"Still seeking votes for his proposed health care overhaul, President Barack Obama appears ready to reverse his position and allow unpopular deal-sweetening measures in the hopes of finding Democratic support for legislation whose future will be decided in coming days," so states the Associated Press in their article. It also mentions his visit to a cancer patient who dropped her insurance after it went to $8,500 a year. Let me see now. Hmmm. Our insurance was over $9,900 a year a few years ago and then we modified it 2-3 times selecting larger and larger deductibles to make the premiums more affordable (down to around $8,220 per year -- like this patient's premiums before canceling). What you HAVE to do to keep costs down. We also switched carriers to get an even lower premium (down to $5,688 per year) -- we won't compare this to hers because we were healthy. So, what does this mean? We pay out-of-pocket $10,000 plus the premium $8,220 or $18,220 per year. Surely that would be cheaper than NO insurance and paying for cancer treatments! I suppose I would have more sympathy for this patient had the insurance company canceled her policy on her. She took the risk to pocket the $8,500 per year and save or spend it instead. No different than investing in the stock market versus putting the investment money under your mattress. Without the specifics (President Non-specific Obama doesn't give specifics), we only get the tear-jerky version of the story. Sure, now she will never be able to get insurance since she dropped it and has cancer. My questions are: did she already have cancer when she dropped it? How old is she? Is this a family policy or individual policy she dropped? Is she out of work? If so, why? What is her income (surely no less than ours)?
But, the real PrOblem I have here is Obama using this wOman to draw the tears of the OhiOans and OhiO Senator to get the senatOr's Obamacare vOte! He's Pitting the Public against this senatOr using a tear-jerker stOry. MOre campaign crap rather than hOnesty. Can't we reverse the PinOcchiO stOry and turn Obama back tO the useless wOOd he's made Of?
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