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Mar 12, 2019 10:08:44   #
Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon
 
no propaganda please wrote:
You are absolutely correct. Anytime a bill is presented without PLENTY of time for all members of Congress to read it and analyze it thoroughly, then it must be assumed the bill is a fraud that will be dangerous to the American people and destructive to the Constitution.


And to have the most h**ed Federal Agency in the U.S. (IRS) be the watchdog over who is complying and fine them if the are not...is evil to begin with!

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Mar 12, 2019 10:38:46   #
JediKnight
 
Airforceone: remember -the first step in seeking forgiveness is to forgive yourself. Even if your fellow man does not understand or refuses to accept your apologies, God knows, understands, and accepts you just as you are - a child of the Living God. God and the angels of heaven rejoice whenever one of us "gets it right" -and God will continue to lead and guide you as long as you put your trust and faith in Him. I am praying for you, your son, your family, and community to all be covered and filled with the love and peace of God which is freely available to all through His son Jesus Christ.

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Mar 12, 2019 10:54:55   #
Jakebrake Loc: Broomfield, CO
 
AF1, your apology and what you and your son have gone through touched me deeply. Rest assured, you son will be included in my evening prayers. Political dialogue often digresses to snipes, insults and demeaning characterization due to passion for an ideology. I have been guilty of that in the past as well and in the future I'm going to try to do better. Thanks for the wake up call, and I consider the hatchet buried.

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Mar 12, 2019 10:57:30   #
lindajoy Loc: right here with you....
 
Jakebrake wrote:
AF1, your apology and what you and your son have gone through touched me deeply. Rest assured, you son will be included in my evening prayers. Political dialogue often digresses to snipes, insults and demeaning characterization due to passion for an ideology. I have been guilty of that in the past as well and in the future I'm going to try to do better. Thanks for the wake up call, and I consider the hatchet buried.


Amen!!!

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Mar 12, 2019 10:57:47   #
lindajoy Loc: right here with you....
 
JediKnight wrote:
Airforceone: remember -the first step in seeking forgiveness is to forgive yourself. Even if your fellow man does not understand or refuses to accept your apologies, God knows, understands, and accepts you just as you are - a child of the Living God. God and the angels of heaven rejoice whenever one of us "gets it right" -and God will continue to lead and guide you as long as you put your trust and faith in Him. I am praying for you, your son, your family, and community to all be covered and filled with the love and peace of God which is freely available to all through His son Jesus Christ.
Airforceone: remember -the first step in seeking f... (show quote)


Amen!!

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Mar 12, 2019 10:59:48   #
JediKnight
 
lindajoy wrote:
Amen!!


Lindajoy - be blessed today!

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Mar 12, 2019 13:02:37   #
Fit2BTied Loc: Texas
 
Airforceone wrote:
I made many accusations against people on OPP. Put states and classes of people in my insults. I want to apologize to all OPP readers and Bloggers. I should should not have attacked all right wing bloggers because of the insults from a few.

I got invovled in the whole h**e and d******eness on OPP. When all these insults were lodged at me I responded with insults. But it was only the actions of a few which I refused to name these people.

The insults against me were generated by 4 bloggers that attacked me with personal insults denigrated my son and threaten me personally.

As I think back as to when all my h**e and insults started. It started when Congress under Obama first started debating Obamacare. My son has an incurable Kidney disease and he was at that time living in the state of Florida. His medical cost were growing as the disease advanced but he continued to work and coach youth hockey. He had a employee based Medical insurance which picked up 80% of his cost but 20% was still putting a major burden on his finances. So he moved in with me so we as a family could better manage his medical cost.

My son is single and my wife passed away at the age of 47 of pancreatic cancer.

Then came the worst thing that could happen his boss called him in and said he had to let him go because the insurance provider was going to increase his cost on the employee based system. So living in Florida and no worker protection my son now has no job and no insurance. His yearly income was $75,000 a year plus quarterly bonuses in 2009.

