My Bad Experience With Obamacare (Feel free to add yours)

[JGalt]

So when my wife got laid off from the hospital she worked at for 8 years because of changes due to Obamacare, she decided she would enroll in the program. As it ended up, she didn't fully complete the enrollment procedure because she couldn't answer one of the questions on the form. The question asked "How much money do you expect to make next year".

But unbeknownst to her, they had signed her up with some insurance company and we got a bill for $500. That was for one month. She never used the insurance and didn't see a doctor or anything, but we kept getting these bills every month for $500.

We blew them off because we really didn't have the money. Soon the automated phone calls started at all hours from a GILA Corporation, which is a payment processing and call center services for governmental entities. In other words, a collection agency.

We have caller ID, so whenever they call, we just don't pick up. I'm pretty sure this is going to effect our credit rating, but whatever.

Fuck Obamacare and especially, fuck Obama. With a rusty, AIDS-infected garden rake.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

$500 a month for health insurance?

My own experience is two refunds last year, lower cost for scrips, no more co-pay and premiums were lowered and excellent coverage - so yeah, I feel your pain.

 

[TheOldSchool]

So when my wife got laid off from the hospital she worked at for 8 years because of changes due to Obamacare, she decided she would enroll in the program. As it ended up, she didn't fully complete the enrollment procedure because she couldn't answer one of the questions on the form. The question asked "How much money do you expect to make next year".

But unbeknownst to her, they had signed her up with some insurance company and we got a bill for $500. That was for one month. She never used the insurance and didn't see a doctor or anything, but we kept getting these bills every month for $500.

We blew them off because we really didn't have the money. Soon the automated phone calls started at all hours from a GILA Corporation, which is a payment processing and call center services for governmental entities. In other words, a collection agency.

We have caller ID, so whenever they call, we just don't pick up. I'm pretty sure this is going to effect our credit rating, but whatever.

Fuck Obamacare and especially, fuck Obama. With a rusty, AIDS-infected garden rake.

Sounds like you fucked up at every turn.

 

[Nutz]

Didnt complete the app...ignored phone calls. You seem pretty irresponsible to me. Also sounds like you are just blamng that negro obama for your wife getting fired

 

[Flash]

In order to give subsidies to all the shitheads that are too sorry to pay their own bills Obamacare runs up the cost of premiums, co payments, deductibles and even taxes for everybody. That is not even counting the hundreds of billions stolen from the Medicare fund.

As Jonathan Gruber said it is a program based upon lies that only the most stupid Americans will believe.

The sad thing is that the nation's health insurance is so screwed up now it forces people like the OP to go to the exchanges, which are terrible plans with outrageous cost.

It is going to get worse next year when the government subsidies to the insurance companies come to an end.

Thanks Obama for fucking up the best health care system in the world so that your welfare queens can get insurance instead of having to go to free clinics.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Yeah.

He says he incurred a bill but then ignored the attempts to collect it.

And now he says his own irresponsibility is Obama's fault.

 

[JGalt]

Some more details:

She did get signed up for it, but the Obamacare people said that because we had no proof of how much we made after her getting laid off, they cancelled the subsidy. She had to cancel the policy because we couldn't afford $500 every month, especially with her being unemployed. But they said that it would take at least a month to cancel. So they're still trying to bill us for something she never used.

 

[rightwinger]

My only experience was my son had finished school and got a job with no benefits. I was able to put him on my policy until he was 26

 

[Nutz]

Yeah.

He says he incurred a bill but then ignored the attempts to collect it.

And now he says his own irresponsibility is Obama's fault.

Yeah...and his wife got fired becausr of Obama. Lmao....seems he can't accept responsibility for his own failures

 

[Nutz]

Some more details:

She did get signed up for it, but the Obamacare people said that because we had no proof of how much we made after her getting laid off, they cancelled the subsidy. She had to cancel the policy because we couldn't afford $500 every month, especially with her being unemployed. But they said that it would take at least a month to cancel. So they're still trying to bill us for something she never used.

