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Obamacare/Affordable Care Act: Are You Being Ripped Off? Want To Avoid Being Scammed?

Posted: Nov 8, 2013

If you are interested in the facts about the people that are receiving cancellation letters from their insurance companies due to Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act, then this is something that will interest you.

Pay special attention to the link in the story regarding what Consumer Reports uncovered.

There's also a very good further explanation through a link in the story from Talking Points Memo.

Image Credit: Rick McKee, Cagle.com.

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Excellent article - and may many more insurers get fined

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For these disgusting scams.
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”The reality is that this could do real harm.”

Laura Etherton, a health policy analyst at the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, told TPM:

If you’re an insurance company, you’re trying to hang onto the consumers you have at the highest price you can get them. You can take advantage of the confusion about what people get to have now. It’s a new world. It’s disappointing that insurance companies are sending confusing letters to consumers to take advantage of that confusion. The reality is that this could do real harm.

Note these unscrupulous insurance companies are USING, - BUILDING ON the lies the right has been spreading.

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People swamped with lies from the right for years now have been set up to believe they will have to pay hundreds more every month -- because these disasters seemingly befalling them just confirm what the right has been saying.

And the scum at the insurance companies use this. BTW--those clerks at the insurance companies? They are just as guilty of evil deeds as the executives who set policy and the bosses who give them their orders. It couldn't happen without them.

The same for the right winger propagandists and politicians who plotted harm all along to people who need healthcare. Michele Bachmann actually promised people who trusted her that children, the elderly and mothers would die would die when the ACA became law. Somewhere, some poor person is hiding under her house or barricaded in her apartment. Probably a number of them.

You have it all wrong.. Obama LIED to me. My - policy was cancelled because of HIS law.nm

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Obamacare itself is the scam! Forcing a 60-yr-old woman - to purchase maternity care is a scam! nm

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Or a 60 year old man. Even worse. - Idiots.

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I'm sorry, but insurance policies ALWAYS cover - conditions most will never have, including

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in your case all expenses unique to men and children of both sexes. And THOSE would be very, very long lists of things to get worked up about.

If you wished. But I don't advise it. This is the way health insurance always works.

And maternity care? It was included until recently when shylock insurers took it out of some policies, no matter how many were hurt, because they knew they could get away with it.

After all, the employers choosing what insurance to buy don't want women getting pregnant, putting in claims, losing work, etc. How clever of them to figure out they could take out maternity care so that employees couldn't AFFORD to have children. (Where are family values and Christian voters on this issue, BTW?)

Please don't think this nasty, greedy, and discriminatory behavior had anything at all to do with saving YOU money. It didn't, and it doesn't. Your premium has skyrocketed over 30 years and never dropped once. The employee's roles in all this are strictly as labor to be worked for profit and cash cow to be milked for profit. Moo...

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