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Obamacare's popularity is at an all-time high, poll shows
CBS News ^ | August 30th 2017 | Walecia Konrad

Posted on 08/31/2017 2:55:36 PM PDT by Ennis85

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To: dhs12345

If she is a friend of yours, you should politely ask her how she gets free Healthcare since you and your Wife are paying through the nose for it.

Maybe she can give you some pointers.

BTW - The Wife and I pay almost $2,000 a Month for our HMO Coverage. $1,987 to be exact.

In December 2013 we were paying $900 a Month.

Too bad they didn’t Poll me.


61 posted on 09/01/2017 7:36:38 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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To: dhs12345

How in the world does she pay the deductible?


62 posted on 09/01/2017 7:54:53 PM PDT by Moonman62 (Make America Great Again!)
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Doctors used to be considered tradesmen who made decent wages, but nothing out of the ordinary. But the liberal elites decided that doctors should be considered “professionals.” So, now, 99% of patients are dealing with a doc who makes much, much more money than they do. The doctor also is absolutely convinced of his (or her, nowadays) intellectual superiority.

Fixing health care starts with knocking those elitists down about five pegs and slashing their incomes.


63 posted on 09/01/2017 10:02:09 PM PDT by GodAndCountryFirst
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Obamacare's popularity is at an all-time high, poll shows

GOOD!... Let them keep it and stay on it and see where it takes them.

64 posted on 09/01/2017 10:15:53 PM PDT by VideoDoctor
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Interesting story. My wife and her were talking about it. My wife mentioned our concerns and that we take our son to an HMO based primary because we are trying to save costs. She “matter of factly “ said that she takes her kids to the emergency hospital. I think that she realized how unfair it is.

$2000? Damn! Ours would be a lot higher but my employer pays for mine. They do offer family coverage but it is at full price and it is cheaper to buy through the exchange.

65 posted on 09/02/2017 7:01:25 AM PDT by dhs12345
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I don’t know.


66 posted on 09/02/2017 7:01:55 AM PDT by dhs12345
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To: Kickass Conservative
Oh one other interesting point.

Another friend, a big advocate for Obamacare, gave me a pointer — intentionally skip paying your utilities bill for a month. You can then show a hardship and then you can get your Obamacare free and subsidized.

Sorry, cheating the system is not right and totally dishonest. BTW, he thinks that Obamacare is wonderful.

He is no longer a good friend.

67 posted on 09/02/2017 7:06:29 AM PDT by dhs12345
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“intentionally skip paying your utilities bill for a month. You can then show a hardship and then you can get your Obamacare free and subsidized.”


You have to have received a shut-off notice,which usually doesn’t go out after one month of not paying the utility——and the hardship exemption just cover the charge for NOT HAVING insurance.

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68 posted on 09/02/2017 7:17:30 AM PDT by Mears
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But apparently, he figured it out and gets his insurance subsidized. I haven’t talked with him about it since so maybe it didn’t work for him after all.

He also was working with a broker. Sounds like the broker was a con artist, too. Maybe the broker gave him the pointer.

We tried using a broker — a waste of time. We already knew as much as he did.


69 posted on 09/02/2017 7:28:06 AM PDT by dhs12345
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“But apparently, he figured it out and gets his insurance subsidized. “

There have always been people who figure out ways to rig the system.

Good luck to you. (I’m on Medicare so not involved in this.)

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70 posted on 09/02/2017 7:34:09 AM PDT by Mears
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Thanks.

A few more years for us and Medicare... if it isn’t bankrupt when we retire.


71 posted on 09/02/2017 7:45:45 AM PDT by dhs12345
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The $2,000 I just for the Wife and I, we are in our early 60’s.

Our Insurance is through my Retirement Plan, but my old Company doesn’t contribute to it. It’s basically the COBRA Price. I checked on the CA Care (Obamacare Exchange) and the pricing would be the same if we bought a top tier plan through them.

We could have saved about $300 a Month if we joined Kaiser, but they have killed off a couple of people we knew.

I have Leukemia, and I like the Oncologist I have. He has kept me alive for 12 Years. I’m not switching Horses in the middle of the Stream.

The good news is I am eleven Months away from Medicare. The bad news is, my Wife is three Years away from Medicare.


72 posted on 09/02/2017 8:52:50 AM PDT by Kickass Conservative (The way Liberals carry on about Deportation, you would think "Mexico" was Spanish for "Auschwitz".)
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Wow. I wouldn’t change either. Cobra is very expensive.

Good luck.


73 posted on 09/02/2017 9:05:47 AM PDT by dhs12345
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I’ll wager the sample for the CBS poll contained only those who were receiving subsidies.

5.56mm


74 posted on 09/02/2017 9:08:48 AM PDT by M Kehoe
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