Stephanie
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oh my...you people WERE WARNED....now just sit down, hush up, and send off a note thanking your Dear Leader and his COMMRADES IN ARMS...or he AND his sheep followers will be calling you a terrorist and hostage taker NEXT
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SNIP
By Tracy Seipel
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Posted: 10/05/2013 04:52:50 PM PDT | Updated: about 3 hours ago
Tom Waschura says he was floored when he got his new Obamacare health insurance rates.
Cindy Vinson and Tom Waschura are big believers in the Affordable Care Act. They vote independent and are proud to say they helped elect and re-elect President Barack Obama.
Yet, like many other Bay Area residents who pay for their own medical insurance, they were floored last week when they opened their bills: Their policies were being replaced with pricier plans that conform to all the requirements of the new health care law.
Vinson, of San Jose, will pay $1,800 more a year for an individual policy, while Waschura, of Portola Valley, will cough up almost $10,000 more for insurance for his family of four.
"Welcome to the club," said Robert Laszewksi, a prominent health care consultant and president of
Health Policy and Strategy Associates in Virginia.
For years, the nation has been embroiled in the political rhetoric of "Obamacare," but this past week the reality of the new law sank in as millions of Americans had their first good look at how the 3 1/2-year-old legislation will affect their pocketbooks.
This much quickly became clear:
all of it here with 3513 comments
Obamacare's winners and losers in Bay Area - San Jose Mercury News
links in article at site
SNIP
By Tracy Seipel
[email protected]
Posted: 10/05/2013 04:52:50 PM PDT | Updated: about 3 hours ago
Tom Waschura says he was floored when he got his new Obamacare health insurance rates.
Cindy Vinson and Tom Waschura are big believers in the Affordable Care Act. They vote independent and are proud to say they helped elect and re-elect President Barack Obama.
Yet, like many other Bay Area residents who pay for their own medical insurance, they were floored last week when they opened their bills: Their policies were being replaced with pricier plans that conform to all the requirements of the new health care law.
Vinson, of San Jose, will pay $1,800 more a year for an individual policy, while Waschura, of Portola Valley, will cough up almost $10,000 more for insurance for his family of four.
"Welcome to the club," said Robert Laszewksi, a prominent health care consultant and president of
Health Policy and Strategy Associates in Virginia.
For years, the nation has been embroiled in the political rhetoric of "Obamacare," but this past week the reality of the new law sank in as millions of Americans had their first good look at how the 3 1/2-year-old legislation will affect their pocketbooks.
This much quickly became clear:
all of it here with 3513 comments
Obamacare's winners and losers in Bay Area - San Jose Mercury News
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