So "Bette" in the GOP rebuttal to SOTU was just another fake Obamacare victim

[mercury14]

So "Bette" in the GOP rebuttal to SOTU was just another fake Obamacare victim

As it turns out she had the option of going to the exchange for better coverage at a lower cost than her old plan that was canceled. But as she said "I would never go to that website" so she decided to write McMorris-Rogers to complain about how her plan was canceled and she no longer had insurance.

The GOP's criticism of the ACA is getting weaker by the minute. It's come down to spending their rare prime-time TV time on things that don't actually exist in hopes that their audience doesn't fact-check what they're saying. Pathetic.

Another bogus Obamacare story: The GOP's 'Bette'

The centerpiece of the Republican party's attack on the Affordable Care Act following President Obama's State of the Union address this week was the story of "Bette."

Bette was an otherwise unidentified Washington state resident featured in the official GOP response to the Obama speech delivered by Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-Wash.). According to Rodgers, Bette had written her a letter stating that she had "hoped the president’s healthcare law would save her money – but found out instead that her premiums were going up nearly $700 a month." The lesson, according to Rodgers: "This law is not working."

Bette has now been tracked down by her hometown Spokane Spokesman-Review. She's Bette Grenier, who owns a small business with her husband. Unsurprisingly, her story is much different from the sketchy description provided by Rodgers. That description perplexed experts, including Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler, who couldn't understand how a state resident "would have no choice but to pay $700 per month more for a policy that meets the Affordable Care Act’s coverage requirements," the newspaper reported.

Grenier told the newspaper that she wrote Rodgers after her insurance company informed her that her $552-a-month catastrophic health plan would not be offered in 2014. It offered her an alternative plan complying with the ACA at $1,052 a month.

But that sounds like her insurer trying to steer her to an overpriced option. A compliant plan meeting the Affordable Care Act's coverage mandates actually is available from Washington's insurance exchange for much less -- and with a deductible far lower than the $10,000 she was paying under the old plan and broader coverage, though lacking a provision for four free doctor visits a year provided by her old plan.

Grenier said she had flatly refused to even investigate her options on the exchange. "I wouldn’t go on that Obama website at all,” she said. “We liked our old plan. It worked for us, but they can’t offer it anymore.”

Instead, she and her husband "have decided to go without coverage," the newspaper reported.

Does this make sense? Grenier deliberately decided to forgo the options available to her and her family from the Affordable Care Act, despite the knowledge that they might be more suitable for her than her old insurance or the plan being hawked by her insurer -- she says a friend of hers found a plan for a mere $129 a month.

But her plight has nothing to do with Obamacare. It's a product of her own apparently flawed decision to refuse even to look into the benefits the healthcare law might provide. And it's another sign of how threadbare the GOP criticism of the Affordable Care Act has become. If this is the best they can conjure up for what might be one of the best-watched TV appearances a back-bench Republican congresswoman gets to deliver, shouldn't they give up already?

http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-bette-20140130,0,1703947.story#ixzz2s4dbxlQK

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

As it turns out she had the option of going to the exchange for better coverage at a lower cost than her old plan that was canceled. But as she said "I would never go to that website" so she decided to write McMorris-Rogers to complain about how her plan was canceled and she no longer had insurance.

The GOP's criticism of the ACA is getting weaker by the minute. It's come down to spending their rare prime-time TV time on things that don't actually exist in hopes that their audience doesn't fact-check what they're saying. Pathetic.

I'm befuddled, MERC. What part of MY PLAN WAS CANCELLED and I HAVE NO INSURANCE is erroneous? or deceit?

 

[mercury14]

I'm befuddled, MERC. What part of MY PLAN WAS CANCELLED and I HAVE NO INSURANCE is erroneous? or deceit?

Her plan was canceled. Here are her options:

1) get better insurance for less money via the exchange

2) pay the stupid individual plan rate

3) have no insurance and eat a 1% income tax hike which goes to paying for other people's insurance


Now at least one of these means she still has access to insurance. Can you figure out which one it is?

 

[mercury14]

"My Insurance Got Canceled Now I Have None! All I Have Is Cheaper Insurance With Much Better Coverage So I'm A Victim, Dammit!"

