The Messiah Asks For Tech Help To Fix Broken Obamacare Site

[dontworrybehappy]

The only difference btw gas and insurance is that with gas there is competition. Imagine if Chevron was the only company allowed to sell gas in your state? You REALLY think you're going to get a competitive price?

[spacemonkey]

[dontworrybehappy]

Because they're not equal. Not at all. Right now Racetrac near my house is at 2.94, and Chevron, which shares a curb in the parking lot, is at 3.13. At least that was a week or so ago. They all get their fuel from the same refineries so of COURSE they're all going to go up, or all go down, but not necessarily at the same rate. If anything, the mom and pop stores have to make more money off of gas so they charge more than the larger companies that make almost nothing off the fuel and everything off the crap they sell inside the store.

But one thing is for sure, on lakes near my house where there is no fuel supplier other than the marina itself, fuel is through the roof. Usually about 1 dollar a gallon more than regular pump price.

[Mr.Bill]

So I'm sitting on my porch yesterday, having a beer, and a cigar and my ex-neighbor sees me and stops to chat.. He moved away about 3 years ago. We were never great friends, but we'd watch each others' house, chatted once in awhile over our backyard fence, etc..

So I get him a beer and a cigar and I ask him how's it's going:

Mr. Bill: How's the family?

Jim: Good, kids are fine.. Wife's doing OK.

Mr. Bill: Only OK?

Jim: Yeah, because of this sh1tty Obamacare they cut her hours, and her HI benefits were cut.

Jim: Now that the company where she works has to cover pre-existing conditions they said their costs are going sky-high, so they are cutting hours, and benefits... Damn Obama.

Mr. Bill: Does she have the same job as she did when you guys lived next store 3 years ago?

Jim: Yep.

Mr. Bill: Her company is here in NY? And based in NY?

Jim: Yep

Mr Bill was enjoying his cigar and beer way too much to point out to Jim that HI companies have had to cover pre-existing conditions in NYS long before Obamacare, and that NYS already regulated the HI market in a similar manner to ACA..So I doubt her employer's HI costs are going to change much in NYS.. And if they do rise the employer will just raise the employee's premiums, something even Jim admitted they've been doing for over 10 years now... So his wife's employer is feeding it's employees a line of bull and is using Obamacare as an excuse to cut benefits to its employees.. I kept my mouth shit, listened abit more, and then nudged the discussion to the Yankees and Mets woes.

It is amazing the amount of bad information out there. I like this guy, good guy, hard worker, good family man. But listening to him go on about Obamacare was straight out of Fox, and Hanity and they rest.. He was wrong about everything he was talking about.

Oh well. This is the world we live in today. I always thought more info is better, I'm not so sure anymore. Much of the info out there now is nothing but lies and half-truths.

[PoS]

Let me ask you this, if it wasnt for Obamacare, would his wife's company cut their benefits or not? You can blame companies all you want but they are only doing this because of Obamacare- if Obamacare never got rammed through by the Dems the country wouldnt be having these kinds of problems- its going to bring costs up, not down for all the healthy people out there.

[Mr.Bill]

So even though ACA is probably not costing this company an extra dime, their using ACA to further their GREED and their LYING and screwing their employees is still ACA's fault?

Priceless logic.

Coming for you it's expected, anytime a Corp. screws it's employee you cheer. But it is still priceless.

[PoS]

Oh its pretty certain that Obamacare is going to cost companies something- to say its gonna cost nothing extra is incredibly naive.

[Indy]

What's naive is not understanding from experience that you've always applauded corporations screwing the people but if, in your mind, it's the Dems, why: the OUTRAGE!

Flip, flop....

[PoS]

Thats quite ironic coming from a guy who says nothing but kill the rich, burn down corporations, rob banks and worships Obama.

[Indy]