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Obamacare's Latest Casualty: Largest Health Insurer On Colorado Exchange Abruptly Collapses

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This wasn't supposed to happen.

With the mainstream media, at least the majority that is left of center, flooded with story after story touting Obamacare's success, the news coming this morning from Denver that Colorado's largest nonprofit health insurer and participant in that state's insurance exchange Colorado HealthOP is abruptly shutting down, forcing 80,000 Coloradans to find a new insurer for 2016, was a slap in the face for the Obama administration's crowning achievement.

According to AP, the health insurer announced Friday that the state Division of Insurance has de-certified it as an eligible insurance company. That's because the cooperative relied on federal support, and federal authorities announced last month they wouldn't be able to pay most of what they owed in a program designed to help health insurance co-ops get established.

Wait, wasn't the whole point behind Obamacare to subsidize health insurance for everyone, and especially the poor? Or was the whole point of the "Affordable" Care Act merely to herd as many Americans into the clutches of the few for-profits, after the non-profit cooperatives finally read the fine print and realized they have no chance of being profitable under the new regime?

The plot thickens: in a statement announcing its closure Friday, Colorado HealthOP said it was "well on its way" to repaying some $72.3 million it has borrowed from the federal fund. The co-op reported a net loss of $23 million last year. In other words, the company burned through some $23 million in taxpayer funds and it didn't even get a lousy shirt to show for it.

Ironically, on the company's website, we read the following about the Co-Op's business model:

if our revenues exceed our costs, the surplus will be reinvested to directly benefit members—through lower premiums, expanded benefits, or quality improvements.

Well, no risk of that ever happening now. What the insurer failed to point out is that if costs exceed its revenues, it will be promptly liquidated and massive corporations will be the sole beneficiaries.

Naturally, the CEO was furious: Colorado HealthOP CEO Julia Hutchins called the de-certification "irresponsible and premature."

She is not alone - as it turns out HealthOP was just the fifth casualty of a program which with every passing months is being exposed as nothing but a tax-backed piggy bank for the mega insurance corporations. "The Colorado announcement makes the co-op at least the fifth in the nation to collapse. Similar nonprofit insurers have already failed in Louisiana, Iowa/Nebraska, Nevada and New York. A health insurance cooperative in Tennessee announced this week that it would stop offering new policies.

Expect even more failures ahead of open enrollment for 2016 starts on November 1. The Colorado Division of Insurance must first certify insurers before they're allowed to sell plans, so the de-certification essentially puts Colorado HealthOP out of business.

Back to the HealthOP CEO who added that "the Division has let local and national politics hurt Coloradans' access to low-cost healthcare options and assessed Colorado taxpayers with significant avoidable costs," Hutchins said in the statement.

Actually they became unavoidable the moment the deeply compromised and ideologically partisan Supreme Court imposed the Obamacare tax on Americans, with few if any realizing the monetary implications of the new insurance regime.

While it won't provide much comfort to Colorado HealthOp, which is now winding down, its board of directors has requesting that the state allow a board-appointed independent consumer protection ombudsman to assist through the shut-down.

In other words, even more millions in taxpayer funds will now be spent to liquidate the health insurer.

And while the lame duck president hardly cared as his legacy achievement will soon be some other president's problem, Republicans quickly took to gloating and pointed to the co-op's closure as "a sad but predictable outcome."

"Taxpayers are on the hook for millions of dollars in loans given out to the CO-OP, money that will likely never be repaid," U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner said in a statement after the announcement. "The years since Obamacare's passage have been marked by crisis after crisis in healthcare, and it's far past time for a new plan."

But wait, there's more. Now that the numbers are being crunched, and hyperbole and propaganda are finally making way for math, someone figured out that Colorado HealthOP's closure could be bad news for everyone shopping on Colorado's health insurance exchange.

A Republican state lawmaker who serves on an oversight committee that has reviewed Colorado HealthOP's finances, Rep. Lang Sias of Arvada, said "rates for everyone are expected to go up next year. Colorado HealthOP accounted for nearly 40 percent of the exchange's total customers."

"They're all going to be paying more, on average, I would expect," Sias said.

And as more Americans get letters in the mail such as the one below kindly informing them their health insurance premiums are rising by 60% crushing any desire to splurge modest "gas savings" on discretionary purchases...

... expect complaints about soaring health insurance prices, to hit - first in Colorado and then everywhere else.

