The Realities of DemocratCare…. or ‘They Don’t Call us “The Right!” For Nothing.’ Part IX - Granite Grok

The Realities of DemocratCare…. or ‘They Don’t Call us “The Right!” For Nothing.’ Part IX

Obama and Obamacare hates sick people (emphasis mine and reformatted):

…The husband is 57, the wife 61. Both have cancer — the husband’s is in remission while the wife’s is in aggressive and expensive treatment.

The couple had been obtaining health insurance under Wisconsin’s high-risk-pool program, created in 1979, which provides health care to about 20,000 residents and is subsidized by a state tax on everyone else’s health-insurance plans. Under that plan, the couple paid a premium of $767 a month and had out-of-pocket expenses capped at $10,000 a year, meaning their overall costs were around $19,000. Eligibility for Wisconsin’s high-risk-pool program comes from being rejected by two commercial insurance companies. Under Obamacare, those companies can’t reject anyone because of preexisting conditions, so the high-risk pools will be eliminated [Jan 1 – Skip].

Finding information about enrolling in Obamacare has been a nightmare. The husband has tried to review plans at Healthcare.gov over 40 times at all times of the day and night with no success. He called the Obamacare 1-800 number two weeks ago. A friendly woman promised to send him a packet of information that never arrived. In the meantime, the only place he can get any information is the insurance companies, which are providing him quotes that are roughly double his current costs.

The “bronze plan” doesn’t include necessary care, so the couple is looking at the “silver plan,” which starts at $1,400 a month. They are still trying to get an exact handle on the out-of-pocket expenses, but right now it appears as if the total cost will be in the range of $40,000.

The husband has been given three different estimates of the subsidies he will receive from the federal government, from $726 a month to $911 a month. Although that will soften the blow, they will still likely be paying more. (Nothing is certain yet given the rat’s nest of Healthcare.gov).

$40,000 medical cost per year – that’s more than many folks earn in a year.  Add in mortgage payment, car loan, utilities, food, clothes; there may be a real eventuality that Obamacare can drive this couple into bankruptcy – the fact that they MIGHT qualify for a subsidy doesn’t change the picture.  Remember, Obamacare also had high risk pools, too.  In typical top-down, command fashion, they ran out of money and had to go out of business.

We were told, by the Smart People, that because of the universal “existing condition” clause, no insurance company could now refuse them.  What the suckers didn’t thing of was that there still is no free lunch.  Sure, they may get a subsidy, but what the Obama Administration is pushing is the idea of “free money available to all” will “lower the cost of your premium”.  In other words, don’t worry that you are taking it out of the pocket of some OTHER family that might need the money they are losing to you.

THAT is the fundamental transformation that Obama wants – the new morality is that in ALL things, you have the right to steal other people’s money and not feel guilty.  Forget the idea that the gungrabbers often say, that video games are “desensitizing us to violence”; what Progressives have been doing for years have been desensitizing us to importance of the Right to Private Property,   They’ve been gnawing at that Pillar of a Free Society for over  100 years, that welfare as “compassion” when it is nothing more than theft by Government by greedy politicians bribing some for their votes.

I can tell you which is more harmful in the long run.

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