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One woman's story of qualifying for coverage under Affordable Care Act
The Columbian (WA) ^ | October 20, 2013 | By Jay Greene, The Seattle Times

Posted on 10/20/2013 7:27:53 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

Carissa Brooks went to the Shopping Center on Saturday to buy some thread. She went home with some health insurance. It was an emotional moment for the 36-year-old mother of two.

She stumbled upon a health-insurance outreach program by Public Health-Seattle. The department hosted the event to help people obtain coverage through the Affordable Care Act.

"It's exciting," Brooks said, after hugging her "in-person assister," the staffer certified to help with enrollment. "I was going to cry."

Brooks was able to qualify for Medicaid coverage under the new Affordable Care Act provisions, and she will not have to pay any premium for her coverage.

(Excerpt) Read more at columbian.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Washington
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; exchanges; failure; honeybadgerdontcare; medicaid; obamacare; obamacareanecdote; obamadontcare; rinocare
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1 posted on 10/20/2013 7:27:54 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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Brooks was able to qualify for Medicaid coverage under the new Affordable Care Act provisions, and she will not have to pay any premium for her coverage.

She's a MOOCHER! We Taxpayers are paying for her coverage! She's a MOOCHER!!!!!!

2 posted on 10/20/2013 7:29:29 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Why is this going off?


3 posted on 10/20/2013 7:29:41 AM PDT by darkwing104 (Do not take my word for it, these are my opinions...Do your own Homework)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The Takers


4 posted on 10/20/2013 7:30:57 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: usconservative

To function, Obamacare is going to have to attract and be able to sign up relatively healthy people who don’t qualify for a subsidy. Successfully adding another medicaid recipient to the rolls is hardly a success story.


5 posted on 10/20/2013 7:34:10 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: usconservative

She simply went to emergency before where there is a sign “no One is turned away”. Then she was assigned a free physician under Medicaid.


6 posted on 10/20/2013 7:35:32 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: usconservative
It's affordable care for Ms Brooks because you pay for it. Forward!!
7 posted on 10/20/2013 7:37:34 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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To: usconservative
"I have to provide for my kids."

I am going to go out on a limb and guess the father(s) are not in the picture..
8 posted on 10/20/2013 7:38:59 AM PDT by Kid Shelleen (Beat your plowshares into swords. Let the weak say I am strong)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How convenient! Say, this is really a neat deal! I even got a free toaster!

Where are the 7 million stories that go, “I never bothered with insurance because I never get sick but now they’re fleecing me for $850 a month! For nothing!”


9 posted on 10/20/2013 7:43:10 AM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
So the story here is that, instead of inflicting obamneycare on the formerly free people of the United States, they could have just expanded medicaid.

More people have lost their medical coverage as a direct result obamneycare than have acquired it under obamneycare. The media isn't talking about that little consequence though.

10 posted on 10/20/2013 7:45:27 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (All that is required for evil to advance is for government to do "something")
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“she will not have to pay any premium for her coverage.”

That is insane. My Medicare coverage money is taken out of my SS check. Then, I pay over $200 a month for supplement insurance to cover what Medicare doesn’t. I also pay over $60 a month for drug insurance.

That person gets it all for free - that is wrong and is part of what will destroy this country economically.


11 posted on 10/20/2013 7:45:40 AM PDT by Marcella ((Prepping can save your life today. I am a Christian, not a Muslim.))
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Elias Berner, a 64-year-old ... who now pays for his individual insurance coverage, spending $493 a month in premiums.

and his premiums will drop to $97? Riiight.

12 posted on 10/20/2013 7:47:32 AM PDT by MulberryDraw (That which cannot be paid, won't be paid.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s paradise. Everything is free. Hey, the Mercedes-Benz you gave me needs gasoline to run. I hope you’re paying for that too, because I can’t afford it?


13 posted on 10/20/2013 7:50:33 AM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

for a tiny fraction of the cost of that defunct website, the Obama thug gang could have covered thousands of poor people with sad stories and marched them in front of their obedient media.


14 posted on 10/20/2013 7:51:47 AM PDT by FreeAtlanta (Liberty or Big Government - you can't have both.)
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To: Marcella

will destroy....

is destroying


15 posted on 10/20/2013 7:52:05 AM PDT by CGASMIA68
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To: Kid Shelleen

I take Judge Judy’s position. I raised my own kids and provided for them.....I don’t want to pay for your kids.


16 posted on 10/20/2013 7:56:00 AM PDT by caww
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To: vbmoneyspender
Your car, sir.
17 posted on 10/20/2013 7:56:54 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
According the original story, she is married, as this is her and her husband...


Mark Stamp rests his eyes for a moment as he waits for his wife, Carissa Brooks, left, to apply for health insurance Saturday at a Washington Healthplanfinder event at Crossroads Shopping Center in Bellevue.

Picking up Obamacare at Crossroads mall

18 posted on 10/20/2013 7:57:01 AM PDT by machman
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http://seattletimes.com/html/home/index.html

Mark Stamp rests his eyes for a moment as he waits for his wife, Carissa Brooks, left, to apply for health insurance Saturday. Public Health — Seattle & King County set up shop at a Bellevue mall to help residents obtain health-insurance coverage, and more than 170 people showled up.


19 posted on 10/20/2013 7:57:55 AM PDT by kcvl
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To: machman

So, are they going to get any net payers into this system?


20 posted on 10/20/2013 7:58:11 AM PDT by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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