 

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Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:27 | 6676359 aliki
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sooooo, its all going according to plan

Mon, 11/16/2015 - 23:59 | 6803038 webdesignvalleys
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I just wonder if women are in the list of obamacares? This will be a great solution for sure.

 

Nancy @ boost your bust program

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:31 | 6676365 remain calm
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Wait, can I still get my legalized Marijuana prescription filled first? I need it to deal with all this change.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:38 | 6676436 pods
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Wow, the rate this is going it is all going to collapse and the only one left to pay will be the government of the USA.

Purely accidental.

pods

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:44 | 6676473 Tom Servo
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At least weed is legal...

 

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:48 | 6676496 daveO
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Luckily, it cures EVERYTHING!

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:52 | 6676518 formadesika3
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Sure, some folks are gonna get bounced (temporarily) but other folks are gonna get medical coverage (permanently).

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:52 | 6676527 knukles
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'Nuffin' he does was "supposed" to happen except that "gonna change your life" shit.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:02 | 6676587 NoDebt
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I guess the only way out of this is single-payer government healthcare.  Hey, wait a minute....

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:06 | 6676620 formadesika3
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See, in spirit, this is just like Cloward-Piven. Those guys were geniuses!!!

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:16 | 6676685 Relentless101
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Fucking FED. How could they let a large health insurer fail on their watch? They obviously need more power and more spending. LOL.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:24 | 6676733 marathonman
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The large for profit insurers haven't failed.  Just the non-profit health co-ops.  The health insurance cartel is killing off the competition just like the banking cartel is killing off the non-private central banks around the world.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:46 | 6676861 TongueStun
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This wasn't supposed to happen.

 

 

Ummmmm, sure it was, how could we get Single Payer IF Obamacare actually worked?

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 17:14 | 6676947 Al Gophilia
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If people looked after their health, this wouldn't have happened. There are too many sick people, who should be held responsible for the drain of resources and be forced to pay a higher premium to cover the losses. The healthy, not having incurred any health care costs, can afford be taxed a one off premium as a contribution to ensure a health system we can all be proud of.

If we could just place a little more faith in the ability of our hard working officials and be selective in who we treat (giving priority to those who care about their personal health), we should see a turn around in the balance sheets. We must use a persuasive stick on those who are a drain on the system, adopting a system that provides a descending level of care to the abusers of the system.

This would ensure the availability and the sustainability of national coverage.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 17:55 | 6677094 Tonald J Drump
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if you like your health plan, you can ..... ahh, forget it, you know the rest.  Oh, and by the way, hey Barry, go suck a big bag of dicks you commie fuckwad.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 18:09 | 6677134 Squid-puppets a...
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how is it possible for these unremitting gougers of the public to collapse? oh thats right, other health industry gougers were gouging the gouger, who obviously didnt gouge enough to replenish the gouging from other gougers

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 20:00 | 6677467 Richard Chesler
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I prefer to suck jew bankster cock. - BHO

Stay thristy my friends.

 

 

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 21:03 | 6677655 jeff montanye
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every other advanced nation has a better healthcare system for the bottom 99% at about one half the u.s. cost.  that much is true.

you can argue endlessly about the rest, obama's favorite type of cock to suck, whether he's a communist (if so he is a very bad one as only the richest capitalists have benefitted on his watch), etc. 

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 21:40 | 6677787 zhandax
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I hate to say it (well, maybe not), but at this point we could lower costs and improve healthcare by outsourcing it to Cuba.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 22:08 | 6677851 Save_America1st
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Single-fucking-payer scam of all time is what's coming down the line, bitchez....those of you kinda old right now?  THEY DON'T CARE....GO AHEAD AND FUCKING DIE.  DON'T WORRY...THEY WILL EITHER INDOCTRINATE YOUR YOUNG'INS OR KILL THOSE WHO WON'T COMPLY!!!  After the next 15 years or so, anyone who is still left who hates tyranny and fascism will be almost dead from old age or they will just Mao/Lenin/Hitler/Clinton your ass with a fucking bullet in the head.  After that....there will just be sheeptards vaccinated with so much fucking poison it won't matter to these scumbags if they comply or die from the severe mental retardation effects. 

If any of you have seen Idiocracy or film of the Nazi death camps then you know what the future is for this world (somewhere in between that shit) unless we all DON'T ALLOW IT TO HAPPEN.  I'll leave it up to you all as to how we could accomplish that.  But I think it would be reeeeeaaal fun doing it.  :-)

OBAMMY'S SINGLE-PAYER, GOV-SCUM, TREASONOUS, SOCIALIST, MARXIST TAKEOVER OF THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN ORDER TO DESTROY ALL FREEDOM WHAT-SO-EVER IN AMERICA!!!

