Posted on 03/20/2015 7:38:06 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Edited on 03/20/2015 9:47:36 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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Wait until Valerie Jarrett hears about this.
This DS
As in dog.
Yep, President Jarrett will be very upset.
The fines kick in NEXT year.
83% of the people will believe absolutely any statistic, even when it’s obviously made up on the spot.
HDS
as in Hammered
I know people that have been offered 60% less than obamacare at work and the do without because it is to expensive.
And they love Obama!
Hate that evil company.
Soon they will have no CHOICE.
But they still love obama!
Paging Captain Obvious.
600 employers, who already offered insurance that was in compliance ? What the hecks does this prove ?
it sure doesn’t back up the headline.
Then they give this stat, which now has me scratchin my head:
“But most employers aren’t changing their practices to discourage health plan enrollment, the survey found. Some 73% said they had no plans to change, while 16% said they made sure newly hired part-timers work fewer than 30 hours weekly. Some 19% said they reduced the hours of employees who consistently or occasionally worked more than 30 hours a week.”
I wonder what the stats are for businesses that offered insurance and no longer do.
You got it.
Most of those who still have group medical benefits from work, will see all that coming to an end. They’re like dominos, one company after another.
Most of big biz is doing their share to help Obamacare...a win win for them.
Absolute, total, 170% BS. The needle actually came off my BS meter, then a thin wisp of smoke came out of the back, then the faceplate blew clean off.
ON PAPER, just suppose that this is true. THE REALITY is, I’d like to know how many people have experienced the number of prescriptions that have gone from “level 1” to “level 3”, that sort of thing, recently? You know, where what you were paying $5.00 a month mysteriously goes up to $38.00.
There are a MILLION (literally, and that’s probably conservative)other ways to lower benefits invisibly. It blows my mind that in the 80’s, my wife and I insured each other and there was no COB (coordination of benefits). I could have had a heart-lung transplant and after my three month hospital stay get presented with a phone bill.
Like everything else...My folks bought a “brand new” home for about 17000 bucks....On one income....Gimme a bucks worth of regular...
Most never had to think about that stuff like that, just one generation ago.
It’s unreal....most the boomers have been getting the big shaft for years now.
BTW, thanks for reminded me I need a new BS meter too.
Mine nearly burned right through my desk and set off smoke alarms.
I have been screaming at folks for 5 years.
I was born in 1932....The Silent Generation.
We have been virtually ignored,but we’re also known as The Lucky Few.
It’s true....childhood was rough but we had it made when we entered adulthood.
This explains it.
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/life/books/2008-06-24-lucky-few_N.htm
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Teddy Kennedy started the spiral of Gov involvement with the HMO.
Let ME deal with my DR.
I agree with your comments.
But an observation; The opposite has occurred with the boomers. For the boomers, most their childhoods were pretty darn good as most of their folks were riding the peak of a united, free and economically sound country.
By the time most boomers became adults, as the years reeled in, things started going southbound, and have been for some years now.
My wife was able to add me to her employer plan. The benefits were better and no employee contribution required. That's how we're getting along now. Just in time for her too. Breast cancer. Two surgeries and radiation treatment.
The short answer is our costs went way up. Many people had to run for cover. Perhaps that is why some employers dodged a bullet. This year.
In 1972, I enjoyed low gas prices. Premium sold as cheap as 25 cent/gallon. My Honda CB175 held about 2 gallons. My 1967 VW used regular. That was priced at 29 cents/gallon with 30 MPG performance from the old bug. No crappy air pollution control hardware to jack up prices and kill performance. I earned $1.60/hour working the fountain at Farrell's Ice Cream or $1.30 + tips as a waiter. Cooking paid $1.55. I could do any of those tasks as needed. I earned enough to pay for my high school annual and costs for the prom and after prom party. No need to go begging to mom and dad for gas money.
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