antigop (9,389 posts)
Is this part of the reason for PPACA low enrollment?
http://michaelmoore.com/w...e-working-class-realities
Enrolling in a new health plan on the ACA/Obamacare exchange requires payment of the premium at the time of enrollment. Many working class families live paycheck to paycheck or they are in the hole financially. They make too much to qualify for Medicaid but too little to make an additional insurance payment right now that can be put off until the last moment. To be even clearer: working class people like me do not have hundreds of extra dollars in the bank to make that new premium payment in advance of when it will take effect.
For many, like me, we are already paying a huge medical insurance premium (mine is $875 every month for individual COBRA/Aetna policy), and we’re in the hole trying to make that happen.
Hence, I will look at what’s available to me on the exchange – Connect for Health Colorado – but I will wait to actually enroll until I have the money to pay the premium. Will that be tomorrow or December 1 or right before Christmas on December 15th (the last day to pay for the January 1st coverage)? I do not know. I just got the Medicaid denial this week after waiting 36 days for that denial that stopped me from going forward to shop for coverage. So, that’s a working class reality.
And while I am at it on this working class health economics lesson: Who was the brain-child who decided the first payments would be due right in the middle of the holiday season? Are parents to short the holiday spending this year and just tell the kids, “Sorry, I have to pay two insurance premiums this month,†or are they to pawn things or borrow from family to stay afloat? Come on. Please, those of you in charge in this country. Please at least actually ask someone in the working class to comment on your efforts before assuming whatever you work up will actually be “affordable.â€
I suspect many, many Americans like me will wait until the last moment to enroll for new coverage not because we want to do that but because we financially have no choice.
That would be your Nancy Pelosi you stupid fool. You got to read it to see what's in it. Remember that, foolish dummie?
Personally I think the GOP played their hand just right. They held out in the debt talks up to the last second and then cried uncle. The MSM cried foul and blamed the GOP. Now come next year the GOP can run ads saying "Hey we tried!!!! Ya all didn't like it so we cried uncle. We tried. Now ya all see what we was trying to do!!!"
I don't know if it will be enough to swing the senate... it should be an interesting election though. One thing I can say... Rockysmeller's seat will turn GOP. Shelly Capito, the GOP candidate is quite popular, Manchin is distancing himself from obozo, and obozo's EPA has royally pissed off the long time dems in the coal fields.
Nothing would elate me more than if the GOP got a super majority in both the house and the senate, repeal obozo care, get it vetoed and override the veto. Obozo would go nuts. So would Eugene Robinson, who wrote an article saying that 1.3 growth is really good.
Dummies heads be asploding all over the place.