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Obamacare jacks up her insurance
suntimes.com ^ | October 25, 2013 | CAROL MARIN

Posted on 10/25/2013 9:19:07 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe

Sue Klinkhamer has a problem.

It’s called Obamacare.

And the irony of her situation is not lost on her. In a recent email addressed to her former boss, Illinois Congressman Bill Foster, and other Democratic colleagues, she wrote:

“I spent two years defending Obamacare. I had constituents scream at me, spit at me and call me names that I can’t put in print. The congressman was not re-elected in 2010 mainly because of the anti-Obamacare anger. When the congressman was not re-elected, I also (along with the rest of our staff) lost my job. I was upset that because of the healthcare issue, I didn’t have a job anymore but still defended Obamacare because it would make healthcare available to everyone at, what I assumed, would be an affordable price. I have now learned that I was wrong. Very wrong.”

For Klinkhamer, 60, President Obama’s oft-repeated words ring in her ears: “If you like your health plan, you will keep it.”

Well, possibly not.

When Klinkhamer lost her congressional job, she had to buy an individual policy on the open market.

Three years ago, it was $225 a month with a $2,500 deductible. Each year it went up a little to, as of Sept. 1, $291 with a $3,500 deductible. Then, a few weeks ago, she got a letter.

“Blue Cross,” she said, “stated my current coverage would expire on Dec. 31, and here are my options: I can have a plan with similar benefits for $647.12 [or] I can have a plan with similar [but higher] pricing for $322.32 but with a $6,500 deductible.”

She went on, “Blue Cross also tells me that if I don’t pick one of the options, they will just assume I want the one for $647. ... Someone please tell me why my premium in January will be $356 more than in December?”

The sticker shock Klinkhamer is experiencing is something millions of individual policyholders are reeling from having gotten similar letters from their private insurers.

As UCLA Public Policy expert Dr. Gerald F. Kominski told CBS News this week, “Half of the 14 million people who buy insurance on their own are not going to keep the policies they previously had.”

Part of the reason those policies will be more expensive, he explained, is that Obamacare is requiring insurers to offer “a better product with better protection.”

Congressman Foster, Klinkhamer’s former boss who has since been returned to Congress, told me by phone Friday, “A very large number of people are very grateful” for Obamacare.

No doubt about that.

But right now Sue Klinkhamer, no novice to government or public policy, isn’t among them.

“I am a Democrat and I believe in healthcare for all,” she said.

“And I was excited that previously uninsured people could now get insurance on the open market. But this is not affordable to me.”

Klinkhamer suggests renaming the Affordable Care Act.

“Just call it,” she said dryly, “the Available Care Act.”


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Illinois
KEYWORDS: 0carenightmare; billfoster; obamacare; obamacareanecdote; obamacareanecdotes
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1 posted on 10/25/2013 9:19:07 PM PDT by Tailgunner Joe
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To: Tailgunner Joe

I love that it happened to a Dem—


2 posted on 10/25/2013 9:21:02 PM PDT by Mamzelle
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To: Tailgunner Joe

“I spent two years defending Obamacare. I had constituents scream at me, spit at me and call me names that I can’t put in print.”

Sure we can, do it every day here you dumb ass.


3 posted on 10/25/2013 9:23:12 PM PDT by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: Mamzelle

Eat it Dems. You built that. Yes you did. You got sucker punched by your own idol.


4 posted on 10/25/2013 9:24:11 PM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: Mamzelle

Utopia meets reality


5 posted on 10/25/2013 9:24:58 PM PDT by Awgie (truth is always stranger than fiction)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Good I hope her premiums rise proportionately to the damge she has done to this nation.


6 posted on 10/25/2013 9:25:32 PM PDT by jwalsh07
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To: Tailgunner Joe

All dem and RINO congress staff members need a copy of this as a reminder.


7 posted on 10/25/2013 9:25:57 PM PDT by Waryone
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To: Tailgunner Joe

This is just redistribution at it’s best.

“From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.”

