ObamaCare
From FAUX News:
It’s a centerpiece of President Obama’s health care remake, a lifeline available right now to vulnerable people whose medical problems have made them uninsurable.
But the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan started this summer isn’t living up to expectations. Enrollment lags in many parts of the country. People who could benefit may not be able to afford the premiums. Some state officials who run their own “high-risk pools” have pointed out potential problems.
“The federal risk pool has definitely provided critical access, in some cases lifesaving access, to health insurance,” said Amie Goldman, chair of a national association of state high-risk insurance pools. “That said, enrollment so far is lower than we would have expected.”
California, which has money for about 20,000 people, has received fewer than 450 applications, according to a state official. The program in Texas had enrolled about 200 by early September, an official in that state said. Goldman, who runs the pool in Wisconsin, said they’ve received fewer than 300 applications so far, with room for about 8,000 people in the program.
That’s not how it was supposed to work.
Ayup. As Wonk the Vote would say, “Nobody could have foreseen.”
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The Confluence 
Wow. Thousands of applicants and at a price of only $1 trillion.
Hey, it’s only money.
We can just print more.
and you can’t take it with you
I personally thing the ‘McDonald’s Threatens to Cut Health Care Plans ‘
should be illegal as they only cover $2,000 a year and it is very costly at $56.00 or more a month. Mini insurance my foot, they would be better off going to the free clinic.
I used to volunteer at a Free Clinic and it looks like I may do that again if President Obama’s Administration thinks ‘Mini MED’ insurance provides Health Care under his COSTLY reform.
Gosh, this reform has really hit me in the pocket book!
I need a nap, this ‘Mini MED INSURANCE’ meme is too much and I am too upset.
Dr. Mini MED, will see you NOW ,but only up to $2,000 dollars and his visits cost $2,000 dollars.
OH, really…I say they have a WAITING LIST! To think they wanted to amend the CONSTITUTION to get ARNOLD as president does cause me to want to use the above instructions!
What blockquote>assuming all final arrangements are concluded what funeral arrangements of those on the WAITING LIST? They need INSURANCE NOW, not when someone needs to make ‘arrangements’.
Wow, I was so upset I mixed up the quotes. 😦
My first reaction was, only 20,000 spots for a state the size of California? Isn’t that a bit anemic?
We can only afford to save that many.
The rest are SOL
That picture says it all. LOL.
Yep, who could have ever predicted epic failure? /snark
This is my favorite part:
No shit? Sick people who don’t have piles of money? Whodathunkit?
People don’t need health care insurance. They need health care.
I believe in Hope and Change!!
Asshats.
Hillary 2012
What?/? There are some people without insurance that aren’t rich? Now if we had known that ahead of time, we could have done things differently. (do I need the snark font here)
it’s a given 😉
Where is THE PUBLIC OPTION! We were SOLD OUT, by President Obama ‘ME TOO’!
This is exactly the way it’s supposed to work. Except those horrifically high premiums which people can’t afford are supposed to be paid anyway. Epic fail indeed.
Real world consequences are a bummer.
Speaking of fail, even in Pravda, they acknowledge financial reform isn’t altogether good. Count on Sequels to TARP
It wasn’t supposed to eliminate too big to fail–it was supposed to codify it. The bailout was a gift the American people very reluctantly gave. They’re afraid we’ll say next time so they took away our say.
Preexisting Conditions: Who is Covered under the Health Care Reform Law? (Video says that after September 23rd the insurance are supposed to cover pre-existing conditions, but THE INSURANCE COMPANIES ARE NOT! Notice how he says they could pass a LAW tomorrow to fix the problem; INSURANCE REFUSING TO ISSUE INSURANCE TO ADULTS AND CHILDREN WITH PRE-EXISTING CONDITIONS!) President Obama needs to do some ‘splaining’!
Pre-Existing Preacher : Republican Mike Huckabee Compares a Patient To a House That Burned Down! Doesn’t believe in covering ALL PEOPLE!
WOW…I WILL NEVER EVER VOTE FOR MIKE HUCKABEE…LET GRANNY DIE!
Ed Schultz: GOP Doesn’t Give A Damn About Your Health
“Single Payer…SOME DAY WE WILL GET THERE”-Ed Schultz SOME DAY? 😯
Ed…why didn’t we get there when We Had a Dem President (Obama), a Dem Congress and a Dem Senate???? WHY!