That was the plan from the beginning, but it really wasn't this fuck-tard's plan...it has been the treasonous plan of the Marxist, regressive, scum of the Earth who have been scheming this shit for over a hundred fucking years against not just America, but against the entire human race!

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 18:37 | 6677232 AMPALANCE
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Just suck down your DU and Fukushima particles, wash them down with leaching plastic bottled water (At least 8 a day), or fluoridated city water. Brush your teeth with fluoridated toothpaste after eating your fluoridated food. Have a nice big plate of pesticide/Herbicide drenched natural gas or manufacturing byproduct fertilized GMO vegetables, and remember to get your course of vaccines. That will surely drive down insurance cost. People could be so healthy it they would just follow these simple steps.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 19:31 | 6677390 Al Gophilia
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I know, right! It's all just so easy. Our health officials need your support through trust. Ask not what you can do for yourself, ask what you can give to your country. Free National Health for everyone.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 23:03 | 6678054 RichardParker
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If we could just place a little more faith in the ability of our hard working officials and be selective in who we treat (giving priority to those who care about their personal health...

No need for that, they will just have death panels instead. 

I have a better idea, how about MANDATORY drug testing for "our hard working officials", especially CONgress.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 17:44 | 6677062 TeamDepends
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Cool, so going to the hospital will be like going to the DMV! Take a number and bask in the radiance of socialist efficiency.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 18:28 | 6677189 nmewn
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Well, at least we all have that extra $2,500 a year Obama saved us on our health insurance!...lol.

(Sigh)..."the stupidity of the American voter."

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 19:00 | 6677307 Normalcy Bias
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The real "stupidity of the American voter" may be that so many Americans actually believe that their votes are tallied fairly & accurately.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 21:08 | 6677672 Al Gophilia
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What are you complaining about? At least you'll have a roof over your head!

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 18:54 | 6677284 Normalcy Bias
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We bullshitted some folks...

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 22:09 | 6677806 Save_America1st
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BINGO!!!

 

OBAMMY'S SINGLE-PAYER, GOV-SCUM, TREASONOUS, SOCIALIST, MARXIST TAKEOVER OF THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN ORDER TO DESTROY ALL FREEDOM WHAT-SO-EVER IN AMERICA!!!

That was the plan from the beginning, but it really wasn't this fuck-tard's plan...it has been the treasonous plan of the Marxist, regressive, scum of the Earth who have been scheming this shit for over a hundred fucking years against not just America, but against the entire human race!

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:12 | 6676656 Nobody Important
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If they were going to impliment "Universal Healthcare", then that's the way it should have been set up in the first place. A single payer system like ALL the other countries that have set it up, done it. Private insurance companies should never have been involved. But no, America's obsession with unrestrained capitalism sold everybody out to the insurance companies, and made a total mess of it.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:19 | 6676701 wet_nurse
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None of this shit will matter in a couple years

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:23 | 6676722 El Vaquero
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True, though it may take up to 7 or 8 years for it to not matter.  But I tend to be in the couple of years camp. 

 

That, and this isn't unrestrained capitalism.  TARP should have been the wakeup call for anybody who thought it was unrestrained capitalism.  That, or the bazillion pages of regulations that only huge businesses can afford to follow or ignore at a whim. 

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 20:07 | 6677491 lakecity55
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Yeah, I thought TARP was a big leap forward towards a great soviet, comrades!

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:24 | 6676730 Midas
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When did this "Unrestrained capitalism" take place?

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:31 | 6676782 El Vaquero
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Good question. 

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:39 | 6676830 NoTTD
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Amen.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 20:15 | 6677517 shovelhead
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When the taxpayer picks up any losses incurred by wild eyed gamblers.

It sure is unrestrained something, but I don't think capital has anything to do with it.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 21:00 | 6677649 Jerome Lester H...
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That's caled Fascism, unrestrained or otherwise. Sure as hell is not capitalism.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:40 | 6676834 NoTTD
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"Unrestrained capitalism"?

 

Delusional.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:59 | 6676905 lehmen_sisters
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America hasn't even caught a glimpse of capitalism in the last 100 years bruh!

