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Posted on 11/19/2013 5:46:50 AM PST by sickoflibs
CNN reports that a woman the president hailed as an Obamacare success story just realized she won't be able to afford Obamacare because it's too expensive.
"Jessica Sanford was cited by the president as an Obamacare success story at a health care event he had here at the White House in the Rose Garden on October 21," says a reporter for CNN from the White House. "That of course being just last month. The 48-year-old single mom from Washington state purchased what she considered to be affordable health care, life-changing event, she said, on the Washington state health exchange. She decided she was so excited about this news, she wanted to write an e-mail to the president to say that this had really changed her life and that she was thankful for the Afforable Care Act. The president included her e-mail in his remarks to people on hand for the event. Here's a bit of what the president had to say."
The CNN report quotes President Obama as saying, "I recently received a letter from a woman named Jessica Sanford in Washington state. And here's what she wrote, I am a single mom, no child support, self-employed. and I haven't had insurance for 15 years because it's too expensive. I was crying the other day when I signed up, so much stress lifted."
"But days, just really three days after she was mentioned by the president, Jessica Sanford started having problems, she was receiving letters from the Washington state health exchange," reports CNN. "The first letter telling her that tax credit was reduced, therefore, increasing the cost of her health care plan and the, take a look at this, then she received a letter just last week telling her that her tax credit had been taken away all together. Show you another document here, showing what the tax credit worked out to be... zero dollars according to this document that was provided to us by Jessica Sanford. She describes all of this as a roller coaster ride. Now she says she can't afford insurance in Washington state because of the new developments."
Sanford tells CNN that she's embarrassed. "It was a huge disappointment, especially since I had, you know, my story had been shared by the president. I felt like, you know, I just felt really embarrassed that, you know, he quoted my story and then come to find that the Washington health plan finder, the website here in our state, had grossly miscalculated or they're having a problem figuring their tax credits. and so at least for right now, I don't -- I'm not going to be getting insurance," she says.
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Oh well, maybe she can get on Medicaid.
First, she’s a single mom. Where is her husband to take care of her?
Her story brings a mix of pity and told-you-so. But, if a mugging can convert a liberal to a conservative, let us hope her story has a happy ending.
....but is Schadenfreude overload covered by Obamacare...?
probably not.
It doesn’t fit the narrative.
Thats a bit sexist.
Its not a husbands job to do that, its the governments.
What if the kids have two mommies?
Interesting that a “success story” is defined as someone successful at getting a subsidy. No inventions, no accomplishments, no hard work and sacrifice — just a free healthcare lunch.
Now it turns out that lunch isn’t free — and she isn’t a big success any more.
And even if we end up paying more after subsidy we are still supposed to be grateful for getting the subsidy. "Duh, Obama helped me"
Yesterday Sharpton called those on free medicaid ‘customers’
Not kidding.
That’s quality. :)
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
With his nick he may be a plumber and I think he may be using a mobile device. Those dups may be “butt posts” when he puts his phone back into his pocket.
The penalty is $95 or 1% of your income , whichever is higher. In her case, it is $500, 1% of $50,000.
This Massive humiliating failure of Obamacare is just a Obama setup? Just a brilliant diabolical trick by a mastermind?
Well it sure has a bunch of Democrat Senators and House members in a tizzy.
He must not have let them onto the big plan.
No, the story of the woman ... that’s the bait and switch.
Obamacare is just plain evil, stupid and communist crap...
She said she still supports Obama even though she wont buy his insurance policy.
Yet another real-life instance where that Obama-promised “steak and lobster dinner” turns out to be, in reality, a crap sandwich on stale and moldy bread. unpalatable.
Gee. What a surprise.
She still is going to "pay" for insurance - it's somebody else's!
If I am reading it right she makes just under $50,000 a year. That means she gets to pay a "tax" of $95 or 1% on her gross income (over $9500), whichever is higher. In other words, she will owe the IRS about an additional $410 in taxes for 2014 tax year,... for no insurance.
I've got a feeling 0bama is going to be losing another voter...
Of course if she doesnt pay it nothing happens to her, they might take it from her refund.
RE :”I've got a feeling 0bama is going to be losing another voter...”
He's not running again. And he doesnt seem worried about the fool Democrats running in 2014.
In some circles that would be known as "bait and switch" and is in fact illegal.
If ya think about it how do the insurance companies know how to price their policies? They dont know what their risk pool will be.
You're right, they don't. They know they are mandated to pick up some additional risks because there are policies they are going to be legally forced to write that they would have otherwise not written. How much? Who knows. If the market was left on its own they could probably estimate it fairly accurately with their models. (insurance companies have enormous amounts of data) But with the distorting effects of government...
Ezra Kline over at MSNBC said he hopes the insurance companies will price them reasonably low at a loss because under Obamacare the taxpayers pick up half that loss.
Proving that Kline knows nothing about business in the real world. In the real world loss is loss, even when it is only half as bad as it could be. Companies that lose money go out of business. Therefore, in the face of uncertainty well-run companies hedge higher to protect their employees (against unemployment) and their investors. If it is a smaller market share at least it is a profitable small share, rather than a bigger unprofitable slice.
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