 

[Mr Noone]

Her plan was canceled. Here are her options:

1) get better insurance for less money via the exchange

2) pay the stupid individual plan rate

3) have no insurance and eat a 1% income tax hike which goes to paying for other people's insurance


Now at least one of these means she still has access to insurance. Can you figure out which one it is?

Two of those actually, although one is stupid, but it is a choice.

 

[Liar]

I'm befuddled, MERC. What part of MY PLAN WAS CANCELLED and I HAVE NO INSURANCE is erroneous? or deceit?

The part that left out BECAUSE I CHOOSE TO NOT HAVE ANY.

Free-dum.

 

[mercury14]

Two of those actually, although one is stupid, but it is a choice.

True. Bette chose the third one now and will have no health care while paying for other people's care. It's what the GOP wants her to do: putting herself and her family at bodily and financial risk. If she's ruined, well that's a small price to pay for opposing Obamacare.

 

[VaticanAssassin]

6million huh?

 

[Liar]

6million huh?

That was a month ago. Pay attention.

 

[mercury14]

That was a month ago. Pay attention.

Why should they pay attention when they can just make things up?

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Why should they pay attention when they can just make things up?

Oh sweet irony....

 

[mercury14]

Oh sweet irony....

Are we due to review your wrong predictions and misconceptions of reality? It would be a fun little exercise wouldn't it?

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Her plan was canceled. Here are her options:

1) get better insurance for less money via the exchange

2) pay the stupid individual plan rate

3) have no insurance and eat a 1% income tax hike which goes to paying for other people's insurance


Now at least one of these means she still has access to insurance. Can you figure out which one it is?

Youre begging the question. So far you've not refuted her claims.

 

[Worm]

Obama lied.

 

[jeninflorida]

I'm befuddled, MERC. What part of MY PLAN WAS CANCELLED and I HAVE NO INSURANCE is erroneous? or deceit?

Merc is so full of his, his face is turning brown

I just don't understand how someone can be as mentally fucked as Merc or Rob

 

[jeninflorida]

Why should they pay attention when they can just make things up?

That is correct - obama does make shit up

obama is a pile of pig shit...he's the titanic of potus's aka SUNK

 

[Liar]

Youre begging the question. So far you've not refuted her claims.

He doesn't have to. Her claims are irrelevant.

 

[mercury14]

Youre begging the question. So far you've not refuted her claims.

It doesn't matter what she's claiming. The fact is the GOP's portrait of an ACA victim is a family who has access to better coverage for less money. Bette is in a much better situation now with with ACA in place but since she's refusing to have insurance because she's lazy, stupid, ignorant, paranoid, or all of the above, the GOP blames Obama.

They blame Obama if someone's insurance is better. Because that's a bad thing!

 

[RobDownSouth]

6million huh?

Absolutely, you stupid son of a bitch!

 

[islandman]

Typically, when newspapers print an incorrect or unfounded statement, they print a retraction.

Will the GOP issue a press release in the same vein?

 

[RobDownSouth]

Why should they pay attention when they can just make things up?

I've noticed a trend in the spittle-flecked fringe right wing sites to take current Obamacare stories and always....ALWAYS....somehow relate it back to the halcyon days of October 2013.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Typically, when newspapers print an incorrect or unfounded statement, they print a retraction.

Will the GOP issue a press release in the same vein?

Retractions? Their mindset is "talk to our lawyers", often with disasterous results

 

[VaticanAssassin]

Absolutely, you stupid son of a bitch!

Let's fact check just who is stupid and who is a stupid lying racist peice of shy shall we?

http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/f...-signed-up-for-medicaid-because-of-obamacare/

Maybe we should add another million and count the people that accidentally visited the web site.

# fatboymath

 

[renard_ruse]

No, its a true story. The fake is the meme circulating on the internet that its untrue. Just another DNC organized Big Lie.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Let's fact check just who is stupid and who is a stupid lying racist peice of shy shall we?

http://m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/f...-signed-up-for-medicaid-because-of-obamacare/

Maybe we should add another million and count the people that accidentally visited the web site.

# fatboymath

13.6 million, Mr. I-Love-My-Daughter-Just-Not-Enough-To-Insure-Her.

I stand behind the numbers in my link.

13.6 fucking million, and you can't refudiate it.

Sucks to be you.

Worse for your kid, though.