Obama's Illinois A Case Study In ObamaCare Horrors

Investor's Business Daily ^ | October 17, 2013 | IBD EDITOROALS

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Regulation: From lost jobs to fewer hours to premium hikes that would make a loan shark drool, Barack Obama's home state is a case study in why the first rule in health care reform, as in medicine, should be to do no harm.

The president and his cohorts in the media have long accused Republicans of being out of touch with ordinary people. Remember the concocted story about President Bush the elder being so out of touch he was unfamiliar with supermarket bar-code scanners?

But it's President Obama who's out of touch with ordinary people and the damage his Affordable Care Act is doing to them as they lose their doctors and current health insurance while being forced under penalty of heavy fines to buy plans they can't afford on a website that doesn't work.

He need only return home to Illinois for a rude awakening. He could talk to Adam Weldzius, a nurse practitioner and 33-year-old single father living in Carpentersville.

The Chicago Tribune did and found that if Weldzius wanted to keep the same level of coverage next year as what he has now with the same insurer and the same network of doctors and hospitals as Obama promised he could do, his monthly premium of $233 would more than double.

To keep his premiums at the same level for himself and his 7-year-old daughter, his annual deductible would be $12,700 vs. $3,500 today.

"I believe everybody should be able to have health insurance," Weldzius told the Tribune. "But at the same time, I'm being penalized. And for what?"

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"I believe everybody should be able to have health insurance," Weldzius told the Tribune. "But at the same time, I'm being penalized. And for what?"

For thinking you would get insurance on the back of others.

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Uh, he ALREADY HAD insurance. He couldn’t keep I as is under ObamaCare.t

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Thank You!

I'm tired of carrying people on my back. I ran into the same problem as this man. My solution is to pay a Concierge Doctor (he takes no insurance and can order any tests I need) and to sign up with a Christian Healthcare Co-op. The cost of the two is equal to what I'm paying now.

Heaven forbid, if something bad happens and the co-op can't cover it I'll sign up with Blue Cross (no pre-existing conditions). There was a time I would feel that I shouldn't unfairly burden a business, but since they climbed in bed with obama I don't feel that way now.

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"But at the same time, I'm being penalized. And for what?"

The answer can be found here: He could talk to Adam Weldzius, a nurse practitioner

The reason you are being penalized, Mr. Weldzius, is because you earn income. You produce. You create wealth. And wealth is something that can be looted by those that don't. So when you say that you "believe everybody should be able to have health insurance", you see now that the only way for that to happen is if you pay for it. And if I were a betting man, I would be willing to wager that you even voted for it. Twice.