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Loyal Obama Supporters, Canceled by Obamacare
ProPublica ^ | November 7, 2013 | Charles Ornstein

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at propublica.org ...


TOPICS: Government
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; exchanges; obamacareanecdote; obamacaredud; obamacarepropaganda; obamacarerollout
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To: Huskrrrr
Just like those who voted for the clown that work at Juniata College. Losing their benefits. Just Desserts. This is a tragedy that is unfolding across this once great nation.
21 posted on 11/08/2013 4:04:36 PM PST by Busko (The only thing that is certain is that nothing is certain.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

and the RATS, take another one in the.........HA ha!!!

22 posted on 11/08/2013 4:05:54 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Clintonfatigued

But will they vote for wonder boy’s third term like Tom Hanks?


23 posted on 11/08/2013 4:06:00 PM PST by bgill (This reply was mined before it was posted.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Idiots probably have King Zero as their hero. No sympathy from me.


24 posted on 11/08/2013 4:15:22 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: Clintonfatigued
This is the group I could care less about. Liberals accused us of being racist, hating the poor, not wanting people to get healthcare, because we said this plan will destroy healthcare in the USA.

My compassion and sympathy are for my fellow conservatives who fought this and are now losing their insurance.

25 posted on 11/08/2013 4:18:52 PM PST by wmfights
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To: PigRigger
“In a few cases, we are able to find coverage for them that is less expensive, but in most cases, we’re not because, in sort of pure economic terms, they are people who benefited from the current system ... Now that the market rules are changing, there will be different people who benefit and different people who don’t.”

Wealth redistribution-just another form of affirmative action, like the way the kid of a wealthy black family with mediocre grades gets preference over the kid with a high grade average from a not-so-wealthy white family. Like the way after certain "communities" trash their own neighborhoods, they demand public transit into the white flight areas because it's not "fair" " that the white people have all the food malls and stores (because they didn't trash them and rob them into oblivion).

We're all going to be equal-to the lowest common denominator (except the elite leftists who push these policies but make sure they don't have to live by them). Except formerly law-abiding whites will be banned from owning firearms, while "minority" gangs shoot up working mothers and babies in strollers with impunity. If you're white, don't dare to defend yourself-you'll be "Zimmermanned".

Unfortunately the elite leftist policies are boomeranging on all of us, while people like Tim Wise, who lives a white gated community while advocating the demise of the white race to stupid college kids who clap and applaud for his words, manage to keep themselves exempt from their genocidal policies. Just like they did with CommieCare, just like Al Gore pushing carbon taxes on the rest of us while he lives in a mansion the size of a small city and jets around the world. I don't mind that they're rich (as long as they got that way somewhat honestly), but the hypocrisy is infuriating.
26 posted on 11/08/2013 4:36:01 PM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: Chode

27 posted on 11/08/2013 4:52:40 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Clintonfatigued
Couldn't happen to a nicer couple.If they think they're gonna get any sympathy from me they've got another thing coming.”Cradle democrats”? With any luck Osama Obama care will cause them to become *grave* democrats.
28 posted on 11/08/2013 5:08:22 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Osama Obama Care: A Religion That Will Have You On Your Knees!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

These libs remind me of the way trappers used to capture African monkeys.
Drill a hole in a gourd, barely large enough to get the hand in.
Stick something shiny (FREE STUFF!) in the gourd.

Monkey sees shiny FREE STUFF, sticks his hand in and grabs the FREE STUFF. Then finds he can’t get his hand out. He fights, screams, jumps around but can’t get his hand out!

To get out all the monkey has to do is open his hand and let go the FEE STUFF, but then he would loose the FREE STUFF!


29 posted on 11/08/2013 5:09:57 PM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Sometimes you need 7+ more ammo. LOTS MORE.)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Dunno if monkeys actually DO this, but again monkeys are probably smarter than our modern liberals.


30 posted on 11/08/2013 5:15:09 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (The Lion of Judah will roar again if you give him a big hug and a cheer and mean it. See my page.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

Still “cradle Democrats” at age 60 and 59.

To paraphrase Winston Churchill, “…if you’re not conservative by 40, you have no brain.” Liberalism is not attractive on people over 40. These two need to buy a clue.


31 posted on 11/08/2013 5:31:22 PM PST by twoputt
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To: Clintonfatigued; a fool in paradise

Say to them: “Say, how are your pre-existing conditions?”


32 posted on 11/08/2013 5:48:38 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Bad things are wrong! Ice cream is delicious!)
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To: Clintonfatigued

this just proves that not everyone learns something the same way.

some people, you can reason with.

some people need a knock down argument.

some people need a brick to the head to get it.

these people have been smacked with a brick. we’ll see if any of them get it now.


33 posted on 11/08/2013 5:49:39 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

“He’s written to California’s senators and his representative, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., asking for help”

HELP US, NANCY, HELP !!!

Somehow I don’t think she is going to help them. I don’t know why, I just get this feeling


34 posted on 11/08/2013 6:42:01 PM PST by Lorianne (fedgov, taxporkmoney)
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To: Iron Munro

LOL-LOL-LOL… I love that sign!!


35 posted on 11/08/2013 6:44:25 PM PST by Gator113 ( Cruz, Palin and Lee speak for me, most everyone else is just noise.)
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To: Clintonfatigued

The ‘useful idiots’ are not so, any longer, dispose of them.


36 posted on 11/08/2013 7:44:48 PM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: Clintonfatigued
0bama and these chumps are like an abusive boyfriend relationship. He keeps beating them up and they keep excusing his behavior and coming back for more.

They deserve their black eyes and fractured jaws...

37 posted on 11/08/2013 7:50:27 PM PST by Gritty (Progressives see themselves as saints, opponents as Satanists; that justifies anything-D. Horowitz)
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To: Travis McGee
100%!!!
38 posted on 11/08/2013 9:03:01 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Travis McGee
Communists are simply Socialists in a hurry, with GUNS...
39 posted on 11/08/2013 9:39:03 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: Clintonfatigued

An Obama supporter trying to find flaws in Obamacare.

40 posted on 11/09/2013 3:56:42 AM PST by Liz
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