ObamaCare Found To Restrict Where You Live And Travel
Posted 12/18/2013 06:54 PM ET
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Freedom: It's bad enough that the president's health insurance takeover
costs more, breaks his pledge of letting you keep your plan and diminishes
choice. It actually restricts your travels too.
'We have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in." Those words from
President John F. Kennedy in June 1963, standing at the Berlin Wall, neatly
illustrated the moral superiority of the free West over the Soviet bloc.
But Americans are now about to find themselves grappling with their own
bureaucratic Berlin Wall. The American Thinker's Stella Paul has exposed the
virtually unnoticed fact that within the ObamaCare exchanges so many
Americans are being forced into, "most plans only provide local medical
coverage."
Paul warns this will have "a profound impact on the real-estate market,
particularly the second home sector, and on the travel business." She
interviewed one Connecticut retiree whose health required having a winter
home in South Carolina. Her $450-per-month, $2,500 deductible, no co-pay
Blue Cross policy that had worked well in both states was suddenly canceled.
The new policy she was offered under ObamaCare was twice as expensive, with
a deductible costing $1,000 more, and no out-of-network coverage.
Having had a surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York
City, out-of-network coverage was a must. And she found it. "It's $900 a
month," she told Paul, "with a $7,000 deductible and a co-pay on everything.
Basically, it's catastrophic insurance, and I'll be paying my South Carolina
doctors out of pocket."
A prominent New York insurance broker pointed out that most of the policies
offered on the ObamaCare exchanges are not national networks, so "if you
need routine medical services, they will not be covered when you leave your
local area," as they were before.
Travel health insurance, unfortunately, only covers emergencies. So, the
broker told Paul, "a large portion of the population will have their
insurance as a consideration for their mobility, which they never had
before."
Imagine having to take all this into account in making decisions about where
in America you want to live.
And as Paul asks, "With Americans no longer able to receive routine medical
services when they travel, will they start showing up in emergency rooms for
sore throats and backaches? And how will these new throngs of patients
affect the waiting time of people with genuine medical emergencies?"
Meet the latest unpleasant ObamaCare surprise, right on the heels of HHS
Secretary Kathleen Sebelius this week finally admitting that, contrary to
Obama's endlessly repeated promise, "there are some individuals who may be
looking at increases" in premiums.
Unrestricted movement is a birthright of our liberty. Even socialized
medicine's harshest opponents didn't suspect Washington would trample that
freedom.
Thé Mulindwas Communication Group
"With Yoweri Museveni and Dr. Kiiza Besigye Uganda is in anarchy"
Kuungana Mulindwa Mawasiliano Kikundi
"Pamoja na Yoweri Museveni na Dk. Kiiza Besigye Uganda ni katika machafuko"
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