Breitbart is reporting on the negative feedback that citizens are giving Obamacare, reflecting on the high costs associated with the premiums. Citizens who managed to navigate the complex process required to enroll were reportedly outraged at the costs.
Attempted Enrollee:
“The information is not very complete as I don’t see anything about deductible or other detailed info, but it does given an actual price as to the “Premium.” It is VERY SCARY!! For example, my insurance plan right now for my spouse and I costs $545 a month with 100% coverage after my $2500 deductible. We are both 32 years old. When I looked at this site for 80% coverage it says it will be $954.78 a month!!!! So compare my old Plan: 100% coverage for $545 a month To New Plan: 80% Coverage for $945 a month. This is only an estimate but it is VERY Scary for me to see this kind of increase in rates and reduction in benefits!”
The insurance is not just expensive, but the legislation behind it is a direct infringement on personal liberty.
The bill requires citizens to buy government-controlled health insurance or pay an IRS fine. This new mandate will require an estimated 16,500 additional IRS agents to enforce. Federal judges in Virginia and Florida have found this mandate to be unconstitutional. It is an intolerable infringement of our liberties, and a sop to the insurance companies, and is overwhelmingly opposed by the American people (60% oppose; only 27% support it).
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If you’ve been following the story of Chad Henderson, the poster child for Obamacare, you’ll be interested to hear that he hasn’t actually signed up for the program. And now the media hates him for it.
In the media’s rush to make a star out of Henderson, they failed to vet him thoroughly. Most of the press missed the fact that Henderson is a current political activist and Organizing for America volunteer. Somewhat more egregiously, they also missed the fact that Henderson’s story was not true.
According to Henderson’s father, Bill Henderson, neither he nor his son have enrolled in any plan associated with the ACA. “As of yet, however, the pair had not picked a plan or completed enrollment,”reported Reason’s Peter Suderman. “ But he hoped they would shortly.”
Suderman goes on to note that the other details Henderson provided the press were “difficult to verify.”
He told the Chattanooga Times Free Press that he got his coverage through Blue Cross Blue Shield. But the cheapest unsubsidized Bronze exchange plan at Blue Cross Blue Shield’s online Quick Quote system offers for a 21-year-old in Flintstone, Georgia is $225.09 a month.
Additionally, Chad could not have purchased a separate plan for his father from his own login to HealthCare.gov, the website for the federal exchanges. A customer assistance representative on HealthCare.gov’s LiveChat system told me that purchasing separate plans for a son and a father in Georgia would require two separate logins. Which means that Chad would have had to successfully create two different accounts, and complete enrollment twice, at a time when almost no one was able to get through on the system.