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 22:09 | 6677812 Save_America1st
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BINGO!!!

 

OBAMMY'S SINGLE-PAYER, GOV-SCUM, TREASONOUS, SOCIALIST, MARXIST TAKEOVER OF THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN ORDER TO DESTROY ALL FREEDOM WHAT-SO-EVER IN AMERICA!!!

That was the plan from the beginning, but it really wasn't this fuck-tard's plan...it has been the treasonous plan of the Marxist, regressive, scum of the Earth who have been scheming this shit for over a hundred fucking years against not just America, but against the entire human race!

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 22:47 | 6678010 RichardParker
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unrestrained capitalism sold everybody out to the insurance companies...

bwhahahahahah...  We have not had a capitalist healthcare system since FDR due to employers skirting around the great one's price and wage controls during WWII.  Not to mention that insurance companies are EXEMPT from anti trust law.  Health insurance companies are flourishing under CRONYISM since FDR and wouldn't know capitalism (read: competition) if it slapped them upside the head.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 18:12 | 6677140 Harry Paranockus
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These co-ops were the government's answer to the fact that they couldn't get single payer public option.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 22:10 | 6677818 Save_America1st
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BINGO!!!  but with a catch!  They knew it would be a process that would take a little longer...it was all in the plans to make it "Constitutionally" legal by loading up the Supreme scum-sucking Court and blackmailing John Roberts who should now be jailed as fucking traitor for being a fucking treasonous pussy.

 

OBAMMY'S SINGLE-PAYER, GOV-SCUM, TREASONOUS, SOCIALIST, MARXIST TAKEOVER OF THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN ORDER TO DESTROY ALL FREEDOM WHAT-SO-EVER IN AMERICA!!!

That was the plan from the beginning, but it really wasn't this fuck-tard's plan...it has been the treasonous plan of the Marxist, regressive, scum of the Earth who have been scheming this shit for over a hundred fucking years against not just America, but against the entire human race!

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 22:10 | 6677792 Save_America1st
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BINGO!!!

 

OBAMMY'S SINGLE-PAYER, GOV-SCUM, TREASONOUS, SOCIALIST, MARXIST TAKEOVER OF THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN ORDER TO DESTROY ALL FREEDOM WHAT-SO-EVER IN AMERICA!!!

That was the plan from the beginning, but it really wasn't this fuck-tard's plan...it has been the treasonous plan of the Marxist, regressive, scum of the Earth who have been scheming this shit for over a hundred fucking years against not just America, but against the entire human race!

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:33 | 6676789 RafterManFMJ
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'Nuffin' he does was "supposed" to happen except that "gonna change your life" shit.

XXXXXXXX

So, the HNIC is in fact a Dindu Nuffin?

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 22:25 | 6677935 stormsailor
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why does everybody crash obama, he dindu nuffin.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 19:48 | 6677435 Iam_Silverman
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"Sure, some folks are gonna get bounced (temporarily) but other folks are gonna get medical coverage (permanently)."

WTF?  Do you even know what you are talking about?  Those people who weren't covered by "health insurance" previously could fall back on MedicAid.  No one was denied medical services because of the inability to pay.

Sat, 10/17/2015 - 20:30 | 6680631 azusgm
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Don't know about the other states, but Medicaid has never been automatic in Texas except for a newborn of a Medicaid-covered new mother. There have always been plenty of people willing to scam Medicaid, but the program is means tested. The people who have been stuck in a painful position are the self-employed or under-employed or over-employed in low paying jobs. These are the people who have to go into the individual market.

No one was denied emergency medical services or emergency obstetric services. Just like today, if a person is uninsured and cannot make other arrangements to pay, they usually cannot access most care other than through the ER or L&D or what is available at county health (vaccines, etc.) It does not matter how badly they may need joint replacements, etc. to be able to be fully functional and get back to work. Don't expect cancer care either.

Sun, 10/18/2015 - 05:30 | 6681344 Iam_Silverman
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"Don't expect cancer care either."

I guess that if you modify your statement to read "don't expect top quality cancer care either", then you'd be right.  My BIL was treated for cancer under Medicaid.  He started treatments at the hospital in Palestine and ended up in Dallas at Parkland.  Self "employed" person too.  I pretended to miss him, for my sister's sake.

