I have this term I use...’the fifty stages of pain’.
When you look at the current position, and ‘pain’ that regular people are feeling...we are barely at stage ten. It’s complicated. It’s surprising (you get the notice, then eyeball the new rate being $4000 more than before). The deductible now plays into everything....not that crummy $1,500 one that you always enjoyed. Your wife whines about this nightly now because that trip to Aruba next year is gone. Your dream of season tickets finally to the Braves season is gone.
Around January, we move to a new stage of pain. Realization that not enough young punks signed up. Just whispers, but the insurance companies hint of more rate increases for 2015.
By April and May, we move to another level of pain....the deductible is now being played out and guys are charging it to the credit card. Suddenly, $6000 for that emergency room visit, and all on the credit card.
After August, you get the rate for 2015 in the mail....another increase in the rate of pain. You will pay double over what you paid in 2012.
Meanwhile, your other level of pain will start up....your senator denying they ever understood anything but voted for it.
So for the fifty levels of pain....don’t worry. We are barely at stage ten right now. We’ve got plenty of levels left to clear. By spring of 2016, in the midst of political turmoil and both parties talking of their new solution package....we will reach level fifty. Somewhere in the early or late part of 2016....you should expect a recession to boil up....totally dependent on affordable healthcare.
Pretty much right on. All designed to bankrupt you and make us serfs of the god-state. But lets keep rolling over and taking it.
two concerns/points - we rarely vacation anymore // 2 - she doesn't limit her whining to that alone :)
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The pain needs to be transferred to those responsible for this mess.
What they really are looking to do is bankrupt the insurance copmanies and cause a hue and cry for "single payer" from the suffering lower middle class (formerly, the "middle" class) for relief by installing single payer.
Of course, we already have a template for that in place. It's called Medicaid. Aside from being often 2nd class healthcare there is also the downside the government can eventually take everything in your estate to pay off your previous Medicaid payments. CommieCare is not really "free"...
Over My Dead Body—How Medicaid Takes Its Money Back After You Die
If you think health care is expensive now, just wait until it's free!" - P.J. O'Rourke