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Obamacare tops 6 million! :-)

Bo-4

Bo-4

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Considering there are four days to go plus another couple of weeks grace period.. the goal of 7m is actually within reach.. Gloomers in 3-2-1 ........ :D

http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/03/27/3420001/breaking-obamacare-enrollment-tops-six-million/

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Well that did it, dammit!
I just got off the phone arguing with my healthcare provider for the past 90 minutes. I’m jumping ship and signing up with the exchange. I just made an appointment with my local guy for this Friday to help me through my options. (Oregon is different — you can’t sign up directly through the government website, and our state website kinda’ sucks).

About a year ago, just before my “event,” my monthly premium just for ME, was around $900.00, so I dropped down to a higher deductible package so that I could afford my monthly premium but still have some coverage. But the coverage turned out to be, pardon my French; SHIT. And had it not been for the generosity of my friends on Facebook and the flexibility of Adventist Hospital, the medical bills following my heart attack would have bankrupted me.

So today I find that my premiums have crept back up into the troposphere, with NO additional coverage to justify it. They just went up another $165.00 per month…the second increase since last fall. They’re basically asking me to pay them $11,000 per year for catastrophic coverage ONLY, with a $5,000 deductible. Well, screw them and the Mercedes they rode in on. I’ll take my chances with ObamaCare. A few months ago, I crunched some numbers, and it looked like I’d come out ahead, with better coverage than I have now. Now I’m certain of it. Come this Friday, I’ll be free and clear of these blood-sucking vipers once and for all.

And if the Republicans win the Senate in November and successfully repeal the ACA, then I’ll have a focal point on which to concentrate all my energies. I’ll morph into the biggest, baddest, angriest healthcare crusading activist in this sick country.

What the hell kind of a society are we living in where staying alive is contingent on someone else’s profit margin? The CEO of Humana retired a few years back, and he was given a nice tidy $400 MILLION golden parachute. Paid for by gouging poor people, sick people and people with pre-existing medical problems.

To HELL with them! As of this Friday, they’ll have one less sucker making their Porsche payments for them.

http://www.theeverlastinggopstoppers.com/2014/03/fuk-health-insurance-ceos-mercedes-rode/
 
Addy said:
Well that did it, dammit!
I just got off the phone arguing with my healthcare provider for the past 90 minutes. I’m jumping ship and signing up with the exchange. I just made an appointment with my local guy for this Friday to help me through my options. (Oregon is different — you can’t sign up directly through the government website, and our state website kinda’ sucks).

About a year ago, just before my “event,” my monthly premium just for ME, was around $900.00, so I dropped down to a higher deductible package so that I could afford my monthly premium but still have some coverage. But the coverage turned out to be, pardon my French; SHIT. And had it not been for the generosity of my friends on Facebook and the flexibility of Adventist Hospital, the medical bills following my heart attack would have bankrupted me.

So today I find that my premiums have crept back up into the troposphere, with NO additional coverage to justify it. They just went up another $165.00 per month…the second increase since last fall. They’re basically asking me to pay them $11,000 per year for catastrophic coverage ONLY, with a $5,000 deductible. Well, screw them and the Mercedes they rode in on. I’ll take my chances with ObamaCare. A few months ago, I crunched some numbers, and it looked like I’d come out ahead, with better coverage than I have now. Now I’m certain of it. Come this Friday, I’ll be free and clear of these blood-sucking vipers once and for all.

And if the Republicans win the Senate in November and successfully repeal the ACA, then I’ll have a focal point on which to concentrate all my energies. I’ll morph into the biggest, baddest, angriest healthcare crusading activist in this sick country.

What the hell kind of a society are we living in where staying alive is contingent on someone else’s profit margin? The CEO of Humana retired a few years back, and he was given a nice tidy $400 MILLION golden parachute. Paid for by gouging poor people, sick people and people with pre-existing medical problems.

To HELL with them! As of this Friday, they’ll have one less sucker making their Porsche payments for them.

http://www.theeverlastinggopstoppers.com/2014/03/fuk-health-insurance-ceos-mercedes-rode/[/quote]

You actually think that after you enroll in ObamaCare they going to loss their Porsche, I always figured you to be wiser than this........If they lose $$$$$ 'O' has their backs and taxpayers will cover their loses.........¿
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Dawg said:
SO, how many closed the deal and paid their first month premium? 'O' administration will not proved those stats, maybe you know_____________go
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Well over 80% Steve.. but the final numbers won't be in for another month. They typically have several weeks to make the first premium payment. I had almost a month to make my first one, and did it over the phone with a credit card when i got the confirmation from Select Health.
 
