Josh Barro
Amazing how many people want to be Goebels
Well we are not losing our insurance but apparently we are losing our doctor because of Obamacare. Went to a Christmas party tonight and was told by a friend who has the same doctor that her husband was in to see our doctor recently. There was a huge marketing push because the doctor is leaving and taking 600 patients with him. He is opening up a concierge service. $1800 a year and he will be your doc.
I knew our doc hated Obama and Obamacare but dang!!!!
This crap is going to effect everyone in one way or another.
Right.
And the only feasible out come is that the insurance companies will be bankrupted, and we'll be at the mercy of the politicians.
God help us.
Actually, the author is correct. There is no such thing as a free ride, so someone has to pay more so that someone else may pay less. It’s called socialism. So, earn more and/or take care of yourself, and you’ll have the privilege of taking care of those who don’t.
While there are some people who are poor or ill through no fault of their own, many others have made bad choices, like the homosexual who catches AIDS from sodomizing someone, the alcoholic who can’t hold a job, or the drug abuser who catches hepatitis from dirty needles. Those people will be covered at the expense of others who try to lead more responsible lives.
People on the Left forgo logic and slavishly follow and obey their anointed leaders. Witness what happened in Russia with Lenin and Stalin, China with Mao, Korea with Kim and now America with Obama. Dangerous flaw in the psychology of Leftists.
They are first.
Neither should you complain that you only have four policies to choose from offered by only two insurance companies in your area, when you previously had so many choices that you complained about how hard it was to choose.
And you shouldn’t complain that the two companies can only offer policies that are almost identical, so in reality you can’t omit the policy features that you don’t want and don’t need, and thereby reduce the premium.
Central Planning: do us all a big favor! Thank you Comrades!
Wait...we’re not supposed to be talking about this anymore.
We’ve moved on to income inequality and the evil fast-food barons.
Don’t buy the Insurance, pay the fine.
Then when your “pre-existing” condition reappears, or you break your arm, buy Insurance and go to the Doctor. Just have the Ovamacare number on your cell phone so you can call them from the Waiting Room at Emergency to sign up.
Isn’t that what Obamacare says you can do? It isn’t Insurance, it’s Healthcare.
There have be a lot of these titled articles coming from the MSM lately.
Is there a new agenda in the J-schools? Did someone focus-test this new style of push-journalism?
-PJ
Funny that even Slate isn’t buying the claim that current insurers cancel everyone’s policies when they get sick. And yet... that was one of the primary “reasons” for Obiecare.
The lies go back all the way to the rationale for the legislation. In many ways it was a bill to fix a Democrat talking point, not a real problem.
Joshua A. “Josh” Barro is an American opinion journalist and the current politics editor at Business Insider.
He has previously worked as a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, as a real estate banker for Wells Fargo, and as the lead writer for the Ticker, an economics and politics blog hosted by Bloomberg L.P. He has a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Harvard.
He appears regularly on Bloomberg Television and has appeared on Real Time with Bill Maher on HBO and on All In with Chris Hayes on MSNBC. In early 2013, he was a prominent supporter of the trillion dollar coin, although by late 2013 he had changed his mind. Time named Barro’s Twitter feed one of “The 140 Best Twitter Feeds of 2013”, one of ten in the Politics category.
In 2012, Forbes selected him as one of the “30 Under 30” media “brightest stars under the age of 30”,and David Brooks listed him as part of the “vibrant and increasingly influential center-right conversation.” A former aide of Barack Obama named Barro among a short list of the President’s favorite columnists.
Barro lives in Queens, New York. He is openly gay and has written in support of gay marriage. His father is macroeconomist Robert Barro.
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Obama Flowers - Have you ordered yours yet?
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(Customer) Thanks, I ordered a “Spring Bouquet” for our anniversary, and wanted it delivered to my wife.
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It's amazing that people are just now figuring this out. How did they think Obamacare was going to work?