With the socialist media in his corner he has run unhendered using Obamacare, the green movement, GM, etc. etc. etc. to raid the pockets of the tax payer in a thousand ways now.
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| ObamaCare Found To Restrict Where You Live And Travel |
| 2013-12-20 |
| [Investors Business Daily] Freedom: It's bad enough that the president's health insurance takeover costs more, breaks his pledge of letting you keep your plan and diminishes choice. It actually restricts your travels too. Only Low Information Voters expected something else ? 'We have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in." Those words from President John F. Kennedy in June 1963, standing at the Berlin Wall, neatly illustrated the moral superiority of the free West over the Soviet bloc. But Americans are now about to find themselves grappling with their own bureaucratic Berlin Wall. The American Thinker's Stella Paul has exposed the virtually unnoticed fact that within the ObamaCare exchanges so many Americans are being forced into, "most plans only provide local medical coverage." "Unnoticed" by some possibly. Paul warns this will have "a profound impact on the real-estate market, particularly the second home sector, and on the travel business." She interviewed one Connecticut retiree whose health required having a winter home in South Carolina. Her $450-per-month, $2,500 deductible, no co-pay Blue Cross policy that had worked well in both states was suddenly canceled. Only the top 2% have second homes. The disadvantaged should be living in those homes. The new policy she was offered under ObamaCare was twice as expensive, with a deductible costing $1,000 more, and no out-of-network coverage. Having had a surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, out-of-network coverage was a must. And she found it. "It's $900 a month," she told Paul, "with a $7,000 deductible and a co-pay on everything. Basically, it's catastrophic insurance, and I'll be paying my South Carolina doctors out of pocket." A prominent New York insurance broker pointed out that most of the policies offered on the ObamaCare exchanges are not national networks, so "if you need routine medical services, they will not be covered when you leave your local area," as they were before. Travel is for the rich and famous. See top 2 percenters comment above. Travel health insurance, unfortunately, only covers emergencies. So, the broker told Paul, "a large portion of the population will have their insurance as a consideration for their mobility, which they never had before." Imagine having to take all this into account in making decisions about where in America you want to live. And as Paul asks, "With Americans no longer able to receive routine medical services when they travel, will they start showing up in emergency rooms for sore throats and backaches? And how will these new throngs of patients affect the waiting time of people with genuine medical emergencies?" Meet the latest unpleasant ObamaCare surprise, right on the heels of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius this week finally admitting that, contrary to Obama's endlessly repeated promise, "there are some individuals who may be looking at increases" in premiums. Unrestricted movement is a birthright of our liberty. Even socialized medicine's harshest opponents didn't suspect Washington would trample that freedom. You are now entering urban tribal homelands, proceed your own risk. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #8 So, what are they really up to? With the socialist media in his corner he has run unhendered using Obamacare, the green movement, GM, etc. etc. etc. to raid the pockets of the tax payer in a thousand ways now. |
| Posted by: Guillibaldo McCoy1948 2013-12-20 22:52 |
| #7 What if all of these "bad aspects" were known in advance and even planned and built in to the programs and policies? What then is the game plan of these politicians? Either these politicians are insane (which they are not in the real sense), or they are profoundly stupid (which also isn't the case), or these "glitches and hiccups" are intentional. So, what are they really up to? |
| Posted by: Skunky Guelph2137 2013-12-20 22:22 |
| #6 49, I don't think they even stopped to think of first order effects in some cases. |
| Posted by: Rambler in Virginia 2013-12-20 21:28 |
| #5 A shining example of what happens when amateurs run the show. They never even stopped to ask, "Well, jethro, is there a second or third order of effect for this plan?" The question never even entered the room. Now we know why all the congress critters and their staff are exempt. Cant travel back and forth to the home state without insurance now can you. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2013-12-20 18:52 |
| #4 I loves a good Early Bird Special. I always get two and annoy the shit out of everyone. It works for me somehow. Of course a long time ago, I used to wake at dawn on Saturdays like tomorrow and park in the nearest place to the mall... have my breakfast in a bag and tap the brake to alert folks I was getting ready to remove from el primo. I didn't of course. Good times.... good times. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-12-20 16:12 |
| #3 One of the acts which is used to identity the end of the Roman Empire and the beginning of the of the Dark Ages was tying the serfs to the land. |
| Posted by: P2kontheroad 2013-12-20 16:09 |
#2 Imagine having to take all this into account in making decisions about where in America you want to live. Or whether you wish to continue to live in America at all .... |
| Posted by: AzCat 2013-12-20 15:18 |
| #1 The same people who built the website must have wrote Obama Care. |
| Posted by: Guillibaldo McCoy1948 2013-12-20 14:08 |