re coldjoint and his current preoccupation:
The congressman is NOT going after Julie Boomstra. He's going after the AD she's in. What's called "Julie's Story" is in fact a f***king ADVERTISEMENT, paid for by the notorious archconservative Koch brothers, with a $750,000 TV buy in Michigan. It's a political attack ad, and it's bullshit. It garnered two out of four Pinocchios for its truth-telling, or lack thereof., becaue it virtually completely misrepresents her case, as she does. Her previous health plan had an extremely high premium. Obamacare's premium is just about half that. She has higher out-of-pocket expenses than in her previous plan, BUT THEY HAVE A CAP, AFTER WHICH SHE WILL HAVE TO PAY NOTHING. IF she hits the cap, after which she pays nothing, which is the worst case scenario, SHE WILL PAY $2 A YEAR, THAT'S TWO DOLLARS, MORE THAN HER PREVIOUS PLAN. And if her actual expenses are less than that, she'll save money under Obamacare. Plus according to the Detroit News (she's from Michgan, so they checked), she kkeeps the same doctor she liked and the same chemotherapy regime she's been on. Basically she, like the example the GOP Plastic Woman responding to the SOU cited, hadn't really checked to see what she was getting. or to compare plans. She's also got more consumer protections under Obamacare, that her previous plan didn't offer, which was why it was cancelled. She apparently would rather pay more simply because she paid the same exh month, even though she said it was a stretch, rather than potentially pay quite a bit less every year and at worst only $2 a year more, rather than have the monthly cost fluctuate, because she may have different medical needs each month.
Just another cdase of Fuckx News, and the ultraright blogosphere (and the GOP) misstating the "news" AGAIN> Have they no shame?
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140221/POLITICS03/302210135/Facts-presented-by-Dexter-cancer-patient-anti-Obamacare-ad-inconsistent
When my family lived in Michgan we always got the Detroit Free Press. Maybe we should have been getting the News