I live in a very small town in Central Texas (population around 700).  Many of the inhabitants are on some form of Medicaid (or CHIP).  Even with all of the goodness that O-Care was supposed to bring.  My tax dollars at work delivering anchor babies and patching drunks back together after they wreck their vehicles on the weekends.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:14 | 6676667 El Vaquero
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Wow, the rate this is going it is all going to collapse and the only one left to pay will be the government of the USA.

Purely accidental.

pods

That'll work out the same way the Iraq War paid for itself.  Oops...

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 22:56 | 6678037 RichardParker
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Wow, the rate this is going it is all going to collapse and the only one left to pay will be the government of the USA.

No chance of the government going broke.  They can always print more money,

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:42 | 6676458 y3maxx
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...Coming soon  to a Medical Clinic in Your neighbourhood.

Established medical treatments to be replaced with Euthenasia.

by order of NWO

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:52 | 6676520 BeaverCream
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But only for huhwhites.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 20:03 | 6677479 Billy the Poet
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They're taking out the blacks and Hispanics on their way into this world. Like most progressive policies, those of Planned "Parenthood" are extremely racist.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 20:20 | 6677531 shovelhead
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DON'T CUT THE FUNDING.

We'll be up to our asses in the Dindu Generation.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 21:12 | 6677688 Billy the Poet
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Whatsoever you do to the least of my brothers you do unto me.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:11 | 6676650 RaceToTheBottom
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Its the patriotic thing to do.... for the children....

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 21:26 | 6677745 Tapeworm
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Euthanasia:

 I think that it is wonderful that young fokes can travel to the Far East so easily now.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:06 | 6676621 McCormick No. 9
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Hey Man, I'll front you a dime bag...

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:29 | 6676369 Hype Alert
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Exactly.  As designed.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:31 | 6676384 Syrin
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I look forward to buying fire insurance after my house catches on fire.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 17:24 | 6677000 onewayticket2
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Auto insurance in an instant....right after you wreck your car.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:30 | 6676371 localsavage
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So...free shit isn't free?

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:53 | 6676530 knukles
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Of course it's free.
It's just not available.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:09 | 6676639 prymythirdeye
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Great comment knuks!

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:34 | 6676801 LawsofPhysics
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Yes.  Just like the former Soviet Union.  I can remember seeing all kinds of great things for sale at the "official" price...

Capital and price controls always have the opposite effect.

 

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 19:55 | 6677453 Atomizer
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Knuckles, just like a winning lottery ticket in Illinois. No fund to payoff. 

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:43 | 6676852 A is A
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It's free. Just not for you.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 17:25 | 6677003 August
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THe vanguard of hope 'n' change get rich first.  It's only fair.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 17:04 | 6676898 Linoleum Blownapart
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At the LR station in Cherry Hill (welfare slum in Baltimore), this lady was approaching everyone asking if you "Got your free cellphone yet, 400 minutes?" courtesy of Obama (in so many words).

It was pushy and creepy. Happened several times over a few days.

Don't take the free cellphone. I think it explodes or something.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 18:26 | 6677176 Tod E. Tosspot
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I've been solicited for the obamaphone outside my local supermarket. Gotta start dressing better.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:37 | 6676420 HedgeAccordingly
Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:37 | 6676429 TheFreeLance
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Single-payer by 2022.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:48 | 6676498 sdmjake
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This shitshow is going down fast. (my premiums are going up another 24% for 2016) It won't take that long. My bet is during Hillary's first term.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:03 | 6676599 NoDebt
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Agreed with both of you.  Single payer can't be more than 10 years out, tops.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:08 | 6676635 McCormick No. 9
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Medecayed Exxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxpansion!

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:36 | 6676674 813kml
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The Boomers will get Medi-Decayed.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:57 | 6676897 MasterControl
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And it will be well deserved.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 22:11 | 6677822 Save_America1st
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BINGO!!!

 

OBAMMY'S SINGLE-PAYER, GOV-SCUM, TREASONOUS, SOCIALIST, MARXIST TAKEOVER OF THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN ORDER TO DESTROY ALL FREEDOM WHAT-SO-EVER IN AMERICA!!!

That was the plan from the beginning, but it really wasn't this fuck-tard's plan...it has been the treasonous plan of the Marxist, regressive, scum of the Earth who have been scheming this shit for over a hundred fucking years against not just America, but against the entire human race!

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 22:12 | 6677821 Save_America1st
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BINGO!!!

 

OBAMMY'S SINGLE-PAYER, GOV-SCUM, TREASONOUS, SOCIALIST, MARXIST TAKEOVER OF THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM IN ORDER TO DESTROY ALL FREEDOM WHAT-SO-EVER IN AMERICA!!!

