The red pill of Obamacare

My husband and I went through the exact same thing. My $400 work insurance was canceled and replaced with an $800 a month premium. So I went to an obamacare website. Our "new and improved" policy was $1600 a month with a deductible of $12,000. If I could not afford my work insurance I sure couldn't afford obamacare so we went without insurance for 4 years. We paid for anything we needed with cash. We paid for everything with no help from a government agency. But were penalized every year because we did not carry insurance. The only way the government could collect that money was through the confiscation of a tax return. We adjusted our withholding so that we would never get a refund. It's been over 10 years since we haven't received one. For some reason it worked out this year we actually got a refund. And they will "steal" our money from us. Time to readjust. Thanks to the SOCTUS the only way they can collect is through tax refund returns. It had been through any means necessary. Suing you, property confiscations, garnishment of wages, bank accounts etc. We get a letter twice a year telling us what we owe them and a little reminded what leeches we were to not go along with their sham. Bad, bad Americans. FJB PS Paying cash was not a problem and the doctor office was quite happy about it. My office visits went down $100 a visit because I saw the doctor, pay the fee, case close. They did not have to mess with insurance company.

I own a small business. We pay 100% of the premiums for our employees high-deductible insurance policies. Health insurance 5X costs more than all other expenses, except payroll, put together: rent, vehicles, inventory, equipment, all other insurance, everything. It's absurd.

Cost of insurance is horrible. Big thing for me is the quality of care. There has been a big change. We no longer see a doctor for what ails you but someone without a degree micromanaging you and deciding which specialist to send you to find out next specialist to send you to so on and so forth until you outlive or die from reason you went. Also over prescription of pills that do not work well together

" If you like your doctor ".........he is now an employee of the hospital thanks to the democrats.

In the summer of 2013, I tried to get a quotation from my health care provider for an Obamacare complaint policy after my retirement, plannded for late 2013. They said no information was available yet. In September, same put off. Finally after having talked to the same representative many times, in October she gave me some quotations. HORRIBLY high, like $1900 a month for the two of us, with $6,000 deductible. I finally told her that I would have to go without insurance, and she said "You can't do that", I told her I had no choice, and goodbye, unless there was something more affordable. She finally, under duress, said, "Well, there IS a non-compliant plan for $600 a month, but you may not be able to renew". I took it, and kept that plan for 3 years until I went on medicare. If I had been forced to use Obamacare, we'd have paid $22,800 per year, and get two doc visits paid for. Until we racked up another $6,000, so a total of $28,800 the insurance would pay NOTHING. Horrible rip off, evil deal.

It was the worst day in our country's history when Obama came on the scene. We will never recover.

I don't know anyone whose insurance hasn't doubled or even tripled in cost in the past decade.... and often for worse coverage and higher deductibles. I have long said we need to go back to a cash pay system with safety nets for the deserving poor and a universal catastrophic policy for the really big stuff. We have become to hooked like druggies on insurance and it has driven up costs and driven down quality in the same way the loan industry and education industrial complex has ruined university education. Middle managers control it all because they drive profits. They control who gets paid, how they get paid, what they get paid, when they get paid... and they surely control whether or not you the patient get care. The patient is NOT the doctor's customer because the patient has so little control over the doctor's paycheck. The insurance company is the customer. We, my friend, and our employers are just pawns who in the end write the checks for the money the insurance company decides to spend or not for our care.

So, Mr. Video Star: you voted for Obama because he promised to give you “free” health care… well, congratulations, moron - you got EXACTLY what you voted for! And on top of it, you ruined healthcare for everyone else, and saddled us with a Muslim illegal alien closet queen. Embrace the suck, fool.

There's a man here in town who is a certified family nurse practitioner. He runs a business that gives health care to men and he charges a sliding scale per month with discounts to police, firemen and EMTs. It's a good deal and I wish other practitioners would do the same.

If you like your policy you can keep your policy - did I say that? Oh, only if it is allowed under 0bamacare, suckers! The fact that this man is still so popular and accepted in public life shows what suckers we really are.

Did/do the Republicans know something that the man in the video didn't know? (He asked that question). I don't know what all Republicans knew, but I knew and still know: The purpose of Obamacare was to destroy the private health insurance option and force every person into the US into Medicaid-type government medical treatment. Covid vax requirements and punishments for refusal to comply is the exemplar of what the effects of such a national "health service" would be like. Meanwhile, the elites (as one poster on AT points out) would have the only top-tier plans. Reliance on government to supply medical treatment in Germany started under Bismarck in 1883. 50 years later doctors were loading mentally impaired children onto buses to go to gas chambers. Meanwhile, in addition to undermining individual morality. Obamacare is essential to the Cloward-Piven strategy. The C-S strategy aimed to overload the welfare system in order to implement a "redistribution of income" through chaos and unrest, especially among the poor and expanding throughout the country. See San Francisco, Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, Atlanta, etc., etc...

The Biden administration can figure out how to give free food, housing, education and medical care to illegal aliens and terrorists, but our own citizens can't access that special treatment for themselves or their families. We just get the bills. Why so many Americans accept this shoddy treatment from Democrats is puzzling. As citizens, we all deserve better. Four years of being treated as second class citizens on our own soil ought to be enough for just about everyone. It's especially insulting when illegals show so little gratitude. Those who arrive here illegally with a giant sense of entitlement will not go on to become good citizens. They are criminals who, but for Joe Biden, wouldn't be on our soil.

The biggest whopper: "It will save the average family $2500 per year."

Democrats lie, then they lie about lying. They they blame the mess on the other party.

Seems to me that the main purpose of Obamacare was to force working people to pay for the healthcare of deadbeats because it wasn't "fair" that they could not afford good care. That's why premiums doubled, so you could pay for somebody else you didn't even know and that person would naturally be a democrat voter. Obama is a full-blown, anti-American, anti-White communist.

You can vote now for Republicans in revenge for what Obamacare has done but don't expect this vote to improve your economic condition, it will continue to get worse. Sorry, that sucking sound you hear is all of us being sucked down the toilet drain. We have entered the event horizon.

At about 5:25 into the video, the man states his employer had 300,000 employees. Obamacare requires employers with over 50 employees to provide healthcare. I know plenty of people hurt by Obamacare, but don't believe this man.

Necessity is the mother of invention..as my sainted mama would say....so when I divorced my husband who was a cop...the premiums became soooo high I couldn't afford them...I went to catastrophic insurance coverage...I paid...in cash all expenses...and left my catastrophic cover as a fall back...it worked beautifully....Mama was right!!

This very eloquent man has genuine concerns because of his healthcare issues. However, he cannot speak for anyone but himself. And I'd rather struggle through on my own than to ever rely on any Democrat at any time for any reason, even if that Democrat should be driving the very Limousine of Abundance through my own neighborhood.