It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
The President responded that “if you looked at their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill… it may turn out that, it’s just they haven’t prioritized health care.” He added that if a family member gets sick, the father “will wish he had paid that $300 a month.”
“If the President actually believes that a family earning less than $40,000 per year can afford nearly $4,000 in health insurance premiums, then he truly does not understand middle-income families. Americans do not need the President to tell them how to budget their households. People are already cutting back on things like cable television and cell phones, just to compensate for an awful economy.This President promised he would deliver on affordable health care. Instead, premiums are up, out-of-pocket expenses are up, and overall cost of living is up. The President simply doesn’t get it. And his condescending attitude adds insult to injury.”
Let’s take a look at that $300 a month, too. Assuming that we’re talking about a family of four, that would force the family to spend $3,600 a year. While that might be money well spent in the case of catastrophe, it’s a bad investment on several levels otherwise. If both kids break a bone, it might run them $500 each to get treated, or perhaps even a thousand each if they go to an emergency room. If they get the flu, perhaps another $200 each for a doctor visit. Throw in wellness checks for everyone at $250 each, and we’re talking about $3400 in medical care, $200 less than their premiums. But wait! In most plans of that cost, the family will have to spend thousands of dollars in deductibles first for everything but the wellness checks — so the only benefit will be covering the $1000 those cost. In this example, the family that normally would have spent $3400 out of pocket in that year will now spend $5,800.
Our Healthcare system is a mess. Can Obamacare ever work?
carewemust
I enroll people into ObamaCare every day. Looking forward to the March 31st deadline. People either cry for joy, or cry in frustration during enrollment. Wait until the year2015 80% - 300% premium increase announcements are made this Fall. This next wave will affect everyone on Group plans at work...not just the people who purchase their own individual policies.
BTW..isn't this the 3rd time this subject has been posted to ATS in the past couple weeks or so?
Xcathdra
reply to post by whyamIhere
I thought this administration already paid for peoples cell phones. Why would they need to cancel it in order for the government to pay for their healthcare?
/end sarcasm
carewemust
I enroll people into ObamaCare every day. Looking forward to the March 31st deadline. People either cry for joy, or cry in frustration during enrollment. Wait until the year2015 80% - 300% premium increase announcements are made this Fall. This next wave will affect everyone on Group plans at work...not just the people who purchase their own individual policies.
BTW..isn't this the 3rd time this subject has been posted to ATS in the past couple weeks or so?
Xcathdra
carewemust
I enroll people into ObamaCare every day. Looking forward to the March 31st deadline. People either cry for joy, or cry in frustration during enrollment. Wait until the year2015 80% - 300% premium increase announcements are made this Fall. This next wave will affect everyone on Group plans at work...not just the people who purchase their own individual policies.
BTW..isn't this the 3rd time this subject has been posted to ATS in the past couple weeks or so?
Since you seem to be in the know a question -
Are the numbers being relapsed about who wants Obamacare taking into account people who were denied coverage under it? does it take into account people who sign up and are approved but don't pay?
If 5 million "have signed up" how many of those 5 million received coverage?
If you don't know that's cool to.. Just figured I would ask anyway.