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Woman touted as Obamacare success story learns she can’t afford coverage
rt.com ^ | November 20, 2013

Posted on 11/21/2013 3:56:10 AM PST by dennisw

A 48-year-old self-employed court reporter referenced by President Barack Obama as a beneficiary of his Affordable Care Act during a recent address has learned that she’s one of the latest Americans to be duped by another Obamacare false promise.

From the White House rose garden late last month, Pres. Obama read a letter he received from Jessica Sanford, a Washington state single mom who had recently found out that the president’s hallmark health care plan would cost her a fraction of what she previously paid to cover herself and her son.

“I am a single mom. No child support, self-employed and I haven't had insurance for 15 years because it's too expensive. My son has ADHD and requires regular doctor visits and his meds alone cost $250 per month,” Obama quoted from Sanford’s note. “Now finally, we get to have coverage because of the ACA for $169 per month. I was crying the other day when I signed up, so much stress lifted.”

Unfortunately for Sanford, that stress-free experience was rather short-lived. It has now been reported that shortly after she sent that letter to the president, Sanford was informed that a glitch on the Washington state exchange and enrollment website caused the cost of coverage to be grossly under-estimated. According to CNN, Sanford was one of thousands of Washingtonians who was later told that the fault website miscalculated her cost and erroneously informed her that she qualified for a hefty tax credit.

"The Exchange would like to sincerely apologize to Jessica Sanford and all those affected in Washington State by this error," Washington Health Benefit Exchange CEO Richard Onizuka said in a statement provided to the network. "Unfortunately, Jessica Sanford is one of the individuals who is affected by this tax credit miscalculation.”

Sanford reached out to CNN and said she likely won’t be signing-up for healthcare under the ACA because the actual cost of coverage for her and her son would be nowhere near as low as she was originally told.

"I'm not getting insurance unless I pay more money than I'm willing to pay," Sanford said. “I've always been in this middle place. I make too much but I don't make enough."


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: again; posted; repeat; searchfirst

1 posted on 11/21/2013 3:56:10 AM PST by dennisw
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To: dennisw
 

Jessica Sanford.(Photo from facebook.com)

She was duped by this guy who she voted for twice


2 posted on 11/21/2013 3:58:24 AM PST by dennisw (The first principle is to find out who you are then you can achieve anything -- Buddhist monk)
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How bout that 19th Amendment!

We are doomed


3 posted on 11/21/2013 4:03:30 AM PST by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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Woman touted as Obamacare success story learns she can’t afford coverage... But still LOVES Obama and Obamacare.
4 posted on 11/21/2013 4:04:43 AM PST by WayneS (Respect the 2nd Amendment; Repeal the 16th (and 17th))
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To: dennisw

Hobson’s choice - in which there is only one selection offered, or nothing at all.

Every one of the “plans” offered, are both much more expensive that whatever may have been available previously, and they have such high deductibles and co-pays that there is effectively no coverage until the state of financial ruin has been reached for the so-called “middle class”, a highly endangered species.

Essentially, the choice becomes ruination or nothing.

Nothing has the comparative advantage of probably costing much less in the short run, and in the long run, we are all dead.


5 posted on 11/21/2013 4:06:57 AM PST by alloysteel (The Internet, a most exquisite system by which to confound and muddle any reasonable dialogue.)
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Obviously an evil Tea Party plant meant to embarrass Dear Leader.

Obama has already started to blame the failure on cosmic vibrations emanating from Conservative opposition to his wonderful, sublime healthcare plan.

6 posted on 11/21/2013 4:07:27 AM PST by stormhill (Guns Save Lives!)
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It has now been reported that shortly after she sent that letter to the president, Sanford was informed that a glitch on the Washington state exchange and enrollment website caused the cost of coverage to be grossly under-estimated.

"Glitch" is the new "unexpected".

7 posted on 11/21/2013 4:47:04 AM PST by Flick Lives (The U.S. is dead to me.)
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Related...

http://exposingtheleft.blogspot.com/2013/11/woman-hailed-by-president-as-obamacare.html


8 posted on 11/21/2013 4:52:54 AM PST by traderrob6
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To: dennisw

Unless that picture was from 25 years ago, that is not the lady in question.


9 posted on 11/21/2013 4:56:08 AM PST by DAC21
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To: dennisw

I am noticing that the same dull boring stories are repeated over and over and over and the real news is harder and harder to find


10 posted on 11/21/2013 5:26:04 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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She voted for him. No sympathy.


11 posted on 11/21/2013 5:34:02 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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Obama is going to make the rich pay their “fair share” so my health insurance is cheaper? YAY!!!
Oh wait, what was that? Now Obama says I’M one of the rich, and I’LL have to pay more so OTHER people can have insurance? BUMMER!!!

(Guess we had to pass the bill to find out what was in it.)


12 posted on 11/21/2013 6:14:59 AM PST by thanatz
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