So this was okay because he is a very talented guy and could get another job, pay the COBRA till his new job picked up his insurance premium. Wrong when he applied for a new job guess what the first question at his interview is (WHY DID YOUR LAST EMPLOYER LET YOU GO AFTER 9 years)
Yes sir my last employer let me go because I have a kidney disease and his insurance premiums were going up because of my medical cost. (INTERVIEW ENDED) Now how do you get a job.

So again no problem my son begain an attempt at getting medical insurance on his own. Wrong again there was no insurance provider in this country that would give him insurance at any cost. (PRE-EXISTING CONDITION) ( THIS ALL OCCURED PRIOR TO THE ACA)

So no job no insurance and medical bills rising. But what I did was set up with his primary care physician and his specialist a payment plan. One of his biggest cost was medication. Then periodic hospital stays for 2 or 3 days I also requested payment plans.

So no job no insurance and under these payment plans the cost was anywhere from $3000 to $3,500 a month (THIS WAS PRIOR TO HIM GOING ON DIALYSIS) this does not include medication which varied from month to month between $800 to $1500 CVS has no payment plans. And yes I explained to OPP bloggers that I was financially sound and was able to pay these medical cost so my son could keep his doctors, and specialist. But it was beginning to drain my retirement funds and it wasn’t looking good for me so I had to resign from the private golf club sell my home and downsize. Now after playing golf 5 times a week to playing 5 times a month. But it was an easy decision.

Then Obamacare was passed and like I said I followed the Obamacare legislation from start to finish. I believe that nobody on OPP understands Obamacare as I do. I followed it through the legislation process, I read all the CBO reports as to cost. I studied the Massachusetts Affordable care act passed by Republican Gov Mitt Romney and a democratic legislators.

When Obamacare became law I was very excited. When the first open enrollment started I went on the Government web site and started to reseach the different providers and the level of insurance my son could get.

I picked up the phone and called the government provided specialist and having a lot of knowledge about Obamacare I was able to ask my questions and how the whole process worked. When I got off the phone and having full knowledge of the different programs available was able to get a 80% policy, with $10 co-pays for primary care, $5 co-pays for medications $100 co-pays for specialist with a $750 deductiable for hospitalization. The cost was $385 a month and absolutly no government subsidies. Still incuring major cost with a 80% policy.

I explained this on OPP and was met with insults a government taker my son was a fraud, liar and also the fact I was financially sound comments like pay your own medical bills and stop living off the government. I was called a Marxist, C*******t, and the right wing favorite socialist. (SORRY I GOT VERY ANGRY AND OVER THE YEARS BEGAN TO ATTACK ANY RIGHT WING BLOGGER AND IT CONTINUED OVER THE LAST 4 YEARS YOU PEOPLE DID NOT DESERVE THE KIND OF INSULTS THAT I HAVE MADE) But I want all right wing bloggers to know it was only a few and I attacked, denigrated all right wing bloggers. (I WAS WRONG)

I have read every topic every blog about Obamacare and having full knowledge of Obamacare it became very frustrating for me to read the misinformation about Obamacare and when I attempted to explain and try to get the proper information posted on Obamacare the insults just kept coming and they never stopped.

The ACA/Obamacare was a massive piece of legislation it’s not something you will understand by reading it Once. Over the years I heard how the misinformation train by right wing bloggers that had there own perception on Obamacare but (PERCEPTION IS NOT REALITY) It all started with misinformation on the following topics in Obamacare.
(Mandate) (Insurance pools) (Keep your Doctor) (You can keep your insurance provider) ( PRE EXISTING CONDITIONS) (Cancelled policies) (Acused Obama from stealing $750 billion from Medicare) (Obamacare premiums rising) (Doctors refusing patients covered by Obamacare) (DEATH PANELS) (How can republicans v**e on a bill when they only had 24 hours to review) (This bill had 7000 pages) (Insurance company networks) all misinformation as to how Obamacare works. It was without a doubt the biggest misinformation campaign by the Right wing media, conspiracy theorist, Republican legislators this country has ever seen. I am not denying that there are problems with Obamacare so fix the problems. Not everything in Obamacare is bad. But for the right wing to just continue with repeal with no replacement as promised. With the Trump promise of creating new healthcare legislation giving all Americans affordable health insurance but first you have to repeal the ACA. Well that clearly will not happen.

