And when the program starts going broke in the first year, have even more fun when subsidies are slashed. Medicare patients, best of luck to you as well. You’ll need it to find a doctor who accepts your insurance (because it pretty much is Medicaid). You’ll have time to adjust, though: The government is reducing Medicare reimbursements to doctors by 27 percent this year, so you may lose your doctor before the nightmare officially starts in 2014.”

Exactly.
Q:Who among us will choose to pile even more volume, at lower rates, onto our schedules?
A: None of us.
Good luck, Obama voters. Perhaps Kath Sibelius can biopsy that nasty looking sore for you, and Eric Holder can outline a course of postoperative therapy.
Or, not. Let’s find out.

My retiree insurance which I pay a premium for, has now had the prescription portion removed and we will be covered by MC D. I have no idea how much this will cost or if the premium will be deducted from our SS.

Kissmygrits on December 3, 2012 at 9:02 AM

Yes, this premium for Medicare D will be deducted from your S.S. if you make that choice and the cost of the premium will be based upon your income. For some reason, a little over $100 comes to mind.
http://www.medicare.gov/part-d/costs/premiums/drug-plan-premiums.html

I don’t have D as my husband hasn’t retired and I get meds through his insurance plan (BC/BS) so I’m not exactly sure of the fine details……that link may be of some help.

What’s more, there are provisions in the law capping the financial burden the requirements will impose on the uninsured. If costs exceed 8 percent of their income, they are exempt from the individual mandate to buy insurance.

This causes me to wonder if anybody who can’t afford the insurance will be subject to the mandate. Essentially, what we’ll have is: millions of people can’t afford insurance, but we’re not forcing them to enroll anyway. Except their enrollment was supposed to be a revenue stream for the health care law, increasing risk pools and other nonsense Obama spewed like he knew what he was talking about.

So basically, it’s increasing the cost of insurance on everyone else by 20% or whatever, and kick a bunch of people off employer-based coverage into exchanges, to increase net coverage by MAYBE a couple million people. This is even more insidious than I first thought, and my previous opinion of the law was not what you would call high.

As an example, the coverage currently offered by my employer would have cost me over 32% of my annual income, and that before the ~20% increase that goes into effect next year. My total combined withholding – federal, state, local, FICA, all that stuff – is less than 28%. That’s how affordable the new law is making health care for a family of five.

/s off

If he hadn’t had the debate debacle – I swear we would be celebrating President elect Perry right now.

UGH!

gophergirl on December 2, 2012 at 8:02 PM

The only bumper sticker on my car is my Perry for President one.

Philly on December 2, 2012 at 6:57 PM

But… it’s… FREE!!!!!!!

We finally gettin’ back on the man and showin’ him who the real boss is. Now where’s my EBT?

What’s this thing called an “election?”
Myron Falwell on December 3, 2012 at 12:06 AM

Similar to an erection, but even less useful and the pleasure of even a good one lasts a much shorter time.

I suspect that this is nothing more than a lie to try to convince states that have rejected Obamacare implementation to go forward.

Look for the msm to try to use this fraudulent HHS claim as a means to attack those states.

You guys / gals are cute…

Thinking there really will be an actual election in 2016.

LegendHasIt on December 2, 2012 at 11:32 PM

What’s this thing called an “election?”

Thinking there really will be an actual election in 2016.

Rolling this thing out, the Obama administration is looking like a bunch of chickens running around with their heads cut off, and their unpreparedness in dealing with their own Frankenstein’s monster is showcasing all of the new costs and consequences coming with it.

On the contrary, Obamacare looks like a great fund-raiser … for the government. They’ll tax us to pay for one part of it, then charge the insurance companies a fee to participate, which the insurance companies will then charge their customers. Then they’ll tax medical device manufacturers a tax, slap on extra regulations that the medical device manufacturers will pay for by charging hospitals and doctors more, who will then raise the fees they get from patients.

Of course, Obamacare sets a legal limit to how much an insurance company can spend on overhead not directly related to paying for patient care. But that just requires the insurance companies to send more lobbyists to Washington to change minds. Who pays those lobbyist salaries? Customers, of course.

The people making out like bandits will be the actual bandits, who will be in the government where the big bucks are made.

Wait a minute. Was all this supposed to save money?

Oops.

What happens to the Left when it gets its wishes, and has to own the results? I truly never wanted to have to find out, but it looks like another four years of this current disaster is what it will take to wake up enough people to start restoring Liberty.

I’m sure the chosen one has that covered, either with a wave of his hand, a smile, his oversized ears to hear better, or simply, another executive order.