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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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Video: Small-business employees locked out of Covered California health care 8 flopace


When the CBO estimated the impact of ObamaCare on businesses, they probably assumed that exchanges such as Covered California would actually provide the services which businesses like United Reported Publishing would purchase. Bad assumption, as it turns out, and as URP owner Paul Curry discovered. Despite sending almost $12,000 in premium payments to Covered California since the beginning of the year, Curry and his employees still do not have insurance coverage.

But Covered California made sure to cash the checks …

What do you get for $12,000 in Covered California? An exercise program called the run-around:

“If I call Covered California, they don’t talk to me. They tell me to go to my broker,” said Paul Curry, “but my broker says they aren’t talking to him.”

It’s a helpless and frustrating feeling for Curry as he followed all of the steps to get health coverage for his four full-time employees. But after three months, Covered California has still not activated the health plans.

“We’ve paid each month, and none of my employees have cards,” he said. “We can’t go get health care.”

I linked this earlier today, but it’s worth revisiting in this post. For all of the accusations from Democrats about Republican sabotage of ObamaCare, the real damage has come from states that embraced the bill — states with Democratic governors:
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