I swear. I yelled, I screamed, and I was told (here) that I was an idiot and this was good for us.
What a joke.
Two guys at deer camp lost their insurance and can't get more for less than $1,200 a month.
Son lost his job, found another. The new one won't provide insurance, and works every employee 38 hours a week to keep from having to provide it. They said they could afford to provide group before Obamacare, no longer though. Son hurt his foot.......broke something, bone sliver broken off, and pulled away from tendon. Hard to do paramedic work! Finally goes to ER (and is billed a ton of money, unlike every other person in there with him that day), and they xray it. Big mess. They refer him to an Orthopedic doc.
Sorry, doc will NOT see him or make an appointment. He has no insurance. (I don't blame the doctor). Son calls around to get personal insurance. Lowest premium is over 1/4 of his salary. So he can't get it.
Meanwhile, one of our Tuesday "Lunch Bunch" is shacking up with an illegal alien lady. She had emergency appendectomy surgery while on trip to Mississippi, and they found complications. After 2 weeks in hospital, her bill was a big fat zero.
Don't even fix your lips to tell me that the system we had was more broken than this fiasco. This is going to destroy this country.