Who does this help, really?
Spoke with a dear old friend the other night. A friend who was on hard times before the magic unicorn took office, and who is now up shits creek. She is one of the “uninsured” everyone keeps talking about.
“What do you mean access to health care? I have access to health care. It’s at my doctors office. I need access to a JOB, to PAY for health care.”
She further states that she will now be forced to buy insurance she cannot afford, which will do nothing to help her, as it will be directed at covering catastrophic illness, and not dealing with the chronic issues she suffers like blood pressure and diabetes. The money she needs for her diabetic supplies will be spent, instead, on basically useless insurance, lest she get fined and prosecuted, which of course she can’t afford either.
I understand that the plural of anecdote is not data, but I’m pretty confident this scenario is playing itself out in a lot of homes right now.
Same shit will happen in this house.
I work for a mulinational and blew out my knee.
Making good bucks and now on Workmans Comp. til they fix it.
If they blow me off after I’m released from the Doc, I’ll be pushed into retirement.
If I gotta buy into Obamacare I’m fucked.
Cue- Sara’s death panel.
SHTF I’m taking some lib impotent with me.
I work for an American company recently bought by the Canucks. They had a hard enough time understanding how to work our med benefits in the first place. If this goes through, I have a nasty feeling they’ll say “‘Bout time you Yanks caught on!” and drop it altogether — because why pay if we can just sign up with the gov’t? Of course, even if that doesn’t happen, I guarantee our rates will go up.
Ah, to be young and healthy with a history of fucking cancer and precisely $10 of wiggle room a month. I can’t afford this shit.
And I’m one of the lucky ones.
Hmmm Mother in law basicly home bound due to a couple of strokes, two years back, well into her mid-sixties. Sweetieheart with multipil medical conditions that are under control, but which require daily/weekly doses of meds which if she doesn’t take will end up with her eventually in a coma (or worse).
Flash forward to a government agency(s) deciding who gets what treatment and or meds when … yeah, that’s going to work out real well out here. Even if I didn’t love em both, I would still be all sorts of pissed off.
There are lots of stories out there like the one you told. My wife’s retired parents could use the guarantee of coverage that this plan provides. However they’ll be eligible for Medicare either just before or just after the plan takes effect.
Yes indeed, the plural of anecdotes is not data. However my wife’s parents are the only people who quickly come to mind who could be helped by Obamacare. But even they won’t be helped because they’ll be eligible for Medicare either shortly before or shortly after the plan takes effect.
Seems to me that the first thing to do on January 1, 2010 is up the number of dependents to about six. That should drop my with holding pretty close to zero. Then look at canceling the medical insurance that is costing me $300/month and just go with the $90/month for medicrap. Then take the money out of the bank except for what is used to pay bills and keep the number really close. Then figure out a way to move the IRA into an overseas investment of some sort where the thieves can’t get to it.
We may have caught a break. Øbama seems to have thrown Congress under the bus.
The plural of anecdote may not be data, but we learned 30 years ago that the plural of anecdote ended up being a ton of people ready for another way besides the liberal government fiddling and creating stagflation, fuel lines, shortages, enemies who “liked” us but didn’t respect us, etc. Once people see the cost in free, there’ll be another critical mass. The question is, will there be someone ready and able this time?