Truth in Advertising, Maybe?
“Six out of ten people without insurance can get insurance for $100 a day or less.”
No, that’s not an April Fool’s Day joke. That is an actual statement by White House Press Secretary Jay Carney about ObamaCare.
Um, Mr. Carney . . . I don’t exactly think paying $36,500 a year (365 x $100) for health insurance is going to fly. And what do those 4 of 10 who can’t get their ObamaCare “for $100 a day or less” end up paying?
In truth, Carney misspoke – he was, um, lying dissembling BS-ing us “presenting the theory” that 60% of applicants for ObamaCare can get adequate coverage for $100 a month, but flubbed his lie line. However, the truth isn’t particularly good news. Per the Cleveland Clinic’s CEO, 75% of those who’ve signed up for ObamaCare have higher premiums after signing up than they did before.
Oh, and did I mention that it looks like about 80% of ObamaCare signups qualify for a subsidy? So that means that, even with a Federal subsidy, most people are still paying more for their health insurance under ObamaCare than they did previously.
Further: it turns out that only about 10% of those who’ve signed up for ObamaCare were previously without insurance. Hey, I thought the whole idea was to cover those millions people who previously didn’t have health insurance – not make it more expensive for everyone else. I guess I was wrong.
And for good measure, the troubled Federal ObamaCare sign-up site crashed twice yesterday – which was also this year’s sign-up deadline. But that’s really no surprise. Hell, even deep-Blue Maryland has thrown in the towel on their $125M ObamaCare sign-up site fiasco.
I’m also shocked, shocked to see that there’s seemingly a bit of, um, “political chicanery” going on regarding ObamaCare signups. A couple in California recently got a voter registration card from Covered California when they signed up. That voter registration card was pre-marked to register them as members of the Democratic Party.
The best comment on ObamaCare I’ve seen to date is the title of this CNBC editorial article, which says it all: Obamacare’s problem: You can’t fix stupid
Actually, that title is wrong. We can fix this particular bit of idiocy.
Congress can repeal it.
Category: Health Care debate
When I switched jobs, my medical insurance (my portion of it) doubled.
Open enrollment at my new company is next month. We’ve already been told to expect at least a 20 percent increase.
My girlfriend works for a company that pays 100% Health Insurance for their full time employees. She was told that the company was being forced to scale back hiring and or not give raises as their cost for health insurace was increasing around 20% due to the impact of Obamacare aka the not so affordable healthcare act.
NOTHING in this life fucks things up worse than politics and Government bureaucracy!!
That little voter-registration chickenshit from “Covered California” doesn’t surprise me at all. The sad thing is that that’s only one of the ways the Dems in this state artificially inflate their numbers into a false majority. I could probably guess which county that crap took place in, too.
“A couple in California recently got a voter registration card from Covered California when they signed up. That voter registration card was pre-marked to register them as members of the Democratic Party.”
YOU GOTTA BE SHITTIN’ ME!!! Voter registration for the Democratic Party as part of a medical insurance sign up procedure! This is Obama bullshit at its very best (our worst). Sorry, I can’t type anymore on this without language that will offend an old sailor!
Shit like the voter registration cards confirms to me why Nanny Lugosi said “We have to hurry up and pass this so we can find out what’s in it!” because once word got out about the real contents of 0bozocare, there would be an even bigger tsunami of people yelling “HELL, NO!” at the top of their lungs.
And yet, with the daily changes to Obamacare, it’s nigh on impossible to find out what’s in it.
Does anyone believe the numbers coming out of HHS? They couldn’t come up with numbers prior to this week. They still can’t tell anyone how many have actually paid. And, how many who signed up back in October, November, December til now may have made one payment, then said “screw it, this was supposed to be free” and refused to make any more payments.
Healthcare expenditures are increasing, and more people are accessing healthcare. There are only two ways to lower payouts by payers, including the government — either deny access, or raise costs.
Guess which way they went.
Well, in the recent primaries, I voted straight GOP. Of course, those were the primaries, so it’s a done deal.
The only way to fix this fiasco is to repeal or suspend obamacare. But as a news article pointed out yesterday, the REAL party of the ‘rich’ is the Democratic party. http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2014/02/the-real-party-of-the-rich-guys-top-dem-donors-have-outspent-top-gop-donors-by-486-million-in-last-25-years/
They just like to yank that class warfare chain when they need to.
The shit will really start hitting the fan next year when people’s tax refund checks start coming back short because of the “fines” that the government will start levying against those who didn’t sign up. If you think the sign up was a mess, wait until you see how many people get fined in error. That’s when it’ll get ugly and you may actually see a repeal of the law.
You think THAT’S bad??! Wait until next year at tax filing time when everyone who ELECTED, on their own, to use ALL of their APTC (Advance Premium Tax Credit) to reduce the cost of their monthly health insurance premiums, find out that they will have to PAY-AT-LEAST-SOME-OF-IT-BACK!! You’re talking about hundreds of dollars per month/thousands of dollars per year.
What was that quote about, “If you think health insurance is expensive now, wait until it’s free!”.
Or as Robert Heinlein said (from “The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress”) TANSTAAFL.