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Guess Who Just Admitted That Obamacare’s
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Posted By: DW626, 10/8/2025 12:10:41 PM

Color me shocked. After more than a decade of breathless cheerleading for the so-called Affordable Care Act, the editorial elites at The Washington Post have finally admitted what conservatives have been saying all along: Obamacare was never affordable. As the Post’s own editorial board now concedes, the law “was never actually affordable.” This sudden burst of honesty comes amid the latest government shutdown showdown, which Democrats sparked in part by demanding yet another blank check to keep Biden’s lavish, COVID-era insurance subsidies alive.

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Reply 1 - Posted by: sunset 10/8/2025 12:25:29 PM (No. 2014229)
The Obama program should be dismantled/revoked. The plans they said we could keep will become affordable again.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: DVC 10/8/2025 12:38:50 PM (No. 2014237)
I was planning on retiring in the fall of 2013, when this horror show was coming along. I tried to get a quote from my health unsuror. BC&BS in July. They told me 'we can't quote, the rules are still changing'. I got the same answer several times in August, again in September. I needed health care for three years to bridge to Medicare after retirement. Finally, in mid October they gave me a quotation of $1900/ month for the two of us. That's $22,800 per year!! I had been paying $165 per month thru my job. I looked at COBRA, and it was within $50 of the same cost, unaffordable. We were healthy, considered going without insurance. I called up BC&BS, the same agent I had discussed this with half a dozen times, in early November - with the deadline to be forced into Obamacare being the end of November, I think. I told her on the phone that we couldn't afford to pay $1900 a month so we were going to go without insurance and take our chances. She was shocked, said "you can't do that" and I said that we were being forced into it. Suddenly....she said "Well, there is another option....but we can't guarantee that you'll be able to keep it more than a year." She offered a "non-compliant plan" for $600 a month. I took it. We used this perfectly adequate plan for a total of $7200 per year instead of $22,800 per year. And the next year, we kept it, and Obamacare went up by 25%, to $28,500. The following year Obamacare increased again to $36,000 per year. Our $7200 per year plan jumped up to $8000 per year. We were saving $28,000 per year on health care by not being in Obamacare, and we had perfectly adequate health care coverage. I had several eye surgeries that year, no problems. Obamacare has always been HORRIBLE and a RIP OFF. I am so glad that I finally managed to get the BC&BS sales person to let me escape their trap. Only when she saw that we were going to 'get away' did she offer the alternative. And, yes, we kept it until Medicare started, three years. I had to delay retirement, so I double paid, $600 for the private insurance and the company insurance, too, for several months. No big deal compared to the alternative. Obamacare is evil, like it's namesake.
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