Galt's Gulch

Want to gripe about Obamacare? Not in OR!

Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 1 month ago to News
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Doesn't this smack of first amendment shredding? Yet it's a legal order.
SOURCE URL: http://dailycaller.com/2013/12/16/oregon-exchange-is-stifling-partners-with-politically-motivated-gag-order/

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  • Posted by RevJay4 11 years, 1 month ago
    They must have hired the same outfit to do their site that the feds did. Or, maybe they did the crony thing and hired somebody's unemployed/unemployable friend or relative to set it up. Had to get them outta the basement.
    Once again, its proven that government does nothing efficiently. When will the people of OR get tired of the idiots running that state and remove them?
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    Posted by Boborobdos 11 years, 1 month ago
    It's a choice. Take the money and keep quiet or not. Sign on the like and keep your word.

    Fact is the kinks are working out and Obamacare is starting to kick in. Saving lots of folks lots of money.
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    • Posted by Ben_C 11 years, 1 month ago
      Wrong. The hidden Obamacare taxes my fellow businessmen and women are forced to pay will increase our cost of doing business and it will be you, the customer, that pays for it. In total, a few will think they are benefiting but the vast majority will not benefit. Something about "no free lunch" comes to mind.
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      • Posted by Boborobdos 11 years, 1 month ago
        And what "hidden Obamacare taxes" might they be?

        Please be specific.
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        • Posted by Ben_C 11 years, 1 month ago
          Federal Insurance Premium Tax, Comparative Effectiveness Fee, Reinsurance Fee, Risk Adjustment Fee, Marketplace Fee. These are charges passed through my insuracne company (Blue Care Network) to my business which I will then pass along to you. I was notified about these addional charges by BCN about two weeks ago giving me a heads up so that I can plan ahead. The federal governmnet is now going to nickel and dime us to death.
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    • Posted by Non_mooching_artist 11 years, 1 month ago
      How could that possibly happen? It is being paid for by us. And the people who are going to utilize it, will force everyone else to pay for it. And even if I wished to refuse, the IRS will make sure I can't. And those deductibles? They're jacking up by thousands of dollars. That is the cost. The premiums are skyrocketing, Dr's are fleeing this fiasco in droves, which leaves who to pick up the slack. Oh, and not make a profit. That's the reason to go into business for. To make a profit. Not to give everything away. For the good of all.
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      • Posted by Boborobdos 11 years, 1 month ago
        I want a doctor who is interested in curing me, not making money. Doctors in Canada and most of the rest of the industrialized world are doing OK with their universal care programs. Doctors in the military, Catholic Hospitals, Shriners Hospitals... They certainly ain't in medicine for the money.

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        • Posted by Ben_C 11 years, 1 month ago
          I work in Michigan near Windsor. When I ask Canadian customers about their health care their universal response "we come to the States if we need an MRI or are in urgent need of care." I agree with non-mooching - the Canadian system is not what we want. Also, the surgeon who operated on my wife two weeks ago complained that she is going broke operating for little or nothing on illegal aliens and the poor. Medicare doesn't even come close to covering her overhead. She is about to say goodbye to her practice. She is NOT in it for the money - but she can't make a living working sixty to eighty hours a week..
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          • Posted by Boborobdos 11 years, 1 month ago
            Who is forcing her to operate without compensation on the poor?
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            • Posted by Ben_C 11 years, 1 month ago
              The hospital where is works. If she had a privatre practice she would deny the freebies, but then probably lose her hospital privledges. This is the problem with 501C3 instituions. To be tax exempt they must provide for the "greater good." My feeling is that granting tax exempt status was a bad idea. If tax paying the delivery system would be totally differnent and no doubt far more affordable. Another example of unintended consequences.
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