“I just didn’t realize I would … pay for it personally.”
neo-neocon
Legal Insurrection
10/7/2013
There are a lot of surprised people in California now that more Obamacare details are coming out:
In California, 1.9 million people buy plans on the open market, according to officials with Covered California, the state’s new health insurance exchange. And many of them are steaming mad.
“There’s going to be a number of people surprised” by their bills, said Jonathan Wu, a co-founder of ValuePenguin, a consumer finance website. “The upper-middle class are the people who are essentially being asked to foot the bill, and that’s true across the country.”
Covered California spokesman Dana Howard maintained that in public presentations the exchange has always made clear that there will be winners and losers under Obamacare.
“Some people will see an increase who are already on the individual market purchasing insurance,” he said, “but most people will not.”…
Both Vinson and Waschura have adjusted gross incomes greater than four times the federal poverty level — the cutoff for a tax credit. And while both said they anticipated their rates would go up, they didn’t realize they would rise so much.
“Of course, I want people to have health care,” Vinson said. “I just didn’t realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally.”
Raise your hand if you think Dana Howard has much of a clue how many people will actually see premiums go up and how many will see them go down. No one expected the Obamacare Sticker Shock…
The article continues at Legal Insurrection.
Related: ObamaCare: ‘I was Laughing at Boehner, Until the Mail Came Today’
…As Winston Churchill so wisely observed, “socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” Maybe, just maybe, some Democrats will now see that ObamaCare is a disaster and was designed to fail. It’s a Trojan Horse meant to destroy the private health insurance market and force America into a socialist, government single-payer system. Yes, the same model that always brings worse quality of care, less choices, soaring costs, and rationing of care for everyone. As so many other countries have learned, when it comes to socialized medicine there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
Update: ObamaCare sticker shock. State run media beginning to notice.
…“If the only way to get it to them is forcibly taking it from everybody else, how is that any better?” Yount says. “I’m struggling with what is the greater evil and injustice. I don’t think it’s any more right to take it from one person forcibly. It’s coercion.”Just keep repeating: “law of the land.”
