290 PERCENT INCREASE IN PREMIUMS…FROM $248/MO TO $968/MO…LOSING CURRENT PLAN “DUE TO ACA REGULATIONS” 290 Percent Increase in Premiums Click image above to see supporting document
I just received my notice from BCBSNC of my new medical insurance premium. I now pay $248.18 for a high-deductible policy for my wife and me. According to the attached, the equivalent policy under ObamaCare will cost me $968.48.”
“I called BCBSNC and they verified that this was not an error or a joke. The letter also listed all the great things I get in return for a premium increase of 290%: maternity & newborn care [I am 55, no more babies planned], dental & vision for children, habilitative [is that a word?] care, and increased benefits for mental health and substance abuse. Clearly we are not going to see a $2,500/year reduction in premiums.
Why can’t I keep my insurance?” Because you’re stupid, sweetie.
Okay. This all goes to my screaming rants that people are responsible for their government. I’m getting really sick of people acting all indignant and acting like they’re being ambushed by this whole ObamaCare thing.
“Er my gawsh, y’all! My insurance bill just quadrupled. I’m serious you guys!”
Well, no kidding. What in the blue firey blazes did you expect? Let’s see. Insurance is risk pooling. A bunch of people get together and pay a small amount of money into a pool, and then when one of the people has an adverse event happen to them, the frequency of which can be broadly statistically predicted, then the pool pays out to the unlucky person who had the adverse event happen to them.
Now let’s see. From DAY FLIPPING ONE the Obama regime has been saying that mean old insurance companies will not be able to turn away customers with pre-existing conditions – in other words, insurance companies will have to let people JOIN THE RISK POOL … AFTER THE RISK EVENT HAS ALREADY HAPPENED.
Um, yeah. That is the total, complete destruction of the entire insurance paradigm. This isn’t my opinion. This is a mathematical fact … an extremely simple and elementary mathematical fact. If people who have already had the adverse risk event happen to them must be allowed into the risk pool, then it is no longer a risk pool. It is a wealth redistribution scam that victimizes the TOTAL, COMPLETE MORONS who enter and pay into the “pool” without already having had the risk event happen to them.
How can a nation of 330 million people, iniquitous gutter republic though it may be, not understand this? How can a nation of 330 million people have their tyrannical regime tell them in no uncertain terms that the entire insurance paradigm is going to be destroyed by said regime, and then when it happens everyone acts all shocked?
Oh, and then add onto that the fact that ObamaCare requires insurance to cover all kinds of bee-ess “preventative” and “elective” services. Well, if every single person in a risk pool is guaranteed to have a claim because the coverage is no longer for catastrophes, but also for purely non-emergent, elective pseudomedicine and outright quackery, then what do you expect? The “pool” has to collect more than it pays out. Period.
Finally, Karl Denninger broke the news today that most ObamaCare-compliant insurance has wicked in-network restrictions. As in if you receive any healthcare “out of network” you get ZERO coverage – and there is not one word of disclosure of any of this until AFTER you have bought the policy. And “out of network” has gone from generally meaning within a STATE to within a COUNTY, because, you know, competition is BAD or something.
So let’s recap. ObamaCare requires you to pay for slaughtering babies. We have known this for years. It utterly destroys the insurance paradigm by mathematical definition and necessity. We have known this since day one because it is a pure function of logic and math. Doctors and health professionals are retiring and quitting by the thousands. This has been happening for years. Your insurance premiums, which are now “mandatory” according to the state – yes, the state is now dictating to you that you MUST purchase a SERVICE COMMODITY as a condition of LEGALLY WAKING UP BREATHING in the iniquitous gutter republic and steaming satanic cesspit of baby-killing, sodomy and theft formerly known as the united states of america, have now skyrocketed, and you would have to be dumber than a box of hair to not see that coming.
Well, at what point does the inability to think through excruciatingly simple logical progressions and their inevitable consequences become moral culpability? At what point does the tolerance of the utterly irrational call down the thunder upon one’s own head? At what point does shrugging one’s shoulders at the blood-soaked ground beneath one’s own feet and muttering some sissy bee-ess about “not having any choice” become full-blown cooperation?
Right now. Right. Flipping. Now.
ObamaCare is yours now. YOU personally own it, because you refuse to do ANYTHING to stop it, and you have known from day one what it was and thus what it would do.
