Posted on 01/01/2014 3:59:41 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic
Many of us can identify with the frustrating experience that Karri Kinder, a mother of two from Auburn, Alabama, has had with Obamacare. She penned this open letter to share her story:
An Open Letter to the Obama Administration and American Citizens:
My family’s journey with securing our new insurance under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) started on October 1, 2013. I have decided to write this letter to let the American people know what it has been like for us. We are a family of four, with two little boys’ ages seven years old and three years old. My husband and I have had full time jobs for 6 years and 13 years respectively. We have been with the same two companies for those years. We are a middle class family; we own our three bedroom two bath house, we own two cars, and previously provided our own insurance for the four of us. We have coverage through Individual Blue from Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama until 12/31/13. Our premiums have been $380.00 a month, which also included dental coverage for all four of us.
On October, 1, 2013 we received our letters like other Alabamians about our new premiums and plans for 2014 from Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) of Alabama. When I opened our letter to say I had sticker shock was an understatement. Our premiums for the Blue Saver Silver would now be $753.26. This included the ACA tax but did not include the additional $75.00 we would need to pay in order to keep dental for me and my husband. So we would need to pay total $828.26 to keep health and dental insurance for the four of us. This payment is roughly $64.00 less than what we pay for our mortgage each month.
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That is the QUESTION of the millenium!
To NBC she is obviously just a Southern white who is an anti-Black, anti-Obama whiner.
Ain’t socialism grand.
We the people can nullify Obama’s unconstitutional communist POS by simply refusing to submit. If the majority of the people don’t sign up for it, it dies on the vine. In fact it wouldn’t take anywhere close to a majority. Twenty to thirty percent ought to do it.
No surrender, no retreat!!
Do not submit to the godless leftist wannabe dictators!!
We are the resistance!!
Deadlines be damned, I haven't even looked at the site out of curiosity.
I’m not signing on to the stupid thing!
Exactly! I have given up asking “pitchfork time yet?”. It’s never going to be. We have morphed into a nation of apathetc sheep and probably deserve the ‘screwin we’re a gettin’.....
sadly.
Amen...This abomination is going down in flames and hopefully will take the turkey and the Rat controlled senate with it.
Some small company plans are very expensive because the average age of the employees is high. There was a poster here on FR who was asking for advice for young daughter who working her first job and didn’t want to buy the expensive job provided insurance. I told the woman that the girl didn’t have to, that she could buy very inexpensive insurance privately.
Just one point of clarification - you don't own your home if you still have a mortgage.
I’ll never sign up for it————The best of all worlds would be able to be self insured.....
That’s the history of government - costs more, delivers less.
Exactly! I have given up asking “pitchfork time yet?”. It’s never going to be. We have morphed into a nation of apathetc sheep and probably deserve the ‘screwin we’re a gettin’.....
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Or, maybe we’re just too big ...too united.
The “colonists,” launched the Revolutionary War — they were spread across a much smaller area. The war was fought entirely on the East coast. Our country is enormous, with such variety and geographic distances, one wonders if we COULD mount a unified response to anything in any coordinated way.
Maybe had a Pre existing condition?
One of my buds just got his new rate. He used to pay $170/mth. It went up to more than $400.
Pure-dimensional Soviet Communist "health care".
[Richard Halliburton, the world traveler and romantic travelogue writer, once was required to visit a medical doctor in Tbilisi (Tiflis), in the Soviet Union, a few years after the Russian Revolution. His comment on the doctor was, "You could have grown geraniums under his fingernails." (Close approximation of his quote.) He was not impressed with his caregiver. That was real-deal, Marxist-Leninist Sovietcare.]
Yeah -- Political Outgroup (white, Christian, conservative ..... whatta ya got?).
On ESPN just now they did a story about a mentally challenged black kid that AJ McCarron befriended. The Tide is his favorite team so he asked AJ if he could get him a job working for them. They gave him a job in the equipment room.....WITH NO PAY! Saban makes $7 million a year and they can’t pay this kid? It’s time to write Alabama and raise hell!
No one is stopping these people.
No one even seems interested in stopping these people.
I get into more arguments with “conservatives” about what’s going on than I do with libs!
Yep - the American left took your Constitution and your government.
But everyone got to act like they were the smartest people in the room.
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