Heritage Puts Anti-Obamacare Billboard In Times Square After State Announces Huge Premium Drop

[Triana]

Tucked up above 42nd Street in Times Square, situated next to advertisements for Ripley’s Believe It or Not and Madame Tussaud’s, is a new political message that feels out of place in a space touting the latest in fashion and entertainment.

The billboard, sponsored by the Heritage Foundation, is shaped like a federal tobacco disclaimer and warns New Yorkers about the dangers of Obamacare: “WARNING: Obamacare may be hazardous to your health”:



The message is just the latest political stunt from the organization that first developed the individual health care mandate in 1989 and later touted Obamacare-like reforms in Massachusetts. But this strategy is particularly obtuse. While premiums in the law’s soon-to-be opened health care exchanges have varied throughout the country, New Yorkers will experience savings of at least 50 percent as a result of Obamacare.

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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/09/12/2614771/fail-anti-obamacare-billboard-erected-time-square-york-announces-huge-premium-drop/

[hollysmom]

1. if you text hazard, are you going to be charged 10 bucks?

[Jackpine Radical]

2. Text

FUCKUP to33733

[hollysmom]

12. I might leave off the P

[leveymg]

3. "The least expensive plans may not offer wide access to hospitals and doctors." Wonderful coverage.

The plans to be offered on the exchanges all meet certain basic requirements, as laid out in the law, but are in four categories from most generous to least: platinum, gold, silver and bronze. An individual with annual income of $17,000 will pay about $55 a month for a silver plan, state regulators said. A person with a $20,000 income will pay about $85 a month for a silver plan, while someone earning $25,000 will pay about $145 a month for a silver plan.

The least expensive plans, some offered by newcomers to the market, may not offer wide access to hospitals and doctors, experts said.

Care to explain how this is such a good thing for those who aren't so poor that they qualify for Medicare but can't afford Blue Cross?

[Thinkingabout]

6. This is somewhat to understand, with more people having access to any health care is better than

No health care. When free health clinics are set up, many comes from miles around. Lower premiums with more insured. This should spread the cost of premiums. Right now hospitals and health care providers has their cost spread to those with health insurance and government provided safety nets. Right now if you are young and are involved in an accident and do not have health insurance someone has to pick up the cost if you are able to afford the cost.

[Triana]

9. I assume you meant 'Medicaid', not 'Medicare'. A page from the healthcare.gov site says...

... depending on income, even if you won't be eligible for Medicaid in 2014 (you may be eligible even if you weren't before, if your state has chosen to expand its Medicaid coverage), you may qualify for an advance tax credit to help pay for your insurance premiums, if your income falls within certain ranges. Details here:

https://www.healthcare.gov/will-i-qualify-to-save-on-monthly-premiums/

Kaiser Family Foundation has provided a calculator to help you determine if you're eligible for this premium assistance:

http://kff.org/interactive/subsidy-calculator/

[Trekologer]

13. Coverage, even in a smaller network of participants, is better than no coverage at all

Care to explain how this is such a good thing for those who aren't so poor that they qualify for Medicare but can't afford Blue Cross?

New entrants to the marketplace suggests that they haven't yet built a large network of participating providers. Which isn't any different than other, more established insurance plans: not every doctor or hospital participates in every plan.

[Initech]

4. Hey Heritage Foundation, go fuck yourselves.

[lpbk2713]

5. Fearmongers r Us

Does anyone really pay any attention to these assholes any more?

[Thinkingabout]

7. K & R

[nxylas]

8. But they invented Obamacare

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They may have well have put up a billboard reading "Don't listen to us, our ideas are terrible".

[madrchsod]

10. never under estimate the stupidity of the republicans!

i have pointed this fact out to my right wing friends on facebook. funny they never challenge me on that fact.

[Cha]

11. Stupid.