That was the plan from the beginning, but it really wasn't this fuck-tard's plan...it has been the treasonous plan of the Marxist, regressive, scum of the Earth who have been scheming this shit for over a hundred fucking years against not just America, but against the entire human race!

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:07 | 6676582 drendebe10
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Hahahahaha. Fuk obamycare and all the progressive liberal democraps who jammed it down Americans throats and the spineless chknsht republicants who funded it. All those career politician turns who exempted themselves & their pals from the crappy program need their skins sandpapered off, buried in salt then thrown out in the middle of an Iranian desert with a can of Pennzoil. Fukem all and especially the chicken legged fudgepacker.

 

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:19 | 6676699 Obamamerica
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Better than expected! Billions syphoned out to Obama's big donors. Govt fraud is a beautiful thing...ask Planned Abortionhood about the beauty of laundered blood money back to the DNC for more tax payer theft. 

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 20:25 | 6677544 shovelhead
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Yo, dat's recycling.

 

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 17:21 | 6676989 cornflakesdisease
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something like $3 trillion going to the fed gov each year if they had nationaized health care.  That would be quite a new slush fund in place of SS

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 19:38 | 6677413 sp0rkovite
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I wonder why the federal printing press ran out before they made the payment that was promised?

They never missed the payment to Northrop Grumman

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 21:47 | 6677811 Enki Anu
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We Obamacared some folks

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:31 | 6676375 LawsofPhysics
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"you can always talk to your independent broker" ---  This is the fucking problem, useless, overcompensated, paper-pushers!!

Should read "you can always get off your ass or talk to your doctor"

The sooner we execute all the middlemen, the better.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:33 | 6676399 omi
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Tovarish Stalin knew exactly how to deal with the scum, and he was called a tyrant.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:01 | 6676583 nnnnnn
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because he was scum himself

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:08 | 6676632 Bastiat
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YEah, he thought the farmers were middle men .  .

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 17:20 | 6676983 Moe Howard
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Fukin Kulak bastages.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:42 | 6676848 NoTTD
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Is good be nomenclatura.

 

Is no good be kulak.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:13 | 6676636 SDShack
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This is EXACTLY what I could never understand about this whole HC problem. The Libtards scream about protecting abortion because NOTHING should come between a woman and her doctor, but they design and vote for a system that not only forces one layer between them... insurance,... but also places a 2nd layer to regulate the first.... 0zer0care. And even a 3rd laayer for most people with Employer Sponsored HC. And then they lie and say this won't drive up costs when anyone can see it will do nothing BUT drive up costs. The Repukes are almost as bad because they protect the for-profit insurance companies also. The only way this HC debacle is ever going to be really fixed is to simplify the system to hardly nothing more then a direct relationship between the patient and the care provider. Insurance should be essentially for catastrophic care and nothing else. Anything else is a waste of resources all around. Unfortunately, USSA sheeple are for the most part just too stupid to manage their own HC, just like they are too stupid to manage just about everything else. Perfect sheep for the New Feudal World Order... just like the sociopaths want them.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 21:07 | 6677669 Jerome Lester H...
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Wait...you mean I can't submit a claim to my automobile insurer for an oil change?

Sat, 10/17/2015 - 01:23 | 6678337 StychoKiller
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Hmm, just wait till you need a new battery... :>D

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:11 | 6676652 McCormick No. 9
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The individual solutiuon to Obamacare is to be self-employed, prudently refuse all State and Federal aid you qualify for, and move to a State that prudently refuses to expand medicaid, and then fall through the cracks.

If I can do it, so can you.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 17:11 | 6676948 economicmorphine
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Utah, eh?

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 21:43 | 6677798 Tapeworm
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Mc #9,

 I never got a nickle's worth of anything from the goomint other than the time that I was in public school, and that was only eight years.

 Every time there is a tax cut it seems to miss me. My taxes consume more than half of what I make.

 I despise those fecks with a consuming searing hatred.

 My employees are getting wiped out withy the massive increases in costs of everything that the goomint touches. They harbor far less hate than I do, but theirs is growing rapidly. Something is going to let go if the parasites keep pushing so voraciously.

