Obamacare beneficiary: ‘You wouldn’t have caught me dead watching MSNBC’

washington post ^ | april 29, 2014 | erik wemple

[lowbridge]

In an interview with the Erik Wemple Blog today, Angstadt reported having watched that MSNBC segment online today. It was an introduction of sorts: “You wouldn’t have caught me dead watching MSNBC,” said Angstadt. “That’s probably the longest I’d ever sat and watched MSNBC in my life.”

Angstadt was in bad condition prior to his March 31 valve-replacement surgery. “I was going to die,” he told this blog. “I was preparing myself. I knew I was pretty sick since last October.” Yet he still resisted the attempts of friend Bob Leinhauser to get him enrolled in Obamacare. “I had to back him into a corner,” says Leinhauser, who worked for 27 years for Montgomery County’s fire and rescue department. He told Angstadt, “You’re what we call a cardiac cripple.”

After signing up for insurance via the Obamacare exchange, Angstadt pays $26.11 for the Highmark Blue Cross silver PPO plan, as reported by the Inquirer. The policy took effect just before Angstadt’s surgery.

But what accounts for Angstadt’s resistance to Obamacare in the first place? He says that he “leans” Republican and essentially listened to what the GOP had to say about Obamacare, and not so much to what the Democrats had to say. As for his media diet, Anstadt says he goes online for some of his news, but when it comes to television, “Fox News, of course, and that’s basically what I watch on TV,” in addition to local news, he says. “I like some of those radicals” on Fox News, he says. “I like O’Reilly.”

[Balding_Eagle]

I think he meant $26.11 PER DAY.

[lowbridge]

As long as he’s shilling for obamacare, the IRS isnt interested in looking at his tax returns.

[2ndDivisionVet]

Is that how one normally pays for medical insurance?

[skeeter]

It doesn't matter how many of these bums the media trots out, people aren't going to warm to the ACA scam.

Wait until the employer mandate kicks in. They can delay it for only so long.

[4rcane]

government break your leg then give you a crunch, then tell you see “without me, you couldn’t walk”

[Kackikat]

Some people were subsidized and did not have to pay big premiums for pre existing conditions, it’s part of the deal.
Unequal distribution.

[SkyDancer]

In order to insure the uninsured, we first have to un-insure the insured.

Next we require the newly un-insured to be re-insured.

To re-insure the newly un-insured, they are required to pay extra charges to be re-insured.

The extra charges are required so that the original insured, who became un-insured, and then became re-insured, can pay enough extra so that the original un-insured can be insured for free.

There, I hope that this clarifies this issue once & for all.

[Intolerant in NJ]

Wow - they finally found somebody who’s benefiting from Obamacare (until he gets the bill for his co-pay and deductible - which you’ll never hear about)......