How to Protect Yourself From Obamacare

[guido911]

How bad is getting? This bad:

[nathanm]

• Obama said "people forget that the average premium was going up 15% a year before the Affordable Care Act," leaving the mistaken impression that he was talking about employer plans. That's true of premiums in the individual insurance market — for people who buy their own insurance — but not of rates in the large employer market, which was the context of the conversation.

That's not what KFF has to say. Obviously at any given company, the employer portion may increase more or less than the total increase, but the employee and employer paid bits in sum total had been rising at about the same rate as premiums in the individual market. Those increases have been lower in the past few years than they were previously. My personal opinion is that the temporary decrease in the rate of increase probably has more to do with the 80% rule and the relatively decent stock market than anything else, but nobody really knows at this point, AFAIK.

[Gaspar]

I bet Pelosi wishes she had never held that presser this morning to celebrate the 4th anniversary of Obamacare.  No one showed up.

[Gaspar]

Only two more weeks to sign up.  Come on young people.  It's for your own good!

[Conan71]

Only two more weeks to sign up.  Come on young people.  It's for your own good!

State-sponsored genocide on minorities and the poor.

[nathanm]

Nice job taking a stock photo and mocking it up to look like actual things disseminated by HHS. It's much funnier when you use actual ads instead of making them up, G.

[Gaspar]

Nice job taking a stock photo and mocking it up to look like actual things disseminated by HHS. It's much funnier when you use actual ads instead of making them up, G.

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[guido911]

It's "affordable", "affordable" blah blah blah. I wish this turd backsplash would just go away. This whole mess is in large part her fault.

[guido911]

Not sure if anyone has been following this "story" about Drudge paying the Obamacare penalty, but here is a take from the right-leaning Washington Times as an fyi.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/mar/22/media-wrongly-attack-drudge-after-he-admits-paying/

If you have to pay quarterlies, this could affect you according to sources.

[RecycleMichael]

What a joke.

Look at the sources. The Washington Times (founded by Rev. Sun Myung Moon for the Unification Church), reports that Breitbart News (named after the late founder Andrew Breitbart, a Tea Party speaker who spent years defending racist and homophobic slurs) says that an anonymous Senate Budget committee Aide says is true.

That's right. Guido quotes an anonymous source telling a crazy news source who told it to a newspaper founded by a crazy religious zealot.

Good source guido. Rock solid.

[guido911]

What a joke.

Look at the sources. The Washington Times (founded by Rev. Sun Myung Moon for the Unification Church), reports that Breitbart News (named after the late founder Andrew Breitbart, a Tea Party speaker who spent years defending racist and homophobic slurs) says that an anonymous Senate Budget committee Aide says is true.

That's right. Guido quotes an anonymous source telling a crazy news source who told it to a newspaper founded by a crazy religious zealot.

Good source guido. Rock solid.

If you read the article, look and see the sources of those rejecting the story--REAL reputable Huffington Post and TPM. You best HOPE that this story pans out your way, or you will look like a complete jackhole.