Must watch short four minute video at link below. Stop what youre doing and watch this local news report from start to finish. Via Pittsburghs ABC News affiliate, an absolutely devastating indictment of the Affordable Care Act:... Theres nothing affordable about it, sighs one such employee. I cant afford it. These arent Wall Street fat-cats. These arent free riders whove cavalierly declined to buy coverage, sticking others with the bill when they visit the emergency room. These arent greedy insurance executives discriminating against sick people. These people dont even come close to resembling Obamacare supporters designated villains. Theyre blue collar Pennsylvanians trying to make ends meet, working with their hands at an auto repair shop. Look at their faces as they grapple with their new reality. Will I be able to pay my mortgage? Do we need to re-think that family vacation weve been promising the kids for five years? Please, God, let that lump be nothing. Its heartbreaking. Its infuriating. The owner of the shop is seeing his premiums increase by nearly $600 per month, causing him to wonder aloud how his enormous new costs are going to affect everybody. Perhaps these employees will find themselves among the millions whose companies will simply stop offering plans altogether once the employer mandate kicks in next year. Bear in mind that the workers featured in this package arent in the individual market (at least not yet); theyre in the employer-based market, which the White House has insisted isnt affected by Obamacare. Tell that to Judy. She and the others were told by politicians that their premiums and costs would drop by an average of $2,500 per family. Now the countrys committed well over $1 trillion to finance a plan that is raising costs, throwing people off their existing coverage, limiting their choices, and isnt coming close to drastically reducing the ranks of the uninsured. Speaking of whom, guess whos more disenchanted with the new law than ever before? Uninsured Americans — the people that the Affordable Care Act was designed to most aid — are increasingly critical of the law as its key provisions kick in, a poll released Thursday finds. This month’s tracking poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation found that 47 percent of the uninsured said they hold unfavorable views of the law while 24 percent said they liked it...
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 02:24:25 +0000
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