What happened to all of the doom and gloom economic threads?

[mercury14]

Isn't the exchanges a place where you buy individual plans?

Nope, they're a place where you join a state-wide group. The risk pool is 100,000 instead of 1.

 

[mercury14]

I have been buying my own insurance for years. I found out this morning my premium will go down by about half under the Affordable Care Act. Aptly named plan I'd say. Thanks.

Details please.

 

[Busybody]

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congrats lying sack of shit

you are in august company

get your putrid self to LIBYA

or

Indonesia

LOSER ASSHOLE

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[Busybody]

lower cost?

non existent care


WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? Turns Out Obamacare Is Going to Limit Your Choices. “Prices on the insurance exchanges that will make their debut on Oct. 1 will, by broad consensus, mostly be higher than you were paying before,* but lower than some studies had projected. And why is it lower? The answer, it appears, is that state and federal regulators have been pushing insurers to hold the cost down. In some cases, insurers have simply pulled out of the market, as Aetna did when Maryland asked it to lower prices by 29 percent. In other cases, such as Kaiser Permanente in California, the companies have gone ahead offering high priced insurance that few people seem likely to buy. But it’s been clear for a while that most of the insurers who stayed on the exchanges, at least in states with aggressive pricing policies, have been keeping their costs down by restricting the number of authorized providers in the policies they offer on the exchange.”

 

[Adre]

Details please.

I'm at about $700/mo. now. Silver plan will be around $300, but I'll go for gold. That includes a subsidy as I don't work and live on mostly investment income and savings.

 

[mercury14]

lower cost?

non existent care


WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? Turns Out Obamacare Is Going to Limit Your Choices. “Prices on the insurance exchanges that will make their debut on Oct. 1 will, by broad consensus, mostly be higher than you were paying before,* but lower than some studies had projected. And why is it lower? The answer, it appears, is that state and federal regulators have been pushing insurers to hold the cost down. In some cases, insurers have simply pulled out of the market, as Aetna did when Maryland asked it to lower prices by 29 percent. In other cases, such as Kaiser Permanente in California, the companies have gone ahead offering high priced insurance that few people seem likely to buy. But it’s been clear for a while that most of the insurers who stayed on the exchanges, at least in states with aggressive pricing policies, have been keeping their costs down by restricting the number of authorized providers in the policies they offer on the exchange.”

140 plans in michigan. 43 in Texas. Limited choices.

 

[mercury14]

I'm at about $700/mo. now. Silver plan will be around $300, but I'll go for gold. That includes a subsidy as I don't work and live on mostly investment income and savings.

I'd go for gold too. Platinum seems dumb unless you're pretty sick.

How much is Bronze for you?

 

[Adre]

I'd go for gold too. Platinum seems dumb unless you're pretty sick.

How much is Bronze for you?

I'd guess about $175.

 

[mercury14]

I'd guess about $175.

UNAFFORDABLE GET OUT OF THE CITY!

 

[jeninflorida]

76 plans to choose from in Texas, so much for Vette's narrative that there weren't enough plans. Reality crushes conservativism yet again!

UNAFFORDABLE GET OUT OF THE CITY!

More welfare....andre is a slacker and on welfare

 

[jeninflorida]

The stupidity from the left wing idiots is proof we need socialism

Clearly, they are unable to take care if themselves

lower cost?

non existent care


WHO COULD HAVE SEEN THIS COMING? Turns Out Obamacare Is Going to Limit Your Choices. “Prices on the insurance exchanges that will make their debut on Oct. 1 will, by broad consensus, mostly be higher than you were paying before,* but lower than some studies had projected. And why is it lower? The answer, it appears, is that state and federal regulators have been pushing insurers to hold the cost down. In some cases, insurers have simply pulled out of the market, as Aetna did when Maryland asked it to lower prices by 29 percent. In other cases, such as Kaiser Permanente in California, the companies have gone ahead offering high priced insurance that few people seem likely to buy. But it’s been clear for a while that most of the insurers who stayed on the exchanges, at least in states with aggressive pricing policies, have been keeping their costs down by restricting the number of authorized providers in the policies they offer on the exchange.”

 

[Adre]

More welfare....andre is a slacker and on welfare

Not quite Jeb.

 

[mercury14]

I have a rabidly anti-obamacare cousin whose husband is an entrepreneur and they're buying an expensive individual plan. She said that Obamacare exchanges would be unaffordable for her so she's sticking with her catastrophic individual plan... that she recently had a baby on and had to pay so much out of pocket for that she refuses to tell me how much it was.

Using the Kaiser subsidy calculator I showed her that a silver plan would be $98 per month and a bronze would be $0. How would it be zero dollars? Subsidy amounts are base on the math of a silver plan so low-premium bronze plan premiums can actually be less than the subsidy amount, leading to a negative premium payment (rounded up to $0).

