POST-THANKSGIVING OBAMACARE USERS IMPRESSED WITH EASE OF SIGN UP EXPERIENCE. A video posted by NBC’s Today Show this past weekend profiled 6 recent users of the Obamacare website. All experienced success. Once customer who got insurance for himself and his family said, “everything went smoothly ... I love it. There were no problems.” See testimonials beginning at the 50 second mark on this video: today/id/49063771/#53707010 And, of course, the website is not the Affordable Care Act (ACA) itself. It is the Act, not the website, that requires insurance companies to insure pre-existing conditions and to allow children up to age 26 to stay on their parents health care policy. The website at https://healthcare.gov/ is just a portal to enrollment; one of several. Did you know the entire Social Security system in the 1930s was done all by paper? And, you can enroll under the ACA by using paper, if you wish. There is no doubt in my mind that the problems with website enrollment will be cured soon, and, when people start using it, they will be surprised at its relative ease of use and the cost-benefits they will receive. The media and the talking heads have inundated us with news over the website’s poor debut. But, as any computer geek will tell you, all that will be solved. Remember: Obamacare was patterned on a Republican idea that was proposed by the Heritage Group, a conservative think tank. It was first adopted in Massachusetts, by a Republican governor with the help of a Democratic legislature. Obamacare is not socialized medicine, because that is a system in which your doctor is on the government payroll as in Britain. (Which, by the way, celebrated its national health care system in a lavish display in the opening ceremonies of the past Summer Olympics in London.) All Obamacare does is require all citizens to buy a standardized health insurance policy so that you and I (and our insurance company) no longer have to pay $10 for a Tylenol pill, for example. That drives up insurance premiums for those of us who have it, because hospital use such charges to makes us pay for emergency room services that federal law requires them to be rendered to all persons, insured or uninsured. Since most emergency room customers have no health insurance, much less a primary care physician, someone has to pay for services rendered to these people and that someone is our insurance company, that passes the cost emergency room customers to persons who have no health insurance onto us in the form of higher premiums.
Posted on: Mon, 02 Dec 2013 21:08:22 +0000
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