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'There are winners and losers under the Affordable Care Act.'

Los Angeles Times: Californians experience Obamacare sticker shock



During the President's battle to pass Obamacare, the L.A. Times was a major ally. If Democrats threw out a bogus statistic, the LA Times was there to repeat it. Whether it was "you'll be able to keep your plan" or "we'll save the average American $2500.00," if there was a lie to sell, the L.A. Times did their best to sell it. Now, suddenly, they're having a hard time sticking to the plan.
As they reported yesterday:
Thousands of Californians are discovering what Obamacare will cost them — and many don't like what they see. These middle-class consumers are staring at hefty increases on their insurance bills as the overhaul remakes the healthcare market. Their rates are rising in large part to help offset the higher costs of covering sicker, poorer people who have been shut out of the system for years. Although recent criticism of the healthcare law has focused on website glitches and early enrollment snags, experts say sharp price increases for individual policies have the greatest potential to erode public support for President Obama's signature legislation.

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"This is when the actual sticker shock comes into play for people," said Gerald Kominski, director of the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research. "There are winners and losers under the Affordable Care Act." That's weird, because outlets like the L.A. Times used to tell us that Obamacare made everyone a winner. The problem is that a month of website chaos is just the beginning of the Affordable Care Act’s problems, and the left knows it. Eventually, whether it takes six weeks or six months, the site will be up and running. In the meantime, millions are losing their insurance and learning that replacement policies - which they never wanted - are going to cost them an arm and a leg. Major media shills like the L.A. Times have realized that they stuck their necks out for the President, and now the inescapable axe of reality is about to fall. So you can expect a lot of "shocked" backpedaling as they try their best not to look like a bunch of gleefully complicit suckers. Why, they may even be forced to admit that Obamacare is- at its heart - a socialist wealth redistribution scheme:
Fullerton resident Jennifer Harris thought she had a great deal, paying $98 a month for an individual plan through Health Net Inc. She got a rude surprise this month when the company said it would cancel her policy at the end of this year. Her current plan does not conform with the new federal rules, which require more generous levels of coverage. Now Harris, a self-employed lawyer, must shop for replacement insurance. The cheapest plan she has found will cost her $238 a month. She and her husband don't qualify for federal premium subsidies because they earn too much money, about $80,000 a year combined. "It doesn't seem right to make the middle class pay so much more in order to give health insurance to everybody else," said Harris, who is three months pregnant. "This increase is simply not affordable."
Wait, subsidizing others is not affordable!? But “Affordable” is right there in the name! Look for a lot more of this going forward. Yes, left wing media will keep hammering away with the bogus “but your insurance will be better” canard, but it’s not a line that’s likely to get much traction. If the GOP is smart – and that’s admittedly a big if – they’ll start holding events featuring those who have been hurt by Obamacare. The goal should be to force papers like the L.A. Times and New York Times into non-stop coverage of the harsh realities being imposed by President Obama's pet legislation. Repeal is the only solution and, if its going to happen, the damage will need to be front and center.


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