This week marks the 5th anniversary of #Obamacare being signed into law. Whether it's turned your tax filing into a nightmare, you’re facing skyrocketing premiums, or your employer has reduced your work hours, I want to hear about it.
Please share your story with me so that I can better understand the challenges you're facing.
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I am sure that she was gleefully rubbing her hands together in anticipation of all of the great anecdotes she was going to hear that she could then share on the floor of Congress. However that is not exactly what she got.
Here are a few of the responses. (And trust me these are right at the top so I did not have to cherry pick in any way.):
Erika Dennis My whole family now has coverage. The ACA is the cause for this, I work in health care, I have seen the increase in covered patients first hand. The next step is universal coverage, this will truly lower costs and provide the best care. Cathy, you barely work, spend most of your time catering to special interests so you can be re-elected.. All while receiving a large wage and the best health insurance and care. Stop telling us how it doesn't work while enjoying your tax payer funded care and life.
Allan Massie Thanks to the ACA, my cousin was able to get affordable insurance despite her preexisting condition. So grateful.
Mike Ruiz I'm very happy. We still have great coverage and our premiums are much lower than before
Dean Vercruysse I love people like you Cathy who HAVE Gov't Health Care who want to cancel it for others! it's the Christian thing to do!
Seth Miller I think we should repeal Obamacare, and replace it … with universal socialized medicine - like the rest of the industrialized nations of the world.
Lisa Barber Instead of trying to repeal it why don't you improve it? Our local rural clinics are packed daily with people who have needed healthcare for years!! it is a godsend. It is pitiful this nation does not have healthcare for all and that doesn't mean the EMERGENCY room!!
Bink Olney It's working fine - you and your Republican cohorts aren't.
William Francis Condon My story is that I once knew 7 people who couldn't get health insurance. Now they all have it, thanks to the ACA and President Obama, and their plans are as good as the one my employer provides--and they pay less for them. Now, that's not the kind of story you want to hear. You want to hear made-up horror stories. I don't know anyone with one of those stories.
Believe me there are many, many more to read on her Facebook page and if you don't trust me just click the link at the top and take a look for yourself.
The conservatives try and try to make us believe that the Affordable Care Act is a monumental failure, but unfortunately for them facts keep tripping them up.
Of course as we know facts do have a liberal bias.
(H/T to the Daily Kos)
The republicans have been trying for years to find instances of people being legitimately hurt by the affordable health care program. You'd think it would be easy to find those people, considering all the doom and gloom and apocalyptic predictions.
ReplyDeleteI know, right? And yet the best they ever come up with are liars and people who never actually tried to sign up because "socialism". I wonder what will happen when someone finally does die as a direct result of not signing up due to being brainwashed by Foxaganda?
DeleteFox will take no responsibility -- they are just an entertainment show... lies are fun!
DeleteThey should do a body count from all the red states that wouldn't set up a means of getting insurance or give them access to Medicaid.
DeleteTalk about Death Panels. I guess that's what the Rethuglikan Party is,
She will insist these are all fake, posted by Liberals. She is not believe them, she can't and not lose face. Suspect they are all deleted by now.
ReplyDeleteOr she will use the few negative ones and blow them all out of proportion.
DeleteActually Barbara, they are NOT deleted, I was just there, through another article and they are very much still there. And they are OVERWHELMINGLY supportive of OCare and how much it has made a difference in people's lives. There are health practitioners, doctors, providers all saying stop trying to repeal it and instead focus on making it better. Not saying those posts won't be deleted, but they are still there right now.
DeleteNope, they're still there. And more importantly, they are posts from people declaring themselves conservatives and calling out Kathy for her ignorance and telling her to cut it out and do something to make the law better. So many people have seen uninsured friends and family who are now insured, and affordably, and they are making that fact very clear. So she can say or do what she wants, but the response is clearly not what she had expected. There are NO horror stories at all.
DeleteI think I will join facebook just so I can comment.
DeleteAll of her posts that I read had comments that are vehemently against her--even the profile picture of her and her family. I told her she needs a political consultant who will make her get off Facebook. Of course, then I added my two cents about the ACA. It is very entertaining reading.
DeleteSure, I shared it.
ReplyDeleteOn Twitter! lol
ANd the one or two they purported to find were quickly debunked - either they didn't bother to look at all their options, or, once they did , they complained about havign to get a different doctor(which happened a lot on the "old" system, too) - only to find they had better coverage and lower $ premiums on the ACA.
ReplyDeleteAwesome! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteMy story...
ReplyDeleteACA saved my son's life. He has ulcerative colitis and for years he was very ill. The drug Humira saved his life. He is healthy and has a great quality of life for the first time in 15 years. Humira costs $2200 a month if you are not insured. He would not have been insured without ACA because the ulcerative colitis was a pre-existing condition.
For me personally, I have a great plan, my prescriptions are either free or $10/month. I pay a fair premium and know that I can't be cancelled.
For my family, the ACA has been a very good thing.
Smiling through tears here.
DeleteYour son is exactly why we've needed this law for decades.
DeleteHow many more lives could we have saved if this had gotten passed 20 years ago? 30? 50?
I hope your son has a long and healthy life ahead of him (and you too!).
My daughter was diagnosed with UC when she was in fourth grade. Luckily, we have great health insurance through my husband's employee. The ACA means that should my husband decide to leave his job, my daughter won't be denied insurance. It gives me hope that she won't ever be denied insurance because of this chronic, lifelong "pre-existing condition."
DeleteI'm so glad your son is doing well.
