Obamacare’s horror show has made it just in time for
Halloween. Policyholders throughout the
state are getting their notices, and it sure as hell wasn’t a treat. An associate of mine related his hair raising
surprise. He is a single male in his mid
to late fifties. His children are adults. He has had a policy with Blue Cross and Blue
Shield since the early 1990’s. They
informed him that his premiums have increased a whopping 400%!
Yea! Let’s
hear it for Obamacare! The Democrats
didn’t have to soap our windows, egg our house, or toilet paper the yard. They went for the ultimate scare! The sad part is this individual doesn’t
qualify for a subsidy. He may be forced
to join the ranks of the uninsured. Way
to go, Democrats! You really know how
trick people.
Speaking of tricks, Democrats and their lapdogs in
the media have been crying and moaning about North Carolina’s General Assembly
not expanding the Medicaid rolls. They
keep moaning about the 500,000 uninsured who would’ve qualified for “free”
taxpayer funded health care. Well, guess
what? That number is a lie as well. You ask where this number came from.
Drum roll please.
A liberal think tank. Ta-dah!
Adam Linker, a policy analyst with the left-leaning N.C.
Justice Center’s Health Access Coalition, said the number of North Carolinians
in the coverage gap could be as high as 630,000. That total includes legal
immigrants who haven’t lived in the country long enough to be eligible, illegal
immigrants who are not eligible, and people, such as tobacco users, who could
be charged a higher premium making coverage cost-prohibitive.
Linker said he remains hopeful that
McCrory and the General Assembly will change their minds about Medicaid expansion
in the next two years as they feel pressure from hospitals and from individuals
as they realize they would have been eligible for coverage.
John Hood, president of the
right-leaning John Locke Foundation, said he questions whether the higher
eligibility estimate was done in purpose by critics of North Carolina's
decision not to expand Medicaid.
"About a third of that 500,000
have incomes above the poverty line, and can thus go into the exchanges at high
levels of federal subsidy, usually full subsidy,” Hood said. “That leaves just
over 300,000 below poverty.
"Even that is an exaggeration
because the Obama administration has already said that people just below
poverty (90 percent and up) will likely qualify for the exchanges, too, which
is why the NC DHHS says the real number is more like 150,000.”
How can you tell when a Democrat is lying to you? When he moves his lips.
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2013/10/20/4399545/charlotte-area-has-some-of-the.html#.UmW80flJO7N
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