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VIDEO: Students at historically black college complain Obamacare has left them uninsured
Campus Reform ^

Posted on 11/16/2013 11:29:45 AM PST by sunmars

Students at Bowie State University assailed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on Thursday after administrators cancelled a low cost school-wide health care plan due to new regulations in the law.

Many students told Campus Reform that the now cancelled plans, which provided coverage for just $50 per semester, were the only insurance they could afford.

“I can’t afford anything right now,” one said. “I can’t even afford my loans.”

“We don’t have that money,” said another. “We can barely afford books.”

Several students said that they felt they had been let down.

“It’s stupid and it’s Obama’s fault,” one said. “You haven’t done anything, Obama, and I’m disappointed in you.”

“What it was hyped up to be, was that it was supposed to solve a lot of problems and help a lot of people, and its not really doing that,” said another.

Many students had no idea the plans had been canceled, which was announced only in an email to their school addresses.

In a statement to Campus Reform, Bowie State said it was confident that Obamacare would fill the void left by the canceled plans.

“Most students are now able to be covered under their parent’s health plans up to age 26 at no additional cost and new affordable coverage is becoming available through the Maryland State Insurance Exchange System,” it read.

Campus Reform conducted the interviews with student Eugene Craig III, who first wrote about canceled plans in an article in the school’s alternative newspaper, The Bulldog Collegian.

(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...


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KEYWORDS: lawlessnation; obama; obamacare; obamalies
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Hilarious...you voted for it, you got it, that is what you got for voting on nothing but skin color.

They put him there and now they have realised he has screwed them royally.

1 posted on 11/16/2013 11:29:45 AM PST by sunmars
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To: sunmars

Schadenfreude.


2 posted on 11/16/2013 11:31:06 AM PST by left that other site (.)
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To: sunmars

*SMIRK*


3 posted on 11/16/2013 11:31:29 AM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

thats exactly how i felt, idiocy has consequences and boy did they get fooled.


4 posted on 11/16/2013 11:35:55 AM PST by sunmars
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To: sunmars

Cry me a river...


5 posted on 11/16/2013 11:39:03 AM PST by Cowboy Bob (They are called "Liberals" because the word "parasite" was already taken.)
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“They put him there and now they have realized he has screwed them royally. “

That would not stop them from voting Democrat. There is no connection of cause and effect in their heads.


6 posted on 11/16/2013 11:40:32 AM PST by Gen.Blather
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They put him there and now they have realised he has screwed them royally.

Won't the just go on Medicade?

7 posted on 11/16/2013 11:43:19 AM PST by Go Gordon (Barack McGreevey Obama)
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To: Gen.Blather

Yeah but if it stops voting for anyone, that’s still a bonus, if it deters them from the polls in the first place its a boon for the GOP.


8 posted on 11/16/2013 11:44:08 AM PST by sunmars
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To: Gen.Blather

They’ll blame Whitey. Obamacare is not working due to Whitey’s greed. They will never look in the mirror...never.


9 posted on 11/16/2013 11:44:21 AM PST by EEGator
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To: sunmars

What? Nobody labeled these students racist yet?


10 posted on 11/16/2013 11:46:19 AM PST by Lake Living
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To: sunmars

“Most students are now able to be covered under their parent’s health plans up to age 26 at no additional cost and new affordable coverage is becoming available through the Maryland State Insurance Exchange System,” it read.

Assuming the parents have a health plan......by the way, does anyone know if the federal employees healthcare plan has this up to age 26 provision?


11 posted on 11/16/2013 11:46:21 AM PST by Toespi
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And they can now be put on their parent's policy till they are 26...if their parent's policy wasn't terminated by Obama, or the parent's can afford the astronomical cost of an Obama approved policy.

Obama's name will be a curse in the not to distant future (it already is in my world, but I'm talking about our deteriorating society at large).

12 posted on 11/16/2013 11:46:50 AM PST by Lawgvr1955 (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: sunmars

Too funny!


13 posted on 11/16/2013 11:47:13 AM PST by ought-six ( Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: sunmars

That’s racist.


14 posted on 11/16/2013 11:48:59 AM PST by pallis
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To: sunmars

Gosh, what a wonderful learning opportunity.

“Teachable Moment”, as the Left says.

Don’t vote for racists who think that running cheap cons and extortion rackets is a way to run the country.


15 posted on 11/16/2013 11:49:11 AM PST by Regulator
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To: sunmars

“mmmm mmmmm mmmmmmmmmmm!”


16 posted on 11/16/2013 11:50:26 AM PST by bigbob (The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly. Abraham Lincoln)
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Teachable Moment indeed!


17 posted on 11/16/2013 11:50:27 AM PST by petercooper ("I was for letting people keep their health insurance, before I wasn't". --- Barack Obama)
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“Most students are now able to be covered under their parent’s health plans up to age 26 at no additional cost and new affordable coverage is becoming available through the Maryland State Insurance Exchange System,” it read.

1. Many of the students have parents (or more likely, a parent) who don't have a family plan. For these kids, the new coverage will be a whole lot more than the $50 a month they were paying.

2. If the parents do have a family plan that will cover kids to age 26, the cost of that plan is going to go up at least enough to cover the cost of covering more adult children, which will be a whole lot more than the $50 a month they were paying. Even with "free" birth control, this will still cost them a whole lot more.

3. Serves them right for being racists and voting for a known communist just because of his skin color.

18 posted on 11/16/2013 11:50:58 AM PST by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: sunmars
If you voted for it you deserve it!

Eat Your Peas!


19 posted on 11/16/2013 11:51:56 AM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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To: sunmars

What say the students at the historically “white” college have to say, nuff sed!


20 posted on 11/16/2013 11:54:15 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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