Maybe she will now understand this better.


8 posted on 10/25/2013 9:26:17 PM PDT by kempster
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To: Tailgunner Joe

>”I am a Democrat and I believe in healthcare for all”<

I am a Conservative Republican and I believe in everything for everybody, if they work for it of course.


9 posted on 10/25/2013 9:28:43 PM PDT by Kickass Conservative (Good news, Federal Funding for my Tagline has been restored. Crisis averted.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

When you are down and discouraged, just remember that 50% of the people that get those notices from their insurers are democrats who voted for obumbler.

Although this woman, who is so dumb that she still defends obumbler care even after her rates are going way up, there are enough dims that will see the light and join conservatives to get obumbler care repealed.

We should not give up, but rather find those dims and enlist them.


10 posted on 10/25/2013 9:30:11 PM PDT by old curmudgeon
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To: Tailgunner Joe
“Just call it,” she said dryly, “the Available Care Act.”

Health care was available before the act passed too. And cheaper. And more choices.

11 posted on 10/25/2013 9:31:52 PM PDT by Vince Ferrer
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To: Tailgunner Joe
If you like your plan, you can keep it. That is not a lie. However, it isn't Oslamas fault that your insurance company cancels your plan. That is the fault of Big Insurance.
12 posted on 10/25/2013 9:32:00 PM PDT by deadrock (I am someone else.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Part of the reason those policies will be more expensive, he explained, is that Obamacare is requiring insurers to offer “a better product with better protection.”

Bull plop! Even the math deprived will be able to see that a policy that costs twice as much AND raises the deductible is not "better protection".

13 posted on 10/25/2013 9:33:22 PM PDT by Mygirlsmom (You know something's really wrong when the salesman keeps selling long after the close.)
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To: Mamzelle

Me too. She wanted it not she got it. Wait till she gets a load of the death panels she is really gonna be pissed.


14 posted on 10/25/2013 9:34:48 PM PDT by funfan
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To: deadrock
However, it isn't Oslamas fault that your insurance company cancels your plan. That is the fault of Big Insurance.

...How so....?

Since the Government changed the rules on the insurance companies in the first place.

Insurance companies are just using Adam Smith's invisible hand to move resources around so they stay in business.....and some policies are cancelled because of it.

15 posted on 10/25/2013 9:40:25 PM PDT by spokeshave (While Zero plays silly card games like Spades - Putin plays for keeps.)
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To: old curmudgeon
We should not give up, but rather find those dims and enlist them.

Agreed. I liked Sen Johnson's proposal...."If You Like Your Health Plan, You Can Keep It Act."
16 posted on 10/25/2013 9:41:56 PM PDT by Girlene (Hey, NSA!)
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To: deadrock
However, it isn't Oslamas fault that your insurance company cancels your plan. That is the fault of Big Insurance.

Huh? No it isn't. obamacare rules and regulations made those policies null and void. You can't be "legal" and carry those policies. THe new policies cost a lot more because they are complying with Obama's new rules and regulations.
17 posted on 10/25/2013 9:45:41 PM PDT by Girlene (Hey, NSA!)
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18 posted on 10/25/2013 9:46:03 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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To: spokeshave
I'm just stating what the King will be saying in his defense about keeping your insurance.
19 posted on 10/25/2013 9:52:02 PM PDT by deadrock (I am someone else.)
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20 posted on 10/25/2013 9:52:37 PM PDT by deadrock (I am someone else.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

She is STILL stupid.


21 posted on 10/25/2013 9:52:55 PM PDT by Swordmaker (This tag line is a Microsoft insult free zone... but if the insults to Mac users continue...)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Just call her "the available idiot" act.

Two years, you defended it. You believe in healthcare for all. Fine. Believing in THIS particular iteration and its many vicious and confiscatory features and provisions...you couldn't use some partially-functioning part of your brain and discern the impossibility?

