like to retire, but she needs here health insurance to cover her husband who has his own business and two college aged children. If she retired and kept her employer's plan, it'd be about $600 a month, just about equal to her pension from this job. My guess is that the plans on the exchange would be much cheaper, but she hates the idea of Obamacare so much, she won't even take a look!

even qualify to be in the exchange would it?

It's not even close to ACA standards.

has options on the Exchange cheaper than what Blue Cross is offering her. I wonder how many people will get flimflammed into thinking they must accept what their current provider offers.

CBS, the network of Cronkite and Murrow, appears to have made a right turn, especially Bob Schieffer.

It's SO weird...

Here in Los Angeles, one of the traffic channels (AM 1070) is always running some kind of snarky story/comments, that make Dems or the President look, well, not good.

I'm so tired of that kind of shit!

And that is why I stopped listening to NPR...Steve Inskeep was always making snark about us.

and recant their misleading story.

I saw the misleading CBS report this morning and now, I'm watching Scott Pelley spouting more lies about Obamacare on the CBS Evening News. CBS newsreaders are obviously undermining Obamacare to satisfy their Corporate masters. It makes it impossible for me to believe anything the MSM reports. They have no integrity or ethics and they should loose their FCC license.

and this past Sunday, their top news story was how horrible the ACA website was and how congress was going to handle it.
I only listened to the show for 5 minutes, and they brought it up three times.

This from NBC:
**President Obama repeatedly assured Americans that after the Affordable Care Act became law, people who liked their health insurance would be able to keep it. But millions of Americans are getting or are about to get cancellation letters for their health insurance under Obamacare, say experts, and the Obama administration has known that for at least three years.

Four sources deeply involved in the Affordable Care Act tell NBC NEWS that 50 to 75 percent of the 14 million consumers who buy their insurance individually can expect to receive a “cancellation” letter or the equivalent over the next year because their existing policies don’t meet the standards mandated by the new health care law. One expert predicts that number could reach as high as 80 percent. And all say that many of those forced to buy pricier new policies will experience “sticker shock.” **


Is this true? Because if it is, get ready for some serious blow back.

I suspect that what is happening is that some percentage of people who have been purchasing individual insurance, are finding out it's being cancelled because it does not allow for preexisting conditions, it does not have an unrealistic yearly or lifetime max, has some horrendous deductible or it fails in some other way that fair health insurance should resolve. And I suspect the premiums for people who switch from these limited private individual accounts, will be drastically reduced by switching to an exchange, and they will also get much better coverage.

Are they scared that their policy is being expired? Of course they are...because they don't understand why and how good the exchange policies will be for them.

We need to just let these things go with the flow. Of course there will be fear, worry, and sniping. Give it a chance.

welcome to DU

Sorry for the delay. I didn't know how to check on replies to my posts till today.

you'll fit in nicely here

The sheer bias in favor of the President and Democrats I tell ya!

He just started a job and the insurance offered was about that cheap, and came with a big (no doubt mandatory) disclaimer that it did not meet the standards of ACA. It was spectacularly worthless - I think we figured out that the only way you come out ahead is to have covered expenses in a pretty narrow window, like between $750 and $1200 or so. On the low end he'd have paid more for the premium than he'd receive in benefits, and at the high end the coverage just gives out.

Fortunately he can stay on parental policies for up to 5 more years...

the part of the insurance letter revealing the rate increase but does premium include the subsidy Dianne may be entitled to? Doubt it since you have to apply for a subsidy, which is determined and granted based primarily on your income. The insurance company has no way of knowing what that is, so while that is the premium, it is probably not what Dianne has to pay. I bet somewhere in that letter, the insurance company suggest that option to Dianne. But typical of people like Crawford who either don't understand or are deliberately misleading by leaving that information hidden.