So over the years I was attempting to explain how Obamacare functioned and explain the misinformation about the above topics. Let me explain just one example. Sarah Phalin coined the phrase death panels, and Doctors refusing coverage all due to Obamacare.

Death panels that was so obsurd, that so called death panel was a $225 allowance to meet with your doctor to be informed what was the best plan for your family. My son used that $225 and it was one of the best meetings he had because he had full knowledge as to best pick out a policy that would address his daily medical treatment and his long term medical care as his disease was never going to get better.
Then when my son choose the BC/BS platinum policy he got a phone call from his specialist that he would no longer be able to treat him because of his insurance policy. Well having full knowlege of Obamacare I called the specialist and asked why. What I got for an answer was he received a letter from the insurance company that they would no longer cover my son’s health cost. I thought that was strange because his policy was covered by all other doctors and hospitals. So I called BC/BS and what they told me was that this specialist was not signatory with there network of providers. So I got the name of there network of providers called my son’s specialist back and told him why they refused payment and the doctors office asked for the name of the network the doctor then signed onto that network and my son was able to keep his doctor. There are many networks set up by providers. But how many people just except this type of issue and don’t Follow up as to (WHY) I fixed that issue within a few hours. But not understanding Obamacare, Not understanding provider networks people just except this type of wrongdoing and the right wing blamed these cancelations on Obamacare. It was amazing to me reading right wing bloggers complaining about there doctors canceling them. When all it took was a simple phone call and problem corrected. These provider networks were in place long before Obamacare if you remember when HMO’s first came out.

Now over the years explaining to the the bloggers on OPP that post misinformation I was met with some of the most nasty insults you could imagine and I got mad and forgot who I was and went on the attack. I was told I was a liar and never read Obamacare. If it meant your son’s life (WOULD YOU READ AND UNDERSTAND OBAMACARE THE WAY I HAVE)

I have been battling this for over 10 years now. I have battled the state of Florida when Rick Scott the governor illegally allowed insurance providers to create high risk pools which was illegal. If Rick Scott got what he wanted and many OPP bloggers agreed with High Risk pools my son’s premiums would have gone up to $9,500 a month. But that was a way that insurance providers could cancel your policy and stay within the laws of the set by Obamacare that you could not cancel your policy. As it turned out Rick Scott did this illegally. But during the 3 months of this battle my son was on peritoneal home dialysis where it cost $11,500 a month just for the dialysis medication. I had to pick up that cost for two months. But when it was ruled illegal I was reimbursed.

So there has been many bumps in the road over the last 10 years. I am not looking for sympathy because there are over 40 million people in this country that battled the same issues as my family has gone through without having medical insurance in different degrees.

But my son who now is fully employed has a great job earning over $100,000 a year with a employee base medical insurance and purchased a supplemental policy through Medicare and pays the premium because of his earnings. My son, my family, and myself have never asked for government subsidies we dealt with it as a family. All we ever wanted was to have the ability to purchase medical insurance.

My son goes to dialysis 3 times a week, he works 40 to 50 hours a week, He still coaches an elite hockey team for 16 to 17 years of age. With his contacts in hockey because he played college hockey he has been able to help Florida teenagers get hooked up with the northeast juniors program and get scholarships to Division one college teams. He also has many contacts on the devision 2 college teams and this less talented players were able to go to college and play hockey.

(MY SON NOW HAS TWO YEARS TO RECIEVE A KIDNEY T***SPLANT BEFORE HE GOES INTO TOTAL RENAL FAILURE THEN HE WILL BE IN BIG TROUBLE) But it is just not happening in Florida due to the regulation of the t***splant centers in Florida. Another daily battle where my son has to text his blood pressure everyday and don’t forget To do it because they take you off the list. If your blood pressure rises they take you off the list, if you get the flu your off the list. But unknown to my son was when they take you off the list you have to re-Apply.

