Alabama Mom's ObamaCare Horror Story Gives America a Glimpse of Government-Run Healthcare

Independant journal Review ^ | 12/31/2013 | Emily Hulsey

[afraidfortherepublic]

Many of us can identify with the frustrating experience that Karri Kinder, a mother of two from Auburn, Alabama, has had with Obamacare. She penned this open letter to share her story:

An Open Letter to the Obama Administration and American Citizens:

My family’s journey with securing our new insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) started on October 1, 2013. I have decided to write this letter to let the American people know what it has been like for us. We are a family of four, with two little boys’ ages seven years old and three years old. My husband and I have had full time jobs for 6 years and 13 years respectively. We have been with the same two companies for those years. We are a middle class family; we own our three bedroom two bath house, we own two cars, and previously provided our own insurance for the four of us. We have coverage through Individual Blue from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama until 12/31/13. Our premiums have been $380.00 a month, which also included dental coverage for all four of us.

On October, 1, 2013 we received our letters like other Alabamians about our new premiums and plans for 2014 from Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of Alabama. When I opened our letter to say I had sticker shock was an understatement. Our premiums for the Blue Saver Silver would now be $753.26. This included the ACA tax but did not include the additional $75.00 we would need to pay in order to keep dental for me and my husband. So we would need to pay total $828.26 to keep health and dental insurance for the four of us. This payment is roughly $64.00 less than what we pay for our mortgage each month.

[tanknetter]

I read through the whole pity-party article. An overly long recount of her troubles and difficulty in dealing with bureaucrats she mistakenly ascribes to “insurance companies”. She wasn’t dealing with ‘insurance companies’. She was talking to Exchange Bureaucrats - Obama’s people.

I think you may be misinterpreting what she says. Here's the part I think you're referring to:

I have never been treated so poorly by any insurance company in my whole life. I have never experienced such terrible customer service in all my years on this earth. I can’t imagine how long a company would last in this country if they followed the same protocol as the ACA/Health Insurance Marketplace does.

This is a comparative analysis - the only thing she's ascribing to the insurance companies is that every one she's ever dealt with treated her much, much better than "the ACA/Health Insurance Marketplace does". She's basically saying that the ACA/Health Insurance Marketplace sucks at customer service to the point it would never survive if it were a real company.

I just wish that, rather than using a more technical term like "ACA/Health Insurance Marketplace" she'd gone with "Obamacare" instead. That would really make her comments clear as day ...

[Vaduz]

Obamacare first lesson on how to live on your knees or die on your feet.

[alrea]

THIS is just why Obamacare was created....to make DECENT hard working families PAY FOR slackers that don’t pay taxes.

This just why the Democrat Party even exists at all now.

[WesternPacific]

“The most confusing thing to me is why the American people are not rioting in the streets”

Are you rioting in the streets?

Sad response.

[G Larry]

Death Panels refused coverage for her 7 yr. old, because of his PRE-EXISTING CONDITION.

Coverage for pre-existing conditions are just another Obama/Pelosi lie.

[Farnsworth]

and who can you turn to? Reps are cowards and Dems don’t care abouth anything but power.

Even if we have a bloodbath in November, will Reps step up and have the balls and backbone to remove this burden from America?

I don’t think so.

[conservcalgal]

Exactly my thought!

[ottbmare]

She’s white, she’s married, she has kids, she looks cute and happy, she owns her own house, she works hard, and they live in ALABAMA. That does not sound like an Obama voter to me. I could be wrong, she could be really stupid, but the probabilities are against it.

[jocon307]

“They either didn’t vote or voted for Obama.”

I don’t know why people keep saying things like this. This stuff is happening to many people, and even if many did vote for Obama (or didn’t vote) the fact is they were mislead by those in power, and maybe we can say they were even mislead by Romney, et al. also who was/were unwilling to raise these issues during the campaign.

But this attitude that people are getting what they deserve is simply wrong.

[corlorde]

Today, January 1, 2014, his administration and the media are implying they’ve signed up nearly a million people, BUT THEY WILL NOT PROVE IT with evidence

From what I understand, the majority of those that "signed up" are actually new Medicaid enrollees.

[Rannug]

“The most confusing thing to me is why the American people are not rioting in the streets”
Are you rioting in the streets?
Well, are you? Do you expect others to do so? Just wondering.

[Bryan24]

The entire problem here? These are people who had very little, to no, involvement with the government. They did not depend on the government at all.

ObamaCare FORCES them to be involved AND dependent on government. That was the entire goal of ObamaCare: Make more people dependent on Government.

[Beagle8U]

“Today, January 1, 2014, his administration and the media are implying they’ve signed up nearly a million people, BUT THEY WILL NOT PROVE IT with evidence.”

No, the new claim as of today is that they have signed up over 5 million!

[I am Richard Brandon]

My ETERNAL QUESTION - “Who writes the words on the paper that become the ‘Bill’ that becomes the Act’ that becomes ‘The Law’? We saw an Architect’ (Rahm’s brother”) but he did not write the words. Who did? We are governed by a faceless, unaccountable, invisible bureaucracy.

[lavaroise]

Indeed, imagine if Romney had been elected with his Romneycare... we would have not heard the end of it ...

[jocon307]

I could be filled with glee at this debacle, but I can’t be, because I know real people are going to be harmed by it. Some perhaps severely harmed.

[Aevery_Freeman]

"Again, these rules are for those who are not on a free lunch with their employer"

Wow, having a job is now a FREE LUNCH.

Thanks for the glimpse into the mind of a liberal.

[radiohead]

Like the lady in the story, I have to ask - why wasn’t the son covered?

[kiryandil]

So we would need to pay total $828.26 to keep health and dental insurance for the four of us. This payment is roughly $64.00 less than what we pay for our mortgage each month.

Wait'll she finds out the costs for the IRS audits for their last 7 years of tax returns...