Freedom: It’s bad enough that the president’s health insurance takeover costs more, breaks his pledge of letting you keep your plan and diminishes choice. It actually restricts your travels too.
‘We have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in.” Those words from President John F. Kennedy in June 1963, standing at the Berlin Wall, neatly illustrated the moral superiority of the free West over the Soviet bloc.
But Americans are now about to find themselves grappling with their own bureaucratic Berlin Wall. The American Thinker’s Stella Paul has exposed the virtually unnoticed fact that within the ObamaCare exchanges so many Americans are being forced into, “most plans only provide local medical coverage.”
Paul warns this will have “a profound impact on the real-estate market, particularly the second home sector, and on the travel business.” She interviewed one Connecticut retiree whose health required having a winter home in South Carolina. Her $450-per-month, $2,500 deductible, no co-pay Blue Cross policy that had worked well in both states was suddenly canceled.
The new policy she was offered under ObamaCare was twice as expensive, with a deductible costing $1,000 more, and no out-of-network coverage.
Having had a surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, out-of-network coverage was a must. And she found it. “It’s $900 a month,” she told Paul, “with a $7,000 deductible and a co-pay on everything. Basically, it’s catastrophic insurance, and I’ll be paying my South Carolina doctors out of pocket.”
A prominent New York insurance broker pointed out that most of the policies offered on the ObamaCare exchanges are not national networks, so “if you need routine medical services, they will not be covered when you leave your local area,” as they were before.
Travel health insurance, unfortunately, only covers emergencies. So, the broker told Paul, “a large portion of the population will have their insurance as a consideration for their mobility, which they never had before.”
Imagine having to take all this into account in making decisions about where in America you want to live.
And as Paul asks, “With Americans no longer able to receive routine medical services when they travel, will they start showing up in emergency rooms for sore throats and backaches? And how will these new throngs of patients affect the waiting time of people with genuine medical emergencies?”
Meet the latest unpleasant ObamaCare surprise, right on the heels of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius this week finally admitting that, contrary to Obama’s endlessly repeated promise, “there are some individuals who may be looking at increases” in premiums.
Unrestricted movement is a birthright of our liberty. Even socialized medicine’s harshest opponents didn’t suspect Washington would trample that freedom.
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Obamacare does have one hidden benefit. We’re now able to identify the dumbest people in our society by simply looking at the names of the idiots who signed up for it.
They have been working on restricting our travel for a while. They are pondering charging a “miles traveled” tax in some areas. They have made flying on airplanes unpleasant at best, by treating us all as criminals and then taxing air travel so much that it is just not worth it to use. They have sought to make us guilty for driving our cars for fear of causing global warming. They keep on trying to create “livable” and “walkable” cities which cut out driving cars and force people to walk and take public transportation. They make it very risky for getting a DUI conviction to hang out with friends and have a couple of drinks and dare to think you can drive home after. A lot of the jerkoff elites got what they wanted in Obamacare. It’s the “chilling effect” method of reducing travel. They won’t be happy until they have boxed us into our local areas completely. That is the ultimate in Stalinist control of a population.
“A prominent New York insurance broker pointed out that most of the policies offered on the ObamaCare exchanges are not national networks, so “if you need routine medical services, they will not be covered when you leave your local area,” as they were before.”
Unfrigginbelievable! So I have to stay in my own state in order to have health insurance. Otherwise, I have to pay again for a duplicate policy in another state? WTF????!! That’s extortion!
“And as Paul asks, “With Americans no longer able to receive routine medical services when they travel, will they start showing up in emergency rooms for sore throats and backaches? And how will these new throngs of patients affect the waiting time of people with genuine medical emergencies?””
Katie Worthman stated that the exact same thing happened when Hitler implemented his National Healthcare plan when she was growing up in Austria. History is repeating itself.
http://www.fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/eyewitness-to-hitler-warns-americans-keep-your-guns-keep-your-guns-and-buy-more-guns/69310#comment-483721
Like I’ve said many times on here and elsewhere: Obama and his minions WANT a civil war, but if they think they are gonna win like Lenin did, they don’t know the true spirit of America, which believe it or not still exists in many many places, in all races and ethnicities, and all ages.