And the lies. The dozens of stone-cold flat out lies you were told during that time. None of those impacted your thinking, not even a little bit? Even when you found out they were lies? And the doctors and the folks with career-length, not just your crapyy little two years working for some dumb lib parasite, honey ...experience with healthcare and how it works? None of those people were to be believed, either? And the very idea ...that your president, your government can tell you and enforce upon you, an allegedly free person what you can have and cannot have when it is you, by the remuneration for your efforts and the money you earn, paying for it , that wasn't onerous for you, either? It was all in your imagination that this was gonna be so darn cool and you'd be a shining example of altruism?

Well I hereby pronounce you a confirmed flaming idiot and have not a speck of sympathy for you and the damage your naive and ignorant idealism has done. Have a nice life.

22 posted on 10/25/2013 9:53:35 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (At no time was the Obama administration aware of what the Obama administration was doing)
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To: funfan
She wanted it not she got it. Wait till she gets a load of the death panels she is really gonna be pissed.

After she pays Shakedowncare's hundreds of dollars in premiums and copays, and the thousands in deductibles, all she'll get is a one-way ticket to the glue factory.

23 posted on 10/25/2013 10:01:24 PM PDT by Ezekiel (The Obama-nation began with the Inauguration of Desolation.)
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24 posted on 10/25/2013 10:01:40 PM PDT by mkmensinger
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Someone please tell me why my premium in January will be $356 more than in December?”

Everybody now: Look on the bright side, you now have pregnancy and birth control coverage .... Oh you are 60 years old.

25 posted on 10/25/2013 10:02:25 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Do The Math)
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Someone please tell me why my premium in January will be $356 more than in December?”
Because you voted for this “Edsel Care”! Now drive it home, you idiot.


26 posted on 10/25/2013 10:02:30 PM PDT by Mark (DONATE to FR Now!)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
Young fool. Only now, at the end, do you understand... You have paid the price for your lack of vision!
27 posted on 10/25/2013 10:04:18 PM PDT by Arthurio
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To: Chode
The sticker shock Klinkhamer is experiencing is something millions of individual policyholders are reeling from having gotten similar letters from their private insurers.

“I am a Democrat and I believe in healthcare for all,” she said. “And I was excited that previously uninsured people could now get insurance on the open market. But this is not affordable to me.”

Self proclaimed two time Obama voter
...she’s now shocked, just shocked over the Obamacare realities

"Of course, I want people to have health care," she said….
" I just didn't realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally."

Cindy Vinson, San Jose California


28 posted on 10/25/2013 10:06:36 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen ( L.I.P. (low information President))
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To: deadrock
If you like your plan, you can keep it. That is not a lie. However, it isn't Oslamas fault that your insurance company cancels your plan. That is the fault of Big Insurance.

Did you wander in from Democratic Underground with their talking points? Millions CAN'T KEEP THEIR PLAN because Obamacare made those plans ILLEGAL! Every plan in America has to now cover a long list of stupid things they didn't cover before. Stop whitewashing this administration's crimes against basic human rights and freedoms. Wake up and get a clue.

29 posted on 10/25/2013 10:07:29 PM PDT by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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30 posted on 10/25/2013 10:10:32 PM PDT by deadrock (I am someone else.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

She never realized that the people yelling at her were warning of a train wreck. She just kept stoking the boiler- “We don’t need bridges. If we go fast enough we can jump the river.”


31 posted on 10/25/2013 10:10:34 PM PDT by fini
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To: Tailgunner Joe

Dear Sue .... boo fricking hoo.


32 posted on 10/25/2013 10:13:47 PM PDT by MissMagnolia (You see, truth always resides wherever brave men still have ammunition. I pick truth. (John Ransom))
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To: Stand Watch Listen
" I just didn't realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally."

Cindy Vinson, San Jose California

and there it is...

33 posted on 10/25/2013 10:14:49 PM PDT by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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She’s 60 years old, and has to pay for birth control that she doesn’t use.


