RBInMaine (9,868 posts)
"JUNK INSURANCE JUNK INSURANCE JUNK INSURANCE" Say it 1000 times.
Last edited Sat Nov 16, 2013, 04:11 PM - Edit history (2)
I have been making some right winger heads explode by saying "JUNK INSURANCE" when they talk about the 2-3% losing plans in the individual market. I say "Yeah, they are losing their JUNK insurance with massive deductibles and that doesn't cover anything because the law says the INSURANCE COMPANIES can't just sell that JUNK insurance anymore. And you know as well as I do that it is pure JUNK."
Then of course they'll come back and say, "Well, who the hell are you to call it "JUNK"? If it is what they want and it works for them, they should have that choice."
Then I say, "I didn't call it JUNK. The insurance companies did by making sure it was JUNK. And of course they DO NOT 'WANT' THIS JUNK. They buy it because it is all they can AFFORD. Are you telling me that if a person needed a car and bought some piece of shit because it was all they could afford that would be their CHOICE??? Give me a ****in' break ! They would at least buy a decent car, one that would not be a piece of JUNK that breaks down the moment you really need it. Maybe it doesn't need to be a new Cadillac, but a decent car should at least maybe be a Ford Focus or Chevy Cruise, not some piece of crap Yugo type JUNK. And a health plan shouldn't be a LEMON and piece of JUNK either. We have a "lemon law" with cars. Well, the ACA is the lemon law for JUNK insurance plans. They are a disgrace, and we need to scrap them and throw them on the junk heap. We can take some time with that as we transition. But in time, they need to be scrapped as the JUNK they are and meet some standards. And they are going to get BETTER PLANS THAT ARE NOT JUNK and the prices for them will come down as more and more people enter the market."
This works. They stand there gaping knowing they can't win. Dems and Progressives need to learn how
to MESSAGE.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1251339281You can stand there and scream like some with Tourettes all you want, we still won't believe your bullshit.
This notion that you know what is in people's plans better than they do, won't do you goons any favors. People are going to resent the hell out of you for thinking you know their policies better than they do.
Live and Learn (1,898 posts)
1. I wish this administration could get the message across
as well as you just did. It really isn't very complicated. Nobody needs or really wants junk insurance.
Yet you are about to force people on to junk insurance, I've seen the premiums, I've seen the deductibles.
quadrature (602 posts)
3. Junk Ins --> no maternity coverage for men
I am not sure how they survived.
Star Member Sunlei (4,149 posts)
4. so you want the taxpayers to pay for your wife/daughters baby or your insurance?
Isn't that the goal of the leftists? Wouldn't single payer be paid by the taxpayer? The way I see it either way we all will be paying for that whether by being forced to buy policies that provide it, or if it was simply a tax. Same result same method and no choice given.
RBInMaine (9,868 posts)
5. Plans now include coverage for a few things you might not need to get EVERYONE COVERED. Listen,
I pay taxes for all kinds of things I don't use. Right now for Medicare and SS, but I am helping those who DO need it, and SOME of it will be there for me when I need it, but not as much as I will use. The next generation will pay for ME. I pay taxes for oil companies to search for oil when they already make billions and don't need it. I paid taxes for years for school kids before I had kids and will pay after mine are out. We all do this. Insurance is tantamount to a TAX because it is the system we have. We have to have it. By all pooling in as a group, as the new plans are designed, we get EVERYONE IN and EVERYONE covered which means a healthier society for ALL and LOWER COSTS for all over time and a more STABLE market.
Reform means BYE BYE SHITTY CRAPPY JUNK INSURANCE !! SEE YA !!
I'm trying to remember the last time being forced into a pool to pay for things ever resulted in less costs, I'm drawing a serious blank. SS doesn't seem too stable at the moment, last estimate I saw showed that it will be broke just in time for when I hit 65. We have gone down this road before and here we go about to travel the same exact path once again, but somehow the destination will be different this time. How many programs does the government have to screw up before people will catch on? If any private business tried any of these tricks the DUmmies would be screaming for them to be shut down, and for once I would agree with them.
