Posted on 10/25/2013 9:19:07 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
Sue Klinkhamer has a problem.
It’s called Obamacare.
And the irony of her situation is not lost on her. In a recent email addressed to her former boss, Illinois Congressman Bill Foster, and other Democratic colleagues, she wrote:
“I spent two years defending Obamacare. I had constituents scream at me, spit at me and call me names that I can’t put in print. The congressman was not re-elected in 2010 mainly because of the anti-Obamacare anger. When the congressman was not re-elected, I also (along with the rest of our staff) lost my job. I was upset that because of the healthcare issue, I didn’t have a job anymore but still defended Obamacare because it would make healthcare available to everyone at, what I assumed, would be an affordable price. I have now learned that I was wrong. Very wrong.”
For Klinkhamer, 60, President Obama’s oft-repeated words ring in her ears: “If you like your health plan, you will keep it.”
Well, possibly not.
When Klinkhamer lost her congressional job, she had to buy an individual policy on the open market.
Three years ago, it was $225 a month with a $2,500 deductible. Each year it went up a little to, as of Sept. 1, $291 with a $3,500 deductible. Then, a few weeks ago, she got a letter.
“Blue Cross,” she said, “stated my current coverage would expire on Dec. 31, and here are my options: I can have a plan with similar benefits for $647.12 [or] I can have a plan with similar [but higher] pricing for $322.32 but with a $6,500 deductible.”
She went on, “Blue Cross also tells me that if I don’t pick one of the options, they will just assume I want the one for $647. ... Someone please tell me why my premium in January will be $356 more than in December?”
The sticker shock Klinkhamer is experiencing is something millions of individual policyholders are reeling from having gotten similar letters from their private insurers.
As UCLA Public Policy expert Dr. Gerald F. Kominski told CBS News this week, “Half of the 14 million people who buy insurance on their own are not going to keep the policies they previously had.”
Part of the reason those policies will be more expensive, he explained, is that Obamacare is requiring insurers to offer “a better product with better protection.”
Congressman Foster, Klinkhamer’s former boss who has since been returned to Congress, told me by phone Friday, “A very large number of people are very grateful” for Obamacare.
No doubt about that.
But right now Sue Klinkhamer, no novice to government or public policy, isn’t among them.
“I am a Democrat and I believe in healthcare for all,” she said.
“And I was excited that previously uninsured people could now get insurance on the open market. But this is not affordable to me.”
Klinkhamer suggests renaming the Affordable Care Act.
“Just call it,” she said dryly, “the Available Care Act.”
She is STILL stupid.
Two years, you defended it. You believe in healthcare for all. Fine. Believing in THIS particular iteration and its many vicious and confiscatory features and provisions...you couldn't use some partially-functioning part of your brain and discern the impossibility?
And the lies. The dozens of stone-cold flat out lies you were told during that time. None of those impacted your thinking, not even a little bit? Even when you found out they were lies? And the doctors and the folks with career-length, not just your crapyy little two years working for some dumb lib parasite, honey ...experience with healthcare and how it works? None of those people were to be believed, either? And the very idea ...that your president, your government can tell you and enforce upon you, an allegedly free person what you can have and cannot have when it is you, by the remuneration for your efforts and the money you earn, paying for it , that wasn't onerous for you, either? It was all in your imagination that this was gonna be so darn cool and you'd be a shining example of altruism?
Well I hereby pronounce you a confirmed flaming idiot and have not a speck of sympathy for you and the damage your naive and ignorant idealism has done. Have a nice life.
After she pays Shakedowncare's hundreds of dollars in premiums and copays, and the thousands in deductibles, all she'll get is a one-way ticket to the glue factory.
Everybody now: Look on the bright side, you now have pregnancy and birth control coverage .... Oh you are 60 years old.
Someone please tell me why my premium in January will be $356 more than in December?”
Because you voted for this “Edsel Care”! Now drive it home, you idiot.
The sticker shock Klinkhamer is experiencing is something millions of individual policyholders are reeling from having gotten similar letters from their private insurers. “I am a Democrat and I believe in healthcare for all,” she said. “And I was excited that previously uninsured people could now get insurance on the open market. But this is not affordable to me.”
Self proclaimed two time Obama voter
...she’s now shocked, just shocked over the Obamacare realities
"Of course, I want people to have health care," she said….
" I just didn't realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally."Cindy Vinson, San Jose California
Did you wander in from Democratic Underground with their talking points? Millions CAN'T KEEP THEIR PLAN because Obamacare made those plans ILLEGAL! Every plan in America has to now cover a long list of stupid things they didn't cover before. Stop whitewashing this administration's crimes against basic human rights and freedoms. Wake up and get a clue.
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She never realized that the people yelling at her were warning of a train wreck. She just kept stoking the boiler- “We don’t need bridges. If we go fast enough we can jump the river.”
Dear Sue .... boo fricking hoo.
" I just didn't realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally."Cindy Vinson, San Jose California
and there it is...
She’s 60 years old, and has to pay for birth control that she doesn’t use.
Part of the reason those policies will be more expensive, he explained, is that Obamacare is requiring insurers to offer “a better product with better protection.”
"Better" protection that people neither need nor want.
So, how does that make it a "better" product?
i wonder if sue has learned the correct lesson from all this. i suspect she hasn’t.
She’s 60?
She’ll be lucky to get any healthcare treatments:
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203706604574374463280098676
scroll for the treatment vs. age graph.
She’ll pay a boatload. To ensure some 25yr old illegal with 6 kids gets really great prenatal care. If Sue breaks her hip she’s on her own...
she’s lying. pelosi said no democrats lost elections in 2010 over obamacare, it was b/c of stimulus.
walking plastic-faced joke of a bag of skin.
utopia revealed in the real world == dystopia
if libtard ideas are so great why are they all mandatory and punitive?
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