34 posted on 10/25/2013 10:17:04 PM PDT by political1 (Love your neighbors)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
As UCLA Public Policy expert Dr. Gerald F. Kominski told CBS News this week, “Half of the 14 million people who buy insurance on their own are not going to keep the policies they previously had.” <

Part of the reason those policies will be more expensive, he explained, is that Obamacare is requiring insurers to offer “a better product with better protection.”

"Better" protection that people neither need nor want.

So, how does that make it a "better" product?

35 posted on 10/25/2013 10:21:28 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance On Parade)
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i wonder if sue has learned the correct lesson from all this. i suspect she hasn’t.


36 posted on 10/25/2013 10:22:46 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: funfan

She’s 60?

She’ll be lucky to get any healthcare treatments:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052970203706604574374463280098676

scroll for the treatment vs. age graph.

She’ll pay a boatload. To ensure some 25yr old illegal with 6 kids gets really great prenatal care. If Sue breaks her hip she’s on her own...


37 posted on 10/25/2013 10:23:23 PM PDT by Black Agnes
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To: Tailgunner Joe

she’s lying. pelosi said no democrats lost elections in 2010 over obamacare, it was b/c of stimulus.

walking plastic-faced joke of a bag of skin.


38 posted on 10/25/2013 10:24:06 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
I feel like Kahn.


39 posted on 10/25/2013 10:27:11 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. No Blood For Ego!)
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To: Awgie

utopia revealed in the real world == dystopia

if libtard ideas are so great why are they all mandatory and punitive?


40 posted on 10/25/2013 10:27:44 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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41 posted on 10/25/2013 10:27:52 PM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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To: funfan

blue pill, sue.

now try to appeal our decision. who ya gonna appeal to?


42 posted on 10/25/2013 10:28:48 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe
The sticker shock Klinkhamer is experiencing is something millions of individual policyholders are reeling from having gotten similar letters from their private insurers.



The light of day is begining to burn into their squinty eyes...



"FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA!

.

43 posted on 10/25/2013 10:34:02 PM PDT by TLI ( ITINERIS IMPENDEO VALHALLA)
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Yep. Minoxidil and death panel time.



Stupid is terminal.
44 posted on 10/25/2013 10:36:22 PM PDT by PA Engineer (Liberate America from the Occupation Media. No Blood For Ego!)
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To: deadrock
However, it isn't Oslamas fault that your insurance company cancels your plan. That is the fault of Big Insurance.

Under Obamacare, "Big Insurance" has no choice. The plans that are being cancelled were made illegal by Obamacare, since they didn't provide enough unwanted and unneeded coverage (like for sex change operations).

So, yes, it most definitely IS "Oslama's fault".

45 posted on 10/25/2013 10:38:03 PM PDT by okie01 (The Mainstream Media: Ignorance On Parade)
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46 posted on 10/25/2013 10:39:04 PM PDT by deadrock (I am someone else.)
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To: okie01
The plans that are being cancelled were made illegal by Obamacare, since they didn't provide enough unwanted and unneeded coverage (like for sex change operations).

Or a single man not having maternity care coverage ...

47 posted on 10/25/2013 10:40:15 PM PDT by Lmo56 (If ya wanna run with the big dawgs - ya gotta learn to piss in the tall grass ...)
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48 posted on 10/25/2013 10:48:17 PM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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49 posted on 10/25/2013 10:48:31 PM PDT by LyinLibs (If victims of islam were more "islamophobic," maybe they'd still be alive.)
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To: Tailgunner Joe

ACA was passed by Dems and being helped to stay in place by RINOS helping Dems... why? What a wonderful way to hit the RESET button for all insurers so they can dump all of those losers who were codified into their existing plans! Once ACA fails there is no way to rebuild the past system..that is gone. Only way from here for Dems point of view single payer and for RINOS... new marketplace for the insurers with all who are high risk on the public dole. Add in the immigration plans with millions more added to this overburdened cluckfest... what could possibly go wrong?


50 posted on 10/25/2013 11:08:31 PM PDT by antceecee (Bless us Lord, forgive us our sins and bring us to everlasting life.)
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