Well, Well, Well ….
You know all the hollerin’, fussin’, and snot slingin’ the Texas Republicans have been doing over Obamacare and how if you sign up for it, your biscuits will always burn, your baby will have colic, and your daughter will marry a guy with nine facial tattoos?
Well, come to find out, that’s not exactly true. A very nice man who is a small business owner and whose wife has a pre-existing condition, and also has a daughter in college, was paying about the same fair price as picture show popcorn for health insurance. He just now got his letter from the Great State of Texas about his insurance with the Affordable Health Care Act. Come to find out, it’s a blessing.
Click the little one to get the big one.
Ain’t that amazing? Obamacare is saving this small businessman a truck load of money.
Thanks to Kathleen and Bananas for the heads up.
Ya Reckon…. we might get Chuck Todd to mention this?
1That’s the real scare – once this goes into effect and the public likes it – what are Repugs gonna do?
2My pre-existing condition is giving Rick Perry the middle finger as I type.
3October 1. The date when Republican and Tea Party misinformation runs smack dab into reality. What are they going to do if the American public discovers that Obamacare really does save them money and also helps to rein in the growth rate of medical and insurance costs? If that comes to pass, the right wing will be pooping bricks come the mid-term election next year. And presuming the successes continue, they will have nailed the lid shut on their own coffin for 2016.
4There is so much mis-information out there it is incredible. I got into an argument with a Republican woman circulating a Petition from the Taylor County Republican Party to repeal Obamacare at the West Tx Fair and Rodeo. Poor ditz didn’t even know, think, or understand that the Affordable Care Act was law. Stood there and argued with me for 5 minutes about how it wasn’t the law. Guess Fox News didn’t carry the video feed from the big signing ceremony that day.
5I received the same letter. First I nearly cried and then I was furious. No wonder the Republicans are trying so hard to stop this. I am paying $600 a month with a $7500 deductible in the Texas Health Insurance Pool. What really got me was “THIP (TX Health Insurance Pool – preexisting condition). premiums, by law, are twice the cost of individual policies in the private market.”
6All I can do is smile! I went to a meeting last week where the lower premiums were outlined – by the same people, who, about four months ago were telling us that the premiums were going up by leaps and bounds. I guess they finally did some real research instead of listening to the fake news station.
7I hope there are lots of organizations in place there to get the word out to these poor deluded Texans who want to defund Obamacare…not the politicians, the REAL people.
8Slightly divergent from the topic Ohio Gov. Kasich while under attack for expanding Medicaid & implementing Obamacare said
“”When you die and get to the meeting with St. Peter, he’s probably not going to ask you much about what you did about keeping government small, but he’s going to ask you what you did for the poor. You’d better have a good answer.”
Sounds like a Christian doesn’t he
9You could explain it to “them” very slowly and “they” still can’t comprehend realism.
10So, my brother and sister-in-law, both of whom live in Texas, both of whom have pre-existing conditions, both of whom are self-employed and both of whom are currently unable to afford anything but catastrophic policies, will be getting this letter. Both of them are also hardline Tea Partiers suckling at the tit of Fox News. I wonder if they will even read the letter before they throw it away and make yet another poor decision.
11Guess we will find out if rethugs know the alphabet. If Plan A fails,and it will,they’ll have to go beyond Plans B and C. Their sponsors have deep pockets and aren’t averse to buying what they want.
12Yeesh! What a day! Just got a robocall from something called Faith and Freedom. Some rwnj preacher was yammering about the Pentagon budget being slashed because of the reckless Obamacare. This robocall actually had a reaction survey at the end of it. Damn! My life is achy enough as it is! Hung the hell up!
13If each of us chipped in $10 we could have a billboard put up saying the truth for a day. Or somebody could add yet another item to their FB page telling the truth. As Paul Krugman said the other day, GET SHRILL.
14Got my letter months ago. Self employed with a daughter with birth defects and us with pre-existing conditions (which can be something like high blood pressure controlled with medication or anyone who was ever prescribed an antidepressant) we currently pay $2,600 a month with $5,000 deductibles each. The health pool was set up for people who could not get insurance, but very few of us can afford it. Hell I can’t afford it but have no other alternative other than bankruptcy and emergency rooms. When it was set up I thought It was going to be subsidized, but no they can and do charge 300 Percent the going rate.
15So hell yes I welcome Obamacare and a little relief!
Charlie, glad you like Obamacare! All of us who like it need to talk about it on FB etc.
16I checked to see if any “news” organization had mentioned these letters. Nothin’ but crickets were found.
So much for the “liberal” media in Texas…
17Dallas Morning News today had an article about how the insurance companies are already finding out how to circumvent the spirit of the ACA by cutting ‘way back on the numbers of doctors, hospitals, clinics, etc. that will be available to people who sign up. The lawsuits are already beginning to take shape.
18A $7500 deductible? WTF?
19Wonder if Greg Abbott will now sue the Texas Health Insurance Pool? Just for grins, of course.
20It is certainly true that a lot of people are going to love ObamaCare, but that love won’t be limited to people. Hospitals and other health providers are going to love it. States that expand Medicaid are going to love all that federal money coming in.
21Where’s all the rwnj screaming about assisted suicide,now the Dr Jack Kevorkian is reincarnated as Ted Cruz? The new “Doctor Death” is assisting nutjob politicians to “lemming” into the ocean enmasse and I’m glad as hell they are. Dr Jack provided a glimmer of hope for incurably devastated people that their lives could end with dignity. Cruz-not so much. Hopefully the new GOP will be actually kinder and gentler after it rises from the asse….er…I meant ahes.
22It is so difficult for conservatives to admit that anything President Obama does is any good. They WANT to believe the worst, so much so that they are willing to go down in flames rather than acknowledge that Affordable Care will help them out too.
23Hide the fire extinguishers.
I sure hope Medicare doesn’t increase this time around and my Humana Supplemental is going up by $9 to $79 a month … that all comes out of my Social Security check … and we don’t know yet if we’re getting any kind of a little raise for Social Security in 2014. Evidently Medicare and Humana insureds don’t get one of those refund checks if you’ve not had to use your coverage very much. Luckily I’m pretty healthy, don’t have to see my doctor much over the course of a year and it’s for darned sure, neither Medicare or Humana have had to use 80% of my premium money for my healthcare. I wouldn’t expect a kickback from Medicare, but it would seem Humana would be the one to do that since it’s a private insurer.
I have coverage and that’s all I’m really concerned about.
24does anyone have the link to the Dallas Morning News article that Ellen Childress mentioned? I can’t find a search function on their site & Google isn’t cooperating yet (it may be because the caffeine hasn’t kicked in yet…)
25i live in texas and got a letter from the veterans admin the other day telling me that my veteran’s care will remain as is because it qualifies under the new law. i dont pay anything for doctors and my prescriptions are only $8. it’s a good deal. i wondered if that was going to change. im glad (obviously) it’s not. also, i dont have to subscribe to medicare part b because of my veterans coverage which is nice.
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