Bo-4 said:
Well over 80% Steve.. but the final numbers won't be in for another month. They typically have several weeks to make the first premium payment. I had almost a month to make my first one, and did it over the phone with a credit card when i got the confirmation from Select Health.
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would surely like a LINK to the 80%__________'O' administration will not give that number...........
 
You actually think that after you enroll in ObamaCare they going to loss their Porsche, I always figured you to be wiser than this........If they lose $$$$$ 'O' has their backs and taxpayers will cover their loses.........¿
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We'll see, Dawg.. :)
 
Dawg said:
would surely like a LINK to the 80%__________'O' administration will not give that number...........
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Provided a link several times so look 'er up for yaself. How would the WH possibly be able to track payments between the enrollee and their insurance company?

The numbers varied by insurer, but they ran in the 80-90% range and didn't consider lag time and grace periods.
 
Bo-4 said:
Provided a link several times so look 'er up for yaself. How would the WH possibly be able to track payments between the enrollee and their insurance company?

The numbers varied by insurer, but they ran in the 80-90% range and didn't consider lag time and grace periods.
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BS......if they know how many signed up....they should know how many paid.......it's not rocket science, or is it¿ Hell, the PTA evidently keeps better records....
 
Dawg said:
BS......if they know how many signed up....they should know how many paid.......it's not rocket science, or is it¿ Hell, the PTA evidently keeps better records....
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Steve, the payment goes to the insurance companies.. not the White House.

Jeez man, give it up. This thing is working and it'll be working lots better by November so i hope ya run on it! :)
 
Dawg said:
Addy darlin'...........ObamaCare is not going to change insurance CEO's pay........if that were so they wouldn't have donated $20 million to 'O' in 08.......
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Hope you will read this, Dawg.. :)

Who Are the Real Obamacare Hypocrites?

Republicans on Capitol Hill say they're all about cutting the national debt and slashing the "outrageous levels" of government spending.

They preach austerity as the best way to fix America's economic woes.

But don't be fooled.

When Paul Ryan and company talk about slashing government spending, what they're really saying is that they don't want government money going to working-class or poor Americans.

Instead, they want that money going to all of their millionaire and billionaire buddies who run America's giant health insurance corporations.

And in the process of handing over money to corporate executives, Republicans are costing American taxpayers, and the economy, trillions of dollars.

For example, if Republicans hadn't fought President Obama over a public option or even a single-payer system under Obamacare, and we had followed the path of Medicare's rollout in 1966, the government would have saved billions.

As the group Physicians for a National Health Program points out, according to a study by researchers at the City University of New York, when all is said and done, the costs of getting Obamacare up and running, and enrolling 7 million Americans in the program within the first year will total more than $6 billion dollars.

Let's compare that to the costs of Medicare's 1966 roll-out.

According to the CUNY researchers, Medicare's costs in its first year totaled $867 million in today's dollars. That's roughly $5.1 billion less than what Obamacare is costing in its first year.

And, within 11 months of LBJ signing Medicare into law, 19 million senior citizens had already signed up for it, accounting for 99 percent of those who were eligible for the program.

So, why was the 1966 Medicare roll-out so cheap compared to the Obamacare roll-out?

It was cheaper because back then, Republicans weren't shilling for their billionaire friends in the healthcare industry by opposing a single-payer system or a public option.

As Dr. David Himmelstein, one of the CUNY researchers, put it, "The simple single-payer, Medicare-for-all approach would save more than $400 billion annually on bureaucracy, enough to give every American first-dollar coverage. But to get those savings you have to break private insurers' stranglehold on health care and on Washington."

He added that, "Obamacare is a giant workaround crafted to keep private insurers at the center of the health care system."

Simply put, a single-payer healthcare system, which excludes billionaire private insurers and the influences they have over Republicans in Washington, could save our country billions.

Fortunately, there's a backdoor built into Obamacare which allows the individual states to create their own single-payer healthcare systems starting in 2016, and some states are already jumping on-board the single-payer ship.
http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/21055-who-are-the-real-obamacare-hypocrites
 
Bo-4 said:
Well over 80% Steve.. but the final numbers won't be in for another month. They typically have several weeks to make the first premium payment. I had almost a month to make my first one, and did it over the phone with a credit card when i got the confirmation from Select Health.
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You got your healthcare from healthcare.gov?

Just asking, no particular reason. Just interested.
 
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