More Bad News for the Middle Class and Their Health Care

[ScreamingEagle]

If we are all poor we can all get healthcare for free....right?

The biggest “unforeseen” issue arising with the poorly named Affordable Care Act is its effect on affordability of care. The typical middle-class family, in order to afford the broader coverage necessitated by ObamaCare, is having to choose a higher and higher deductible insurance plan. This is having a huge impact on a patient’s decision even to go to the doctor, much less survive the increased cost if he does find himself needing care.
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In the hospitals, we see the consequences. While the poor and the illegal immigrants get absolutely free care, the middle-class patients are collapsing financially under the strain of their deductibles and their lost income from their time off work, not to mention the additional stress of their illness. In our clinics, sick patients are choosing to forego testing, medicines, and surgery that they need solely because of cost. Instead they are living with their illnesses, often with cheap antibiotics as a means of delaying the inevitable.

To make matters worse, the patients getting their health care for free will ask for taxi vouchers, food stipends, and the like right in front of these other people, never thinking that what they are requesting is an affront to the sensibilities of the people paying their bills with our tax dollars. Seeing the middle class visibly suffer like this when the president told them during the elections that they would see their costs “go down $2,500 per family” is a heinous outcome of a preposterous government overreach.

A consumer-driven health care market with pre-service cost estimates and point-of-care payment options would stand a chance of fixing this idiocy. Of course, that would mean less governmental control. Meanwhile, the middle class is being manipulated and lied to about the sincerity of the government and its effort to ease the financial burden of health care costs – and the middle class is shrinking before our eyes. One has to suppose that if we are all poor, we can all get health care for free. Right?

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[Howey]

If we are all poor we can all get healthcare for free....right?

The biggest “unforeseen” issue arising with the poorly named Affordable Care Act is its effect on affordability of care. The typical middle-class family, in order to afford the broader coverage necessitated by ObamaCare, is having to choose a higher and higher deductible insurance plan. This is having a huge impact on a patient’s decision even to go to the doctor, much less survive the increased cost if he does find himself needing care.
....

In the hospitals, we see the consequences. While the poor and the illegal immigrants get absolutely free care, the middle-class patients are collapsing financially under the strain of their deductibles and their lost income from their time off work, not to mention the additional stress of their illness. In our clinics, sick patients are choosing to forego testing, medicines, and surgery that they need solely because of cost. Instead they are living with their illnesses, often with cheap antibiotics as a means of delaying the inevitable.

To make matters worse, the patients getting their health care for free will ask for taxi vouchers, food stipends, and the like right in front of these other people, never thinking that what they are requesting is an affront to the sensibilities of the people paying their bills with our tax dollars. Seeing the middle class visibly suffer like this when the president told them during the elections that they would see their costs “go down $2,500 per family” is a heinous outcome of a preposterous government overreach.

A consumer-driven health care market with pre-service cost estimates and point-of-care payment options would stand a chance of fixing this idiocy. Of course, that would mean less governmental control. Meanwhile, the middle class is being manipulated and lied to about the sincerity of the government and its effort to ease the financial burden of health care costs – and the middle class is shrinking before our eyes. One has to suppose that if we are all poor, we can all get health care for free. Right?

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Since your source, American "Thinker" is known for skewering minor details to produce major lies like this one, I'll just give you this to look over.

Issues health care

 

[zeke]

If we are all poor we can all get healthcare for free....right?

The biggest “unforeseen” issue arising with the poorly named Affordable Care Act is its effect on affordability of care. The typical middle-class family, in order to afford the broader coverage necessitated by ObamaCare, is having to choose a higher and higher deductible insurance plan. This is having a huge impact on a patient’s decision even to go to the doctor, much less survive the increased cost if he does find himself needing care.
....

In the hospitals, we see the consequences. While the poor and the illegal immigrants get absolutely free care, the middle-class patients are collapsing financially under the strain of their deductibles and their lost income from their time off work, not to mention the additional stress of their illness. In our clinics, sick patients are choosing to forego testing, medicines, and surgery that they need solely because of cost. Instead they are living with their illnesses, often with cheap antibiotics as a means of delaying the inevitable.

To make matters worse, the patients getting their health care for free will ask for taxi vouchers, food stipends, and the like right in front of these other people, never thinking that what they are requesting is an affront to the sensibilities of the people paying their bills with our tax dollars. Seeing the middle class visibly suffer like this when the president told them during the elections that they would see their costs “go down $2,500 per family” is a heinous outcome of a preposterous government overreach.

A consumer-driven health care market with pre-service cost estimates and point-of-care payment options would stand a chance of fixing this idiocy. Of course, that would mean less governmental control. Meanwhile, the middle class is being manipulated and lied to about the sincerity of the government and its effort to ease the financial burden of health care costs – and the middle class is shrinking before our eyes. One has to suppose that if we are all poor, we can all get health care for free. Right?

Articles: More Bad News for the Middle Class and Their Health Care

To bad you goddamn Republicans couldn't have come up with a better plan. Or at least contributed SOMETHING to have made it a better plan.

