I wanted to start this thread specifically for members here to post their stories of how this act is affecting them. So that we can see exactly, precisely how it effects/effected all of us. I want to see it documented.
As of today. I received a letter that stated that I am un-insurable. Despite the fact that I was checked by a physician after my health care got cancelled, and I was declared “healthy”. I wasn’t given a reason.
However, when I had healthcare, my costs were more than my rent.
I’m helping my girlfriend pay for her healthcare, which is around $1,100. To contrast, our rent at the moment is about $740. She’s only 26, and hasn’t had a health issue almost ever.
My brother in law had insurance for his family for 122.00 per month. No idea what kind of deductible he had. He received a letter that his new policy has increased to 366.00 per month.
I seem to recall having read about how Millennials are being screwed by the economy into having to delay their careers, buying homes, being crushed by student debt, and generally getting independent of their parents. This would seem to me to amplify that trend.
My wife and I both received cancellation notices from our insurance companies due to obamacare. The cheapest alternate plans we can find will cost us a combined $300 per month and with much less coverage. Thanks liberals.
Definitely a different economy from when my dad was in school at my age. Much harder to get into a stable career, and people have to jump from employer to employer as the days of staying with a single company your entire career are pretty much over.
A good friend’s wife is a director at a major hospital chain here, and they’ve had to lay off people and restructure to be lower costs in other areas just to keep expenses with complying with the ACA somewhat swallowable. Basically laying off staff they ‘need’ because they’re having to spend 10’s of millions on compliance. On the medical side, they’re going to have stretch nurses and doctors even further because of the costs. Also seeing them be more selective in who they hire, like tobacco users, because they cost more to insure…something that wasn’t on their radar even a few years ago as a cost cutting measure. They basically have to go top to bottom in organization to find any areas to cost cut at this point, and still have to lay people off. Sad but people were warned the quality of care was going to go down.
And yet at the end of the day the collective collective basket of ***ks given by those who have not vested interest in anything and receive their healthcare for free is still empty and perpetually will be.
Why people are not rioting in the streets over this and everything else is beyond me.
And for to add to this thread my premiums through my employer went up 75% approximately all the while my deductibles damn near doubled.
As I’ve said before, I just went to the VA and got health insurance for free.
Sorry guys - I’m not paying for the ACA, even if it makes me a free loader.
Everyone I know that’s my age that doesn’t already have employee health insurance are just going to pay the penalty. I know many young people without health insurance and not a single one is signing up,
People are not rioting because they still believe that they have too much to lose. Most people will tolerate confiscatory taxes to a point (about 55-60%). Beyond that, they will look to take their skills and abilities to other jurisdictions or countries.
The only thing that would cause mass violence in America would be an overt assault on personal liberty that causes people to feel that prison is preferable to the status quo. This might include gun confiscations, incarceration of dissidents, assassinations, etc. Unfortunately, the slow killing of a few thousand citizens with shitty healthcare is simply not dramatic enough to awake the masses.
My wife carried out benefits through the University of South Florida (masters program) and we got dumped so we’re in the VA now. I’ve got mixed opinions on what I’ve experienced at he James A Haley VA hospital.
I didn’t vote for Obama and I’m probably going to pay the penalty.
Not because I have any desire to be a freeloader but because, AFAIK things haven’t changed except for the worse since the law was adopted and back before it was adopted, it was cheaper to pay the penalty than to get health insurance. In other words, I’ll pay the penalty because it doesn’t make economic sense for me to pay for health insurance.
(Would I like to have a good health insurance plan? Hell yeah. But considering what I’ve had to pay thus far for healthcare, I’d rather just fork out the cash than pay two or three times that a year, and still have to fork out cash whenever I need to visit the doctor.)
I hear you. My only point is that Obamacare was specifically designed to screw the middle class, but in a subtle manner that will not provoke the masses to violence. It is essentially a healthcare tax (paid through premiums, deductibles, and lost wages) of about $3K/year on the average middle class family - for now. That will likely go up a little every year. It is enough to threaten an election, but not enough to cause most people to take up arms. The progressives are more than happy to sacrifice a mid-term election to lock-in a law that has the potential to collapse our quasi-capitalist healthcare system which they see as abhorrent.