Obamacare and you

[DGuller]

That sucks.  Dental coverage is one of those things were $100 saved today could cost you $2000 a year later.  Then again, it's also a kind of coverage that is most vulnerable to adverse selection, precisely because you can really stockpile the problems in your mouth until you get insurance.

[jimmy olsen]

Believe it or not given who represents us in the Senate, Kentucky is cooperating.  No idea what it'll do to my (already outstanding) coverage, but from what I'm hearing from the HR people (OF WHICH I AM NOT ONE), it's probably not going to impact our premiums in any way.

Denial is a terrible thing.

[The Brain]

That sucks.  Dental coverage is one of those things were $100 saved today could cost you $2000 a year later.  Then again, it's also a kind of coverage that is most vulnerable to adverse selection, precisely because you can really stockpile the problems in your mouth until you get insurance.

Would you say that presidential penis is a problem?

[DGuller]

That sucks.  Dental coverage is one of those things were $100 saved today could cost you $2000 a year later.  Then again, it's also a kind of coverage that is most vulnerable to adverse selection, precisely because you can really stockpile the problems in your mouth until you get insurance.

Would you say that presidential penis is a problem?

It's an opportunity.

[KRonn]

I work for a health care corp and I use their own plan which is administered by Tufts insurance. That keeps costs down  for premiums and costs down for me.  I generally need to stay within the health care medical service my deductible and costs are low, usually no deductible. But I can go elsewhere if my doctor advises it and I pay a deductible for that plus I may have to pay some of the costs of treatment. That works for me since all my doctors are in the system with one hospital in my hometown also. I have no idea if we'll see any cost changes, and I haven't seen anything about it from the company so I'm assuming I won't see much change. 

I live in Massachusetts which already had its own plan (AKA Romney Care) so I assume the exchanges are pretty much aready setup. The Governor tried to get a waiver from parts of the ACA since the state already had its plan but that failed. Some legislators have been urging the Governor to try again as the Federal ACA could have some negative impacts on the MA plan.

[Phillip V]

Because of Obamacare, I am having my blue-collar parents (in their 50's) stop working so that their income drops to a level (using reported rental income) where their health premiums are 95% subsidized.

If I can get them qualified for Social Security disability payments (not counted as income under Obamacare), then our family will become wealthier from my parents not working.

Great system.

[Razgovory]

We've all seen how you read graphs and such.  Maybe someone else should look at it.

[Ideologue]

Because of Obamacare, I am having my blue-collar parents (in their 50's) stop working so that their income drops to a level (using reported rental income) where their health premiums are 95% subsidized.

If I can get them qualified for Social Security disability payments (not counted as income under Obamacare), then our family will become wealthier from my parents not working.

Great system.

Saboteurs will be shot.

[derspiess]

We've all seen how you read graphs and such.  Maybe someone else should look at it.

[Grey Fox]

Because of Obamacare, I am having my blue-collar parents (in their 50's) stop working so that their income drops to a level (using reported rental income) where their health premiums are 95% subsidized.

If I can get them qualified for Social Security disability payments (not counted as income under Obamacare), then our family will become wealthier from my parents not working.

Great system.

[Caliga]

But I thought Clinton ended welfare as we knew it?

[derspiess]

But I thought Clinton ended welfare as we knew it?

Some loopholes were left in.  And disability is becoming the new welfare.

[merithyn]

Some loopholes were left in.  And disability is becoming the new welfare.

Do you have any idea how hard it is to qualify for disability? It took my dad five years, two appeals, and dozens of home visits before he qualified, and he had COPD and congestive heart failure. He couldn't walk across the house without stopping for a breath.

That's a total joke to call it the "new welfare". There's a massive difference between the two.

[Caliga]

I have a former co-worker who is on disability who is most definitely not disabled.  She has "back pain".  I don't know how hard it was for her to get that, and that's the only ancedotal example I've got.

[merithyn]

I have a former co-worker who is on disability who is most definitely not disabled.  She has "back pain".  I don't know how hard it was for her to get that, and that's the only ancedotal example I've got.

How do you know that she's "most definitely not disabled"? Chronic "back pain" can absolutely make it impossible to work. Ask anyone who suffers from it.

I'm saying that if someone is getting disability, it's because they've jumped through a hell of a lot of hoops to get it, and one can guess that they are pretty messed up if they qualify.