But I had no right denigrating all the right wing bloggers and denigrating all those southern red states that refused the Medicaid expansion. ( I JUST HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND IN SOME SMALL WAY WHY I GOT ANGRY AND HAD ALL THIS BUILT UP H**E BECAUSE THAT IS NOT ME.)
I made many accusations against people on OPP. Put... (show quote)
I think we beefed at each other at times a while back. I never took it personally and you are certainly forgiven for any perceived slights. God bless you and your family. Those of us whose companies have been unable to keep good medical plans in place know the kind of stuff you've been dealing with. My personal opinion is that we could get things restored to sanity if we could just subtract greed from the equation. Same with a lot of areas, not just healthcare. Good will to you and yours.

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Mar 12, 2019 13:24:45   #
tactful Loc: just North of the District of LMAO
 
Airforceone wrote:
Exactly and I thought I addressed that issue. The only thing I need is the opportunity to respond without h**e and anger. But I expect the same respect from OPP bloggers. I have a long way to go to prove myself on OPP I offended many because of the actions of a few. I took my anger created by a few and took it out on all bloggers. That was wrong. I need to earn your respect not expect you to give it to me.

You have to understand there are a few people on OPP that called democrats Marxist, then c*******t, then socialist now common sense tells you that you can’t be all three.

Someone calls me a Marxist Democrat I asked the question where did you come up with that so I ask them to look up the difinition of Marxism and then explain how my response fits into such a remark. To this date I have never received a response or an answer. Same with the c*******t statements.

Now socialism I have tried repeatedly to get OPP bloggers to give me there definitions of socialism and apply it to our government programs as to which ones fall under there perception of socialism. But after hundreds of blogs of Republicans calling democrats socialist I still to this day have not received a response. Now Trump is clear as to what one of his main topics for the upcoming campaign is to call democrats socialist. But no right wing blogger will respond to a simple question the diffinition of socialism and then apply it to what programs in our government is actually socialism and yes there are a couple but these socialism programs are just as abundant on the left and right.

So no more sarcastic remarks let’s leave the insults about Hilliary, Obama, Trump or any other politician just use there name to explain there ideology and explain why you think they are right or wrong, let’s stop the using words like i***ts, lunitics, Dummycrats, moron, baby k**lers, lets be respectful.
Exactly and I thought I addressed that issue. The ... (show quote)


The last paragraph is a worthy goal.
Best of luck with implementation of it.
God's speed to all and everyone
Who either have children in a compromising position's or have issues themselves.
Things should be discussed not argued about. the Concept is simple, creating same, not so much.

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Mar 12, 2019 13:51:04   #
Airforceone
 
Fit2BTied wrote:
I think we beefed at each other at times a while back. I never took it personally and you are certainly forgiven for any perceived slights. God bless you and your family. Those of us whose companies have been unable to keep good medical plans in place know the kind of stuff you've been dealing with. My personal opinion is that we could get things restored to sanity if we could just subtract greed from the equation. Same with a lot of areas, not just healthcare. Good will to you and yours.


Thank you for your comments, my son’s also have a Company with 65 employees but per his remarks the affordable care act has some problems but looking at the big picture he is happy with it because while some peoples cost we’re going up his actualky went down.

His company is in MA. Where they had there own version of the ACA which is actually called Mass. Cap

If you reseach State to state because there premiums fluctuate and why is it successful in some states and not others.

But What we all have to understand is the ACA was created with specific mandates and who qualifies for health insurance subsidies, along with some specific requirements such as you cannot be denied healthcare for pre-existing conditions, no more cancelling your insurance if you get sick, no more max payouts, coverage for college students under the family plan till they graduate, the federal mandate which Trump repealed and now will raise the cost of premiums. But other than these specific requirements.The ACA is not run by the federal government its 100% controlled by the States. So why does it work in one state and not the other.

