Obamacare/Trumpcare Horror Stories

[Schildog]

single payer is needed

[Jay]

"Grandfathered" plans (plans that were in place before March 23, 2010) are not required to meet all the requirements of ACA and therefore may cost less.

[Mudville]

That was Obama's best?     A 2700 page document thrown together willy nilly, with no idea of what's in it?

 

Hey Obama, ever heard of compromise?    You probably could have created legislation with MAYBE 1/10 the length of Obamacare's legislation, if you simply realized that you can't fix EVERYTHING!

Went to the Reagan Museum to see the Lincoln exhibit and in a sealed case was the original 13th amendment as was signed by Lincoln. The law was one very short paragrah.

[Taylor]

Has anyone ever thought that the cost going up is caused by the insurance companies that are just using the excuse of the ACA to jack up their prices?

 

Yep, it's gotta be. Obamacare is perfectly constructed.

[nate]

"Grandfathered" plans (plans that were in place before March 23, 2010) are not required to meet all the requirements of ACA and therefore may cost less.

 

Yep, people with GF plans are staying put.  It would be much more expensive for them to change plans.

[TobiasFunke]

The plan suggested to me from them is cheaper too but the benefits are nowhere near what they were. I'll probably end up paying more so I don't get screwed if something happens to me.

My benefits stayed the same. I'm switching from Acess+ to NetValue. Was way cheaper and with the same coverage. But I have good health benefits from a good job so I guess I don't belong in here.

[TobiasFunke]

 

 

TF, do you work for a small business?

No I don't

[nate]

Ah yeah so you are changing plans.  You are moving to a much more restrictive network.  When you visit providers out of network your responsibility increases.

[TobiasFunke]

Yep, it's gotta be. Obamacare is perfectly constructed.

So is your sarcasm

[TobiasFunke]

Ah yeah so you are changing plans.  You are moving to a much more restrictive network.  When you visit providers out of network your responsibility increases.

Luckily the three different doctors that my family go to are available now through NetValue. Either way though if I would have stayed at Access+ nothing has gotten jacked up in price but I guess we are grandfathered so nothing affects us.

[nate]

Small businesses with healthy and younger employees, and healthy individuals are seeing the biggest increases.

 

Corporations who gave their employees very good benefits are also seeing a big increase because they are being taxed for being so good to their employees.

[Spirit]

Fortunately, my company was able to find a way to offset the cost.  We laid off 4000 people yesterday.

 

Also, with the cost savings, we were able to give our CEO a little extra somethin'.  

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/30/us-cisco-ceocompensation-idUSBRE98T16A20130930

[Adam]

Fortunately, my company was able to find a way to offset the cost.  We laid off 4000 people yesterday.

 

Also, with the cost savings, we were able to give our CEO a little extra somethin'.  

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/30/us-cisco-ceocompensation-idUSBRE98T16A20130930

 

First your back, now this! You're on a heater, buddy!

[Spirit]

Fortunately, I was not one of the 4000 let go.  However, there were a number of people I worked with that were.  

[Adam]

Fortunately, I was not one of the 4000 let go.  However, there were a number of people I worked with that were.  

 

I figured dude. Tough run man. 

[mrwicked]

ouch.

yeah cisco not doing so well these days in some areas.

likely not going to get better anytime soon either. 

[TobiasFunke]

ouch.

yeah cisco not doing so well these days in some areas.

likely not going to get better anytime soon either. 

They're doing good enough for their CEO to get a raise like that

[Schildog]

and obamacare isn't the reason those 4,000 people are being let go. 

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/15/us-cisco-results-idUSBRE97D16W20130815

 

 

Chambers also said the current business environment was underperforming his expectations. Despite strength in the United States, weakness in Asia and mixed results from Europe continued to dog its business

[mtangelsfan]

and obamacare isn't the reason those 4,000 people are being let go. 

 

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/15/us-cisco-results-idUSBRE97D16W20130815

 

LOL, you have zero idea if it played a part in it or not.  

[Adam]

prolly a craig, but this is pretty awesome

 

http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/jay-bookman/2013/oct/02/boehners-stunning-hypocrisy-exposed-loud-and-proud/

 

 

lol...republicans

[Schildog]

LOL, you have zero idea if it played a part in it or not.  

 

and you do i suppose?

[Adam]

and you do i suppose?

 

Clearly you read the part of his post where he claimed to.

[mtangelsfan]

prolly a craig, but this is pretty awesome

 

http://www.ajc.com/weblogs/jay-bookman/2013/oct/02/boehners-stunning-hypocrisy-exposed-loud-and-proud/

 

 

lol...republicans

 

Totally, they have managed to make an absolutely horrible president and pathetic democratic leadership in congress look not quite so bad compared to them.

[nate]

Totally, they have managed to make an absolutely horrible president and pathetic democratic leadership in congress look not quite so bad compared to them.

 

 

This deserves a quote... it is so tragic and true it hurts.

[Angel Oracle]

Now, now, Chambers needs that extra $100 million to go with the hundreds of millions he's already made.