Comments on: Higher health care premiums could cause ObamaCare to death spiral

By: meMC

meMC — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 18:35:32 +0000

I work at a doctor’s office. I know some of our patient’s have been forced out of regular Medicare and into a Medicare Advantage plan. I guess they are now finding out just how long they can keep their plan, if they like it.

By: Schadenfreude

Schadenfreude — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:17:58 +0000

Death to it. It's neither affordable, nor care. What a Geobbelsean naming!

By: hawksruleva

hawksruleva — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:07:16 +0000

Unlike many others, I believe Obama means well, and doesn’t realize what he’s doing is just evil, and that it will ultimately hurt most those he wants to help the most.

Paul-Cincy on January 9, 2013 at 10:43 AM

What evidence is there that he means well? He told a woman on a live ABC forum that maybe her sick grandmother would have to take an aspirin, instead of getting cancer treatments.

By: hawksruleva

hawksruleva — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 17:05:27 +0000

Couple things here.
1) Obama would be thrilled if fewer people bought insurance, because eliminating Big Insurance pretty much creates his single-payer utopia.

2)Don’t forget that the tax penalty escalates. So while it may look affordable initially, it gets more expensive later own.

By: totherightofthem

totherightofthem — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:43:41 +0000

This was the plan all along. Ushers in single payer because the sheeple will be screaming to the rafters for help with their ginormous health insurance premiums, among other things.

By: thurman

thurman — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:26:13 +0000

as Prof Reynolds would say, it’s a feature, not a bug

This is all by design, a trojan horse to destroy the private insurance industry (who operate very efficiently and fairly) and fill the void with a single payer system

Remember, the Dems cried bloody murder for a year to have a “public option” in Obamacare, which would have served this same purpose, only faster. Enough moderate Dems (when they existed) knew this was a fiscal disaster, thank heavens

Gee, wouldn’t it be nice if we could experiment with systems like this? Like let one state try one way, one the other?

Oh yeah, we do it’s called federalism

I can self-insure in Texas for $129/month. In NY state, I would be paying $600/month because of all the extra mandatory crap required for a minimal plan, plus guaranteed issue

Guess which system the geniuses in this admin went with?

By: RadClown

RadClown — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:25:26 +0000

Obamacare was designed to fail.

By: dogsoldier

dogsoldier — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:08:31 +0000

so long as they paid the tax penalty for not purchasing insurance

What if they don’t have that money either? In fact John Roberts said we don’t have to pay that either, in his confusing opinion.

By: Mr. Prodigy

Mr. Prodigy — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:06:37 +0000

That’s all fine and well, but how many *people* are going to “death-spiral” in the time it takes for us to get rid of this POS?

By: CorporatePiggy

CorporatePiggy — Wed, 09 Jan 2013 16:06:25 +0000

Sure, Americans are going to start getting the shaft big time with their premiums. And they won’t connect that with OCare – they will listen to the Demoncrat line and demand someone punish our insurance company enemies.