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Thank you for the very kind comments. :)
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Check out the comments on her posting about the Keystone pipeline on the same Facebook site. Pretty much all the comments are thanking the president and telling her she was/is insane for supporting it. Made me smile... again.
ReplyDeleteAnd lookee here! That looking-more-and-more like a full blown-tranny, who says she supports the military wants to leave them high and dry, for her Kochsucking masters.
ReplyDeletePalin Pushing Snake Oil Of Voucher System To Replace VA
Sarah Palin wants to dismantle Veterans Administration and replace it with a voucher system, essentially privatizing it.
http://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2015/03/palin-pushing-snakeoil-voucher-system
Great testimonies and not at all surprising. What is surprising is this woman, McMorris-Rogers, who's supposed to be informed on what works and doesn't for her constituents, blindly believes the lies her Repub crony peers and Fox News spew.
ReplyDeleteBased on the comments on just about any posting from this legislator on her Facebook page, she isn't doing anything her constituents want. How did she get elected?
ReplyDeletegerrymandering
DeleteOf course not. She's just like the rest of the republicans in this state. Thank dog the R's are on the left side of the state.
DeleteThanks for the post and the FB link, G. I just spent some time reading through the posts and didn't see a single horror story. I'm sure the responses are not what she wanted! It's great! Maybe they should be copied before they disappear...
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ReplyDeleteGryph. Check this out.
www.huffingtonpost.com/scott-ritter/israel-republicans-espionage_b_6942510.html
Expressed more eloquently that I could have but my thoughts exactly.
Amazing. Her web page says, "I'm listening". I hope she is!
ReplyDeleteI could write a few paragraphs about the good that the ACA did for a member of our family, I'll spare you the details, but there's a working mother of two who battled stage 3b breast cancer that metastasized to Stage 4. She'd easily have been refused on the base of previous condition, lost her home and every penny and ended up dead had it not been for the ACA, It's been two years and she's in full remission and can expect to see her kids grow up, graduate, marry etc. "Die Faster" is quicker, but the results don't compare.
ReplyDeleteThis woman with the yellow on to match the stripe down her back should be ashamed of herself, then have a conversation with Angelina Jolie and others.
What a wonderful positive post! I hope she truly is listening and maybe learning something about Americans lives and how positively President Obama has impacted them. Somehow, I truly doubt that she is open to really listening :(
ReplyDeleteShe probably thinks that all of the respondents are lying. Republicans never change their minds. Elephants would make more civilized human beings than members of the GOP, especially the 21st century variety.
DeleteBeaglemom
My son in fact one of the few percent doing worse under the ACA- unique situation of self employment, income in spurts but over the year too large for subsidy. HOWEVER he is a progressive Dem, big supporter of the president (except where he feels he doesn't lean leftward enough) and even tried uses s1nglepayern0w as a password on the state site
ReplyDeleteIsn't that the point though? My husband could do a lot better if he started his own business but health care has made him a slave to an employer. I work for myself but need I get health care through his job. If we had single payer we would both be small business owners and would not have to worry about health insurance. ACA isn't killing small business, lack of single payer is doing that.
DeleteLet's hope that one day the ACA will finally morph into universal health care for one and all. Then no one is a "slave" to an employer and everyone covered equally. The Danes and the French have done it right.
DeleteBeaglemom
May sarah fuc_ing palin become one of her favourite parts of OBAMACARE and be the first to become a DEATH PANEL victim. Oh yeah, hey sarah how's your new son in law. I mean like in the sack. Heres to you Mrs. Robinson, Duhkota has a place for you to stay, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey.
ReplyDeleteThe comments are amazing. And she calls her self a christian. I don't know much about christianity, but somehow I don't think she qualifies. I hope people remember this when it comes time to vote.
ReplyDeleteElaine in Canada
As someone who lives in WA state and can't stand this woman and the rest of the GOP, I gotta say I am extremely happy about this!! Thanks for sharing this with us, Gryphen!
ReplyDeleteEven better, unlike my Rep's FB, anyone can post, so I posted there, AND I posted on another of her posts pretending she is pro-woman.
ReplyDeleteMy MI Rep, Gary Glenn, is not allowing any negative, no, any posts that aren't toeing the GOP party line..and our hometown rag, a GOP cheerleader, has called him out for denying people free speech..and he's been in office a matter of weeks! The GOP is imploding, and none too soon.
Good.
DeleteYou know the motto of the ReTHUGliCONS don't you?
DeleteIt's "Freedom of speech for me, but not for thee."
"Obamacare is a complete disaster that must be killed" is another Republican baseless conclusion desperately in search of a rationalization.
ReplyDeleteThe only way my husband & I have insurance is because of the ACA. I'm non-insulin dependent diabetic, & he was diagnosed with congestive heart disease several years ago. Fortunately for us, we've managed to reverse a lot of the complications thru our own efforts in changing our diets & adding exercise.
ReplyDeleteBecause of our active lifestyle, we signed up for an insurance plan that not only encourages a healthy lifestyle, but actually rewards it. We received free FitBit Flex devices, & have earned cash rewards for tracking our diets & exercise.
Now, the insurance covers the complete cost of all my diabetic supplies & I have a 100% covered eye exam this afternoon. Because we bought our insurance on the exchange (our state opted out of Medicaid expansion), this wonderful insurance is costing us about $1.50 per month out of pocket with the subsidy.
btw, we're both older folks. I'll be 62 this year, & my husband just turned 60. So we've been without insurance for a long, long time. Very, very thankful for the ACA.