http://www.salon.com/2013/11/01/the_rights_sickest_obamacare_lie_yet/
Sorry, I should have included the site info, in case you want to read the rather excellent article in full. Begin forwarded message: > From: "Richard D. Conrad" <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [UC] Best coverage... more... > Date: November 2, 2013 at 5:45:08 AM EDT > To: Glenn moyer <[email protected]> > Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Reply-To: "Richard D. Conrad" <[email protected]> > > From SALON: This is, in effect, exactly what the Affordable Care Act does > with respect to some currently existing, private insurance policies. If > those policies don’t meet a new, higher bar of quality coverage, then the > government will no longer allow insurance companies to sell them. Instead, > the 5 percent of Americans who rely on the individual insurance market for > their coverage will have other options, all that provide better quality > coverage and many of which are far less expensive. Plus, at least half of > folks on the individual market will be eligible for subsidies that further > bring costs down. > > On Nov 1, 2013, at 6:05 PM, Glenn moyer <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> >> >> Millions of people across the country are being dropped by their health >> insurance companies and offered new "products." Individual policy holders >> are the first target, but the rest of the middle class will follow. >> >> And another lie is coming from the democrats, that these cancellations are >> like the substandard policies Obamacare is peddling to the poor. My >> outrageously expensive policy, being canceled, was for 100% coverage. When >> the great "health reform" charade was first taking place, we were also all >> dropped and given $5000 deductibles in the new product. Canceling these >> insurance "products" every year or two seems to have multiple purposes for >> Wall St., and will obviously be a central way of dumping the newly sick on >> the government after the sick are made bankrupt. >> >> >> The crappy products some working poor will get through massive government >> subsidies to the criminal insurance industry will not help them access >> medical care nor will it keep most of them, or any of them with serious new >> illnesses, from going bankrupt. For many, these barriers and catastrophes >> will be even more likely, as more of their income is directed to premiums >> and deductibles. The Obamacare supporters pretend not to understand the >> barriers that a $5000-10,000 deductible means, after you send your last few >> dollars to a health insurance company. >> >> Wall St. is trying to divide individual policy holders against the poor by >> thrusting millions of us into precarious situations. Instead of seeing the >> entire Obamacare sham as a windfall for Wall St. that does not help the poor >> as their deceptions pretend, we are supposed to get angry at this fake >> "socialism" that is being used against us. >> >> Millions of people are either being forced to absorb tremendous premium >> increases and deductible increases, or they will be forced to take the >> crappy Obamacare type insurance that will put them at increased risk for >> bankruptcy! (It's simple math to look at common medical bills and calculate >> your 40%, 30% or 10% share after satisfying your deductible, prescription >> drugs and out of network expenses). >> >> What these two political parties are doing for Wall St. is to change all >> health insurance into various levels of crappy catastrophe insurance that >> will eventually leave at least 50-75% of the American people at risk for >> medical bankruptcy and poor access to medical care while taking more profits >> from our meager incomes. Medicare, medicaid, social security, and all >> social supports will then be attacked, and those of us already attacked, are >> to stay silent and blame the poor for our new insecurities! Divide and >> conquer! >> >> Wall St. and their Democrat/Republican servants are experts at manufacturing >> crises and pitting the middle class against the poor. All through this >> charade, the Obamacare astroturf groups pretended that the TEMPORARY >> consumer protections would stop profitable abuses by their corporate >> masters. IT'S NOT REDUCED PROFITS THAT ARE PAYING FOR THE ELIMINATION OF >> PRE-EXISTING CONDITION REFUSALS, ETC. It's skyrocketing premiums and >> deductibles from millions of people. And they make more profit on that too! >> >> Also, by constructing the system so that those insured families with serious >> new illnesses will quickly go bankrupt and be forced onto medicaid, they >> only risk insuring the sick for a limited time and hopefully many will die >> quickly. >> >> I pay 7000 a year in premiums and a 5000 deductible before I would get 1 >> penny of health insurance coverage from Wall St. Now they want a 6000 >> deductible and haven't given the new premium rate! Do you see why health >> insurance stocks went up the day Obamacare passed????? >> >> Here are some relevant links that should not be too difficult. >> >> >> >> http://www.salon.com/2013/11/01/how_the_1_percent_always_wins_liberal_washing_is_the_rights_new_favorite_tactic/ >> >> >> Here is a good explanation from Harvard researcher, Dr. Woolhandler. She >> also coauthored the Harvard study of mortality rates among the uninsured. >> >> http://socialistworker.org/2013/10/29/obamacare-doesnt-treat-the-illness >> >> "Many people are going to find that their insurance is just not very good. >> It doesn't give them the financial protection they need--particularly for >> people with serious and expensive chronic illnesses. >> >> We've done a lot of work at PNHP, as you may know, on medical bankruptcy. >> While I was at Harvard Medical School, I worked with my Harvard colleague >> Elizabeth Warren at the law school on one of the most widely cited studies >> on medical bankruptcy. The most common single cause of medical bankruptcy >> was that people had insurance, but it had so many gaps--like co-payments, >> deductibles and uncovered services--that they were bankrupted anyway by a >> prolonged illness. That type of medical bankruptcy will continue--and, if >> anything, may increase--under Obamacare." >> >> >> >> >> >> >> ---- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to the list named >> "UnivCity." To unsubscribe or for archive information, see . >
