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Posted on 02/01/2015 11:43:57 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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An ad produced by the Department of Health and Human Services tells the story of Elena Miller-TerKuile, who is “pursuing her dream to farm” in Colorado thanks to Obamacare.
“The Marketplace is probably the only reason I have health insurance right now,” the Columbia University grad says in the ad. She said, “It’s been my dream for a while to come back to the farm and work with my dad.”
In a blog post at HHS Miller-TerKuile explains, “It was a hard dream to pursue without health insurance. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, I was able to stay on my parents’ plan until I turned 26, but when I aged off the plan, I took a ‘town’ job that came with health benefits.”
Miller-TerKuile was previously employed as an advocate for healthcare in her position as a service learning coordinator at the San Luis Valley Health Project. The website says their mission is to teach youth to advocate “for increased access to health in their community.” In one activity promoted by the group, students play a board game that highlights all the benefits and none of the negative aspects of the ACA.
“Today, I’m proud to work alongside my family, as generations before me have done. Having health insurance has given me the freedom to decide what I want to do with my life. Why not find out where that freedom can take you?” Miller-TerKuile said in the HHS blog post.
“Emily,” another farmer featured in the ad, said that apprentices at the farm where she works in Hustontown, Pennsylvania, “are very well compensated” but her employers did not provide health insurance. “With the financial assistance I found the Silver-level plan with a $100 deductible.”
“Having the coverage I do allows me to do what I want to be doing, which is farming,” Emily says in the ad.
In 2012 House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) famously predicted that Americans soon would be hearing stories of “liberation” as people followed their dreams, free from worries about healthcare costs.
“This is what our founders had in mind–ever expanding opportunity for people,” Pelosi said at a Capitol Hill news conference in March of 2012.
“You want to be a photographer or a writer or a musician, whatever — an artist, you want to be self-employed, if you want to start a business, you want to change jobs, you no longer are prohibited from doing that because you can’t have access to health care, especially because you do not want to put your family at risk,” she said.
What the cheery “follow your dreams” ad doesn’t talk about (and what Pelosi doesn’t mention when she gushes about the “liberation” of the American worker) is that on the other end of all this dream business you find other hardworking taxpayers who are providing the “financial assistance” required for the Obamacare subsidies. Some other middle class family has to make do with less — driving a car with 100,000 miles, purchasing school clothes at the thrift store, skipping family vacations — so they can pay for Emily and Elena to follow their dreams of farming.
Even worse, those hardworking taxpayers on the other end of the “liberation” could become victims of the 30-hour work week or lose their jobs when their employers decide it’s too costly to pay for Obamacare’s health insurance mandates. Then those families will join the ranks of those “living the dream” on Medicaid. Just “what our founders had in mind,” according to Pelosi.
“pursuing her dream to farm” in Colorado
WEED FARMER ?
***Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, I was able to stay on my parents’ plan until I turned 26, but when I aged off the plan, I took a ‘town’ job that came with health benefits.”**
Translation: he leached off of his parents until he was 26.
She.
He. She.
Same end point.
“This is what our founders had in mind...”
I still find nothing in the Constitution or the Federalist Papers to support that.
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Socialism is the fraudulent bargain that we each can live at the expense of others. It can only be brought about by government coercion. A person who loves God’s Law will easily see how socialism violates three of the Ten Commandments because it is based on lies, coveting and theft.
This is not an abstract preference. Socialism has the blood of over 100 million people on its hands, from attempts in the last century to impose it innocent victims.
Socialists love to scold the rest of us about “sustainability”, yet as we are amply seeing, ObamaCare is not sustainable. It must grasp at money from elsewhere to make up the growing chasm between what it spends and what it costs, in both direct and indirect terms. To get those funds, it must embezzle them by lies and cutting services, deciding who dies early and how much it will pay health care suppliers no matter what their costs may be.
ObaamaCare destroys liberty and prosperity. Worse, it destroys the basis of the citizen’s relationship to the government that is supposed to serve him. It puts the life of the citizen in the hands of an arrogant bureaucracy headed by an arrogant hyper-bureaucrat. We must slay this monster and the sooner the better.
This story is pathetic. You can’t tell me that a young college grad from a fairly good university can’t pay for her own insurance? Before ACA she would have been able to get insurance for next to nothing. Even now she eligible for the cheaper catastrophic coverage. Her rates probably doubled under ACA and wants subsidies to pay for it. Skull full of mush..
Yo mol.... I believe you may be on to something.
At some point in time the chickens are going to come home to roost and the idiots that voted for pot use will rue the day that this passed.
My spouse and I voted NO, he!! NO.
Do they play Elvis in the background, because that would really fit in with their meme.
Very similar to the effect of unemployment benefits. When the free money runs out, people manage to find a job. But for some reason, they stay unemployed until then.
That’s sweet. Thanks to Obamacare, Elena Miller-TerKuile is taking money from our children and grandchildren so she can play farmer. Elena, like most liberals, disgusts me. That evil thief has no moral right to demand that other people subsidize her hobbies.
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