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Daring to Complain About Obamacare
The New York Times' Opinion Pages ^ | November 10, 2013 | Lori Gottlieb

Posted on 11/11/2013 6:28:05 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

THE Anthem Blue Cross representative who answered my call told me that there was a silver lining in the cancellation of my individual P.P.O. policy and the $5,400 annual increase that I would have to pay for the Affordable Care Act-compliant option: now if I have Stage 4 cancer or need a sex-change operation, I’d be covered regardless of pre-existing conditions. Never mind that the new provider network would eliminate coverage for my and my son’s long-term doctors and hospitals.

The Anthem rep cheerily explained that despite the company’s — I paraphrase — draconian rates and limited network, my benefits, which also include maternity coverage (handy for a 46-year-old), would “be actually much richer.”

I, of course, would be actually much poorer. And it was this aspect of the bum deal that, to my surprise, turned out to be a very unpopular thing to gripe about.

“Obamacare or Kafkacare?” I posted on Facebook as soon as I hung up with Anthem....

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Editorial; Government
KEYWORDS: obama; obamacare; obots; stickershock
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1 posted on 11/11/2013 6:28:06 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

AGH…LOL…ROFL That’s as good as lol cats hazzing cheezbergers… “I’m Saden ur Freude”


2 posted on 11/11/2013 6:32:40 PM PST by Mamzelle
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Kafkacare

If you have a rotten apple stuck in your shell you are covered for that.

4 posted on 11/11/2013 6:37:14 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sorry, no hits for the Slimes.


5 posted on 11/11/2013 6:38:00 PM PST by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Gee, Lori experiences the same lone voice in the wilderness I experience when I provide vetted citations to info I’ve avowed on FB. More people are invested in their ideology than being honest, forthright and real.


6 posted on 11/11/2013 6:38:43 PM PST by jurroppi1
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7 posted on 11/11/2013 6:45:11 PM PST by MeshugeMikey ( Visit http://icantenroll.com/ In Glitch We Trust....;o})
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He is kidding about paying for a sex change operation isn’t he???


8 posted on 11/11/2013 6:46:21 PM PST by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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No.


9 posted on 11/11/2013 6:49:04 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Many on the left see faith & family as oppressive, the right sees them as indispensable." Palin)
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Our New, Happy Lives!

“Comrades!” cried the press secretary’s eager youthful voice. “Attention, comrades! We have glorious news for you. We have won the battle for affordable health care!
Returns now completed of the output of all classes of medical goods and services show that the quality and quantity has risen by no less than twenty percent over the past year, and the cost therefor has plummeted by thirty percent!
All over Amerika this morning there were irrepressible spontaneous demonstrations when workers marched out of factories and offices and paraded through the streets with banners voicing their gratitude to Comrades Obama and Sebelius for the new, happy life which their wise leadership has bestowed upon us.
Here are some of the completed figures. Head transplants and exclamation marks—“


10 posted on 11/11/2013 6:50:09 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

No, that is a benefit.

Michelle may undergo the first Wookie to Woman transformation, also covered under obamacare.


11 posted on 11/11/2013 6:58:48 PM PST by Red in Blue PA (When Injustice becomes Law, Resistance Becomes Duty.-Thomas Jefferson)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Lori Gottlieb’s critical of Obama. She must be a racist. Ask any liberal - it's the Chris Matthews rule: criticism of Obama equals racism.
12 posted on 11/11/2013 7:03:11 PM PST by GOPJ (Obama - "too arrogant to question his own bad judgement" ... Greenfield)
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Like Bridget Jones’s “smug marrieds,” the “smug insureds” — friends who were covered through their own or spouses’ employers or who were grandfathered into their plans — asked why I didn’t “just” switch all of our long-term doctors, suck it up and pay an extra $200 a month for a restrictive network on the exchange, or marry the guy I’m dating. How romantic: “I didn’t marry you just to save money, honey. I married you for your provider network.”

Her 'smug' friends might not nbe so smug in the future... Obama's going after company plans too... wait and see.

13 posted on 11/11/2013 7:09:43 PM PST by GOPJ (Obama - "too arrogant to question his own bad judgement" ... Greenfield)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Insanity, Total insanity.


14 posted on 11/11/2013 7:16:14 PM PST by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: GOPJ

I have decided to not get sick.


15 posted on 11/11/2013 7:17:37 PM PST by Foundahardheadedwoman (God don't have a statute of limitations)
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now if I have Stage 4 cancer or need a sex-change operation, I’d be covered regardless of pre-existing conditions.

Let me see if I'm following this correctly.

Under ObamaCare, if a male wants a sex-change operation, being a male is now a "pre-existing condition?"

-PJ

16 posted on 11/11/2013 7:20:26 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

...so now that this woman has discovered that she’s the “rich” who will be shelling out more for the “poor”, she’s opposed to it?

Typical.


17 posted on 11/11/2013 7:32:01 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: Foundahardheadedwoman
I have decided to not get sick.

You'll be fined by 'dear leader' ... you know that, right?

It's all horrible...

Obama's going after medicare advantage too - old people have limited places to go... and might need medical care. You're in my prayers Foundahardheadedwoman - you, me and all of us.

18 posted on 11/11/2013 7:33:58 PM PST by GOPJ (Obama - "too arrogant to question his own bad judgement" ... Greenfield)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Then I sat back and waited for the love to pour in. Or at least the “like.” Lots of likes. After all, I have 1,037 Facebook friends. Surely, they’d commiserate. Except that they didn’t.

That Kool Aid stain is gonna last a while.

19 posted on 11/11/2013 7:35:02 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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-— the “smug insureds” —friends who were covered through their own or spouses’ employers or who were grandfathered into their plans —asked why I didn’t “just” switch all of our long-term doctors, suck it up and pay an extra $200 a month for a restrictive network on the exchange -—

Their time will come... Soon.

Meanwhile, speaking of Kafkaesque, every Freeper should watch Orson Welles’ version of “The Trial.” It’s a truly terrifying, surrealistic depiction of the totalitarian State. It’s in my all-time top ten.


20 posted on 11/11/2013 7:51:38 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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