I don't have an answer for your situation , and I'm sure my situation down the road . I have a built in filter in my tv's that any time Obama, Pelosi, or Reed come on , my tv automatically changes channels...

My family coverage through work is going up $200/month, and that's only after the firms switched insurance carriers.

Obamacare has been a complete disaster. But who'd have guessed that would happen considering they didn't read it before they passed the law.

APIAD wrote:

It was hard to have an i formed opinion on obamacare prior to its launch because nobody knew what it was. Not know was good reason to worry i guess. This couldnt have been a bigger fail. It is costing everyone more money. The problem with the american health care system is it is to costly. Only washington could make things worst while trying to make them better.

 
Yeah I'm doing some searching for healthcare myself, and I'm simply going to say that if you're seeking independent coverage you might as well just go without. I can either spend 500.00 a month for myself with a 2000.00 deductible, or I can spend 150.00 a month with a 6000.00 deductible where they pay NOTHING until after 6000.00 is met....

Considering I typically go to a doctor about 2 times a year, I'm open to anyone telling me which of these makes sense, because my current plan is 2000.00 deductible with higher copays, and costs me 130.00 a month....

Fortunately the one year extension I believe means I can keep my current plan until July of 2015 before I'm thrown to the proverbial wolves here. I'm hoping they can fix this shit before then.

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artie_fufkin wrote:

Why the federal government has so much difficulty providing what should be a basic service at a reasonable cost is mystifying, infuriating, depressing and probably a whole lot of other things that would piss me off more if I took more time to think about them.
 

 
That's kind of where I'm at, and most of America was pretty sleepy-eyed when the Republicans rioted and tried stopping the entire government to prevent this thing. In America's defense however, both of these groups of assclowns have been sniping at each other non-stop for my entire life, and this just looked like the latest temper tantrum. Turns out this needed serious attention.

I'm hopeful that they can get together and rectify this failed system. Obama wanted all Americans to have a fair shake at affordable healthcare. There's nothing wrong with that goal, it's even noble. This implementation however just absolutely buttfucked the entire US working class (maybe more) in the name of helping out a much smaller % of people in the need. I know healthcare is expensive, clean sterile tools and facilities have to be maintained and filled with highly educated people to administer care. But are you telling me that 3% of the pre-existing condition group is so expensive that my premium either needs to be quadrupled or my deductible tripled, or a combination of the two so there's enough pooled money to proivde????

I seriously fucking doubt it.

 

"America was pretty sleepy-eyed when the Republicans rioted and tried stopping the entire government to prevent this thing."

Not to make this too partisan, but the Republicans bitched and moaned about Obama before he was even inaugurated, so it's understandable that everyone's eyes were glazed over when they tried to make even a little bit of sense. To an extent, they have their own hyperbole to blame. When your stated goal is to make sure the president's policies fail so he won't get re-elected, people aren't going to listen to you after a while. To say nothing of the notion that you're not serving the best interests of the country.
Which is not to say I've always been enthralled with everything the Democrats have done. I fully admit I bought the "Hope & Change" thing, and I'd still rather have eight years of Obama than one day of The Decider, but the fears that Obama wasn't ready for the job to which he elected him have mostly come true. Of course, the reasonable people who made that argument in 2008 got elbowed aside by people who claimed he's a Muslim Socialist (or was it a Socialist Muslim?), and to the extreme racists who just couldn't handle the idea a man of color could be president.

Nothing like affordable healthcare eh Fors? We're living the life of luxury I tell you. I'm so glad they fixed it!

Next time just send a government dude to my door and when I answer he can pistol whip me, drag me out back, kick me in the groin a few hundred times, and then shoot me in the face.

Far less painful... My ex didn't extort me like this new HELLCare plan crap is.

"part of the reason his health insurance premium increased is that the law requires him to have coverage in case he gets pregnant."

Does that mean his health insurance plan will pay for birth control pills if he chooses to take them?