Posted on 12/13/2013 10:23:44 AM PST by reaganaut1
Many in New York’s professional and cultural elite have long supported President Obama’s health care plan. But now, to their surprise, thousands of writers, opera singers, music teachers, photographers, doctors, lawyers and others are learning that their health insurance plans are being canceled and they may have to pay more to get comparable coverage, if they can find it.
They are part of an unusual informal health insurance system that has developed in New York in which independent practitioners were able to get lower insurance rates through group plans, typically set up by their professional associations or chambers of commerce. That allowed them to avoid the sky-high rates in New York’s individual insurance market, historically among the most expensive in the country.
But under the Affordable Care Act, they will be treated as individuals, responsible for their own insurance policies. For many of them, that is likely to mean they will no longer have access to a wide network of doctors and a range of plans tailored to their needs. And many of them are finding that if they want to keep their premiums from rising, they will have to accept higher deductible and co-pay costs or inferior coverage.
“I couldn’t sleep because of it,” said Barbara Meinwald, a solo practitioner lawyer in Manhattan.
Ms. Meinwald, 61, has been paying $10,000 a year for her insurance through the New York City Bar. A broker told her that a new temporary plan with fewer doctors would cost $5,000 more, after factoring in the cost of her medications.
Ms. Meinwald also looked on the state’s health insurance exchange. But she said she found that those plans did not have a good choice of doctors, and that it was hard to even find out who the doctors were
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Cue Fats Domino and "Ain't That a Shame" . . .
Shameful, and unforgivable acts by every Democrat who first voted for the Trojan Horse for redistribution called ACA, and then voted again to defeat the Republican measure which warned of and would have prevented these cancellations!
Not one of the Dems should escape personal blame for each patient whose life is being negatively impacted.
Where is the bully from the Simpsons?
It is an uncomfortable position for many members of the creative classes to be in. “We are the Obama people,” said Camille Sweeney, a New York writer and member of the Authors Guild. Her insurance is being canceled, and she is dismayed that neither her pediatrician nor her general practitioner appears to be on the exchange plans. What to do has become a hot topic on Facebook and at dinner parties frequented by her fellow writers and artists.“I’m for it,” she said. “But what is the reality of it?”
A finer example of bento box-like compartmentalized logic and denial can't be found. You ain't seen nothin' yet, babycakes.
You can’t make an omelet without breaking a few...bones...
I love it I love it I love. I use to live in that p*sshole of a city, grew up there and finally got wise and moved out last year. Best decision I ever made. EVERY week for a year before the election Obama was there for fundraisers....And he would always come during rush hour. 9am or 5pm backing up traffic for miles. All these freakin’ liberal slimebags holding fundraisers for him and now they are getting it up the ASS! lol lol
Don’t worry. They’ll have their communist new mayor to rescue them from the evil insurance companies.
Thank you so much for posting this. I can’t believe the NYT is printing inconvenient truth.
Yes, when you actually bite into the crap sandwich of Liberalism vs. just seeing it on TV, it sucks.
“I’m for it,” she said. “But what is the reality of it?”
This woman deserves everything she has coming to her & more.
I love how a story like this has a happy ending. Bwahahahahahahahahaha.
The money quote!
Might as well add, "We are the stupid people."
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh, the Blasio voters suffer, suffer, suffer...
“New York Professionals”, SWIVE(look it up) YOU ALL, Your WORTHLESS “City(CESSPOOL)” and Your Equally Worthless STATE! WALLOW IN WHAT YOU HAVE CREATED!
According to Sebelius, they should be thrilled to be getting more benefits than under their old plans.
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