How's That Obamacare Working Out?- Page 2

[Jordan Catalano]

Posted: 10/19/14 at 12:08pm

I'm absolutely SHOCKED that Goth hasn't responded.

[trentsketch]

Posted: 10/19/14 at 1:43pm

I'm also shocked that a sob story about Obamacare matched with triumphs resulted in the the sob story teller dismissing all personal anecdotes as proof of failure or success of Obamacare.

Posted: 10/20/14 at 4:34pm

Well said indeed. No one is arguing health insurance is cheap- I was paying about $400 a month for a fair-to-bad policy under my employer's plan in 2012. Under that plan, my total expenses for health care that year (premiums, co-pays, prescriptions and deductibles) came to close to $10,000- and I didn't even suffer any major illnesses.

And in my over 30 years as an employee of various companies, I've been forced to change doctors a half dozen times due to changes in policies or coverage. And my expenses (like Mrs Roxy's) rose every single year. I have never had a year where my contribution stayed the same or decreased- every year I paid more.



Updated On: 10/20/14 at 04:34 PM

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 10/20/14 at 8:48pm

Me, too. Long before Obamacare, my doctors came and went from my plan.

And I've never paid anywhere as low as $120 a month. My cable/internet bill is well above that.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/27/14 at 11:27pm

I've been seeing more and more older actors on my FB feed complain about this.

I can't comprehend how anyone connected to the management of Actors Equity call allow this to happen to aging actors.


INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES: Older Broadway Actors Booted From Equity-League Health Plan In Obamacare Fallout

[SNAFU]

Posted: 10/28/14 at 12:40am

There are always going to be problems until we go totally to the single payer system. Obamacare is a step in that direction. There is still a lot of work to do!

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/28/14 at 12:52am

But with a union? A union for actors? It's antithetical to everything that union stands for.

There's a thread on the main board now, so perhaps this belongs there.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 10/28/14 at 10:11am

But are self paying members going to be adversely affected by having to go on ACA instead of Cobra?

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/28/14 at 8:19pm

"But are self paying members going to be adversely affected by having to go on ACA instead of Cobra?"

Of course they are. Once they go over to government sponsored healthcare, the government makes the decisions. Sarah Palin's death panels that all of you laughed about will kick in. The government will decide who gets medical treatment and who doesn't. And all those old dancers with arthritic knees will suddenly realize they're not getting their knee replacements.

[Reginald Tresilian]

Posted: 10/28/14 at 9:22pm

"Sarah Palin's death panels that all of you laughed about will kick in."

It's already happened. Three of my relatives were sentenced to death this summer. Where is the outrage?

[haterobics]

Posted: 10/28/14 at 10:47pm

"Sarah Palin's death panels that all of you laughed about will kick in. The government will decide who gets medical treatment and who doesn't."

The laughter wasn't about the death panels, only that they were some new thing that the ACA was introducing, as opposed to something insurance companies already had been doing for years, and now continue to do, since the ACA builds on the existing insurance industry. It is nothing new, so it stays on the pile of messed up stuff that should be fixed, not the smaller pile of new things the ACA broke in its first year.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 10/28/14 at 11:04pm

Once they go over to government sponsored healthcare, the government makes the decisions.

No, that's not true.

[Gothampc]

Posted: 10/29/14 at 7:39pm

Oh dear. Looks like Ayn Rand had it right. Atlas begins to shrug.

"Over 214,000 doctors won't participate in the new plans under the Affordable Care Act (ACA,) analysis of a new survey by Medical Group Management Association shows."
Link

[haterobics]

Posted: 10/29/14 at 8:10pm

Weirdly, when you search for this big news, you only find a bunch of blogs and no traditional news sites. I guess that is part of the left wing conspiracy?

All this study says was that based on a survey they did in April, 76.5% of surveyed physicians were participating in an ACA exchange plan. Of the 23.5% who were not yet participating in an exchange plan, 41.8% gave as a reason that they had not yet been approached to participate in one.

So, all this does is apply that percentage to the total number of doctors, and extrapolates that they "won't participate," despite them not being asked any specific question like that in the survey.

But, as long as it slams the ACA, who cares about accuracy... and I'm sure the study being released a few days before the election is entirely coincidental?



Updated On: 10/29/14 at 08:10 PM

[Sutton Ross]

Posted: 10/29/14 at 8:58pm

Yes, thanks for the right wing website you offered this "information" from, Goth.