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Watch: Employees in Pennsylvania Company Learn of Increased Health Costs Due to Obamacare
Weekly Standard ^ | January 30, 2013 | DANIEL HALPER

Posted on 01/30/2014 12:20:23 PM PST by grundle

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To: onyx

I hope they WERE obastard voters. Then they’d richly deserve what they got!


61 posted on 01/30/2014 1:38:41 PM PST by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: Jim from C-Town

You make an interesting point.

I’ve never been good at, or even interested in establishing a budget.

Balancing my checkbook just wasn’t one of my priorities.

I’ve gone from ball-parking my available balance in the Hundreds to the thousands and back to the hundreds.

It’s all about optimism.


62 posted on 01/30/2014 1:39:49 PM PST by Zeneta
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To: piytar

And I just want to point out, calling the president a bastard IS technically correct.


63 posted on 01/30/2014 1:41:37 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Blood of Tyrants

I’m so old, I told my wife I was getting a free sex change paid by Obama and she said “What difference, at this point, does it make?”


64 posted on 01/30/2014 1:41:56 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: DCBryan1

Headline on Drudge: Romney leads New Hampshire primary voters for 2016.

New Hampshire voted for the Doofus in 2012.
Having voter remorse ?


65 posted on 01/30/2014 1:48:03 PM PST by A'elian' nation ("Political Correctness does not legislate tolerance; it only organizes hatred." Jacques Barzun)
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To: mdmathis6
I think the plump blond woman with the 2 kids who’s paying 1300 dollars a month now voted for Obama

Sure she did - TWICE! Somehow she will convince herself it isn't 0dumbo's commie fault, but greedy insurance companies and the Tea Party forcing her to pay, what will probably amount to at least half or more of her paycheck on "affordable" healthcare! I swear, there should be competency tests before allowing morons to vote!

66 posted on 01/30/2014 1:49:31 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Who but a TYRANT shoves down another man's throat what he has exempted himself from?)
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To: The Sons of Liberty

Not to worry....... the increase in the minimum wage will inflate all wages enough to cover the increase in health insurance

Wage inflation is Obama salvation without the crucifixion


67 posted on 01/30/2014 1:52:38 PM PST by bert ((K.E. N.P. N.C. +12 ..... History is a process, not an event)
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To: Jim from C-Town
The premium she is paying for employer-sponsored coverage is far above the 9.5% unaffordability criterion. So, just for fun, I ran her and the child through my state's exchange premium estimator, based on an income of $50,000.

Monthly Cost Estimated monthly silver plan premium (without subsidy) $618
Estimated tax credit from the government $222
Your estimated monthly silver plan premium $396

If that income is correct she would even qualify for cost-sharing deductible reduction in my state.

68 posted on 01/30/2014 1:59:15 PM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: I want the USA back

The people believed in “the rich paying their fair share.”. They didn’t realize that they would be part of “the rich.”


69 posted on 01/30/2014 2:01:22 PM PST by stilloftyhenight (Unite in the primary to unseat RINOs...staying home isn't an option.)
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To: grundle

I will wait to get the details in my local Progressive Official Obama Propaganda Outlet, poopo, the TIMES UNION (Albany NY).


70 posted on 01/30/2014 2:01:34 PM PST by BilLies ("Will none rid me of this lying bastard ?")
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To: steve86

It doesn’t say if she was married or not. If married is her husband employed. Too little info to extract what her premium would be on the PA exchange or on any other. Regardless. The premium is unchanged, only the people paying the premium change. Either her or her neighbors will pay.


71 posted on 01/30/2014 2:01:37 PM PST by Jim from C-Town (The government is rarely benevolent, often malevolent and never benign!)
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To: grundle

I’m sure we know who Andrew voted for, and I’d bet Wendy voted the same. Hint: not Romney.


72 posted on 01/30/2014 2:02:27 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: MNnice
Obama would just say their employer needs to raise their pay to help them afford the higher costs.

Obama wants our only alternative to be his healthcare insurance.

The Obamacare train is planned to crash and around the corner single payer is supposed to pick up all the pieces.

73 posted on 01/30/2014 2:04:12 PM PST by Slyfox (We want our pre-existing HEALTH INSURANCE back!)
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To: grundle

Keep in mind, suckers...not ONE SINGLE REPUBLICAN voted for this. Admittedly; they didn’t do much to clean up the mess, either.


74 posted on 01/30/2014 2:06:50 PM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: Zeneta
Since when does a small business invite their insurance broker in to deliver their new healthcare costs ?

When you're the small business owner who's own rates went sky-high and you're already angry at what this new "law" is doing to your employees.

I've been a small business owner - twice. The second time in the mid 90's with 22 employees - all of which were provided health care benefits. Our insurance broker was in each year reviewing our options to keep costs down back then. My employees had a say in the plan we chose and therefore saw themselves what they were paying vs. what I was paying for their insurance.

I can only imagine that the auto body shop owner in this video was pretty distraught at the financial implications being foisted upon his employees as a result of Obamacare....

75 posted on 01/30/2014 2:11:39 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Jim from C-Town

Based on the information available to me she can get a silver premium and deductible subsidized policy (in my state) for $1,000/month less than the plan her employer is offering.


76 posted on 01/30/2014 2:16:20 PM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: grundle

Man I wished the reporterette had asked who in the room voted for Obama last go around.

“OK, how many of you did this to yourselves this year by voting for Obama in 2012?

How many of you who didn’t vote for him think it would be fairer to take your increases and pass those along to the geniuses who that this would be a good idea in 2012?”


77 posted on 01/30/2014 2:18:02 PM PST by RinaseaofDs
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To: MrB

Lol. Thanks. Few people (even Freepers) catch that. Lol again. Although I’m sure using that term has put me on some lists. Probably a few more than being a poster/contributor to Free Republic does. Fortunately (or maybe unfortunately), I lack the gene that lets one feel fear. And yes, that has gotten me into trouble before...


78 posted on 01/30/2014 2:29:34 PM PST by piytar (The predator-class is furious that their prey are shooting back.)
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To: usconservative

I understand.

I know the issues that both the business owner and his employees face.

It’s a disaster.

I simply suggested that having the media present when they “found out” for the “first time” about their new costs, was staged.

In no way am I saying that these costs or issues aren’t real.

The local business owner and the local media got together and produced something they thought would have an impact. God bless them.

To suggest that this was the “first time” they found out about their new HC cost’s is disingenuous.

The media seems to be stuck in a sense that their viewers are stupid.


79 posted on 01/30/2014 2:29:40 PM PST by Zeneta
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To: Cowboy Bob

It’s a bit more than that, Bob.


80 posted on 01/30/2014 2:34:05 PM PST by Osage Orange (I have strong feelings about gun control. If there's a gun around, I want to be controlling it.)
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