And I bet you were so concerned about the middle class people with no health care, weren't you? Concerned about how BK's from medial issues were killing the middle class.

No REALLY, you and your kind could care less about those with or with out medical insurance.

You just view the topic as a prime reason to break out the Obama Derangement Syndrome.

Hey listen up, if you've got health insurance I understand there is a treatment for ODS.
It's called a "lobotomy". Check it out. It would do you good.

 

[Wildman]

If we are all poor we can all get healthcare for free....right?

The biggest “unforeseen” issue arising with the poorly named Affordable Care Act is its effect on affordability of care. The typical middle-class family, in order to afford the broader coverage necessitated by ObamaCare, is having to choose a higher and higher deductible insurance plan. This is having a huge impact on a patient’s decision even to go to the doctor, much less survive the increased cost if he does find himself needing care.
....

In the hospitals, we see the consequences. While the poor and the illegal immigrants get absolutely free care, the middle-class patients are collapsing financially under the strain of their deductibles and their lost income from their time off work, not to mention the additional stress of their illness. In our clinics, sick patients are choosing to forego testing, medicines, and surgery that they need solely because of cost. Instead they are living with their illnesses, often with cheap antibiotics as a means of delaying the inevitable.

To make matters worse, the patients getting their health care for free will ask for taxi vouchers, food stipends, and the like right in front of these other people, never thinking that what they are requesting is an affront to the sensibilities of the people paying their bills with our tax dollars. Seeing the middle class visibly suffer like this when the president told them during the elections that they would see their costs “go down $2,500 per family” is a heinous outcome of a preposterous government overreach.

A consumer-driven health care market with pre-service cost estimates and point-of-care payment options would stand a chance of fixing this idiocy. Of course, that would mean less governmental control. Meanwhile, the middle class is being manipulated and lied to about the sincerity of the government and its effort to ease the financial burden of health care costs – and the middle class is shrinking before our eyes. One has to suppose that if we are all poor, we can all get health care for free. Right?

Articles: More Bad News for the Middle Class and Their Health Care

To bad you goddamn Republicans couldn't have come up with a better plan. Or at least contributed SOMETHING to have made it a better plan.

And I bet you were so concerned about the middle class people with no health care, weren't you? Concerned about how BK's from medial issues were killing the middle class.

No REALLY, you and your kind could care less about those with or with out medical insurance.

You just view the topic as a prime reason to break out the Obama Derangement Syndrome.

Hey listen up, if you've got health insurance I understand there is a treatment for ODS.
It's called a "lobotomy". Check it out. It would do you good.

right on...., right on

 

[Wry Catcher]

If we are all poor we can all get healthcare for free....right?

The biggest “unforeseen” issue arising with the poorly named Affordable Care Act is its effect on affordability of care. The typical middle-class family, in order to afford the broader coverage necessitated by ObamaCare, is having to choose a higher and higher deductible insurance plan. This is having a huge impact on a patient’s decision even to go to the doctor, much less survive the increased cost if he does find himself needing care.
....

In the hospitals, we see the consequences. While the poor and the illegal immigrants get absolutely free care, the middle-class patients are collapsing financially under the strain of their deductibles and their lost income from their time off work, not to mention the additional stress of their illness. In our clinics, sick patients are choosing to forego testing, medicines, and surgery that they need solely because of cost. Instead they are living with their illnesses, often with cheap antibiotics as a means of delaying the inevitable.

To make matters worse, the patients getting their health care for free will ask for taxi vouchers, food stipends, and the like right in front of these other people, never thinking that what they are requesting is an affront to the sensibilities of the people paying their bills with our tax dollars. Seeing the middle class visibly suffer like this when the president told them during the elections that they would see their costs “go down $2,500 per family” is a heinous outcome of a preposterous government overreach.

A consumer-driven health care market with pre-service cost estimates and point-of-care payment options would stand a chance of fixing this idiocy. Of course, that would mean less governmental control. Meanwhile, the middle class is being manipulated and lied to about the sincerity of the government and its effort to ease the financial burden of health care costs – and the middle class is shrinking before our eyes. One has to suppose that if we are all poor, we can all get health care for free. Right?

Articles: More Bad News for the Middle Class and Their Health Care

To bad you goddamn Republicans couldn't have come up with a better plan. Or at least contributed SOMETHING to have made it a better plan.

And I bet you were so concerned about the middle class people with no health care, weren't you? Concerned about how BK's from medial issues were killing the middle class.

No REALLY, you and your kind could care less about those with or with out medical insurance.

You just view the topic as a prime reason to break out the Obama Derangement Syndrome.

Hey listen up, if you've got health insurance I understand there is a treatment for ODS.
It's called a "lobotomy". Check it out. It would do you good.

