Posted on 10/26/2013 2:59:39 PM PDT by Captain Jack Aubrey
Editor, Times-Dispatch:
I am self-employed and I pay for my own health insurance. I assumed I would pay a surcharge for the Affordable Care Act every month. I assumed incorrectly that I would have the freedom to choose, that my future and security were in my hands. My insurance agent visited my office and asked me what provision of the ACA I wanted to sign up for. I thought he was kidding; he wasn’t. I do not have a choice. My policy will go from $325 a month to more than $900 a month, my coverage will be nowhere near what I have today and I must change my family doctor, eye doctor and dentist. My deductible will be as high as $8,000.
This act is now a federal law and there are no private insurance policies available — none — at any cost. I actually felt sorry for my insurance agent as I could see his frustration and weariness at having to explain this to his clients over and over.
My impression was that this act was to assist those who could not assist themselves, to provide help to those in need. I was fundamentally supportive and in agreement with this concept.
I should have seen this coming simply by the fact the lawmakers exempted themselves, their families and their staff. If a car mechanic will not drive a car after he performs major repairs, then the car is probably not safe for me and my family.
Why $900 a month for an inferior product? The middle-class citizen will carry this burden, the rich can pay cash, the poor pay nothing, and the folks in the middle pay everything.
Michael Carroll. Richmond.
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Thanks, saved me the trouble
obama won’t be satisfied until he’s run America into complete ruin, bankruptcy and chaos.
That’s been the plan all along.
Establishment type are just like Ayotte: they will promise everything and deliver nothing, and then complain when comfronted with their duplicity.
“Why $900 a month for an inferior product? The middle-class citizen will carry this burden, the rich can pay cash, the poor pay nothing, and the folks in the middle pay everything.”
Which is exactly what all of us conservatives have been saying since before this turd was implemented. You know, the same conservatives he probably thought of as terrorists and called “teabaggers” every chance he got.
So now, he’s reaping what he’s sown. He can shut the hell up and suffer in silence. None of us want to hear how upset he is, after he most likely opposed efforts to stop it at every turn.
The only good thing about this is that 50% of the people crying over their new insurance costs are people who voted for obumbler.
Problem is, 90% of them would do it again if they could.
You can’t fix stupid.
Be sure you own it. Most states have laws about the number of people in a rental unless your illegal.
>> If only democrat policies only hurt democrats like this guy.
Agreed, but the idiots affect us all.
I heard on the radio a caller who was a nurse,
and she said nobody is talking about how the
hospitals will go broke.
The insurance company would pay them all the money
right away, but with these new higher deductibles they will
only receive whatever money that people can pay
them each month. (which won’t be very much)!!
Why $900 a month for an inferior product? The middle-class citizen will carry this burden, the rich can pay cash, the poor pay nothing, and the folks in the middle pay everything.
Liberal elites hate working class white people who are the middle class.
Quite the OPPOSITE!! The increase spending will make the GDP skyrocket. I can hear it now,
"GDP off the charts...Economy on the path to recovery".
We both know the math does not work BUT it will be spin positively.
I realize this is a real ‘feel good’ story, but a lot of innocent people are going to get hurt too.
You are absolutely correct....
just wait until the Business mandate kicks in....that might be the straw that breaks the camels back...what a disaster....
I read that as just a throway line to make himself look more reasonable and balanced before going on to criticize the law, but you are probably right.
Moron.
Hope you’re 60+. Cuz you’ll REALLY get it then!
“Whites are the biggest group on food stamps. Trust me, come to Pennsylvania and you can find all the mooching white trash bums you want.”
No doubt; there are plenty in NJ (and that number is growing).
“Moron.
Hope you’re 60+. Cuz you’ll REALLY get it then!”
Is this directed to me or the letter writer? If me, I have no idea what it means. If the letter writer, I have no idea what it means.
I’m not sure; you’re responding to the wrong poster.
You are correct. Sorry.
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