[jsanders2001]

You Obamacare enrollees knew it never was designed to actually provide healthcare benefits right?

[zwerni]

Doesn’t this just mean that it is working as planned?

[pepsionice]

It was a gross misunderstanding by the DC crowd...thinking on one side that you could price healthcare at an affordable rate for $200 a month, and think that a family making $40,000 a year had $6,000 for the deductible payment. What they had prior to this mess was a marginal 3-star policy, maybe a $1,000 deductible and were paying $400 a month. They all thought they were saving money. They saved nothing. They sit there now, and wonder, what was this whole thing about?

[bert]

boiled down, Obama care takes money in the form of premiums but doesn’t pay for services most people need.

Obamacare is catastrophic care with a very large premium

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

We haven’t even scratched the surface on what a Charlie Foxtrot Obama care is. Just wait until after the elections, Jan 1st, and tax time. Obamacare news will explode and it wont be good for most.

[atc23]

I thought it was supposed to be free healthcare. What gives, Wally?

[Recompennation]

I’m tide of all his hope and ‘real’ change
I’d like some real leadership which has been completely absent the last 6 years.
Somebody said it right “lead or get out of the way”.

Let us vote him out of the business he’s in to ruin this country!

[SueRae]

Part of the plan as far as I’m concerned. The same way they cut the HCSA amounts by 50%. Pelosi even said that people go more frequently when they don’t have to pay for it out of pocket...running to the doctor’s office for sniffles... Maybe not her exact quote but she certainly spouted words to that effect.

[Pollster1]

I feel sorry for the decent people who are suffering from Obamacare, but not for liberals. Anyone who voted for Obama or for a democrat in the House or the Senate when that evil law passed or since then deserves all the pain inflicted by the law they forced on productive Americans. If she dies of Obamacare, Darwin would be okay with that. I’m still hoping and praying for such a sweeping republican victory that we can repeal that monstrosity, but I’m not optimistic.

[headstamp 2]

These policies are garbage.

I would rather have a catastrophic policy with a high deductible and do away with the copays.

Hospital is really all I’m worried about. I’ll handle the doctors visits myself.

[Vinnie]

I was browsing one of the ins. sites looking for a new part D Medicare policy.( my premium for next year is going to be 100%+ increase)
Happened to look at some Bronze plans, you know the ‘affordable ones’ for low income families.
Deductibles were $6000 single, $11,000 family !! Huh?

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

“To spend thousands of dollars just making sure it hasn’t grown?” said Ms. Wanderlich, 61. “I don’t have that money.”

And so the herd will be culled.

Another "useless eater" gone.

[Arm_Bears]

But . . . but . . . Healthcare is supposed to be affordable now.

[bert]

There is an interesting aspect to this story that seems impossible. The cost of the woman’s care.

As an apparently uninsured person she got care for a brain defect. How much did she Pay? Nothing? As an indigent did she not get free treatment.

Then she got insured. She paid premiums and then $6000 she did not have. Was she treated or refused because as being insured she couldn’t get treated till the deductible was used up

[X-spurt]

Sky-Sigh Deductibles.... Oh well.

[Alberta's Child]

“To spend thousands of dollars just making sure it hasn’t grown?” said Ms. Wanderlich, 61. “I don’t have that money.”

I assume that if she had an insurance policy with no deductible she'd have no problem getting other people to pony up the money.

This isn't an ingrown toenail, lady ... it's an 'effing brain tumor you're dealing with.

[Straight Vermonter]

It must have pained the New York Times to publish its article about how many ObamaCare customers fear to make use of their taxpayer-subsidized, hyper-regulated benefits because the deductibles are so high.

Anyone who believes that is missing the point. Obamacare was meant to fail. It is merely a stepping stone to single payer.

[Sirius Lee]

The LIVs may one day grasp that the thing their messiah gave them was not healthcare (free or otherwise), but compulsory insurance.

Americans can't see their doctors anymore, but at least we're all assured of our place as serfs toiling in the soil on the grounds just outside the insurance industry castles.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

I don’t know about this.

While we decry the government involvement in our employee healthcare, we now have 93,000,000 out of work.

93,000,000.

That is a MASSIVE amount of people who now need to find something for themselves.

Sure the government is a pain in the butt for this, but employers have been so busy de-industrializing America they aren’t any better.

Our healthcare system sucks. Period. Obamacare sucks, but so does what we have now.

Just saying. Stop sending American jobs to China, bring them back to America, and you won’t have this problem to begin with.

BRING BACK AMERICAN MANUFACTURING.

[Cyclone59]

Well, you have insurance! now you can’t afford to use it.

That should be the meme of anyone running against a democrat, but it won’t be, because they are too stupid to actually do something about it.