I Hate Obamacare

I'm not crazy about it myself.
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I live in a state that refused to expand Medicaid.
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A couple of years ago, I was unemployed. I couldn't afford to buy insurance on my unemployment benefit. So, I had no insurance. At least I wasn't fined for NOT having it, because I could prove I was unemployed.
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Fast forward a few months. I found contract work (temporary.) I could either pay a little for substandard "insurance" through the contacting company, or I could go to the "Marketplace" and select expensive insurance that still wouldn't cover anything I actually need.
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Luckily, after another few months, I found a permanent job - for those jobs, companies usually offer group insurance that's reasonably adequate and not too expensive.
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So - IMHO, things are about the same as they were before. If you don't have a permanent full-time job, you'd better hope you don't get sick.
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And employers are always coming up with new excuses to avoid providing group health insurance as an employee benefit. A lot of places hire mostly contractors (like I was for a few months) because they're considered "temporary" or "not a full-time permanent employee" - and thus, they can get away with not offering the insurance benefit.
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Not that the employers really have it easy. The insurance companies keep raising the prices on policies, and they save themselves a lot of money by refusing to cover different things. (In this regard, the ACA helped somewhat. There are certain preventive care things that insurers are now required to cover.)
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Anyway, because insurance companies keep raising prices, the HR department of the company you work at has to devote hours to looking around for the best deal on group policies Every. Single. Year.
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So, I guess because my annual dental and health checkups now MUST be covered, I'm a little better off than I was before.
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As long as I can hang onto a permanent full-time job.

It's about being looked after! You pay enough tax so it's only right you are looked after! A rich country that doesn't look after its people is a poor country! Get with the programme! We've had healthcare in Europe for nearly 100 years - it's long past time you caught up!!

Is the problem Obama care or is it all the restrictions to it imposed by the Republicans? From Europe the idea that there is no easy access to health care for low income citizens seems such an aberration.

I have to agree. The insurance plans in the exchange are confusing. Making it worse is the fact that the online tools are poorly developed. In fact, using a different browser not only gives the user interface a different "look," it also is a completely different experience, asking different questions, etc. Good lord! In principal, the idea that everyone has health care is good, or that insurance companies cannot deny coverage for pre-existing conditions. But the additional mountain of male bovine manure we have to deal with because of a law that is in excess of 2,000 pages that very few have read, or understand, is likely to do more harm than good.

3 years ago I went retired. My private health care paid via my employer was temporarily canceled the time to switch from employee to retired status. I or anyone in my province who don't have private Healthcare dial 1-800-RAMQ and here you go, we have full coverage medication included. Lots think canadians don't pay for it but we do via our taxes, we don't see it.

It is bad on the "front" end for the people trying to get enrolled - it is also unprofitable for the insurance companies to provide, without government subsidies. And those go away after this year, so even fewer companies will be offering insurance in the future. Classic government program...

And yet we love this program being shoved down our throats! I can see insurance being mandated, but let's keep it in the private sector and let us have the ability to choose a plan right for us! Including catastrophic coverage which is amazing if you are young and healthy.

It's a horrible idea. I think employers should get out of the healthcare business and government should have some sort of offering but this was never the way to go.

This is why I always think elections are fixed. I could see Obama getting elected the first time. I haven't a clue how Romney didn't win.

One more year.

I feel for you. You are right. It's been the same for me, and the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. They know nothing or if they give you information, you find out it's wrong and now you are in a mess with taxes because of their mistake.
I hate it too.

"Resistance is futile; you will be assimilated." That is what Obamacare is all about. To turn the citizens into mere subjects of the bureaucracy, which ever increasingly grinds the subjects down until they are instead serfs.

It not the Affordable Care Act. Insurance is Legalized Organized Crime. Right or Left no one has our best interest in mind.

Maybe this will help?
http://www.legalconsumer.com/obamacare/topic.php?TopicID=99&ST=FL

the cost for me, under the program, would be over 500 per month! so much for "free"

I understand what you mean. That's why I went to an insurance company and they did it for me

You are correct that The whole program is really useless and doesn't seem to benefit people the way it claims

That's why I call it obamadoesn'tcare!

A single payer system would be much better

I know a friends got their eyes fixs because of obamcare

you write Obama and Obamacare sucks

You got that right