She was duped by this guy who she voted for twice
Posted on 11/21/2013 3:56:10 AM PST by dennisw
A 48-year-old self-employed court reporter referenced by President Barack Obama as a beneficiary of his Affordable Care Act during a recent address has learned that she’s one of the latest Americans to be duped by another Obamacare false promise.
From the White House rose garden late last month, Pres. Obama read a letter he received from Jessica Sanford, a Washington state single mom who had recently found out that the president’s hallmark health care plan would cost her a fraction of what she previously paid to cover herself and her son.
“I am a single mom. No child support, self-employed and I haven't had insurance for 15 years because it's too expensive. My son has ADHD and requires regular doctor visits and his meds alone cost $250 per month,” Obama quoted from Sanford’s note. “Now finally, we get to have coverage because of the ACA for $169 per month. I was crying the other day when I signed up, so much stress lifted.”
Unfortunately for Sanford, that stress-free experience was rather short-lived. It has now been reported that shortly after she sent that letter to the president, Sanford was informed that a glitch on the Washington state exchange and enrollment website caused the cost of coverage to be grossly under-estimated. According to CNN, Sanford was one of thousands of Washingtonians who was later told that the fault website miscalculated her cost and erroneously informed her that she qualified for a hefty tax credit.
"The Exchange would like to sincerely apologize to Jessica Sanford and all those affected in Washington State by this error," Washington Health Benefit Exchange CEO Richard Onizuka said in a statement provided to the network. "Unfortunately, Jessica Sanford is one of the individuals who is affected by this tax credit miscalculation.”
Sanford reached out to CNN and said she likely won’t be signing-up for healthcare under the ACA because the actual cost of coverage for her and her son would be nowhere near as low as she was originally told.
"I'm not getting insurance unless I pay more money than I'm willing to pay," Sanford said. “I've always been in this middle place. I make too much but I don't make enough."
She was duped by this guy who she voted for twice
How bout that 19th Amendment!
We are doomed
Hobson’s choice - in which there is only one selection offered, or nothing at all.
Every one of the “plans” offered, are both much more expensive that whatever may have been available previously, and they have such high deductibles and co-pays that there is effectively no coverage until the state of financial ruin has been reached for the so-called “middle class”, a highly endangered species.
Essentially, the choice becomes ruination or nothing.
Nothing has the comparative advantage of probably costing much less in the short run, and in the long run, we are all dead.
Obama has already started to blame the failure on cosmic vibrations emanating from Conservative opposition to his wonderful, sublime healthcare plan.
"Glitch" is the new "unexpected".
Unless that picture was from 25 years ago, that is not the lady in question.
I am noticing that the same dull boring stories are repeated over and over and over and the real news is harder and harder to find
She voted for him. No sympathy.
Obama is going to make the rich pay their “fair share” so my health insurance is cheaper? YAY!!!
Oh wait, what was that? Now Obama says I’M one of the rich, and I’LL have to pay more so OTHER people can have insurance? BUMMER!!!
(Guess we had to pass the bill to find out what was in it.)
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