My affordable healthcare ends today

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Sunday December 13, 2015 · 12:24 PM PST

2015/12/13 · 12:24

I am a female, late 50s. Self-employed. Don’t smoke. No health problems. I live in a city where the major hospital system only takes one insurance company.

When the ACA was launched in 2014 I purchased a Silver Plan with a very reasonable deductible, with my subsidy, the monthly premium was $132.19. When it was time to renew in 2015, that plan was no longer available, but another Silver Plan with a reasonable deductible for $175.65 a month was. I’m on a pretty limited budget, but with some tweaking the $43.00 increase wasn’t a problem. This year, the same plan with subsidy will cost $269.73 per month!

So, my choices are to figure out how to absorb a $94.00 monthly increase, and continue to see a doctor when I need to. Or switch to a Bronze plan with a $6,000 deductible (and HOPE nothing happens) for about the same monthly premium as I am paying now.

Back to worrying about the cost of and access to healthcare! It was nice to have 2 years off.

Chris Heben Tea Party Hero lies to police

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Wednesday September 03, 2014 · 8:08 PM PDT

2014/09/03 · 20:08

Chris Heben, a member of Seal Team 8 and Tea Party Hero lied to the police about being menaced by 3 black men who yelled ‘You Got a Big Mouth White Boy’ and then shot him in the stomach.

Heben's "recollection" of the event:

The driver, who is black, Heben said, told him, “You got a big mouth white boy. You need to learn some [expletive] respect.”
Heben said he then told the driver: “Look dude, in my world, you have to earn respect” and offered to “help him out right now.”
When the driver turned to a passenger in the front seat, Heben said, his SEAL instincts told him to “blade” and turn so the front of his body was not exposed.
In an instance, he was bent over in pain.
“It felt like a mule kick to my stomach,” he said.

A big fat lie in "Post-Racial" America.

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