My Obamacare Update
The deadline is over and we never could sign up for Obamacare. After logging probably 40 plus hours over the past three months trying, it did not work out. We spoke to representative after representative. They lost our information multiple times. A month ago, the bronze plan was estimated to be $600 a month with a very high deductible. This was from multiple insurance companies on the site and for people who could NOT get subsidized. When we finally got on a month later these same plans were now at over a $1000 a month. As we got closer to the deadline, and finally choosing a plan to take, many of those insurers dropped out of the exchange (Anthem is one). No one knows why,. Finally, after deciding on a plan, the system went down for us again and we had no luck signing up. Luckily, we had a parallel plan of signing up for health insurance outside the exchange. It is still over $1000 a month but at least it is something.
President Obama, this was a mess. I am not debating whether Obamacare should be a law or not be a law. What I am criticizing is the fact that YOU screwed up in getting this behemoth working. The biggest fear people have is that the government does nothing cheap, does nothing efficient and is a service nightmare. You have done nothing to disprove that.
And please, President Obama, admit that you lied when you said, “If you like your insurance you can keep it”. There is a reason this was voted the lie of the year. You lied and you should be ashamed of yourself. Of course you and your team knew that insurers and doctors would change but you had to say whatever it took to get the bill passed. And it worked. But you still lied.
I am embarrassed by this mess and did nothing to cause it. How sad for this country.
I’m in New York & tried to sign up at nystateofhealth.ny.gov … which does not recognize me as an actual human being even though I own property here, am a registered voter, served on a jury, and have complained to the New York Dept. of Labor about a thieving former employer who still owes me money. When the roads are passable again, I will go to the post office & mail a certified letter to the Executive Director of NY State of Health (our version of Obamacare) demanding they do whatever is necessary to their website so I can sign up.
You have to make the patient want to change =$$$$$. A local company started a policy that if you smoked(verified by drug screens) you had to pay $50 more a month for health coverage. I had people coming into my clinic by the hundreds wanting the no smoking medicine and the majority quit. As doug has said before PEOPLE MUST HAVE SOME SKIN IN THE GAME or they dont care
Maybe Obama did lie. Or maybe he was told by those putting Obamacare together that people would be able to keep their docs. Whatever. Why are we surprised when a politician lies to us ? At least his lies (unlike his predecessor’s lies) didn’t result in the deaths of tens of thousands of people and $3 trillion in wasteful spending.
At least his lies (unlike his predecessor’s lies) didn’t result in the deaths of tens of thousands of people and $3 trillion in wasteful spending……yet
Jerry, half-heartedly defending Obama by pointing out the bad work of his predecessor is as ineffective as it is tendentious. Why not decry the lies and failure surrounding Medicare Part D as a (relevant) precedent? Or are you worried that ObamaCare is truly a failure? It won’t be a “whatever” to the millions who now will pay higher premiums/deductibles, or lose coverage altogether because of this statist power grab. How exactly is that less of an offense?
What I like about this as with all the “unhealthy” people signing up to take money from the “healthy”, there is no provision for any kind of goals or patient responsibility. ie. the slothy diabetic can still eat shit and continue their crappy habits only this time “they’re covered”. The majority of the primary care patients continue to not take care of themselves and whine about it in the process. I rejoice when the rare individual changes their habit on my admonition and does well. Nothing is going to change until it is financially advantageous for a patient to practice a modicum of good habits.
This LELT (the name for my profession on this site) agrees with Doug.
Dave