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What employer provides free insurance? I have insurance through my work, but it's not free.
What employer provides free insurance? I have insurance through my work, but it's not free.
none of your business
I'm one of those 10Ms employees who don't have to change from a ty plan to an excellent ACA plan, because my employer's group insurance is already excellent, AND FREE!
The American Communist Party is the only one I believe that provides its employees with free health care coverage...Hmmmm.
As Obamacare's #1 proponent it would only be right of you to cancel your current insurance provided by your employer and pay in to the plan you've been pimping since day 1.
<sniff> I smell bull .
because you head is up your ass
I do as well, 100% free.
According to a new report, more than 700 fake Obamacare websites have been created.
Security experts say it's simple to identify the phony sites because they are easy to log on to.
*rimshot*
same, your head is up your ass
FREEdom is just another word for Boutons has nothing else to pay!
I'm also one of those employees who pays zero out of pocket like yourself, but you don't see me on here telling everyone else how excellent the ACA will be while not having to be a part of it. Give up your plan and sign up for the ACA. Share the financial burden that you are pushing so hard on to others you coward.
"you don't see me on here telling everyone else how excellent the ACA will be while not having to be a part of it."
I can make any and all comments and evaluations on ACA or anything else.
So tell us the name of the plan so we can see how great it is.
Sure you can, and doing so while refusing to participate in the ACA makes your opinion worthless, but you already knew that.
People Who Buy Own Health Policies Face Big Changes
They are the estimated 149 million people who receive health insurance through an employer, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation. While the law has required adjustments to those plans and some prices could rise, generally people who keep their jobs may keep the same coverage. Some exceptions exist.
The story is different for the 10 million to 12 million people who buy insurance on their own. Rules for those policies have changed substantially for 2014.
Insurers are informing many of those people that their old plans have been discontinued and that they must choose new plans at new prices.
About half of those people may qualify for federal subsidies or Medicaid, according to a recent analysis from the Kaiser Family Foundation. But those who do not are often facing much higher premiums.
The coverage required under the federal health care law is much more generous than many of the plans that had been sold to individuals, and insurers are now pricing these policies to account for many of the older and sicker people they once could turn away but must now cover. Under the new rules, people with pre-existing conditions may not be denied coverage and there are limits on how much prices may vary for people of differing ages.
Some people may find a new policy less expensive than their previous one. That could be because the insurer charged a high premium based on their age or medical condition. That is no longer permitted. And others may have plans that are “grandfathered,” meaning they were in place in 2010 and can be renewed without significant changes.
At Florida Blue, for example, 300,000 people will be notified this year that their coverage is up for renewal, and they will have to select a new plan, either through the new state marketplace or directly with the insurer. Only about 60,000 will be allowed to renew their current policies because they are grandfathered. The rest must choose among the new plans offered by Florida Blue or another insurer.
http://mobile.nytimes.com/news/affor...e-big-changes/
Mike Rogers grills Secretary Kathleen Sebellius about the security of the website.
You'd be foolish to submit any sensitive information after listening to this.
Mike Rogers is just a Repug asshole, spreading FUD, trying to limit the horrible damage ACA will visit on Repugs and tea baggers. GFY and him, too.
G.O.P. UNVEILS OWN HEALTH-CARE WEB SITE, EMERGENCYROOM.GOV
Saying that “the American people are fed up with a disastrous Web site that doesn’t work and never will,” House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Virginia) and a phalanx of congressional Republicans today unveiled their own health-care Web site, EmergencyRoom.gov.
“At EmergencyRoom.gov, every American can access the one tried-and-true health-care system that has worked in this country for decades,” he said.
While Healthcare.gov has frustrated many users with its difficult-to-navigate design, Rep. Cantor said that at EmergencyRoom.gov, “Health care is just three easy steps away. One: enter your zip code. Two: see the list of emergency rooms. Three: get to the nearest one before you die.”
The Virginia Republican wasted no time touting the cost savings of EmergencyRoom.gov, comparing it favorably with the notoriously expensive Obamacare site: “Unlike Healthcare.gov, which private contractors built at a cost running into the hundreds of millions, EmergencyRoom.gov was built for nine hundred dollars by my intern Josh.”