Why do Insurance carriers provide insurance in one state and not the other. That had been going on for the last 50 years but now the insurance companies just blame it on the ACA.

Why do some states create insurance pools, and other states do not. My son Joined the pool in MA his first year he saved 18%. But other states refuse to create these pools.

Why do some states sign into Medicaid expansion and other states reject it. If you look at states with Medicaid expansions there prepare lower.

What is the age demographics of each state.

I could go on and on but the ACA which has minimum requirements but allow states to expand as they see fit.

So a state that’s having problems to just blame it on the ACA is just wrong. Every negative when it pertains to the Medical cost, Prescriptive drug increases, premium increases, doctors cancelling patients, deductiables, there’s a reason why one state pays more and one state pays less.

We need to discuss each specific issue within the ACA and then reseach as to why it works in one state or another. When you have a problem in your state why does my son not have the same problem.

We all have to remember this program is run by the state not the federal government.

If you have a state specific problem you have the option to apply to the federal goverment and change what’s causing the problem.

But we have some states that have totally ignored anything in the ACA.

So let’s begin at the start and debate these issues.

Let’s begin from the start which a good area start is 10 years before the ACA was started when this country had over 35 million people without health Insurance.

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Mar 12, 2019 14:11:50   #
woodguru
 
byronglimish wrote:
And to have the most h**ed Federal Agency in the U.S. (IRS) be the watchdog over who is complying and fine them if the are not...is evil to begin with!


Do you know how many tens of millions of people do their taxes by the book, pay their taxes, fly through audits because there is nothing to hide? They do not h**e and fear the IRS, that is for people who c***t and don't want to or think they should have to pay taxes.

The IRS needs to start getting medieval with public accountants who c***t for wealthy people and businesses. This isn't about working people, it's about wealthy c***ters.

They have a job to do, which is to make sure people have paid the amount of taxes they are supposed to.

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Mar 12, 2019 14:21:48   #
woodguru
 
Fit2BTied wrote:
My personal opinion is that we could get things restored to sanity if we could just subtract greed from the equation. Same with a lot of areas, not just healthcare.


For some reason dialogues about sensible ways to take the greed (profoundly excessive profits) out of healthcare and other entities like defense contractors meet with opposition by the GOP that is filled with rhetorical inaccuracies, at which point we as people lose the ability to agree that greedy corporations need to be substantially reigned in.

Common sense can prevail, there is a point at which greed has prevailed at the expense of people, and it should not be that hard to identify where the excesses are and put a stop to them. I talk about what's wrong and everyone seems to be on the same page, but talk about a solution and the fight starts where one side will defend the status quo. The breakdown occurs when rhetoric and fact free defenses enter the equation.

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Mar 12, 2019 14:39:54   #
Jakebrake Loc: Broomfield, CO
 
woodguru wrote:
Do you know how many tens of millions of people do their taxes by the book, pay their taxes, fly through audits because there is nothing to hide? They do not h**e and fear the IRS, that is for people who c***t and don't want to or think they should have to pay taxes.

The IRS needs to start getting medieval with public accountants who c***t for wealthy people and businesses. This isn't about working people, it's about wealthy c***ters.

They have a job to do, which is to make sure people have paid the amount of taxes they are supposed to.
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Your statements are true to a point, however the dreaded IRS isn't the benevolent agency you are portraying. The IRS has confiscatory powers not granted to any other agency in government, which can be invoked on a whim by an IRS agent who might be having a bad day. I guess I'm a tax c***t because I made purchases online with tax not being charged and I didn't report them to my home state. I'm far from wealthy, was a 'working class' guy trucking all lower 48 states for 50+ years and my accountant was a good lady, declaring every possible deduction due me, however in my 55 years of filing I'm sure some errors occurred, but I wouldn't want the draconian IRS going after her.

