Showing posts with label stories. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stories. Show all posts

Thursday, July 06, 2017

Indiana Republicans request "Obamacare Horror Stories." It does not go as expected.

After this appeared on the Indiana Republican's Facebook page the responses started pouring in:

  • My children with significant health issues were able to obtain coverage regardless of their pre-existing conditions. Oh, the horror.
  • I have several pre-existing conditions and was stranded in a job I hated because it provided good insurance. The ACA gave me the freedom to quit that job and try to do something with my days that made me much happier without worrying that I would lose.
  • My kids had health insurance until they were 26. Two of them had a hard time finding jobs that offered benefits, and since they could stay on my plan, they were able to take some jobs that did not offer insurance. This gave them experience for other, better jobs. Thanks ObamaCare!
  • Nothing changed for us and we kept our doctors.
  • Our good friend in his early 40's was diagnosed with kidney failure and thanks to the ACA was able to have transplant surgery and is living life again instead of stuck at home on dialysis multiple times a day.
  • Let's see ... had not had health coverage since getting cancer while on COBRA back in 1997, and finally got coverage again from ObamaRomneyHeritageCare in 2014. OH THE HORROR IN HAVING HEALTH COVERAGE!
  • The Horror story is that the IGNORANT TRUMPsters want to take away health care from people who are basically happy with it. Why can't we have the health care that these corrupt politicians have while we work harder than they do to pay for their healthcare.
  • My niece Karla had seizures, all her life. Obamacare let her be on her parents insurance until 26. The Dr. gave her a needed operation and paid for her child. That she would not have been able to have or live through. Thanks Obamacare for her and baby Zozie. 
  • Wow. I came to this page to find out what Republicans voters in Indiana are finding about problems with Obama care. I couldn't find a single post unfavorable to Obamacare. What do the Republicans who want to repeal the ACA think about this? Are there any among those who vote Republican?

I actually went quite a way through the comments looking for some that support the repeal and replacement of Obamacare.

I'm sure they must be there someplace but I certainly did not see them.

You would think this might convince the Republicans that touching Obamacare is a bad move.

But if they realized that would they really be Republicans?

Thursday, March 26, 2015

Republican Congresswoman takes to Facebook to ask for Obamacare horror stories. Does not get the response she anticipated.

So Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers went on Facebook and posted this message: 

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.

Along with this image.


 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)