The Obamacare Success Stories

[TomCADem]

The fact of the matter is that coverage of the ACA has been incredibly tilted towards right wing narratives with little discussion of the thousands of folks who have successfully enrolled for coverage. Of course, the moment that any of these folks are discussed, the right wing media will start complaining about bias, because reality does have a liberal bias.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/10/23/the-obamacare-success-stories.html

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution tells the story of Lissie Stahlman, 60, who credits “a combination of patience, luck and different platforms” for getting her through the system late last week after trying for three weeks. She says she saved 50 percent over her current premiums and cut her deductible in half from $5,000 to $2,500.

ThinkProgress, a liberal website, reported on a 61-year-old lifelong Republican, Butch Matthews, who was heavily skeptical of the Affordable Care Act when it first passed. A former small business owner in Little Rock, Arkansas, Matthews used to get up every morning before dawn to deliver canned beverages to retailers before he retired three years ago. Medical care is his family’s biggest expense, since his home and vehicle are paid for. So he was pleased to discover his local Blue Cross Blue Shield would cover him under Arkansas’ Obamacare marketplace for less money than he had been paying, and with more benefits.

If you’ve read this far, you’re probably skeptical of extrapolating too much from these examples of people in their early sixties, who are too young for government-provided Medicare and probably willing to crawl over broken glass to find good health-care coverage. But stories abound about younger people as well. Enroll America, working to recruit people to Obamacare in Texas, a state that has been ostentatiously hostile to the law, tells the story of Mark Sullivan, a 31-year old worker in Austin’s tech sector who immediately created an account on healthcare.gov and settled on a bronze plan with added dental insurance. He will receive an $82 per month subsidy, which will halve his monthly premium to $78, giving him the financial freedom and security to put his energies into his new tech startup.

The Washington Post reported that California, an early embracer of Obamacare, has signed up 600,000 low income Golden Staters for the law’s expanded Medicaid, and over 100,000 are in some stage of applying for insurance on the marketplaces. The Wall Street Journal reported on a 28-year-old freelance filmmaker in Hollywood who was among the first to sign up on the California exchange market. “At $62 a month in direct costs to him, the plan, offered by managed-care firm Health Net Inc. is ‘a great deal,’ Mr. Foster said. Because he earns only about $20,000 a year doing freelance videography and odd jobs, Mr. Foster qualifies for federal subsidies that cut deep into the premiums for health plans available in the new marketplaces…”

[flying-skeleton]

1. Obamacare .... yes .... OBAMACARE works !!

When I got married in the early 1990's, we (me and my wife) were paying $165 per month for Insurance. Today with the grace of God, we have our own small business, although the recession has hit us hard. We have the same insurance with triple the deductible amounts with the same provider. Knock on wood .... we have no illnesses or preexisting conditions. We rarely see the doctor (maybe 1 or 2 times a year) for the flu or allergies. This year 2012 it was $900 per month for me, my wife and a 13 year old son. Next year's premiums were to be just over $1,000 for all three of us.

Granted the Covered CA web site was cumbersome with tons of glitches and it took several phone calls to the toll free number .... but we signed up for the silver plan which will lower our premiums by 65 % with lower deductibles across the board as well as free preventive care etc.

So for all those doubters that are plain stupid and want to repeal the AHC Act .... I just have three words for you.

"CONTINUE BEING STUPID" !! Continue being stupid and refuse to explore the possibilities with the AFC and continue paying through your nose.

[Bill USA]

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