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Mar 12, 2019 14:51:20   #
Jakebrake Loc: Broomfield, CO
 
woodguru wrote:
For some reason dialogues about sensible ways to take the greed (profoundly excessive profits) out of healthcare and other entities like defense contractors meet with opposition by the GOP that is filled with rhetorical inaccuracies, at which point we as people lose the ability to agree that greedy corporations need to be substantially reigned in.

Common sense can prevail, there is a point at which greed has prevailed at the expense of people, and it should not be that hard to identify where the excesses are and put a stop to them. I talk about what's wrong and everyone seems to be on the same page, but talk about a solution and the fight starts where one side will defend the status quo. The breakdown occurs when rhetoric and fact free defenses enter the equation.
For some reason dialogues about sensible ways to t... (show quote)


Are 'greedy corporations' the true culprit in your scenario? My thoughts are, is it not the people in our bloated government approving these contracts and purchases? Maybe a little more scrutiny should be placed on them.

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Mar 12, 2019 15:22:53   #
Noraa Loc: Kansas
 
Airforceone wrote:
I made many accusations against people on OPP. Put states and classes of people in my insults. I want to apologize to all OPP readers and Bloggers. I should should not have attacked all right wing bloggers because of the insults from a few.

I got invovled in the whole h**e and d******eness on OPP. When all these insults were lodged at me I responded with insults. But it was only the actions of a few which I refused to name these people.

The insults against me were generated by 4 bloggers that attacked me with personal insults denigrated my son and threaten me personally.

As I think back as to when all my h**e and insults started. It started when Congress under Obama first started debating Obamacare. My son has an incurable Kidney disease and he was at that time living in the state of Florida. His medical cost were growing as the disease advanced but he continued to work and coach youth hockey. He had a employee based Medical insurance which picked up 80% of his cost but 20% was still putting a major burden on his finances. So he moved in with me so we as a family could better manage his medical cost.

My son is single and my wife passed away at the age of 47 of pancreatic cancer.

Then came the worst thing that could happen his boss called him in and said he had to let him go because the insurance provider was going to increase his cost on the employee based system. So living in Florida and no worker protection my son now has no job and no insurance. His yearly income was $75,000 a year plus quarterly bonuses in 2009.

So this was okay because he is a very talented guy and could get another job, pay the COBRA till his new job picked up his insurance premium. Wrong when he applied for a new job guess what the first question at his interview is (WHY DID YOUR LAST EMPLOYER LET YOU GO AFTER 9 years)
Yes sir my last employer let me go because I have a kidney disease and his insurance premiums were going up because of my medical cost. (INTERVIEW ENDED) Now how do you get a job.

So again no problem my son begain an attempt at getting medical insurance on his own. Wrong again there was no insurance provider in this country that would give him insurance at any cost. (PRE-EXISTING CONDITION) ( THIS ALL OCCURED PRIOR TO THE ACA)

So no job no insurance and medical bills rising. But what I did was set up with his primary care physician and his specialist a payment plan. One of his biggest cost was medication. Then periodic hospital stays for 2 or 3 days I also requested payment plans.

So no job no insurance and under these payment plans the cost was anywhere from $3000 to $3,500 a month (THIS WAS PRIOR TO HIM GOING ON DIALYSIS) this does not include medication which varied from month to month between $800 to $1500 CVS has no payment plans. And yes I explained to OPP bloggers that I was financially sound and was able to pay these medical cost so my son could keep his doctors, and specialist. But it was beginning to drain my retirement funds and it wasn’t looking good for me so I had to resign from the private golf club sell my home and downsize. Now after playing golf 5 times a week to playing 5 times a month. But it was an easy decision.

Then Obamacare was passed and like I said I followed the Obamacare legislation from start to finish. I believe that nobody on OPP understands Obamacare as I do. I followed it through the legislation process, I read all the CBO reports as to cost. I studied the Massachusetts Affordable care act passed by Republican Gov Mitt Romney and a democratic legislators.

