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Why You Shouldn't Complain About Obamacare "Rate Shock"
Slate ^ | December 7, 2013 | Josh Barro, politics editor, Business Insider

Posted on 12/07/2013 9:31:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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Got that, stupid peasants?
1 posted on 12/07/2013 9:31:44 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Amazing how many people want to be Goebels


2 posted on 12/07/2013 9:35:06 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well we are not losing our insurance but apparently we are losing our doctor because of Obamacare. Went to a Christmas party tonight and was told by a friend who has the same doctor that her husband was in to see our doctor recently. There was a huge marketing push because the doctor is leaving and taking 600 patients with him. He is opening up a concierge service. $1800 a year and he will be your doc.
I knew our doc hated Obama and Obamacare but dang!!!!
This crap is going to effect everyone in one way or another.


3 posted on 12/07/2013 9:38:21 PM PST by sheana
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Which brings us to the other way you can price health insurance: mandate that insurers charge the same price to everyone, regardless of health risk. The ACA does this, with the caveat that insurers are allowed a limited degree of age-based premium variation. Under ACA rules, the insurer wouldn't be allowed to raise Rosner's premium over a C-section.

Right.

And the only feasible out come is that the insurance companies will be bankrupted, and we'll be at the mercy of the politicians.

God help us.

4 posted on 12/07/2013 9:39:37 PM PST by IncPen (When you start talking about what we 'should' have, you've made the case for the Second Amendment)
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To: GeronL

Herr Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels lived like a king from the twenties until the last days of the Third Reich even though he wasn’t as high up the totem pole as Himmler, Goering, Bormann or a dozen others.


5 posted on 12/07/2013 9:43:56 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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Actually, the author is correct. There is no such thing as a free ride, so someone has to pay more so that someone else may pay less. It’s called socialism. So, earn more and/or take care of yourself, and you’ll have the privilege of taking care of those who don’t.

While there are some people who are poor or ill through no fault of their own, many others have made bad choices, like the homosexual who catches AIDS from sodomizing someone, the alcoholic who can’t hold a job, or the drug abuser who catches hepatitis from dirty needles. Those people will be covered at the expense of others who try to lead more responsible lives.


6 posted on 12/07/2013 9:44:39 PM PST by CitizenUSA (Democrats. The only constitutional rights they believe in are sodomy and abortion.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I guess propaganda paid well


7 posted on 12/07/2013 9:45:21 PM PST by GeronL (Extra Large Cheesy Over-Stuffed Hobbit)
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To: sheana

Are you going to join that?


8 posted on 12/07/2013 9:46:28 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("Of the 4 wars in my lifetime none came about because the US was too strong." Reagan)
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To: IncPen

That and the reason the CO resident looked for for out of marketplace coverage in the first place. In certain localities in CO the rates are sky high.


9 posted on 12/07/2013 9:48:27 PM PST by USNBandit (sarcasm engaged at all times)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

People on the Left forgo logic and slavishly follow and obey their anointed leaders. Witness what happened in Russia with Lenin and Stalin, China with Mao, Korea with Kim and now America with Obama. Dangerous flaw in the psychology of Leftists.


10 posted on 12/07/2013 9:49:06 PM PST by allendale
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
The media.

They are first.

11 posted on 12/07/2013 9:53:58 PM PST by Lazamataz (Early 2009 to 7/21/2013 - RIP my little girl Cathy. You were the best cat ever. You will be missed.)
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Hell yes.


12 posted on 12/07/2013 9:56:07 PM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: CitizenUSA

The Marxist first wookie warned early on about them needing a bigger slice of whiteys’ pies, so it’s not like she didn’t rattle her fat tail.
She is very involved in this generational theft.
Those of us who can fend for ourselves will be OK, but a lot of people are going to hurt. It’s hard to feel sorry for the nimrods who voted for them.


13 posted on 12/07/2013 10:02:24 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: All armed conservatives.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Neither should you complain that you only have four policies to choose from offered by only two insurance companies in your area, when you previously had so many choices that you complained about how hard it was to choose.

And you shouldn’t complain that the two companies can only offer policies that are almost identical, so in reality you can’t omit the policy features that you don’t want and don’t need, and thereby reduce the premium.

Central Planning: do us all a big favor! Thank you Comrades!


14 posted on 12/07/2013 10:05:37 PM PST by theBuckwheat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Wait...we’re not supposed to be talking about this anymore.
We’ve moved on to income inequality and the evil fast-food barons.


15 posted on 12/07/2013 10:11:44 PM PST by Ouchthatonehurt ("When you're going through hell, keep going." - Sir Winston Churchill)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Don’t buy the Insurance, pay the fine.

Then when your “pre-existing” condition reappears, or you break your arm, buy Insurance and go to the Doctor. Just have the Ovamacare number on your cell phone so you can call them from the Waiting Room at Emergency to sign up.

Isn’t that what Obamacare says you can do? It isn’t Insurance, it’s Healthcare.


16 posted on 12/07/2013 10:17:28 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (A Communist is nothing more than an honest Democrat...)
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To: sheana

My wife and I have different doctors. Both are doing exaactly as you describe - 600 patients with a yearly enrollment cost.

We are both joining as we believe:

If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor

Because both our doctors want nothing to do with this trash heap of a government run system. We know both doctors well. They are trimming their clients to about 1/2 of what they serve now

Neither voted for the clown


17 posted on 12/07/2013 10:44:51 PM PST by jcon40
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Don’t be too reassured. Eventually the medical boards will put an end to this inequality by restricting or threatening their licenses to practice. Comrade...it is only just to do so, no?


18 posted on 12/07/2013 10:56:14 PM PST by ogen hal (First amendment or reeducation camp)
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I absolutely agree. Some of my family lives in Italy. When universal health care hit there years ago many physicians ended up just quitting practicing or worked under the table.

Still I cant help but cheer the doctors who are standing up and saying they’re not going to play by the new rules.


19 posted on 12/07/2013 11:28:32 PM PST by jcon40
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Why You Should(n't)...

There have be a lot of these titled articles coming from the MSM lately.

Is there a new agenda in the J-schools? Did someone focus-test this new style of push-journalism?

-PJ

20 posted on 12/07/2013 11:33:21 PM PST by Political Junkie Too (If you are the Posterity of We the People, then you are a Natural Born Citizen.)
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