Originally Posted by
t.nie
I read his post and didn't get the same message from it as you did. He wasn't blaming insurance companies, he was stating a fact of insurance coverage--if your company doesn't cover it, you can't have it. If the company you work for decides to cancel the existing policy, because policies change, the work force changes, etc... (case in point, at my wife's employer they had 2 people suffer with very bad cancers over a couple years, each time the existing insurer cancelled at the end of the year and the company had to go find new insurance with higher premiums for all. Isn't that great? Won't happen now though....) then you get to pay higher premiums, go find a new doctor in some cases, and live with the fact that some stuff you used to have covered is now out of pocket or you don't get it at all.
Funny you should say he is jumping the gun and "blaming the insurance company already." If you look around, the right wingers are already screaming all sorts of nonsense and blaming it all on the ACA. To hear Rush Limbaugh tell it, no insurance company ever cancelled a policy until the ACA. No company ever laid anyone off or downsized it's workforce until the ACA. No insurer ever changed the limits of the insurance, for better or worse, until the ACA.
It never ceases to amaze me how a good right winger can always spin what anyone else says into something else entirely from what was intended. It's like that right wing hate machine just brainwashes people into not being able to comprehend what normal people do when they read stuff. No, the right wing brain has this habit of finding alternative interpretations that are predominantly negative and hateful in anything they see or hear.
It's like that's all they listen to all day long, the anger and hatred of Rush Limbaugh and Fox, so when someone not from that ilk speaks, they hear it as angry and hateful. Even when it's not, they interpret it that way.
Must be the conditioning they receive by only listening the the right wing all the time. Hate, hate and more hate. It's all bad, it's ruining the nation, the agenda is to make everyone a slave, blah blah blah. What a way to spend your day, listening to nothing but malice and hate. Geesh, change the channel, it would do wonders for your mindset.