When Obamacare became law I was very excited. When the first open enrollment started I went on the Government web site and started to reseach the different providers and the level of insurance my son could get.

I picked up the phone and called the government provided specialist and having a lot of knowledge about Obamacare I was able to ask my questions and how the whole process worked. When I got off the phone and having full knowledge of the different programs available was able to get a 80% policy, with $10 co-pays for primary care, $5 co-pays for medications $100 co-pays for specialist with a $750 deductiable for hospitalization. The cost was $385 a month and absolutly no government subsidies. Still incuring major cost with a 80% policy.

I explained this on OPP and was met with insults a government taker my son was a fraud, liar and also the fact I was financially sound comments like pay your own medical bills and stop living off the government. I was called a Marxist, C*******t, and the right wing favorite socialist. (SORRY I GOT VERY ANGRY AND OVER THE YEARS BEGAN TO ATTACK ANY RIGHT WING BLOGGER AND IT CONTINUED OVER THE LAST 4 YEARS YOU PEOPLE DID NOT DESERVE THE KIND OF INSULTS THAT I HAVE MADE) But I want all right wing bloggers to know it was only a few and I attacked, denigrated all right wing bloggers. (I WAS WRONG)

I have read every topic every blog about Obamacare and having full knowledge of Obamacare it became very frustrating for me to read the misinformation about Obamacare and when I attempted to explain and try to get the proper information posted on Obamacare the insults just kept coming and they never stopped.

The ACA/Obamacare was a massive piece of legislation it’s not something you will understand by reading it Once. Over the years I heard how the misinformation train by right wing bloggers that had there own perception on Obamacare but (PERCEPTION IS NOT REALITY) It all started with misinformation on the following topics in Obamacare.
(Mandate) (Insurance pools) (Keep your Doctor) (You can keep your insurance provider) ( PRE EXISTING CONDITIONS) (Cancelled policies) (Acused Obama from stealing $750 billion from Medicare) (Obamacare premiums rising) (Doctors refusing patients covered by Obamacare) (DEATH PANELS) (How can republicans v**e on a bill when they only had 24 hours to review) (This bill had 7000 pages) (Insurance company networks) all misinformation as to how Obamacare works. It was without a doubt the biggest misinformation campaign by the Right wing media, conspiracy theorist, Republican legislators this country has ever seen. I am not denying that there are problems with Obamacare so fix the problems. Not everything in Obamacare is bad. But for the right wing to just continue with repeal with no replacement as promised. With the Trump promise of creating new healthcare legislation giving all Americans affordable health insurance but first you have to repeal the ACA. Well that clearly will not happen.

So over the years I was attempting to explain how Obamacare functioned and explain the misinformation about the above topics. Let me explain just one example. Sarah Phalin coined the phrase death panels, and Doctors refusing coverage all due to Obamacare.

Death panels that was so obsurd, that so called death panel was a $225 allowance to meet with your doctor to be informed what was the best plan for your family. My son used that $225 and it was one of the best meetings he had because he had full knowledge as to best pick out a policy that would address his daily medical treatment and his long term medical care as his disease was never going to get better.
Then when my son choose the BC/BS platinum policy he got a phone call from his specialist that he would no longer be able to treat him because of his insurance policy. Well having full knowlege of Obamacare I called the specialist and asked why. What I got for an answer was he received a letter from the insurance company that they would no longer cover my son’s health cost. I thought that was strange because his policy was covered by all other doctors and hospitals. So I called BC/BS and what they told me was that this specialist was not signatory with there network of providers. So I got the name of there network of providers called my son’s specialist back and told him why they refused payment and the doctors office asked for the name of the network the doctor then signed onto that network and my son was able to keep his doctor. There are many networks set up by providers. But how many people just except this type of issue and don’t Follow up as to (WHY) I fixed that issue within a few hours. But not understanding Obamacare, Not understanding provider networks people just except this type of wrongdoing and the right wing blamed these cancelations on Obamacare. It was amazing to me reading right wing bloggers complaining about there doctors canceling them. When all it took was a simple phone call and problem corrected. These provider networks were in place long before Obamacare if you remember when HMO’s first came out.

