Bob sent me this link today, asking, “Hey Juanita, you aware of this aspect of Obummercare?”
In this article, Paul Craig Roberts explains what an insurance agent described to my husband and I as “paying down.” Under the (ha ha) “Affordable (oh Jesus I can’t stop laughing!) Care Act,” when you own a home, no matter your income, you are forced to sell that home and any other assets, and spend every last dime on medical bills before you can receive any assistance. Roberts is right – “Obamacare herds the poor into Medicaid (in California MediCal) which requires some enrollees to forfeit homes and other assets they might have to the state to cover the cost of their medical care.’
See, we don’t qualify for MediCal/CAID because we own a house. Period. I think they allow you to own one car, don’t quote me on that. In order to qualify for MediCal, they said we’d have to “pay down,” everything we own. We’d have to hit rock bottom paying medical bills and be destitute before they’d give us any MediCal, and then you know what you get.
My family “qualifies” to pay $800 a month for Obummercare, and then we’d pay another $12,000 deductible, and then something called The Bronze Plan would kick in, but I can’t get any answer out of Enloe – I don’t think they take the Bronze Plan. We’d probably have to go to Oroville Hospital, with the rest of the welfare cases, and then, you know, see what we get for our $9600 a year plus $12,000 deductible – I’m guessing, a gurney in the hall.
I always think of the movie Reservoir Dogs, where the Quentin Tarantino character is given his code name, “Mr. Brown.” He’d probably say the same thing about The Bronze Plan. “Mr. Bronze? That’s sounds a little too much like Mr. Shit….” I agree.
Well, I got a loaf of bread to get in the oven, I’ll talk at you later!
Tags: Affordable Care Act, Obamacare
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