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To: tejek who wrote (747773)	10/18/2013 10:42:21 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Respond to of 1576584

OCTOBER 17, 2013 Single Payer West Virginia Tommy Douglas and Healthcare, the Movie Grand Theft Health Insurance by RUSSELL MOKHIBER Here I sit, in West Virginia, staring down at January 1, 2014. That’s when my health insurance policy expires and I have a decision to make — renew or not renew? Right now, I’m paying about $7,000 a year in premiums for a monster deductible and yearly out of pocket of about $15,000 for myself and my family. My health insurance company informed me yesterday that my premium will doubled to $14,000 on January 1. I’ve been trying to get onto the Obamacare web site now for ten days to search for an alternative. No luck. I made it through four pages yesterday — then got a message saying I’d have to wait because there was too much traffic. When I clicked the continue button, it wiped out the information I had typed into the first three pages. But even if I do get onto the exchanges, it’s probably not going to matter. I read in a newspaper that Highmark is the only health insurance company on the exchange in West Virginia. Yesterday, I called Highmark and spent an hour on the phone with a nice young man — but the results were not good. The skimpiest plan is going to cost me more than I’m paying now for a higher deductible and out of pocket result. Thank you Obamacare. My insurance agent told me yesterday I had only one alternative — wait for six years until Medicare kicks in

To: tejek who wrote (747773)	10/18/2013 10:47:51 AM
From: Brumar89	2 Recommendations Recommended By Jorj X Mckie TideGlider Respond to of 1576584

To: tejek who wrote (747773)	10/18/2013 10:52:42 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Respond to of 1576584

SICK: OBAMACARE WOES WIDEN AS INSURERS GET WRONG DATA

To: tejek who wrote (747773)	10/18/2013 10:53:37 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576584

"Oregon’s health insurance exchange is not yet up and running" but it's a great success! It seems the successes of Obamanable Care are mostly going to be people signing up for Medicaid: Just to be clear, the progress is not the result of a better online exchange. On the contrary, Oregon’s website doesn’t work yet. Rather, state officials created a fast-track registration process, approved by the Obama administration, that’s quickly expanding coverage through Medicaid expansion.

To: tejek who wrote (747773)	10/18/2013 11:13:01 AM
From: longnshort	1 Recommendation Recommended By TideGlider Respond to of 1576584

Trey Gowdy roasts NPS director for granting ‘pot-smoking’ Occupiers more freedom than vets at memorials 39 Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) challenged the National Parks Service (NPS) today for its relative treatment of Occupy protesters and veterans seeking access to war memorials during the government shutdown. Gowdy was questioning NPS Director Jonathan Jarvis during a U.S. House hearing for not citing campers in McPherson Square during the Occupy D.C. movement, yet swiftly moving to cut off access to war memorials on the first day of the shutdown. Jarvis claimed that he carved out First Amendment exemptions for activity on the National Mall, but the South Carolina Republican wasn’t satisfied. “Do you consider it First Amendment activity to walk to a monument that you helped build, or is it only just smoking pot at McPherson Square?” Gowdy asked. While Jarvis replied that the Parks Service was ‘content-neutral’ as it related to First Amendment activity on the Mall, Gowdy was persistent. “That wasn’t my question. Do you consider it to be an exercise of your First Amendment rights to walk to a monument that you helped build?” The NPS director said that veterans could enter a memorial by ‘declaring’ their First Amendment rights, but in reference to furloughed employees, Gowdy incredulously asked who they were to declare those rights to. “A barricade?” he asked sarcastically. Watch the full video below. redalertpolitics.com