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The most succinct reality of OBAMACARE. Beautifully explained. I just read it and I felt that I needed to let you read it.
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This was from an article about Obamacare/Howard Dean interview. It was the top comment. A very beautifully-worded response to the article: I will paste it in its entirety and supply the link to the article.
Link: [link to www.washingtontimes.com]
A TRUE STORY …
The Real California , (and soon, coming to your state), Obamacare, Pr...
You responsible, working and former working-retired folks will really be on board with this one................
What ObamaCare is Really About
I'm
a 54 year old consulting engineer and make between $60,000 and $125,000
per year, depending on how hard I work and whether or not there are
work projects out there for me.
My girlfriend is 61 and makes about $18,000 per year, working as a part-time mail clerk.
For
me, making $60,000 a year, under ObamaCare, the cheapest, lowest grade
policy I can buy, which also happens to impose a $5,000 deductible,
costs $482 per month.
For my girlfriend, the same exact policy,
same deductible, costs $1 per month. That's right, $1 per month. I'm not
making this up.
Don't believe me? Just go to www.coveredca.gov ,
the ObamaCare website for California and enter the parameters I've
mentioned above and see for yourself. By the way, my zip code is 93940.
You'll need to enter that.
So OK, clearly ObamaCare is a scheme
that involves putting the cost burden of healthcare onto the middle and
upper-income wage earners. But there's a lot more to it. Stick with me.
And before I make my next points, I'd like you to think about something:
I
live in Monterey County , in Central California .. We have a large land
mass but just 426,000 residents - about the population of Colorado
Springs or the city of Omaha .
But we do have a large Hispanic
population, including a large number of illegal aliens, and to serve
this group we have Natividad Medical Center, a massive, Federally
subsidized county medical complex that takes up an area about one-third
the size of the Chrysler Corporation automobile assembly plant in
Belvedere, Illinois (see Google Earth View). Natividad has
state-of-the-art operating rooms, Computed Tomography and Magnetic
Resonance Imaging, fully equipped, 24 hour emergency room, and much
more. If you have no insurance, if you've been in a drive-by shooting or
have overdosed on crack cocaine, this is where you go. And it's
essentially free, because almost everyone who ends up in the ER is
uninsured.
Last year, 2,735 babies were born at Natividad. 32%
of these were born to out-of-wedlock teenage mothers, 93% of which were
Hispanic. Less than 20% could demonstrate proof of citizenship, and 71%
listed their native language as Spanish. Of these 876 births, only 40
were covered under [any kind of] private health insurance. The taxpayers
paid for the other 836. And in case you were wondering about the entire
population - all 2,735 births - less than 24% involved insured coverage
or even partial payment on behalf of the patient to the hospital in
exchange for services. Keep this in mind as we move forward.
... more at link
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