Preacher Huckabee is a big disappointment!
He does know how to cook a squirrel though.
Mmm, that’s good eat’in.
With collard greens and sweet potato pie.
Yum yum.
toooo much, he’s like my dog, I say SQUIRREL, and he’s on it.
So the latest screw you….Starting in January, health insurance co’s are required to cover “preventive care” on an unlimited basis, not subject to deductible. “Preventive care” means shots, physicals and blood work but only IF YOU HAVEN’T BEEN DIAGNOSED WITH DISEASE. Anything that might be deemed preventive care is not covered if it is also to monitor or treat a disease (like high cholesterol). So basically, if you’re over 50, this is probably a non-benefit.
In order to fund this non-benefit for people who are actually old enough that they typically get sick, they’re raising rates on individual insurees AND cutting benefits in other areas of plans, increasing co-pays, increasing deductibles. God forbid if your “preventive care” finds something because even if you can afford your soon to be mandated insurance, you may not be able to afford to get sick.
For me, that means
–Another 10% rate increase when I just had a 17% rate increase.
–I will have a huge deductible on prescription drugs, so high that I effectively won’t have prescription drug coverage anymore.
–MRI’s and other screening will only be covered at 50% (after I meet an increased deductible).
— The number of office visits not subject to (exhorbitant) deductible have been reduced.
Oh, and the lifetime caps will be eliminiated — except in the case of transplant, LOL. Does anyone ever meet a 2 million dollar cap if they don’t need a transplant?
Thanks, Obama, you’ve really fvcked things up bigtime. Even if the Republicans repeal this health insurance fiasco, the tube is now out of the toothpaste (or whatever analogy, LOL), and insurance cos will definitely not go back on the things that they like about this…which is probably all of it, because you know little Baracky would never do anything the insurance cos don’t like.
I am NEVER. VOTING. FOR. A. DEMOCRAT. AGAIN. I am personally worse off with Democrats in office, easily as bad if not WORSE than when Republicans are in office. It’s third party or nothing.
Okay, I’m upsetting my dog, she’s under my desk. These little critters are so sensitive, I can’t believe it! I’ll stop now.
They made “preventive care” covered w/out deductible because it’s so limited. But you have to be able to afford the insurance premiums in the first place.
From talking to my insurance people about open season in November, I am told that my cost has gone up $100 or more, and I will be getting a statement
soon. That increase is from May until November.
Someone is making money, and it isn’t us. 😦
lets hope this mess can be repealed 👿
Amen
Health Insurers See Hikes in Coming Weeks
17%, 23%, 39%, 40% and 83%
I called and asked when the increase was 23% in 2009 and I simply am at a loss at 80+%…WHO IS LOOKING OUT FOR US?
Obama Warns Insurance Companies
(Warn them, his base, but NO LEGISLATION WAS PLACED INTO THE HRC LAW to protect the people! Empty words in my opinion, and President Obama didn’t support HE 676, The Public Option and killed the Medicare Buy In!)
YES WE CAN 2008
Single Payer: “NO WE CAN’T” President Obama 2010
The Public Option:”NO WE CAN’T” President Obama 2010
Medicare Buy In: “NO WE CAN’T” President Obama 2010
So, what in was all the “ME TOO” about during the Primaries and then when in office it is President NO WE CAN’T!?!
Single-Payer Activists Hold Obama Accountable, March on Private Insurance Company (Obama broke campaign promises on Health Care)
YES WE CAN 2008
Single Payer: “NO WE CAN’T” President Obama 2010
The Public Option:”NO WE CAN’T” President Obama 2010
Medicare Buy In: “NO WE CAN’T” President Obama 2010
Health Care is a CIVIL RIGHTS issue, the only people calling for people to die are in the GOP Party where even the preacher Huckabee will protect insurance companies and let people die, even children. We need to expose EVERYONE that kept Single Payer, The Public Option and The Medicare Buy In so that the American people can see who is NOT WORKING FOR THEM. Why are we the most powerful country in WAR, yet our people don’t have HEALTH CARE?
Why is the US a THIRD WORLD COUNTRY WHEN IT COMES TO HEALTH CARE FOR ALL IT’S CITIZENS?
What is Single Payer