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Posted on 12/18/2013 7:27:23 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Freedom: It's bad enough that the president's health insurance takeover costs more, breaks his pledge of letting you keep your plan and diminishes choice. It actually restricts your travels too.
'We have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in." Those words from President John F. Kennedy in June 1963, standing at the Berlin Wall, neatly illustrated the moral superiority of the free West over the Soviet bloc.
But Americans are now about to find themselves grappling with their own bureaucratic Berlin Wall. The American Thinker's Stella Paul has exposed the virtually unnoticed fact that within the ObamaCare exchanges so many Americans are being forced into, "most plans only provide local medical coverage."
Paul warns this will have "a profound impact on the real-estate market, particularly the second home sector, and on the travel business." She interviewed one Connecticut retiree whose health required having a winter home in South Carolina. Her $450-per-month, $2,500 deductible, no co-pay Blue Cross policy that had worked well in both states was suddenly canceled.
The new policy she was offered under ObamaCare was twice as expensive, with a deductible costing $1,000 more, and no out-of-network coverage.
Having had a surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, out-of-network coverage was a must. And she found it. "It's $900 a month," she told Paul, "with a $7,000 deductible and a co-pay on everything. Basically, it's catastrophic insurance, and I'll be paying my South Carolina doctors out of pocket."
A prominent New York insurance broker pointed out that most of the policies offered on the ObamaCare exchanges are not national networks, so "if you need routine medical services, they will not be covered when you leave your local area," as they were before.
Travel health insurance, unfortunately, only covers emergencies.
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People will be afraid to leave home. No joke.
ObamaCARE is not about medical care,
it is about redistribution and fraud.
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Don’t worry.
The repubs will fix it next year.
Just be sure to send them more money when they ask for it.
Yet another action by the Left’s hostility toward mobility, excluding of course the elite, the nomenklatura. So Obamacare becomes the internal passport?
I saw this point on another thread days ago.
Another major flaw.
Make sure you only get sick at home.
internal passports?
As in “Your papers, bitte.”
This is what happens you pass a law to find out the details in it later.
Another cost the Democrats will have to pay to maintain Obamacare.
But, if you keep participating in the health care system, you are tacitly supporting the system and there will be no need for it to change. Several months ago, I quit utilizing health care services to protest the government's involvement in our health care system. I have never felt better.
Try it. Tear up your health insurance or Medicare card. Just say no!
Either you get Medicaid or charity care.
The Democrats originally wanted a single payer option. They may well still get it because the skimpy high cost, high deductible private health insurance plans suck. Most people can neither afford them nor don’t like the coverage they offer.
We’re looking at a complete state takeover of the health care sector.
Try me. I dare you.
Was talking this over with my Better Half earlier today. The rats win another one but am still confident the rats shall be defeated when all is said and all is done.
Note that this is not an explicit restriction on travelling or having more than one place of residence. Instead, it is a de facto restriction by simply making it essentially impossible to do so due to the lack of medical network coverage. Just like there are no explicit “death panels” in the legislation, merely a collection of clauses that when used together have the same effect.
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I’m not one affected by it. For most vacationers, its not a problem.
But for people whose livelihood requires long distance travel, its a big problem.
Of all the Obamacare fixes this is probably going to happen last, if at all.
What’s worse is, if for example you live a significant distance from your job, say over 30-40 miles, and you get severely sick or injured at work, you may be outside your coverage area. So you may have to commute back home in the throes of a heart attack if you have any expectation of your insurance covering the hospital costs.
Here’s another less life-threatening example: if you live in Western Massachusetts, you don’t have much choice of “good” local hospitals. If you want to have your baby at one of the better hospitals in and around Worcester, or the really good ones near Boston, well tough s#itski comrade. They’re outside your coverage area, so no clean modern hospital for you.
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