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Old 11-28-2016, 10:58 AM
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"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world that he doesn't exist.". (Don't recall who said that.)
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Old 11-28-2016, 03:03 PM
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But no flip flop by any president or president elect will ever compare to the one of the biggest whoppers of all time:

"'If you like your health care plan, you can keep it." That one was even voted "Lie of the Year", and I'd suggest that was being kind.
Sorry Mike but we kept ours, if CareFirst had not been there her hospital bills would have had me out on the street. Still got my coverage and since she died hers was closed but even over a year later people are still trying to bill me. The rise in premiums has been under 5% per year

Best healthcare in the world my arse.
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Old 11-28-2016, 03:14 PM
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Sorry Mike but we kept ours, if CareFirst had not been there her hospital bills would have had me out on the street. Still got my coverage and since she died hers was closed but even over a year later people are still trying to bill me. The rise in premiums has been under 5% per year

Best healthcare in the world my arse.
Congratulations. You're one of the few....
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Old 11-28-2016, 03:45 PM
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Congratulations. You're one of the few....
Backup, please.

Please link to data showing that only a 'few' persons, having a health plan before the beginning of the Affordable care Act, had the option to keep said plan.

Honest data. No fake news.
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Old 11-28-2016, 03:46 PM
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Congratulations. You're one of the few....
I kept exactly the same plan and doctors.
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Old 11-28-2016, 03:48 PM
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Sorry Mike but we kept ours, if CareFirst had not been there her hospital bills would have had me out on the street. Still got my coverage and since she died hers was closed but even over a year later people are still trying to bill me. The rise in premiums has been under 5% per year

Best healthcare in the world
"Less than 5%"?

Really?


http://www.wbaltv.com/article/carefi...crease/7102295

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Maryland's largest health-insurance provider has upped its rate-increase request with the state.

The rate consumers pay for health insurance isn't a random number set by an executive. It's settled on after a complicated process between the state and insurers every year.

During a hearing on the matter Monday before the Maryland Insurance Administration, the CEO of CareFirst defended his company's revised May filing for insurance plans people buy under the Affordable Care Act.

For individual plans, for example, CareFirst now wants to charge 27.8 percent more for its HMO and 36.6 percent more for its PPO. That's on top of an average 22.9 percent rate increase from the year before, and it tops nearly all other rate changes proposed by carriers in Maryland's individual market.
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Old 11-29-2016, 09:06 PM
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'Trump turns to conservative tacticians to run HHS and Medicare, Medicaid'

"President-elect Donald Trump’s choices for health secretary and administrator of the government’s largest health insurance programs have for years pursued a sharply conservative agenda that includes redefining Medicare, placing “personal responsibility” requirements on low-income recipients of Medicaid, and dismantling the Affordable Care Act.
If adopted, this agenda could dramatically alter access to insurance and medical services for more than 100 million Americans covered through the two entitlement programs and the ACA." WaPo

https://www.washingtonpost.com/natio...=.5e8f54f51a62

An arch-Tea Partyist in charge HHS. Grab your ankles and cough.
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Old 11-29-2016, 09:27 PM
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I kept exactly the same plan and doctors.
Heh, me too. Seems like our friend Whell has fallen for the party line, hook and sinker.
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Old 11-30-2016, 03:07 PM
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Yes Tom Really, WBAL TV is just another FOX news bunch of republicans. I am going from $369/mo this year to $382 next year.
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Don't know why y'all are worried can't fuck up healthcare here much more that they have already.
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