The Obamacare success stories you haven't been hearing about

[DHOHHI]

Quote from bigarrow:

Dh from what I remember the ACA deductibles ranged from 6K to 1K. 6K isn't huge but it isn't a low deductible either. Hey I don't know if this will work out to be what it's supposed to be but I do know what we had wasn't too good either. This should (hopefully) be a first step in covering everyone with at least a minimal health coverage, with improvements to come, again hopefully.

Those numbers may be a per person number. For my wife and I we would be looking at $12,700 for our deductible (versus the $10,00 we now have). So both premium goes up and deductible as well for worse coverage.

And .... those who get subsidies on their premiums will also get their deductibles reduced. Not sure if the percentage reduction is correlated to the size of the premium or not. But those who get subsidies are getting a LOT of $$$$ from taxpayers.

 

[Lucrum]

Looking at just how incredibly poor the rollout of Obamacare has been, it difficult to imagine how President Obama could have allowed his signature law to move forward without intervening. The White House has often stated that Obama as “unaware” of the problems regarding insurance cancelations and the Obamacare website. Is it actually possible that a President could be so disengaged?

Well…maybe so…

from Politico:

Amid the Obama administration’s endless rounds of finger-pointing and blame-shifting, scant if any attention has been paid to the amount of time and executive leadership the president personally devoted to implementing his signature legislative achievement.

“Nothing frustrates me more than when people aren’t doing their jobs,” Obama has said. So, with so much riding on the line, one would assume he held weekly, if not daily, one-on-one meetings with his Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius to isolate problems, challenge assumptions, apply executive pressure where needed and successfully manage a project of scale.
Nope.

That did not happen, at least not according to Obama’s own official White House calendar....

http://poorrichardsnews.com/post/69177891138/empty-chair-obama-had-zero-one-on-one-meetings-with

 

[kmgilroy89]

I got dropped from my provider. It's going from $125/month to $175/month if I get the worst plan available (which is twice my current deductible). At least I'll have maternity care now, something every young man needs. Great success story here!

 

[Wallet]

Quote from kmgilroy89:

I got dropped from my provider. It's going from $125/month to $175/month if I get the worst plan available (which is twice my current deductible). At least I'll have maternity care now, something every young man needs. Great success story here!

Family member of mine, just informed by his provider... didn't get dropped but premiums went from $425 to just over $1900 per month.

 

[Lucrum]

By: Tim Graham | December 7, 2013, 17:01 ET

The front page of Friday’s Investor’s Business Daily carried bad polling news for Obamacare. John Merline reported: “The public overwhelmingly opposes any ObamaCare bailout of the insurance industry, the latest IBD/TIPP Poll found, even as the Obama administration is paving the way to do just that.”

You might not see this poll elsewhere, but it found that 65 percent oppose a federal bailout of insurance companies if their profits take a hit because not enough young, healthy people sign up for ObamaCare plans.

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/#ixzz2mtqgKoUD