From TPM Reader CP on our Real Lives series …
I don’t hear many people discussing the fact that you can enroll in the federal exchange via the 800 number and can bypass trying to fill out the application form on the web site. After hitting the glitches on the web site, I called the 800 number and got through right away. A very professional woman enrolled me and said I should be receiving the comparison charts for healthcare plans in the regular mail within two weeks. I called back a couple of times to double-check on that and to ask a question or two and immediately got through each time I called.
Now from TPM Reader RE (see Pt. 1 here) …
I have for years paid for an individual health plan from Blue Cross Blue Shield that is ridiculously expensive and gives me double digit increases in my premiums every year. I am expecting to save thousands of dollars purchasing insurance on the exchange… assuming it ever works.
In desperate bid for relevance ‘Joe the Plumber’ proves Dems are the real racists with epic cross-burning tweet.
What ‘Health Insurance Reform’ and ‘Obamacare’ is really about from TPM Reader JL …
I had wanted to email on this subject right after the launch but I’ve been crazy busy and just now getting a chance. I’m only one data point and probably not even a very instructive one but did want to share my story …
About ten years ago when I launched my own business I arranged to do enough part-time work for my old employer to stay on their healthplan (on my nickel). A few years later I developed kidney cancer.
GOP county chairman who resigned after keeping it real about “lazy black that wants the government to give them everything” and also like to vote twice now says the GOP is “gutless” and solid him out.
How did a female African-American scientist who writes for Scientific American end up getting called an “urban whore” when she declined an offer to write for free?
Top Ten Signs your ‘KKK’ hit man might be with the FBI: Agrees to work on layaway after you fess up that you’re broke.
TPM Reader SC on awaiting the new premiums …
I’m sure you’ll start seeing this more often soon, but…
I’ve been employed full time by the same national company for 12 years, a decent sized firm with 11,000 full time employees. I’ve been single the entire time, and my insurance premiums have gone up anywhere from 5-15% a year throughout my career. I got a look at this years options today, and with all the scare mongering over the ACA I was a bit nervous.
NC GOP Precinct Chair not racist just needs Voter ID law because of “lazy black people that wants the government to give them everything.”
Stupendous Daily Show segment last night on North Carolina’s new voting restrictions is a must watch — plus it led to today’s resignation of the local Republican official who said of the new voting restrictions: “If it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks that want the government to give them everything, so be it.” Watch.