Dozens of Widows Dropped from Health Care Due to Obamacare in Alabama

Weekly Standard ^ | April 17, 2014 | DANIEL HALPER

[grundle]

Over two dozen widows in Alabama were dropped from their health care plans due to Obamacare, WHNT reports:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jywc3c1MYUw

"More than two dozen widows who were married to retired Madison county employees, lost their health insurance coverage earlier this year. And now one commissioner says it's time to give it back to them. The change was sparked by the new federal health care law, but whether or not coverage can actually be restored really isn't clear," said the anchor.

Says the reporter, "Madison county commissioner Roger Jones says no one realized just how much the new federal health care law would change things, especially for the spouses of some of his former employees."

"A lot of these people are on fixed incomes, low fixed incomes. Some of them are living on Social Security and very little else and health insurance is very important to them," says the county commissioner.

"The widows who were dropped in January had always been covered under the county's old self-insured health care plan. But officials tell us the program had to be abandoned when they were informed that new regulations in Obamacare would amount to an extra $25 million dollars per year, money that chairman Dale Strong says the county simply didn't have," says the local reporter.

[MeshugeMikey]

Deuteronomy 27:19 ESV / 89 helpful votes

“‘Cursed be anyone who perverts the justice due to the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow.’ And all the people shall say, ‘Amen.’

[Fedupwithit]

'Moochin' War Widows...'

[TexasRepublic]

The death panels figure they won’t need insurance in the camps.

[goldstategop]

Obamacare: “If you like your Eldercare, you can keep your Eldercare.”

[NormsRevenge]

To all you stupid bastards who voted for and support this monstrosity, the clock is ticking.

[familyop]

"More than two dozen widows who were married to retired Madison county employees, lost their health insurance coverage earlier this year. And now one commissioner says it's time to give it back to them."

County governments around the country were dropping insurance coverage for lower paid employees 3 years ago. It's the only way administrators could get adequate raises to reflect their educations and regulatory professionalism.

Heavy Hitters: Top All-Time Donors, 1989-2014
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American Fedn of State, County & Municipal Employees $60,949,129 [Democrat] 81% [Republican] 1%”

National Cmte to Preserve Social Security & Medicare $10,414,606 [Democrat] 82% [Republican] 17%

Leviathan (Uncle Sam employs more people than you think)
National Review ^ | 02/03/2011 | Iain Murray
"...nearly 40 million Americans employed in some way by government."

[houeto]

To all you stupid bastards who voted for and support this monstrosity, the clock is ticking.

And to all you stupid bastards that would support the likes of Rand Paul......nevermind......FURP!

[ladyjane]

To all you stupid bastards who voted for and support this monstrosity,

Including you people here on FR who stayed home because you wouldn't vote for Romney.