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Consumers In 'Grandfathered' Health Plans Can Face Higher Costs
NPR ^ | 06/10/2015 | MICHELLE ANDREWS

Posted on 06/10/2015 4:40:25 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen

Judy Naillon called her insurer several months ago to find out why she was being charged $35 every month for birth control pills. Her friends said they were getting their pills free under the federal health law.

Why wasn't she getting the same deal?

The insurance representative explained that was because the plan Naillon and her husband had through his job was "grandfathered" under the health law. In other words, unlike other health plans, Naillon's insurance policy, which existed before the health law was enacted, doesn't have to cover many preventive services, including contraception.

Naillon would have to continue to pay a share of the cost of her pills, the insurer told her.

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KEYWORDS: husseins; obamacare; obamalied; unaffordablecareact; youcankeepitgate
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ObamaCare is a disaster but the press will continue to propagandize for expansion and greater subsidies.
The subject in this article has been conditioned to expect free birth control and is whining about paying her share.
1 posted on 06/10/2015 4:40:25 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen
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To: Kid Shelleen

republicrats have now voted 4 times in each house to fund this communism-— OBAMACARE!! . I DON”T WANT TO PAY FOR ANY ONE ELSES INSURANCE!! TO HELL with that. I want them to buy their own damed insurance or ROT!! I am sick of this crap.It is my money— MINE and I want them to quit stealing it at GUN POINT!!


2 posted on 06/10/2015 4:45:33 PM PDT by mrs ippi
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To: Kid Shelleen

Every single person who voted for obozo either time should suffer, and suffer badly. Those who voted for him both times should suffer twice as much.

May they suffer daily and excruciatingly.


3 posted on 06/10/2015 4:49:52 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (When things are rightly ordered, man is steward of God's gifts and civIns law enables him to do so.)
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To: Kid Shelleen

We have an individual grandfathered plan. Which has basically saved us financially. I wonder when the fascists will find a way to take it away from us.

But, it’s also a bummer, I’m not getting free abortions, birth control, sex change operations. OTOH, I’m not paying for someone else getting them.

We’re old enough to have had health insurance where maternity care was a extra cost OPTION that we could turn down if we wanted to do so.


4 posted on 06/10/2015 4:55:11 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't regally there....)
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To: freedumb2003
May they suffer daily and excruciatingly.

I'm thinking hemorrhoids and festering boils on the buttocks would be appropriate...........as a starter.

5 posted on 06/10/2015 4:56:24 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't regally there....)
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To: mrs ippi

The woman, who is a teacher, doesn’t even want to pay for her own birth control but wants other people to pay for it. I wonder if her employer has health care or if she can sign up for ObamaCare? It seems she wants her husband’s private insurance plan to change to suite her.


6 posted on 06/10/2015 4:58:12 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

>>I’m thinking hemorrhoids and festering boils on the buttocks would be appropriate<<

May they all be married to my ex-wife (possible in today’s what does it matter world).

A worse punishment could not be meted.


7 posted on 06/10/2015 4:59:19 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (When things are rightly ordered, man is steward of God's gifts and civIns law enables him to do so.)
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The grandfathered plans are decreasing
In 2011, about 72 percent of companies that offered health insurance included at least one grandfathered plan; by 2014 that number had declined to 37 perce
8 posted on 06/10/2015 4:59:49 PM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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I DON”T WANT TO PAY FOR ANY ONE ELSES INSURANCE!

That is my response during the day as I listen to talk radio. The topic comes up about "all the people that will lose their health insurance" and I usually mutter what you posted. They are not losing "their" health insurance, they are losing MY money which was given to them to subsidize their plans. I have to cut and scrimp to manage my bills and they can do the same! I guess that makes me heartless.

Welcome to FR, by the way
9 posted on 06/10/2015 5:14:08 PM PDT by LostInBayport (When there are more people riding in the cart than there are pulling it, the cart stops moving...)
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To: Kid Shelleen

As planned. They want to kill all grandfathered plans and move everyone to the new failed plans.


10 posted on 06/10/2015 5:17:00 PM PDT by piytar (Good will be called evil and Evil will be called good.)
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To: LostInBayport

God Bless you Cajun and God Bless America. We must stand up and get very very loud!! We are LEGION!!


11 posted on 06/10/2015 5:21:59 PM PDT by mrs ippi
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To: freedumb2003

Do you ever wonder how you married her in the first place?


12 posted on 06/10/2015 5:30:25 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s, you weren't regally there....)
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To: Kid Shelleen

A black guy called Hannity this afternoon and told Hannity that Sean was right and he was horribly wrong about Obamacare. This guy just got his new insurance plan that has a %5,000 deductible before any insurance payment begins, and then it is he pays 20% and insurance pays 80%. in addition to a $250 co-pay.


13 posted on 06/10/2015 5:44:56 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: piytar

My BCBS-GA grandfathered plan will be canceled in December. Just received the letter a couple of weeks ago.


14 posted on 06/10/2015 5:48:33 PM PDT by Noamie
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To: mrs ippi

Been here a coupla weeks and already ranting like an old FReeper!

Welcome aboard.


15 posted on 06/10/2015 5:52:02 PM PDT by Graybeard58 (19 more shopping days 'til, Graybeard 58's b/day! The BIG seven ohhhh.)
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To: Noamie

Ditto in Iowa. Got my letter this week.


16 posted on 06/10/2015 5:58:48 PM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Obama been Liberal. Hope Change)
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To: Kid Shelleen

once the ass is out of office, the next president can just disregard the laws he doesn’t like... such as each and every 0bamacare ‘law’

if anyone complains about having to ‘follow the law’... just point to the current _resident’s record on following the laws governing the borders for invaders


17 posted on 06/10/2015 6:06:13 PM PDT by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: JohnBovenmyer; Noamie
I also got a letter about my "grandfathered" insurance plan. It said the price is going up another 30% this year and the letter highly encouraged me to not buy their product and just get Obamacare instead.

(With that latest 30%, that's about 50% total increase since Obamacare went into effect two years ago and about 170% since the law passed six years ago.)

18 posted on 06/10/2015 8:58:18 PM PDT by Plummz (pro-constitution, anti-corruption)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

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Do you ever wonder how you married her in the first place?<<

Strong drink, low morals, and


19 posted on 06/10/2015 9:49:38 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (When things are rightly ordered, man is steward of God's gifts and civIns law enables him to do so.)
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To: mrs ippi

Do you also get angry about paying for highways and bridges in Alaska or some other state you never visit? Just wondering.


20 posted on 06/10/2015 10:01:19 PM PDT by steve86 (Prophecies of Maelmhaedhoc OÂ’Morgair (Latin form: Malachy))
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