1. Media strike
2. Tax strike
3. General strike
4. Armed counter-revolution
Step 4 should have happened YEARS ago.
Please note that sitting on your butt and sending emails to all of your friends saying, “Isn’t this awful,” and, “Someone really should do something about this,” isn’t accomplishing anything, and your inaction is emboldening the enemy with each passing day.
Hoist the Battle Standard of Jesus Christ and FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!
My new favorite word, O'piphany.
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My new favorite word, O'piphany.
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I figured you'd like that!
See Ted's latest quip about Stymie?
Idiot Ramos grilling Ted over comments Ted's father made...where was this jackass when friends of SCoaMF were saying crap? Plus, I thought libiots always promoted the relativity test...gotta be in those shoes blah blah blah...Ted's father knows a dictator when he sees one, Ramos you jackass! Anyway...
I think he has absolutely been abusing his power and when you have a president who says "regardless of whether Congress acts I'm going to force my agenda on the American people," that's wrong, that's not consistent with our constitutional protections.
http://fusion.net/justice/story/ted-cruz-obama-absolutely-abusing-power-165870 (http://fusion.net/justice/story/ted-cruz-obama-absolutely-abusing-power-165870)
Hell yeah that clown is abusing power every damned day!
I was just out driving around listening to Rush list [again] the exemptions to unions, Congress, etc. for Obmacare – and had a thought…
…is there any way “Equal Protection” could come into play in a lawsuit against the administration/government for not being equally protected/insulated from the devastating effects of this legislation. It would almost be a reverse variant of equal protection as usually the plaintiff is seeking the same rights as another group.
Does anyone have insight or knowledge of how this might work?
Obamacare is a trainwreck, let us count the ways! (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-30/10-signs-obamacare-going-wreck-us-economy)If they were run by people like myself, you would hear much in the line of shove it where your friend Reggie puts it you scumbag MoFo
And if my ears didn't deceive me I heard a report this AM where the SCoaMF was bad-mouthing insurance companies for dropping polices...when it is ObamaCare provisions driving the damned drops in the first place!!!
And, now there is this report thay shows the Obama Regime is actively intimidating insurance companies to STFU about ObamaCare provisions causing these problems! (http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2013-10-30/obama-administration-forcing-insurance-companies-keep-quiet-about-obamacare-problems)
Seriously, how f**king stupid do these insurance exec's have to be to be bullied in private to STFU on one hand and then bullied in public for dropping insurance policies becuase of ObamaCare and take this sh*t sitting down?! If each and every one of them does not speak out they need to go blow their brains out for being such useless statist puppets!!!
How much more of this lying and intimidation do people have to fricken take?
People in this nation are proving themselves to be too stupid to live!
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Yeah they're trying to say that "if you like your health plan you can keep it" is still accurate because it's somehow not their doing if the plan providers cancel it. Just more of their legalistic word manipulation, like when Obongo said raising the debt ceiling doesn't cause an increase in the debt.
Yeah they're trying to say that "if you like your health plan you can keep it" is still accurate because it's somehow not their doing if the plan providers cancel it. Just more of their legalistic word manipulation, like when Obongo said raising the debt ceiling doesn't cause an increase in the debt.
And they're full of sht -- the law as originally written "grandfathered" some existing plans; a little while later, the law was rewritten -- by HHS, I might add, which smacks of illegality -- to stipulate that those plans that could be retained had to comply with the other Obamacare mandates and that any change made (it said "significant" change; yeah, BS) would render the "grandfathering" moot.
Yeah they're trying to say that "if you like your health plan you can keep it" is still accurate because it's somehow not their doing if the plan providers cancel it. Just more of their legalistic word manipulation, like when Obongo said raising the debt ceiling doesn't cause an increase in the debt.
And they're full of sht -- the law as originally written "grandfathered" some existing plans; a little while later, the law was rewritten -- by HHS, I might add, which smacks of illegality -- to stipulate that those plans that could be retained had to comply with the other Obamacare mandates and that any change made (it said "significant" change; yeah, BS) would render the "grandfathering" moot.
Yeah they're trying to say that "if you like your health plan you can keep it" is still accurate because it's somehow not their doing if the plan providers cancel it. Just more of their legalistic word manipulation, like when Obongo said raising the debt ceiling doesn't cause an increase in the debt.
