Welcome to Obamacare, you socialist scum.

Hope you choke on it… Too bad there won’t be any doctors around to administer the Heimlich maneuver while your turning blue.

Thanks to you, unions helped destroy the medical profession – raillroaded by a 2000+ page bill no one read before it was passed into law.

Chronic pain? Go f-yourself.

Keep smoking, drinking, and eating like $hit. Don’t wear a seatbelt while driving. Plan to start paying out-of-pocket.

Sincerely,

Your friendly neighborhood physician.

With the medium income somewhere around $50,000 – that’s gonna take a BITE.

Certain Big Labor groups suddenly not so partial to ObamaCare

…”What difference does it make”?
…can’t fix stupid!

“If we’re not offering our members insurance and pension, why would you want to be union?” he asked.

Ha Ha. Obama got elected to help the unions, and he might just be the death of them.

PPACA is caca

A summary of taxes and fees
assessed by the Affordable Care Act
Jan. 31, 2013

One of the biggest questions asked about health reform is “how are we going to pay for all of this?” Unfortunately, the answer is taxes.
Under the Affordable Care Act, five new taxes and fees will be added to the purchase of health insurance. The rules, timing and amounts for each of these vary so we’re providing a summary table with explanation for your convenience.
First, let’s run down the purpose of each of the taxes and fees:
• Annual fee on health insurance carriers — This annual fee will be assessed on all fully funded health plans based on premium. (Note: Final regulations have not been released on this fee.)
• Transitional Reinsurance Program — Fees collected from all commercial plans (fully and self funded) sold both on and off the exchange and in both the group and the individual markets. This will be used to pay for high-cost claimants insured in the individual market throughout the country. The program is temporary and runs from 2014 through 2016.
• Risk Adjustment Admin fee — A fee used to develop a risk adjustment methodology that will compensate certain plans with membership that is less healthy than average by assessing plans with membership that is healthier than average. This fee is assessed on all individual and small group policies.
• Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) fee — This fee will fund the PCORI, which conducts comparative effectiveness research. The fee will also be assessed on all fully-insured and self-funded plans including health reimbursement arrangements. The fee will be from 2012 through 2019. Self-funded employer groups are responsible for paying this assessment and filing an annual excise tax return (Form 720) with the IRS.
• Exchange user fee — Fee that will be applied to all plans purchased from the exchange both individual and Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP).

Based on their table of calculated fees, the price per month goes up between $11 and $27 per month per member just on these added on fees, and between $5 and $18 for individual plans. There were even smaller amounts tacked onto medicare advantage, medigap and medicaid monthly premiums.

Obamacare, it was supposed to save families $2500 a year, remember?

Biggest lie of the century.

Annar on January 31, 2013 at 3:03 PM

Neat thing is, after the collapse of the currency, the single payers will be you and me andeveryone else.
III/0317

Where’s bayam?

Del Dolemonte on January 31, 2013 at 2:09 PM

Maybe today’s a bank holiday in Canada.

Single payer, that’s where this is heading. All part of the plan.

JPeterman on January 31, 2013 at 12:00 PM

You got that right. The States that opted out of the exchanges will end up being the test tubes for the next iteration toward a single uniform plan for all.

“If we’re not offering our members insurance and pension, why would you want to be union?” he asked.

Future headline: Right to work laws “unexpectedly” gain in popularity among rank and file union members.

It was easy to believe that the PPACA would reduce health insurance premiums because the unions didn’t take a real serious, factual look at what was being promised and accepted at face value that a superficial understanding of what was involved in the health care and health insurance industry could be “easily” adjusted at no cost to their members.

Of course, the obvious next step is to further cronyism by seeking exemptions or extentions or something to dodge the oncoming problem.

Fallon on January 31, 2013 at 12:23 PM

I mentioned on a thread yesterday that the City of Houston no longer considers the health care obligations of pensioners a liability after this year because of ObamaCare. Poof! 55-60% of unfunded retiree benefits wiped off the books!

PEUs are fixin’ to find out some bad news…

I think all the US doctors are going to buy a country somewhere and call it The United Doctors State.
The UDS – come for a hip replacement, come for a lifeline.

redguy on January 31, 2013 at 12:07 PM

Not necessary. There are a handful of island countries in the Carribean that will become cash-only healthcare resorts. They already have the infrastructure required, and they will welcome the business.