Didn't change her mind though. Zero dollars was still too much.

 

[mercury14]

More welfare....andre is a slacker and on welfare

Andre is on welfare the same way you're on welfare for having 911 services in your community.

 

[jeninflorida]

I have a rabidly anti-obamacare cousin whose husband is an entrepreneur and they're buying an expensive individual plan. She said that Obamacare exchanges would be unaffordable for her so she's sticking with her catastrophic individual plan... that she recently had a baby on and had to pay so much out of pocket for that she refuses to tell me how much it was.

Using the Kaiser subsidy calculator I showed her that a silver plan would be $98 per month and a bronze would be $0. How would it be zero dollars? Subsidy amounts are base on the math of a silver plan so low-premium bronze plan premiums can actually be less than the subsidy amount, leading to a negative premium payment (rounded up to $0).

Didn't change her mind though. Zero dollars was still too much.

I have a cousin that won the lottery...it was 666a billion dollars....

Merc, thanks for the flash fiction

 

[mercury14]

I have a cousin that won the lottery...it was 666a billion dollars....

Merc, thanks for the flash fiction

My cousin and her family make a little under 29k per year with no employer-provided insurance. Think that's some kind of exotic scenario that never happens?

 

[Liar]

Nope, they're a place where you join a state-wide group. The risk pool is 100,000 instead of 1.

Ah yes. Quite. My mistake.

 

[Adre]

My cousin and her family make a little under 29k per year with no employer-provided insurance. Think that's some kind of exotic scenario that never happens?

Jeb has heat stroke due to proximity of the French fry equipment, so he is not thinking too clearly right now.

 

[jeninflorida]

Ah yes. Quite. My mistake.

Your an admitted socialist ... therefore u have been making mistakes for centuries!

 

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[Busybody]

This says it all

Dick Durbin Tells Ted Cruz On Senate Floor It’s “Good News” To Be Poor So You Can Qualify For Medicaid Under Obamacare…




Good friggen grief, is he serious?

Via CNS News:


Questioning Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) on the Senate floor Tuesday, Sen. Dick Dubin, an Illinois Democrat, explained why he’s proud to have voted for Obamacare.

He told the story of a chambermaid named Judy who works “at a motel that I often go to,” and who will benefit from Obamacare because she is so poor: “The good news for Judy is that her income is so low that she now qualifies for Medicaid for the first time in her life,” Durbin said.

Here’s what Durbin said to Cruz:

One of the reasons that I voted for health care reform — and am proud that I did — was illustrated by a woman that I met in southern Illinois…this woman’s name is Judy, and Judy is a housekeeper at a motel that I often go to, and we’ve become friends. Judy has worked her whole life in manual labor. She’s been everything you can imagine — cook, a waitress, housekeeper, all of these thing. She’s 62 years old.

Judy told me that she’d never had health insurance one day in her life — ever. She worked every single day that she could, but she never had health insurance.

It turns out that Judy was diabetic, and we found some doctors and hospitals locally in her area to give her some care.

We just had an announcement in Illinois that’s going to be officially released tomorrow about what this new health insurance marketplace in Illinois means for people like Judy.

It means that we’re going to offer 165 different health insurance plans in Illinois by 8 different insurers. The premiums — at the lowest level of health insurance for those who aren’t under Medicaid — will be in the range of $84 a month.

But the good news for Judy is that her income is so low that she now qualifies for Medicaid for the first time in her life.”

 

[RobDownSouth]

Notice how once again Vetty's attempting to conflate a healthy 27 year old's policy to the new policies. Apples to Pineapples. But hey, it's the only lie he has.

Once again, he brings great shame to himself, his family and the United States Marine Corps.

 

[mercury14]

Tennessee: Obamacare will triple men's premiums, double women's
BY PAUL BEDARD | SEPTEMBER 25, 2013 AT 12:07 PM

And if useless $41 mini-meds and catastrophic plans were comparable to actual insurance you'd have a point. By the way, 27 year olds can have catastrophic plans under the ACA as well. Why are you comparing catastrophic to Bronze instead of catastrophic to catastrophic?

And just for the record you're reduced to bitching about $119 per month insurance. You've come a long way baby.

 

[koalabear]

And if useless $41 mini-meds and catastrophic plans were comparable to actual insurance you'd have a point. By the way, 27 year olds can have catastrophic plans under the ACA as well. Why are you comparing catastrophic to Bronze instead of catastrophic to catastrophic?

And just for the record you're reduced to bitching about $119 per month insurance. You've come a long way baby.

Nice to see merc/MORON an his partisan posts back.

 

[Busybody]

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