Sat, 10/17/2015 - 13:58 | 6679624 Funkinutt
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Just wait until cash is eliminated. The door in the fold closed and the only open door leads to the abattoir.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 20:38 | 6677579 NoPension
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LawsofPhysics,
Dead nut, spot on.
The WHOLE problem is government's intrusion into healthcare, the fucked up tax laws, whereby health insurance was a untaxed benefit has corrupted the whole healthcare field.
Everyone should just pay for minor crap and accidents, and have a major medical policy for the catastrophic events.
But noooo, run to the emergency room with a sniffle.
Give free medical care to millions. What the fuck did anyone think would happen.
Christ on a cracker, all we need is 100% government run healthcare, and we are fucked. And pack it up your ass with this " every major country has free healthcare" . Bullshit, ya stupid motherfuckers. Nothing is free.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:31 | 6676377 Lookout Mountain
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And they will be nicely rolled over onto for-profit plans. Follow the money.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:31 | 6676379 Duc888
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Obamacare, it's a tax.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:39 | 6676438 Infinite QE
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Yeah, they should just blend it in with the IRS.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:32 | 6676390 stant
stant's picture

A co op in ky just went belly up last week or so, asking around here who's got something going out of thier basement for cash. It coming so I want get on the list early

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:44 | 6676858 NoTTD
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He's ready for you now:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YlmECL2ED2I

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 17:21 | 6676993 Moe Howard
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I'm in Kentucky too, I get my healthcare from a guy named "Mr. Haney" he comes around in an old classic pickup truck. Great rates.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 20:40 | 6677586 NoPension
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Get real friendly with your local veterinarian.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 22:10 | 6677883 Tapeworm
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What's wrong with veterinarians? It is far mor difficult to get into U of Wisconsin Veterinary than the Medical school.

 If I got a cut needing a dozen stitches I'd much rather go to the Vet than the ripoff quick care humanoid facility and I could pay with cash at a fifth of the cost.

Sat, 10/17/2015 - 01:26 | 6678341 StychoKiller
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Yeah, but you're a Tapeworm, what about us Wooden 'Bots?  Think carpenters work for free?

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:33 | 6676393 Atomizer
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If you like your ObamaCare exchange, you can keep your ObamaCare exchange. 

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:33 | 6676398 Magnix
Magnix's picture

Thats awesome! Shut it down already!

 

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:35 | 6676408 Infinite QE
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The whole medical industrial complex (AMA) needs to collapse. It's the third leading cause of death. Plenty of alternatives, herbalism, TCM, chiropractic. AMA is just another zio-tax on humanity.

 

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:56 | 6676547 daveO
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I predicted that O'Care would ultimately benefit the average person simply because of 'rationing'. Happy Breast Cancer Awareness month sucka's!

http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/194298/jewish-perspectives-on-breast-cancer

 

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 17:25 | 6677002 Moe Howard
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I read some of the shit. Only Jews suffer the worst ever docha know. Everybody else has got it good.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 18:01 | 6677111 Socratic Dog
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Breast cancer a classic for pigs feeding at the trough.  Their favored screening tool, mammography, almost certainly causes it.  A good proportion of those early catches with mammoraphy, "ductal carcinoma in situ", are arguably not cancer, will not progress, and should be let alone.  Instead they're treated like an advanced cancer, slash and burn.  Plenty of those "breast cancer survivors" they love to trot out never actually had cancer to survive, but they did survive the treatment, they're breast cancer treatment survivors (no mean feat) (thanks Mercola, nice turn of phrase).

And fuck your pink ribbon shit.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 18:10 | 6677132 SSRI Junkie
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women having their their breasts nuked (x-ray mammogram) to look for cancer always struck me as a bit odd

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 19:55 | 6677450 mophead
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A good proportion of those early catches with mammoraphy, "ductal carcinoma in situ", are arguably not cancer, will not progress, and should be let alone.  Instead they're treated like an advanced cancer, slash and burn.  Plenty of those "breast cancer survivors" they love to trot out never actually had cancer to survive

100% correct. Seen this many times.

Sat, 10/17/2015 - 01:28 | 6678343 StychoKiller
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Well Mophead, you be sure to keep yer avatar's Sweater Puppies healthy, for all of our sakes! :>D

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 17:35 | 6677035 August
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MDs are worse than kulaks.  Round them all up!

Herbs and homeopathy for all!

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:35 | 6676409 Osmium
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Don't see the problem.  Appears to be Bullish for the market.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:37 | 6676421 Bryan
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"Americans are living healthier lives" so.... your premiums go up by about 65%?  Does that make sense to anyone? 

