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'Staunch Republican, Fox News Addict' writes letter defending Obamacare

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Post by Ben Reilly Sat Mar 29, 2014 3:31 am

Got this early today from WhiteHouse.gov:

Good afternoon,

I am a staunch Republican, a self-proclaimed Fox News addict, and I didn't vote for the President. And I'm here to tell you that Obamacare works. I'm living proof.

I'm a chemotherapy patient, and was previously paying $428 a month for my health coverage. I was not thrilled when it was cancelled.

Then I submitted an application at HealthCare.gov. I looked at my options. And I signed up for a plan for $62 a month.

It's the best health care I have ever had.

So right now, here's what I want to tell anyone who still needs health insurance, or knows someone who does:

Sign up. Follow the instructions on the website. Apply, and look at your options. You still have time, and take it from me: This is something you want to do.

I wrote a letter to President Obama this past February to tell him about my experience with the Health Insurance Marketplace. I hoped he'd read it, and he did.

I may not be a supporter of the President. But now, I get mad when I see Obamacare dragged through the mud on television.

And even though I regularly tune in to conservative pundits, I'd like to tell them they're getting it wrong. Obamacare works.

So one more time: If you still need health insurance, you have just three days to get it. Do what I did. Go to HealthCare.gov, submit an application, and pick a plan that works for you.

It just might change your life.

Mark D. Bearden, Ph.D.
Monroe, North Carolina

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Post by Ben Reilly Sat Mar 29, 2014 6:08 am

Should add, I've already seen some sites saying "Mark D. Bearden, Ph.D." is fake.

Like news orgs aren't going to check this story ...
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Post by Original Quill Sat Mar 29, 2014 6:00 pm

It could be real.  It sounds quite typical.  

There is no downside to the Affordable Care Act.  It's self-funding, and subsists by capping pharma costs, medical costs and curbing substandard insurance practices, like policy limits and the pre-existing medical condition exclusion.

Just as they have no alternative to suggest, Republicans refuse to discuss in detail what they find wrong with the ACA.  They either lie out-rightly, like saying it costs too much, or they pick out misleading details, like it will cancel your prior policy.

Of course, the ACA has made illegal substandard, flim-flam policies, but that's a good thing.

Then the Republicans add a good dosing of straight bullshit, using adjectives like outrageous, socialist, and train-wreck, but notably they are unwilling to go into detail:

"This law raises premiums, lowers the quality of care, increases taxes and jeopardizes the insurance Americans were promised they could keep."

This is typical of Republican rhetoric, using a combination of elusive lies and misleading half-facts.  But they have absolutely no factual basis for their criticisms.

They just don't want to get into it, and that's probably good advice...for them

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