Spot on post ^^^ The callous conservatives' last concern is for the everyday citizen. Do they support raising the minimum wage? Hell no! Do they support the right to join a union and to bargain for wages collectively? Hell no! Do they care that one major medical bill can wipe away a lifetime of saving? Hell no! Do they care that the cost of health care would be far less costly with a single payer system? Hell no, they believe that to be SOCIALISM and they've been told by Sarah Palin the government would then establish death panels!

 

[KissMy]

Republicans don't give a shit about workers or the middle class, their only concern is for the entitlement dividends for the rich. That's why they are surprised by this OP middle class story that has been going on for 30 years because of their stupid republican policies.

 

[ScreamingEagle]

If we are all poor we can all get healthcare for free....right?

The biggest “unforeseen” issue arising with the poorly named Affordable Care Act is its effect on affordability of care. The typical middle-class family, in order to afford the broader coverage necessitated by ObamaCare, is having to choose a higher and higher deductible insurance plan. This is having a huge impact on a patient’s decision even to go to the doctor, much less survive the increased cost if he does find himself needing care.
....

In the hospitals, we see the consequences. While the poor and the illegal immigrants get absolutely free care, the middle-class patients are collapsing financially under the strain of their deductibles and their lost income from their time off work, not to mention the additional stress of their illness. In our clinics, sick patients are choosing to forego testing, medicines, and surgery that they need solely because of cost. Instead they are living with their illnesses, often with cheap antibiotics as a means of delaying the inevitable.

To make matters worse, the patients getting their health care for free will ask for taxi vouchers, food stipends, and the like right in front of these other people, never thinking that what they are requesting is an affront to the sensibilities of the people paying their bills with our tax dollars. Seeing the middle class visibly suffer like this when the president told them during the elections that they would see their costs “go down $2,500 per family” is a heinous outcome of a preposterous government overreach.

A consumer-driven health care market with pre-service cost estimates and point-of-care payment options would stand a chance of fixing this idiocy. Of course, that would mean less governmental control. Meanwhile, the middle class is being manipulated and lied to about the sincerity of the government and its effort to ease the financial burden of health care costs – and the middle class is shrinking before our eyes. One has to suppose that if we are all poor, we can all get health care for free. Right?

Articles: More Bad News for the Middle Class and Their Health Care

Since your source, American "Thinker" is known for skewering minor details to produce major lies like this one, I'll just give you this to look over.

Issues health care

major lies....? your proof...?

look over what....? your link isn't specific...

 

[ScreamingEagle]

If we are all poor we can all get healthcare for free....right?

The biggest “unforeseen” issue arising with the poorly named Affordable Care Act is its effect on affordability of care. The typical middle-class family, in order to afford the broader coverage necessitated by ObamaCare, is having to choose a higher and higher deductible insurance plan. This is having a huge impact on a patient’s decision even to go to the doctor, much less survive the increased cost if he does find himself needing care.
....

In the hospitals, we see the consequences. While the poor and the illegal immigrants get absolutely free care, the middle-class patients are collapsing financially under the strain of their deductibles and their lost income from their time off work, not to mention the additional stress of their illness. In our clinics, sick patients are choosing to forego testing, medicines, and surgery that they need solely because of cost. Instead they are living with their illnesses, often with cheap antibiotics as a means of delaying the inevitable.

To make matters worse, the patients getting their health care for free will ask for taxi vouchers, food stipends, and the like right in front of these other people, never thinking that what they are requesting is an affront to the sensibilities of the people paying their bills with our tax dollars. Seeing the middle class visibly suffer like this when the president told them during the elections that they would see their costs “go down $2,500 per family” is a heinous outcome of a preposterous government overreach.

A consumer-driven health care market with pre-service cost estimates and point-of-care payment options would stand a chance of fixing this idiocy. Of course, that would mean less governmental control. Meanwhile, the middle class is being manipulated and lied to about the sincerity of the government and its effort to ease the financial burden of health care costs – and the middle class is shrinking before our eyes. One has to suppose that if we are all poor, we can all get health care for free. Right?

Articles: More Bad News for the Middle Class and Their Health Care

To bad you goddamn Republicans couldn't have come up with a better plan. Or at least contributed SOMETHING to have made it a better plan.

And I bet you were so concerned about the middle class people with no health care, weren't you? Concerned about how BK's from medial issues were killing the middle class.

No REALLY, you and your kind could care less about those with or with out medical insurance.

You just view the topic as a prime reason to break out the Obama Derangement Syndrome.

Hey listen up, if you've got health insurance I understand there is a treatment for ODS.
It's called a "lobotomy". Check it out. It would do you good.

not a single Republican voted for this monstrosity.....how could anybody come up with a 'better' plan when Obamacare had to first be passed in order to know what was in it....?

so it was passed only by you lobotomized Dimwits....luckily you idiots no longer control both houses...

 

[ScreamingEagle]

Republicans don't give a shit about workers or the middle class, their only concern is for the entitlement dividends for the rich. That's why they are surprised by this OP middle class story that has been going on for 30 years because of their stupid republican policies.

Dimwits care far less......Obama is actively destroying the middle class.....O'care is a premier example....