Re: Abbott friends with Obama will keep Obamacare
Here is a list:
• New Health Insurance Marketplaces (AKA Exchanges) allow shoppers to compare Health Plans that include all new benefits, rights and protections.
• Cost assistance to individuals, families and small businesses through the marketplace.
• No annual or lifetime limits on healthcare.
• Insurance companies can't drop you when you are sick or for making a mistake on your application.
• You can't be denied coverage for pre-existing conditions. Learn More About Healthcare and Pre-existing Conditions.
• You have the right to quickly appeal any health insurance company decision.
• You have the right to get an easy-to-understand summary about a health plan’s benefits and coverage.
• Young Adults can stay on their parent's plan until 26.
• A large improvement to women's health services.
• Reforms to the healthcare industry to cut wasteful spending.
• Better care and protections for seniors.
• New preventative Services at no-out-of pocket costs.
• Essential health benefits like emergency care, hospitalization, prescription drugs, and maternity and newborn care must be included on all non-grandfathered plans at no out-of-pocket limit.
• You can't be charged more based on health status or gender.
• Plus many more benefits, rights and protections.
Were'd you get the list, whitehouse.gov? Or Acorn? This is the Obamacare fairytale that has been sold to the American public. You may want to try reading something other than the propaganda handed to you by government, or MSNBC, which is basically the same thing. News flash: it's not working, and 90mm working americans will soon be told what 10MM found out this year: your policy has been cancelled, and you have to buy one that costs 2X to 5X more.
The Obamacare "Marketplace" does is not working, incase you missed the news for the last few months. "Cost assistance" for most is Medicaid if you're under 55, and Medicare if you over. Average premiums for a family those that do not qualify for "assistance", i.e. annual income over $65,000, averages $2,000 per month ... with a $6,000 annual deductible. Around $1,000 per month for single people.
Put that in perspective: a family needs to pay $24,000 per year for insurance ... out of net income (meaning you have to earn $31,000 to have the $24,000 to pay for Obama mandated insurance ... stop scratching your head, I know you don't understand: unlike you, other people work and pay taxes). Suppose you're a family, husband and wife work and earn $75,000 annually, and neither employer provides healthcare because Obama made it too costly). Their net income is around $55,000. Half of that now has to go for just their healthcare premiums. Unlike you, this family does not qualify for free housing or food stamps. Take our $20,000 - $25,000 for housing and related costs. So it's Obamacare or food.
For those that still have employer provided insurance, their contribution cost is going up by 20 - 25% because the "goberment" has mandated what services all insurance plans must provide as a"minimum standard". Things such as "kids" up to 26 on parent's plan, coverage of pre-existing conditions, etc, costs for all insurance plans have increased over 20%. For everyone.
I'm sure you have no idea that insurance is a private industry, and as such businesses that provide insurance were able to create and design products to meet the needs of individual consumers. Like plans for the elderly that were tailored to there needs. Now the elderly are paying more for plans that must include birth control and maternity care.
And health care has always been available free or at low cost to those who can't afford it. That could be expanded at a fraction of the cost of 1 year of Obamacare.
Obamacare has created a mess, and so far has been a text book example of why you don't want what Obama and you want so badly: socialized healthcare. Just look at the website. Any small to medium size business can put up a working website. This has been a classic example of what the government produces: mis-managed, over budgeted products that don't meed consumer's needs, and could be done for more effectively if left to the private sector.