Posted on 11/19/2013 5:46:50 AM PST by sickoflibs
CNN reports that a woman the president hailed as an Obamacare success story just realized she won't be able to afford Obamacare because it's too expensive.
"Jessica Sanford was cited by the president as an Obamacare success story at a health care event he had here at the White House in the Rose Garden on October 21," says a reporter for CNN from the White House. "That of course being just last month. The 48-year-old single mom from Washington state purchased what she considered to be affordable health care, life-changing event, she said, on the Washington state health exchange. She decided she was so excited about this news, she wanted to write an e-mail to the president to say that this had really changed her life and that she was thankful for the Afforable Care Act. The president included her e-mail in his remarks to people on hand for the event. Here's a bit of what the president had to say."
The CNN report quotes President Obama as saying, "I recently received a letter from a woman named Jessica Sanford in Washington state. And here's what she wrote, I am a single mom, no child support, self-employed. and I haven't had insurance for 15 years because it's too expensive. I was crying the other day when I signed up, so much stress lifted."
"But days, just really three days after she was mentioned by the president, Jessica Sanford started having problems, she was receiving letters from the Washington state health exchange," reports CNN. "The first letter telling her that tax credit was reduced, therefore, increasing the cost of her health care plan and the, take a look at this, then she received a letter just last week telling her that her tax credit had been taken away all together. Show you another document here, showing what the tax credit worked out to be... zero dollars according to this document that was provided to us by Jessica Sanford. She describes all of this as a roller coaster ride. Now she says she can't afford insurance in Washington state because of the new developments."
Sanford tells CNN that she's embarrassed. "It was a huge disappointment, especially since I had, you know, my story had been shared by the president. I felt like, you know, I just felt really embarrassed that, you know, he quoted my story and then come to find that the Washington health plan finder, the website here in our state, had grossly miscalculated or they're having a problem figuring their tax credits. and so at least for right now, I don't -- I'm not going to be getting insurance," she says.
Bttt
Welcome to Socialism
Even more stunning: CNN did this story. What Rush calls a “random act of journalism”.
Yesterday Sharpton said the Medicaid enrollees (who pay nothing) are 99% happy ‘customers’ .
CNN cowards, comments are off for that article. What a joke!
Can you repeat the question?
Bait and switch.
Oh, it looks like CNN has now revised the story. Only a brief mention of the whole embarassment thing, now lots of emphasis on her anger. Directed at WA and the Federal Government, but not at the politicians who created the mess in the first place.
Tell Rush that there wasnt a single Obamacare horror or failure story until the shutdown ended.
Once that deal was made, which was a unconditional surrender(making it seem pointless) , all hell broke loose and the Media ran with the new story : Obamacare disaster. Gregory on NBC Sunday grilling Pelosi.
Didnt Rush tell his listeners that this would never happen?
“She says she wants to make it clear she has no beef with Obama and Obamacare. She still believes in the Affordable Care Act. “I don’t want this to be a political thing,” she says. “I don’t want to be bashing the president. I don’t want to be bashing the ACA. I don’t want to come across as saying that. I am a big Obama fan.”
Admin, can you please remove the dozens of duplicate posts?
Battered. Spouse. Syndrome.
Undeniable ...
She refuses to buy insurance that she can’t afford?
That will cost her an extra $95 in taxes!
1% = $500
One of that ~ 40% floor for Obama. Single Moms.
Notice they dont mind voting for him since its free to vote but when it comes time to spend their own money to help Obama, buying overpriced Obamacare policies, they wont do it.
They love the idea of us paying for it though.
Yeah. I sit in a room full of union folks earning 70-80k a year complaining that their family coverage went up from an employer subsidized $17 a month to now $187 a month...supported Obamacare and want their exemptions.
By far the funniest thing I’ve read. Going to share it with friends
The point is, she thanked barry for the insurance. Now she blames Washington state for losing it.
She voted for him, so she deserves this and gets no sympathy from me.
And for some reason it is inappropriate to inquire as to the circumstances of single-motherhood. You can’t ask if the woman is widowed, divorced or never married, as that would be a breach of her privacy, yet she is free to state that she is now single and a mother.
This is important, if you are a believer in personal responsibility. One cannot help being a widow, and divorce is sometime unavoidable (or was not the woman’s choice). But those women who choose to have children without ever having been married to the father have made a choice for which they should be held largely responsible.
But now she gets to pay a fine for not having insurance.
How does she like them apples?
Vote Democrat again-—idiot.
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