Liz Binns told Newsnet 5 that the federal health-care exchange was no salvation for her and her husband. He has a preexisting condition and a job that doesn’t offer coverage. However, the cheapest plan she was able to find on the federal health-care exchange has a premium over $400 and a $5,000 deductible.
“I can’t afford it. I cannot afford it,” Binns said. She predicted that she would be able to pay off such costs only with “at least a second job and praying that I would make enough.”
A second job in this economy? Good luck.
Maybe when Obama makes his way through Ohio on his ‘Fixed It!’ tour, she can share her dilemma and he can get a staffer to giver her a card with a number to call. Unless she’s a Republican, then she should expect to be called a racist for being critical of the President’s signature legislation.
