They did not even build a mechanism to transmit payments to the insurance companies, and they do not have the software to know who has and has not paid.
Given the past patterns of medical deadbeats, it is LIKELY that few or none of these "enrollees" have paid a dime, or ever will.
But that's not the point of it all. The point is to fundamentally transform (in this case to destroy) the health industry. And that is working out very well.
Good job, OTrauma!
Imagine that!
Jiminy Cricket! Ms. Galvez probably does not realize that the cost of her Bronze policy is really more like $910.00 a month if it’s a self-only policy because she has a $5,500 deductible before she receives ANY benefits. ($5,500/12 = $458.33!) If it’s for a family of four, the monthly cost before receiving ANY benefits is more like $2,290.00! Add another $460.00 for each of the other three people on the plan. That’s a lot of money for nothing but catastrophic coverage.
Since Ms. Galvez sought treatment in Alexandria, Virginia, she probably voted for Obama to rob her, and she probably thinks it is the Republicans who are robbing her!
Hey all you hope and change democrat rat voting dummies ..... PETCO sells antibiotics for flipper and fluffy on aisle 6.
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Actually, it sounds as if the CommieCare is working out as designed.
Share your weatlh and now share your health, hey stop reading this and get back to work you need to pay more tax dollars to the government so that the people here illegally can get medical care and foodstamps. You need to pay to make sure that those illegals kids can get a good education and compete with your kids for the few jobs in the future, so get goin now. You need to work harder and pay higher taxes. Share the wealth so that the lazy stay at home hoodlum can call his baby mamma on his Obamaphone, and tell that ho to sell some foodstamps and pick him up a pack of Kools and a dime bag on her way home from the salon. She got her hair did today using her EBT card. On her way back to her Obamahome she’s gonna trade some of her kids milk and cereal she got from WIC, for a couple of hits on the crack pipe, and don’t worry if she gets sick she already signed up for her Obamacare medicaid plan so her STD treatment is now courtesy of the taxpayers too, isn’t Obama so generous with all our hard earned money....
She signed up, never made any payment, then expects free care.
I went to my retina specialist today for a follow-up visit. They told me they were requiring all bills to be paid in full, even if you had insurance, because they couldn’t figure out who had coverage or how the deductibles would work.
I’m fine because I have insurance and a health savings account which will pay my deductible — it is tied to my insurance so they would have gotten the payment, now the HSA will send me a check instead.
But I feel bad for the people going into the office today, facing a $500 charge, and having to leave without treatment.
How long until someone dies from this and the effing MSM refuses to cover it?
Obamacare fail.
I have good insurance through my former employer, the Veterans Administration. I am retired and thus still pay the same premium for my share of my health care costs as I did before retirement.
Out of curiosity I did go to health care gov to see what it would be if I did not have my insurance. It would have been roughly the same premium providing my former employer contributed the same amount, but my deductibles would have doubled. In effect I would need to pay an extra 4000 dollars a year.
PROVE IT!!!
This is how the tomb of the unknown obamacare patient will get its start.
Going to an ER for a cough? Sounds like a frequent flyer who’s never paid a medical bill in their life. And Mary asks “Why is this so complicated?” Answer: federal government involvement. Did she think Obama was just going to supply free medical care from his “stash”? The first sentence in that article burns me! No one was turned away by the hospital. It was their decision to leave without treatment.