“That’s right, the White House said that it surpassed its goal for people enrolled in ObamaCare. It’s amazing what you can achieve when you make something mandatory and fine people if they don’t do it and then keep extending the deadline for months. It’s like a Cinderella story. It’s just a beautiful thing. You make everyone do it. Isn’t it great how many people do it? But if you still haven’t enrolled, you might have to pay a penalty called the individual shared responsibility payment, which is 1% of your salary. Then Americans said, “Man, good thing I don’t have a job.”.-Jimmy Fallon
The woman in the cartoon claims the ACA forced her insurance company to cancel the plan she liked. My understanding is the ACA exempted existing policies from the new guidelines. If the ACA didn’t apply to her preexisting policy, how did it force said policy to be canceled.?
Any policy that got cancelled under the ACA was junk insurance.
Before the ACA I couldn’t afford insurance. Now I have a bronze plan for $5.98 a month (that’s right, 19 cents a day), and my insurer has sent me a test for colon cancer.
There were certain low-premium policies that didn’t cover anything and have been outlawed by the ACA, including some that only covered office visits so that the holders thought they had a good policy until they actually needed it for something expensive. Some of those were still grandfathered in — which is funny because the insurance lobby shills whine over extended deadlines, but they don’t whine over allowing the companies to rip people off for another year. .But most of the cancellations are the same cancellations that happen every year as companies make adjustments. It’s just that, in other years, people cursed the insurance company or their employer, not the Marxist from Kenya who is obviously to blame for everything.
Dave Ferro about 10 years ago
Yep, we’re living in an extra-constitutional America now.
echoraven about 10 years ago
“That’s right, the White House said that it surpassed its goal for people enrolled in ObamaCare. It’s amazing what you can achieve when you make something mandatory and fine people if they don’t do it and then keep extending the deadline for months. It’s like a Cinderella story. It’s just a beautiful thing. You make everyone do it. Isn’t it great how many people do it? But if you still haven’t enrolled, you might have to pay a penalty called the individual shared responsibility payment, which is 1% of your salary. Then Americans said, “Man, good thing I don’t have a job.”.-Jimmy Fallon
Jason Allen about 10 years ago
The woman in the cartoon claims the ACA forced her insurance company to cancel the plan she liked. My understanding is the ACA exempted existing policies from the new guidelines. If the ACA didn’t apply to her preexisting policy, how did it force said policy to be canceled.?
Not the Smartest Man On the Planet -- Maybe Close Premium Member about 10 years ago
Any policy that got cancelled under the ACA was junk insurance.
Before the ACA I couldn’t afford insurance. Now I have a bronze plan for $5.98 a month (that’s right, 19 cents a day), and my insurer has sent me a test for colon cancer.
Viva Obamacare!
Michael Peterson Premium Member about 10 years ago
There were certain low-premium policies that didn’t cover anything and have been outlawed by the ACA, including some that only covered office visits so that the holders thought they had a good policy until they actually needed it for something expensive. Some of those were still grandfathered in — which is funny because the insurance lobby shills whine over extended deadlines, but they don’t whine over allowing the companies to rip people off for another year. .But most of the cancellations are the same cancellations that happen every year as companies make adjustments. It’s just that, in other years, people cursed the insurance company or their employer, not the Marxist from Kenya who is obviously to blame for everything.
echoraven about 10 years ago
Was reading an article on how cash strapped states are enrolling their prison population on the medicaid expansion due to a ACA loop hole.