 

And after the bad news is said, you gotta love all the happy happy talk about how you can always just talk to your independent broker or go online for a free brain massage.  I feel better already.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:57 | 6676552 BeaverCream
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Sure, it means we aren't giving ourselves a fucking pay cut or letting our stock prices go down so you're gonna keep paying more and more the healthier you proles get.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:14 | 6676670 o r c k
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My Daughters Obamacare just doubled. 300 to 600

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:43 | 6676853 Bank_sters
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It is called wave while you fuck em.   

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:39 | 6676445 assistedliving
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lets see now..

we hang the pols

nail gun the bankers

disembowel the brokers

fry the lawyers

i'm personally bushwhacking my contractor..

now Big Pharma and Insurers

is anyone left out there to inflict this retribution?

 

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:12 | 6676657 Ms. Erable
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Vivsecting the doctors in bed with big pharma would be a step in the right direction.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:17 | 6676687 RaceToTheBottom
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Primadona DRs who wanted none in their sandbox need to be on there as well.  Now they loose total control of their sandbox and become slaves to insurance companies.   Why did they not see this coming and police their own?

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:29 | 6676772 El Vaquero
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Lobbyists.  You want to hang the lobbyists every couple of years so that people are scared to throw money at Congress.  Torch K Street.  As long as people can pay to get regulations and laws in place that allow them to profit and fuck everybody else, while being immune from prosecution for violating the very rules and regs that they had put into place, any governing body will be corrupted. 

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:40 | 6676833 MartyFlesh
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Hey assistedliving, I'd deffo throw in your Friendly Local and Knowledgeable Real Estate Professional and all the other Swindlers @ The National Association of Realtors.  They were in on the ground floor of this Shit SShow getting statrted :) Marty

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:39 | 6676446 Monetas
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You will feel a slight pinch .... as an ISIS soldier cuts off your head !

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:40 | 6676451 Fukushima Fricassee
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Obama is a facist cock sucking idiot nd if you ever supported him even for one moment your name is cursed.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:58 | 6676557 BeaverCream
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Dude.  He's the furthest thing from a fascist.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:18 | 6676695 Mark Mywords
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Loyal to Wall Street. Does the bidding of corporations. Expands the Deep State. Foments religious extremism. Starts and expands wars.

Sounds pretty fucking fascist to me.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:23 | 6676726 Nobody Important
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Fascism: noun

a governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc.,

Sounds like Obama and his cronies to me.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:35 | 6676806 BeaverCream
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Yeah cuz obama is controlling stuff.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:57 | 6676899 Bay of Pigs
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He most certainly is a willing and able puppet for those who are in control.

 

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:36 | 6676812 NoTTD
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Of course, he doesn't consider himself a fascist.

 

He sees himself as a king, ruling by divine right.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:40 | 6676454 buzzsaw99
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just double the rates again. people are fucking rolling in it. /s

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:44 | 6676467 Son of Loki
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Moar O'Bommer recovery.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:44 | 6676472 Zero-Hegemon
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Wait, that wasn't the tingle crawling up my leg that I was hoping for

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:45 | 6676476 JamaicaJim
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FuckbamaCrack

We Collapsed Some Folks

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:46 | 6676482 Monetas
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If you are of the African persuasion .... you never have to pay for anything .... you don't even have to fill out the forms .... a social worker will come to you .... read them to you .... you just say yes or no .... and put your mark .... on the bottom line ?

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 22:32 | 6677957 stormsailor
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did you get your pigford ii settlement?

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:49 | 6676505 JC_is_a_SpaceMonkey
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Colorado HealthOP was only 4 years old.  Not a seasoned health insurance company. 

Given how big they got on the Exchange, they probably undercharged for their services.  No surprise they went under.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:06 | 6676615 Bay of Pigs
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Yeah, that's it. They simply need to charge a lot moar.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:49 | 6676506 Son of Loki
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My premiums are going up 28%...I just got the letter. Still have huge deducitbles. Barry can suck my cock. I'm healthy so I may just go without and put that money aside and pay docs cash when and if I need to visit. Repugnicans should be ashamed letting this shit pass.

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 15:55 | 6676545 Aubiekong
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I joined a christian bill share for $35.00 per person per month.  Its cheaper than the penalty and now my family is exempt.   My doctor loves cash and gives me a hudge discount. 

Fri, 10/16/2015 - 16:21 | 6676709 813kml
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Do you have to be Christian?

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