Now over the years explaining to the the bloggers on OPP that post misinformation I was met with some of the most nasty insults you could imagine and I got mad and forgot who I was and went on the attack. I was told I was a liar and never read Obamacare. If it meant your son’s life (WOULD YOU READ AND UNDERSTAND OBAMACARE THE WAY I HAVE)

I have been battling this for over 10 years now. I have battled the state of Florida when Rick Scott the governor illegally allowed insurance providers to create high risk pools which was illegal. If Rick Scott got what he wanted and many OPP bloggers agreed with High Risk pools my son’s premiums would have gone up to $9,500 a month. But that was a way that insurance providers could cancel your policy and stay within the laws of the set by Obamacare that you could not cancel your policy. As it turned out Rick Scott did this illegally. But during the 3 months of this battle my son was on peritoneal home dialysis where it cost $11,500 a month just for the dialysis medication. I had to pick up that cost for two months. But when it was ruled illegal I was reimbursed.

So there has been many bumps in the road over the last 10 years. I am not looking for sympathy because there are over 40 million people in this country that battled the same issues as my family has gone through without having medical insurance in different degrees.

But my son who now is fully employed has a great job earning over $100,000 a year with a employee base medical insurance and purchased a supplemental policy through Medicare and pays the premium because of his earnings. My son, my family, and myself have never asked for government subsidies we dealt with it as a family. All we ever wanted was to have the ability to purchase medical insurance.

My son goes to dialysis 3 times a week, he works 40 to 50 hours a week, He still coaches an elite hockey team for 16 to 17 years of age. With his contacts in hockey because he played college hockey he has been able to help Florida teenagers get hooked up with the northeast juniors program and get scholarships to Division one college teams. He also has many contacts on the devision 2 college teams and this less talented players were able to go to college and play hockey.

(MY SON NOW HAS TWO YEARS TO RECIEVE A KIDNEY T***SPLANT BEFORE HE GOES INTO TOTAL RENAL FAILURE THEN HE WILL BE IN BIG TROUBLE) But it is just not happening in Florida due to the regulation of the t***splant centers in Florida. Another daily battle where my son has to text his blood pressure everyday and don’t forget To do it because they take you off the list. If your blood pressure rises they take you off the list, if you get the flu your off the list. But unknown to my son was when they take you off the list you have to re-Apply.

But I had no right denigrating all the right wing bloggers and denigrating all those southern red states that refused the Medicaid expansion. ( I JUST HOPE YOU UNDERSTAND IN SOME SMALL WAY WHY I GOT ANGRY AND HAD ALL THIS BUILT UP H**E BECAUSE THAT IS NOT ME.)
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Your story brought me to tears. I am sorry if I ever said anything horrible to you but I don't think I have. I can understand your anger even if others here don't. I hope and pray for your son and we can all have discussions on this sight whether we agree with one another or not. If we never listen to the other side we never learn. Peace out!!

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Mar 12, 2019 15:28:50   #
Michael Rich Loc: Lapine Oregon
 
Jakebrake wrote:
Your statements are true to a point, however the dreaded IRS isn't the benevolent agency you are portraying. The IRS has confiscatory powers not granted to any other agency in government, which can be invoked on a whim by an IRS agent who might be having a bad day. I guess I'm a tax c***t because I made purchases online with tax not being charged and I didn't report them to my home state. I'm far from wealthy, was a 'working class' guy trucking all lower 48 states for 50+ years and my accountant was a good lady, declaring every possible deduction due me, however in my 55 years of filing I'm sure some errors occurred, but I wouldn't want the draconian IRS going after her.
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If there is a Person like Lois Lerner working at the IRS and conducting political theatre on groups that were deemed a threat to the left, that's abuse.

The IRS is out of control agency, when they can excert political power against any who the President doesn't like.

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