Who didn’t see THAT coming?
Congratulations, Citizen, you’re paying for your neighbor’s healthcare and that of his entire family.
Now, don’t you feel all warm and fuzzy.
Not for the EXEMPT.
Not for criminal illegals.
Not for Congress.
Not for SCOTUS.
Nof for Moslems.
Not for the White Mosque.
Not for their families.
Not for their staff.
SUCKERS, America. YOU BELIEVED in the GOP
which remains EXEMPT and laughed at you,
as they -— led by Dufus McCain — sent
the IRS after you and covered up Benghazi.
Just had a 42% hike on my private plan for 2016. Another similar hike would put me at $1200/mo for an individual policy that was $280 4 years ago.
How about the insured? Can't say we didn't see this coming!
No problem. My yearly raise covers the increase. Oh, no. My bad. I only got a 3.7% raise. In that case a 37% increase is a problem!
I just posted this as the first comment on the ABC thread:
This is what Obama said to a union audience back in 2007:
“I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer health care plan. The United States of America–the wealthiest country in the history of the world, spending 14 percent–14 percent of its gross national product on health care and cannot provide basic health insurance to everybody and that’s what Jim is talking about when he says, ‘Everybody in. Nobody out.’ A single payer health care credit–universal healthcare credit. That’s what I’d like to see, but as all of you know, we may not get there immediately. Because first we have to take back the White House and we’ve got to take back the Senate and we’ve got to take back the House.”
As you can see, “Obamacare” is merely a transitional stage to national government healthcare, like the disaster in Britain. Obama has already wrecked private healthcare, now we will see that Obamacare can’t work, and what’s left? National single payer system, where government bureaucrats will decide who gets what procedure, and when. If you thought weaponizing the IRS against Obama’s political enemies was dangerous, wait until people are afraid that their kid won’t get an operation if they oppose the government vocally.
“Welcome to the USSA, comrades. Now shut up, or maybe little Sally doesn’t get that operation, understand?”
A hike is ok. After all we got a $2500 cut in the price of healthcare, just like Zer0 promised. /s
Wealth redistribution, as intended.
Anyone who is actually surprised ought to be bi@#h slapped!
“Single payer is 3 years away.”
This system is a disaster, but they won’t be able to push single payer at this point. There’s just no money for it. I have solutions, as do most who actually work in medicine. One approach is to limit the percentage of any medical payment that can go to ‘administrative’ costs and that doesn’t go directly to patient care. The other is to encourage more and more competition. The consolidation of medical systems, with big hospital systems full of administrators going out and buying out private practices and taking over smaller hospitals is doing the exact opposite of this - which is contributing to why this is a disaster.
As rates keep going up, that lets more people claim a hardship under the 8% rule..
I didn’t see that coming. When Obama promised that we could have more and pay less, I assumed it was true. When Obama promised that the average family of four would save $2500 a year, I assumed it was true. When Obama promised that we could pay for medical care with a tax on medical devices, I assumed it was true. When Obama promised that we could keep our doctors, I assumed it was true. When Obama promised that Obamacare would not cover illegals, I assumed it was true.
Don’t blame me. How could I have guessed that a socialist would lie to get another big government program approved?
The insurance companies didn’t get into bed with Obama to lose money.
No kidding.
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