Dean Angstadt Logging
953 Manatawny Rd, Boyertown, PA 19512
(610) 689-8273
Posted on 05/01/2014 4:56:20 PM PDT by lowbridge
In an interview with the Erik Wemple Blog today, Angstadt reported having watched that MSNBC segment online today. It was an introduction of sorts: “You wouldn’t have caught me dead watching MSNBC,” said Angstadt. “That’s probably the longest I’d ever sat and watched MSNBC in my life.”
Angstadt was in bad condition prior to his March 31 valve-replacement surgery. “I was going to die,” he told this blog. “I was preparing myself. I knew I was pretty sick since last October.” Yet he still resisted the attempts of friend Bob Leinhauser to get him enrolled in Obamacare. “I had to back him into a corner,” says Leinhauser, who worked for 27 years for Montgomery County’s fire and rescue department. He told Angstadt, “You’re what we call a cardiac cripple.”
After signing up for insurance via the Obamacare exchange, Angstadt pays $26.11 for the Highmark Blue Cross silver PPO plan, as reported by the Inquirer. The policy took effect just before Angstadt’s surgery.
But what accounts for Angstadt’s resistance to Obamacare in the first place? He says that he “leans” Republican and essentially listened to what the GOP had to say about Obamacare, and not so much to what the Democrats had to say. As for his media diet, Anstadt says he goes online for some of his news, but when it comes to television, “Fox News, of course, and that’s basically what I watch on TV,” in addition to local news, he says. “I like some of those radicals” on Fox News, he says. “I like O’Reilly.”
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It’s says he’s a retired “logger”
not sure if they are unionized or not
But now that he's been on the gov't gravy train, he's a fellow traveler.
Dean Angstadt, a self-employed logger with a bad heart,
Angstadt, who lives in a town north of Philadelphia and works in the woods, had a bum ticker that was dangerously ticking down. He could barely walk 50 feet without gasping for breath. This winter, his doctor told him he needed valve-replacement surgery. Problem was, Angstadt didn’t have health insurance.
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Who do you think is subsidizing his healthcare insurance now?
Who do you think will pay for it in the future when he decides it’s too expensive?
What about the people who are losing cancer treatment because of O care.
Not sure where you got the $6000 deductible number.
I looked the plan up and it says $1500 deductible in-network.
https://www.highmarkbcbs.com/sbc/pdf/bcbs/I_1898018940_20140101_SBC.pdf
It also says he was a 27 year county employee.
::SNIIIIIFFF:: Oh the lucky lucky guy...saved by zerocare and for only $26 per month out of his pocket.
$700 per month out of the taxpayers pocket
but hey...what do they care...greedy selfish taxpayer bastids...a LIFE was saved.
Bite me.
60% - directly by taxpayer
40% - everybody who is affected by the fake money created to fund the 40% of the yearly federal budget that is borrowed.
Yet he still resisted the attempts of friend Bob Leinhauser to get him enrolled in Obamacare. “I had to back him into a corner,” says Leinhauser, who worked for 27 years for Montgomery County’s fire and rescue department. He told Angstadt, “You’re what we call a cardiac cripple.”
a self-employed, self-sufficient logger who has cleared his own path for most of his 57 years, never expecting help from anyone. And even though he’d been uninsured since 2009
“But then I considered his monthly premium — $22.11 — and worked backward via ValuePenguin, which is still posting prices with a subsidy calculation for the just-finished 2014 open enrollment season. That premium for Angstadt’s plan in his home county of Berks County, PA bespeaks an annual income in the neighborhood of $16,000. At that income level, he qualifies for the ACA’s highest level of cost sharing reduction (CSR), calculated to give the plan an actuarial value of 94%, comparable to the best employer-sponsored plans. For this particular plan, the Highmark Blue Cross Silver PPO, that translates to a deductible of $100 and an out-of-pocket maximum of $500, as ValuePenguin shows and a Highmark rep verified for me.”
http://xpostfactoid.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-aca-saved-his-life-its-subsidies.html
It looks like he is actually on Medicaid (welfare)
Dean Angstadt Logging
953 Manatawny Rd, Boyertown, PA 19512
(610) 689-8273
Thats rich.
Leinhauser, 55, a retired firefighter and nurse
Medicaid generally has no premiums, deductible, copays, or coinsurance. You must be thinking of something else.
IRS might want to see his tax returns (if there are any)
Company Name: Dean Angstadt Logging
Trade Name:
Year Founded: 1996
Location Type: Single
Revenue (estimate): $ 160,000
Employees: (estimate): 2
Facility Size (sqft): N/A
Sector: Heavy Construction, Except Building Construction, Contractor
Category: Heavy construction, nec
Industry: Land clearing contractor
SIC Code: 1629
And he probably reaps some under the table revenue by selling fill dirt, logging and stone — things he’s paid to clear away.
I wonder if he paid workers comp insurance on his 2 employees?
Or did he pay them in cash?
I bet there is pay dirt in examining whether he paid business insurance & taxes if he wasn’t responsible enough to buy his own healthcare insurance.
Almost all those kinds of jobs are cash under the table unless it’s government work.
When I had my business WC was mandatory. It was something like 5.6% total of wages paid and either the state collected it all or the state collected a portion and the Federal government collected the rest, so 5.6% was de-facto mandatory. PErhaps I’m confusing it with FUTA and SUTA? I know I paid SDI — state disability insurance, it’s unavoidable if you’re doing your payroll right.
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