And in contrast with Healthcare.gov’s maze of forms, links, and phone numbers, he said, “EmergencyRoom.gov has just one phone number: 9-1-1.”
In what may be the strongest selling point for the new site, Rep. Cantor said that the wait time on EmergencyRoom.gov is “virtually nonexistent,” not counting the twelve to thirty-six hours spent in the actual emergency room.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blog...rowitz%20(191)
Obama’s 16 words
By Marc A. Thiessen, Thursday, October 31
Remember George W. Bush’s “16 words” in his 2003 State of the Union address making the case for military action in Iraq? Sen. John Kerry charged that Bush “hoodwinked the American people.” Sen. Hillary Clinton said Bush “misled” the country. And Sen. Barack Obama accused the White House of “shading intelligence reports to support its case.”
Well, now it seems President Obama has his own 16 words to answer for: “If you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan.” (Actually, it was a little more than 16 words if you include what the president said next: “Period. No one will take it away. No matter what.”)
Obama attempted to move the goal posts in his speech in Boston’s Faneuil Hall Wednesday, declaring that if you like your current health plan, “For the vast majority . . . you can keep it.” Sorry, he didn’t say “the vast majority” back in 2009. He said you can keep your plan. Period. No matter what.
Indeed, Obama repeated this promise on at least 24 separate occasions — before and after the law went into effect. It was critical to his case. Without his 16-word pledge that no one would lose his or her health plans, Obamacare might never have become law.
But Obama’s 16 words were untrue. Across the country, Americans are now seeing their health plans discontinued — and experts say the cancellations could eventually reach 16 million. As one woman in California who got a cancellation letter from her insurer told the Los Angeles Times, “All we’ve been hearing the last three years is if you like your policy you can keep it . . . I’m infuriated because I was lied to.”
Indeed, there is good reason to believe that the administration not only knew but fully intended for all these people to lose their existing plans. The Health and Human Services Department specifically wrote regulations to ensure that they would — narrowing a provision in the law “grandfathering” in existing plans so that “40 to 67 percent” of those in the individual market would not be able to keep their policies. That’s because moving millions of customers out of the individual and small group markets and into the exchanges is critical to making the scheme financially viable. Indeed, the survival of Obamacare depends on it.
The individual and small group markets are made up largely of healthy people who don’t use a lot of services. The administration needs at least 2 million healthy people who don’t use a lot of services to join the exchanges in order to subsidize coverage for the poor and the sick. If they don’t join, the risk pool gets worse, prices go up, eventually insurers will flee the exchanges — and the whole thing collapses.
While the individual mandate is supposed to coerce uninsured healthy people without insurance to join the exchanges, the problem is that the penalties are too weak — just $95 in the first year. Why would a healthy person who does not think they need insurance pay $55 a month (or $660 a year) for a $6,000-deductible plan when they could just pay a $95 penalty instead?
So the administration needed some way to force currently insured healthy people into the exchanges. How serendipitous, then, that millions of mostly healthy people are suddenly seeing their health plans cancelled. If they cannot afford the skyrocketing prices to keep similar coverage, they have no choice but to join the exchanges. The result? A massive involuntary transfer of Americans out of private health insurance they were happy with into Obamacare plans.
These folks are the marks the administration has targeted to pay for Obamacare. Or they would be, except for one problem the White House did not anticipate: The Obamacare Web site does not work. So now millions of people who will lose their health coverage on Jan. 1 are unable to sign up for alternative coverage through the Obamacare exchanges.
It was Obama’s objective from the start to destroy the market in order to fund Obamacare. He wants these people to lose coverage so they have no choice but to sign up for the exchanges. Obama all but admitted this in his Boston speech. “If you’re getting one of these [cancellation] letters, just shop around in the new marketplace,” he declared. In other words, don’t worry if the plan you’re happy with is being cancelled, just join Obamacare! That was the plan all along.
All of which suggests that Obama’s 16 words were no accident.
Or, put another way, “Obama lied and the individual market died.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...b78_story.html
dubya lying about starting a war is not the same as Obama saying individuals could keep their probably ty, junk health policy.
Wow, a career politician from one of the two major parties lied? Next you'll tell me Boutons tried to deflect to the previous Republican administration!
Jonah Goldberg?
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