How many families discussed Obamacare at their Christmas gatherings?

12-26-13 | Slyfox

[Slyfox]

'Twas the day of Christmas amidst holiday cheer,

Aunt Ruth with her pie and Uncle Ned with his beer,

They all knew that Saint Nicholas had been there,

When all of a sudden somebody mentions Obamacare.

[Slyfox]

How did your family fare with their concerns about Obamacare?

[fwdude]

I didn’t because I didn’t want to lose my Christmas dinner.

[Revolting cat!]

11.

[Gaffer]

I inadvertent ‘tooted’ at the table. Does that count?

[shankbear]

While wearing red plaid pajamas, a high end watch while looking just like Rachel Madcow. Probably zero.

[Slyfox]

My family includes some medical sales staff, a few nurses and some old retirees. Needless to say none of them were happy at all.

[BOOHA]

His name is mud at our family gatherings.

[Red Badger]

We watched A Christmas Story ten times.............

[MeganC]

We had better things to do than to comply with the edicts of the Dog-Eater-in-Chief.

[SandRat]

Zero times Zero is still Zero.

[PapaNew]

Well that's one way to lose you turkey dinner <***"ralph"***>. If I never heard the word Obamacare again it wouldn't be too soon.

[VRWCarea51]

I told my daughter and son in law to expect the economy to crash because of it this spring. Told them to plan for rough times.

[Scarlet7]

Not a word about THAT turkey!

[Safetgiver]

Never mentioned. Like we never had a President.

[GeronL]

“We have something to talk to you about kids... it’s about insurance.. Well, ObamaCare took away our insurance this year and we have to buy a new policy by law... and it is a lot more expensive... we can’t afford to buy presents this year, sorry”

[nascarnation]

[Slyfox]

I found it interesting that everyone at the table discussed Obamacare like they all had been reading FreeRepublic and watching FOX News.

We talked until someone mentioned that it was time for pie.

[Fledermaus]

What? And miss the opportunity to point out if only that kid who put his tongue on the pole had coverage...

[MeganC]

What did you say? All I heard was ‘pie’!!!!

[NEMDF]

We actually did talk about it. My daughter, an RN (as is my daughter-in-law), mentioned that some people in their hospital and clinic had just recently lost their jobs “right before Christmas”, and that at least one was told that it was due to there will not be enough revenues under the new insurance regulations for them to stay on, employed there.

Then followed a discussion about the problems with malpractice fears driving up the utilization for many expensive procedures and tests, the way charges are made for every little cotton ball used on a patient, etc., etc.