Posted on 12/10/2013 7:14:11 AM PST by chuckee
It took two months, weekly visits to the jammed-up federal website and a half-dozen phone calls, but JoAnn Smith finally got health insurance Monday. It’ll only cost her $3.19 a month to cover herself and her husband.
“I just instantly burst into tears,” she says.
Smith started working on getting insurance even before the federal website, HealthCare.gov, opened Oct. 1, pre-registering to get a headstart on the process. But, like millions of other Americans who tried, she was stymied by the website’s glitches.
She told NBC News her story last week, and as of Friday, a week after the federal website was supposed to have been much improved, Smith still could not get all the way through the process.
Smith, a 60-year-old medical transcriptionist in Clearwater, Fla., must use the federal website to buy health insurance because Florida opted not to run its own. She’s been without health insurance for years and had been looking forward to getting subsidized coverage for herself and her husband Eric, 56, who’s unemployed.
The 2010 Affordable Care Act aims to get health insurance to the 16 percent of Americans who don’t have any by helping some buy health insurance on new websites, and by widening Medicaid benefits to others. People have until Dec. 23 to sign up for health insurance that starts on the first possible day, Jan. 1. They have until March 31 to sign up and avoid paying a tax......
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did they leave out the part about her $5000 deductible and 40% co-pay?
I didn’t see the part where she thanked the taxpayers for subsidizing her insurance. Must have missed it....
let 'em pay, let 'em pay, let 'em pay.
I wonder if these two will send my mother a ‘Thank You’ card because WE now will be paying about $300 MORE every year for our coverage.... on a plan that “O’care” forced her off of. We're effectively paying TWICE... Once, because my mother paid into a plan for her entire working life and NOW once AGAIN, because she has been forced OFF her plan and onto a more expensive and inferior plan... just so the Smith's can have THEIRS for $3.
You guys are SO not welcome!!
You're welcome, Mr. and Mrs. Smith.
Correction.... that’s:
“I wonder if these two will send my mother a ‘Thank You’ card because WE now will be paying about $300 MORE every MONTH for our coverage”
That’s right...$300 more each MONTH!!
Exactly. Or you will see a story buried a few weeks from now that it was not $3.19, but $319 per month and the website by some unknown means put the decimal in the wrong place.
A medical transcriptionist doesnt makes a hell of a lot more than the subsidy level. This is an out and out lie.
These are Medicaid folks. They don’t need insurance. They’re already getting everything for free.
Anne J Smith
Age: 60
Phone:
(727) 447-8342
Address:
1112 Cardova Ln
Clearwater, FL 33755
Possible Relatives:
Smith Joann Eli
Eric V Smith
J E Smith
Joann E Smith
Anne J Smith
Age: 60
Phone:
(727) 447-8342
Address:
1112 Cardova Ln
Clearwater, FL 33755
Possible Relatives:
Smith Joann Eli
Eric V Smith
J E Smith
Joann E Smith
Be afraid. Be very afraid.
Maybe she could join them....is Scientology exempt....?
1112 Cardova Ln
Clearwater, FL 33755
This is why Obama and his crew have been so annoyed with that dang website, its failure put a damper on the flood of heartwarming stories of deserving folks getting lots of “free” and subsidized health-care goodies.
Expect to see these stories constantly on the Obama propaganda service (aka the mainstream media) from now on.
Just think of all those heartless Republicans who would rather give tax cuts to their billionaire buddies than health care to such deserving folks.
According to CoveredCa site for hubby and me (around the same age) our premiums unsubsidized would be $1200 per mnth. So they are receiving at least $12k a year from the taxpayer.
Many are finding you have to call to see if the application worked. Many who signed up are walking around with no insurance.
Also, so far it seems 90+% of those signing up for Obamacare are takers, not tax payers.
The whole thing should go BOOM!
Wait until she can’t find a doctor who will see her, or a hospital that will take her within 500 miles and she will have to pay for her drugs if they aren’t on the approved list.
How about lack of medications along with lack of physicians and hospitals?
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