suckers. You were forewarned by the terrorists in America that don’t act like terrorists but are called terrorists by the true terrorists. Got that?
A Pox be upon them.
If they are suffering a little because of their own naivity and stupidity, they earned it.
But their stupidity also brings unjust pain and suffering to many, many others too.
It is mushy headed idiots like these two who are the root cause of the ongoing destruction of America.
Without them we wouldn't have people like Obama, Pelosi, Boxer and Reid elected to government.
Spoken like a true LoFo Dem voter. We hear stories more extreme than his every day. Furthermore, as an employer, I was paying more than that for health insurance for one of my employees and his spouse 5 years ago, & my share was only 50%. My employee contributed an equal amount as his part.
At least Lee has some time to contemplate his stupidity before getting on the boxcar to an American Auschwitz. Damn dope. It’s live or die time, frisco liberal. Choose wisely.
It probably didn't offer maternity care for his 60-year-old wife.
This reminds me of a scene from the original "Conan the Barbarian" with Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Earl Jones.
In the final scenes, when the evil overlord king (Jones) captures Conan and demonstrates the power of his cult of personality, he points to a disciple standing on a cliff, and the person willingly and instantly jumps off of the cliff to his death, as a show of his loyalty.
That's the crisis of confidence point that today's disciples of Obama are facing.
-PJ
Somehow, I find it hard to muster much sympathy for them.
Poor Liberals. Screwed over by their hero … and they love him still.
Why can’t they just pay it, not complain since someone has to pay for those who just don’t want to get off their butts and work.
“From all of the sob stories I’ve heard and read, ours is the most extreme,” Lee told me in an email last week.”
Really???
Your story is more of a sob than the California woman with cancer that lost her lifeline due to Obamacare?
What a selfish prig you are Mr Lee.
No idea what they are complaining about. This is their opportunity to give back to others not so fortunate. A chance to provide insurance to those who have a greater need.
I love how they are asking to have it fixed for them,*and others...hahaha..I hope they don’t have children this stupid gene pool needs to end.
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