Liar

 

[Flash]

My only experience was my son had finished school and got a job with no benefits. I was able to put him on my policy until he was 26

Maybe if you hadn't voted for Obama that has pretty screwed the economy then he would have been able to get a job that had benefits.

The best way for somebody to stay out of poverty is to not vote for Liberals that have disastrous economic polices that causes a increase in poverty, increasing welfare rolls and declining family income like we have seen under Obama.

 

[JGalt]

Yeah.

He says he incurred a bill but then ignored the attempts to collect it.

And now he says his own irresponsibility is Obama's fault.

Yeah...and his wife got fired becausr of Obama. Lmao....seems he can't accept responsibility for his own failures

For someone who claims to be the compassionate party of the middle class, you liberals are a hateful bunch. She didn't get "fired". Her and several other medical transcriptions were laid off because of the changes the hospital had to do, in order to be complaint with the Affordable Care Act.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Some more details:

She did get signed up for it, but the Obamacare people said that because we had no proof of how much we made after her getting laid off, they cancelled the subsidy. She had to cancel the policy because we couldn't afford $500 every month, especially with her being unemployed. But they said that it would take at least a month to cancel. So they're still trying to bill us for something she never used.

You say you "blew them off" because you couldn't afford the coverage, but now you say you cancelled. Which is it?

"A month to cancel"? Something smells bad here.

"ObamaCare people"?? How is that RWs still don't understand that "ObamaCare" is not a product they can buy?

And why do people think think that if you don't use insurance coverage, you don't have to pay for it?

OP - do you have homeowner's insurance? Renters? Auto? Do you understand that even if you don't use it, you still have to pay the premiums?

 

[IsaacNewton]

Generally you can't ignore bills. You had to SIGN UP to get the coverage and in it your agree to pay the bill.
If your wife wasn't making any money just tell them she wasn't making any money.

This is one of those where the OP is leaving something important out of the story. It doesn't add up.

 

[rightwinger]

My only experience was my son had finished school and got a job with no benefits. I was able to put him on my policy until he was 26

Maybe if you hadn't voted for Obama that has pretty screwed the economy then he would have been able to get a job that had benefits.

The best way for somebody to stay out of poverty is to not vote for Liberals that have disastrous economic polices that causes a increase in poverty, increasing welfare rolls and declining family income like we have seen under Obama.

What do conservatives do to help people out of poverty?
Trickle down?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

Yeah.

He says he incurred a bill but then ignored the attempts to collect it.

And now he says his own irresponsibility is Obama's fault.

Yeah...and his wife got fired becausr of Obama. Lmao....seems he can't accept responsibility for his own failures

For someone who claims to be the compassionate party of the middle class, you liberals are a hateful bunch. She didn't get "fired". Her and several other medical transcriptions were laid off because of the changes the hospital had to do, in order to be complaint with the Affordable Care Act.

Nope.

Not true.

Hospitals have been in financial trouble for a long LONG time because they were forced to puck up the tab for the uninsured. Its a socialist program called EMTALA and it was passed by Ronnie Ray-Gun.

But it is true that you are blaming the president for your wife being "laid off". Pretty lame.

 

[Flash]

What do conservatives do to help people out of poverty?
Trickle down?

Trickle down economics:

Keeping the money that you earned instead of giving it to some corrupt bureaucrat, elected by special interest groups, that will give it to the welfare queens.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

My only experience was my son had finished school and got a job with no benefits. I was able to put him on my policy until he was 26

Amazing to me that RWs want families to be penalized for sticking together and taking care of each other.

 

[Katzndogz]

My son dutifully signed up for obamacare as required by law. He didn't qualify. Now he's been fined for not signing up for obamacare. $700.00.

 

[mudwhistle]

Generally you can't ignore bills. You had to SIGN UP to get the coverage and in it your agree to pay the bill.
If your wife wasn't making any money just tell them she wasn't making any money.

This is one of those where the OP is leaving something important out of the story. It doesn't add up.

If she didn't have a job anymore how can she predict what her wages would be next year?