And they're full of sht -- the law as originally written "grandfathered" some existing plans; a little while later, the law was rewritten -- by HHS, I might add, which smacks of illegality -- to stipulate that those plans that could be retained had to comply with the other Obamacare mandates and that any change made (it said "significant" change; yeah, BS) would render the "grandfathering" moot.
And taxes are paid on a voluntary basis. You are always free to decide to not pay them.
Yeah they're trying to say that "if you like your health plan you can keep it" is still accurate because it's somehow not their doing if the plan providers cancel it. Just more of their legalistic word manipulation, like when Obongo said raising the debt ceiling doesn't cause an increase in the debt.
And they're full of sht -- the law as originally written "grandfathered" some existing plans; a little while later, the law was rewritten -- by HHS, I might add, which smacks of illegality -- to stipulate that those plans that could be retained had to comply with the other Obamacare mandates and that any change made (it said "significant" change; yeah, BS) would render the "grandfathering" moot.
Furthermore (and I forgot to include this previously), also included in this little re-write after the fact, if your insurance plan has been negotiated through collective bargaining, you may keep your plan forever. Read: unions, private and public sector.
Remember Trumka and Hoffa blustering all over the "news" about how bad Obamacare was? Remember a little meeting at the WH? Haven't heard a damn discouraging word from them since then, have we.
You Also Can't Keep Your Doctor
I had great cancer doctors and health insurance. My plan was cancelled. Now I worry how long I'll live.
By EDIE LITTLEFIELD SUNDBY
Nov. 3, 2013 6:37 p.m. ET
Everyone now is clamoring about Affordable Care Act winners and losers. I am one of the losers.
My grievance is not political; all my energies are directed to enjoying life and staying alive, and I have no time for politics. For almost seven years I have fought and survived stage-4 gallbladder cancer, with a five-year survival rate of less than 2% after diagnosis. I am a determined fighter and extremely lucky. But this luck may have just run out: My affordable, lifesaving medical insurance policy has been canceled effective Dec. 31.
My choice is to get coverage through the government health exchange and lose access to my cancer doctors, or pay much more for insurance outside the exchange (the quotes average 40% to 50% more) for the privilege of starting over with an unfamiliar insurance company and impaired benefits.
Countless hours searching for non-exchange plans have uncovered nothing that compares well with my existing coverage. But the greatest source of frustration is Covered California, the state's Affordable Care Act health-insurance exchange and, by some reports, one of the best such exchanges in the country. After four weeks of researching plans on the website, talking directly to government exchange counselors, insurance companies and medical providers, my insurance broker and I are as confused as ever. Time is running out and we still don't have a clue how to best proceed.
Two things have been essential in my fight to survive stage-4 cancer. The first are doctors and health teams in California and Texas: at the medical center of the University of California, San Diego, and its Moores Cancer Center; Stanford University's Cancer Institute; and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
The second element essential to my fight is a United Healthcare PPO (preferred provider organization) health-insurance policy.
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For a cancer patient, medical coverage is a matter of life and death. Take away people's ability to control their medical-coverage choices and they may die. I guess that's a highly effective way to control medical costs. Perhaps that's the point.
CBS News analysis found that the deadline for final security plans slipped three times from May 6 to July 16. Security assessments to be finished June 7 slid to August 16 and then August 23. The final, required top-to-bottom security tests never got done.
The House Oversight Committee released an Obama administration memo that shows four days before the launch, the government took an unusual step. It granted itself a waiver to launch the website with "a level of uncertainty ... deemed as a high (security) risk."
QuoteCBS News analysis found that the deadline for final security plans slipped three times from May 6 to July 16. Security assessments to be finished June 7 slid to August 16 and then August 23. The final, required top-to-bottom security tests never got done.
The House Oversight Committee released an Obama administration memo that shows four days before the launch, the government took an unusual step. It granted itself a waiver to launch the website with "a level of uncertainty ... deemed as a high (security) risk."
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57610797/healthcare.gov-ducked-final-security-requirements-before-launch/?tag=socsh (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18563_162-57610797/healthcare.gov-ducked-final-security-requirements-before-launch/?tag=socsh)
H/T PJ Media
"It granted itself a waiver". Newspeak for "they broke the law". Again.
Ouch! That'll rankle some folk in NYC...
Not a bad analogy though...
Ouch! That'll rankle some folk in NYC...
Not a bad analogy though...
I think it's in poor taste, having watched that day live, in person, with my own eyeballs. Let me know when we use images of Pearl Harbor to knock OwebamaCare.