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Schadenfreude

 

I really do think that the average Obama voter really did believe that Obamacare would lead to lower health insurance prices, except for mean rich Republicans perhaps.  Many of them are now learning just how wrong they were:

 

 

Cindy Vinson and Tom Waschura are big believers in the Affordable Care Act. They vote independent and are proud to say they helped elect and re-elect President Barack Obama.

Yet, like many other Bay Area residents who pay for their own medical insurance, they were floored last week when they opened their bills: Their policies were being replaced with pricier plans that conform to all the requirements of the new health care law.

Vinson, of San Jose, will pay $1,800 more a year for an individual policy, while Waschura, of Portola Valley, will cough up almost $10,000 more for insurance for his family of four.

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But people with no pre-existing conditions like Vinson, a 60-year-old retired teacher, and Waschura, a 52-year-old self-employed engineer, are making up the difference.

“I was laughing at Boehner — until the mail came today,”

 “I really don’t like the Republican tactics, but at least now I can understand why they are so pissed about this. When you take $10,000 out of my family’s pocket each year, that’s otherwise disposable income or retirement savings that will not be going into our local economy.”

Both Vinson and Waschura have adjusted gross incomes greater than four times the federal poverty level — the cutoff for a tax credit. And while both said they anticipated their rates would go up, they didn’t realize they would rise so much.

“Of course, I want people to have health care,” Vinson said. “I just didn’t realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally.”

 

Go here to read the hilarious rest at the San Jose Mercury News.  One of the favorite expressions of my late father was “there ain’t no such thing as a free lunch.”  It was fairly obvious that for Obamacare to even sort of work it would need much higher insurance rates for the young and for the  healthy to subsidize the old and sick.  This was exacerbated with all the required coverage, no restrictions on pre-existing conditions, kids on health insurance until 26, and all the other pricy mandates on health insurance.  This has been known and obvious for for years, but the members of the Obama cult and the low information voters chose to ignore it.  Few things in life are more expensive than willful ignorance as many Obama voters are beginning to find out.

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kylekanos
kylekanos
Monday, October 7, AD 2013 1:43pm

Stupidity amazes me:

Of course, I want people to have health care,” Vinson said. “I just didn’t realize I would be the one who was going to pay for it personally.”

Well who else would be paying for it?

Art Deco
Monday, October 7, AD 2013 2:52pm

Two possibilities:

1. They evidently thought some other constituency would be stuck with the bill (and no doubt the man who joked about siccing the IRS on his enemies in 2009 would have preferred that); or

2. Like Barbara Ehrenreich, lapsed professor of biochemistry, they actually believe the vast bulk of the country’s income is received and hoarded by some tiny elite who just have to clip their pecuniary fingernails and we all get all the medical care (and anything else) we ‘need’.

DJ Hesselius
DJ Hesselius
Monday, October 7, AD 2013 3:26pm

But….you mean…Obama doesn’t just have cash to throw around??

T. Shaw
T. Shaw
Monday, October 7, AD 2013 3:30pm

I had to spend time with some of my godless, Obama-worshiping relations.

They kept saying, ‘The only reason you people hate Barack is because he’s black.”

So it goes.

I don’t hate the sinner. I hate the sin.

Ernst Schreiber
Ernst Schreiber
Monday, October 7, AD 2013 11:13pm

All part of the plan to bring about single-payer health insurance. Like they have in Europe.

So it’s not Obama’s black half that I despise –it’s is white Euro-weenie socialist half.

CatholicLawyer
CatholicLawyer
Tuesday, October 8, AD 2013 7:36am

Ha ha ha . . . finally realizing the free lunch was not free! Better late than never!

Foxfier
Admin
Tuesday, October 8, AD 2013 1:01pm

After Obamacare passed, my insurance more than doubled– we had to switch over to TriCare through TrueBlue’s reserve service, which is notoriously a bad idea. (Like many other former military members, I do not care for gov’t healthcare. I know how much it sucks.)

Even before that, with insurance, we had thousands in debt to pay off because of all the “helpful” laws that make it easy to cheat the hospital.

anzlyne
anzlyne
Tuesday, October 8, AD 2013 2:34pm

I listened to part of the news conference just now made me think of Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs. Trickery snared the true believer Obama voter and re-voters; and it goes on/
In “Little Red Riding Hood” by Sam the Sham of course the wolf characterizes himself as having a big heart but the wolf says “I’m gonna keep my sheep suit on
Until I’m sure that you’ve been shown
That I can be trusted walking with you alone
Owoooooooo

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