CBS News Features Distraught Woman Paying 10 Times More for Insurance Due to Obamacare

[alp227]

A visibly distraught woman who recently lost her health insurance plan because of the new requirements within the Affordable Care Act recently expressed her frustrations to CBS News. In a report about the number of people losing their health plans, in spite of assurances by the president, one Florida woman choked up slightly while revealing that she will have to pay more than $500 monthly for the coverage she previously paid just $50 for.

CBS News’ Jan Crawford reported on Monday that the ACA’s broken federal website is unlikely to be fully functional until after weeks of repair work. In the interim, she reported, millions of Americans are losing their health insurance plans and are being told that they will have to pay far more for their current level of coverage.

“For many, their introduction to the Affordable Care Act has been negative,” Crawford reported.

She also noted that the fact that so many are losing their health care plans is “directly at odds with repeated assurances by the president.”

full: http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cbs-news-features-distraught-woman-paying-10-times-more-for-insurance-due-to-obamacare/

And CBS is "liberal"? Looks like the media has gone totally Fox!

One comment on Mediaite responds:

Well, if the Florida legislature had taken the Medicaid expansion, she wouldn't have fallen into the gray area where she makes too much to qualify for the subsidy. The Republicans on both the state and national levels have to accept some of the blame for the Obamacare mess, too.

[Xipe Totec]

1. She was paying $50/month?!

What kind of coverage was she getting for that money, I wonder.

$50/month would barely cover the copay on my medications.

[Pretzel_Warrior]

2. I'm sure it was shitty non insurance covering nothing

[Blue_Tires]

7. That's my question as well...

[CreekDog]

15. full coverage for the left side of her body every other day of the week

except on days of the month which are not prime numbers.

[IronLionZion]

30. Consumer Reports called it "junk insurance"

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cbs-news-misleading-obamacare-report-womans-plan-paid-50-per-service-doesnt-cover-hospitalization/

The new plans cost about the same with subsidies, but are infinitely superior in coverage.

More open-minded and curious people are doing much better than those who don't know any better. Unfortunately for them, the GOP doesn't want them to even bother looking. Its up to us to get them to look.

[Xipe Totec]

31. And junk reporting to go with it - CBS isn't helping. nt

[Raine1967]

33. CBS, via Jan Crawford has had 3-4 stories like this.

She's concerned you see...

Check this out: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/10/25/2835911/jan-crawford/

and here another story: http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/10/23/2823581/cbs-news-misleading-obamacare/

She also may have been behind the SCOTUS ACA leaks from last year: http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/07/01/509359/supreme-court-springs-a-leak-leaks-to-conservative-pundits-may-have-started-more-than-a-month-ago/

She's also very good friends with this fellow:



http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2012/07/03/510247/thomas-crawford-leaks/

Yesterday, the New York Times‘ Adam Liptak strongly implied that the leak could be Justice Clarence Thomas:

(T)he possibility that conservatives had victory within reach only to lose it seemed to infuriate some of them. The CBS News report, attributed to two sources with “specific knowledge of the deliberations,” appeared to give voice to the frustrations of people associated with the court’s conservative wing. It was written by Jan Crawford, whose 2007 book, “Supreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court,” was warmly received by conservatives.

In a 2009 interview on C-Span, Justice Thomas singled her out as a favorite reporter. “There are wonderful people out here who do a good job — do a fantastic job — like Jan Greenburg,” Justice Thomas said, referring to Ms. Crawford by her married name at the time.

ETA: Crawford had her hands all over the Elena Kagan smear leading up to her Eventual SCOTUS nomination:
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2010/06/05/176825/crawford-kagan-smear/

Thousands of parties petition the Supreme Court to review their case, although the justices generally hear only about 60-80 cases a year. So as a law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall, Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan would have written literally hundreds of memos to her boss advising him on whether to grant or deny these petitions. Of these hundreds of memos, the right-wing Federalist Society chose to post exactly five of them on its website.

By what could only be an amazing coincidence, CBS News’ legal correspondent Jan Crawford selected four of the same five memos as the basis of a report Thursday night. According to Crawford:

Taken together, these documents will be much harder for her to explain away than other, less controversial papers unearthed before her confirmation hearings for Solicitor General. . . . The documents seem to show that Kagan had some pretty strong legal views of her own, and while that might encourage liberals, it’s going to give Republicans a lot more ammunition to fight against her.

I trust very little that comes from Jan Crawford.

[bravenak]

3. I wanna see her policy.

I've never heard of $50 insurance.
I think somebody might be stretching the truth like taffy.

[Yo_Mama]

19. There are a bunch of them, employer sponsored

It might have been a mini-Med.

But those are all cancelled now. The CBS coverage says she is eligible for some sort of subsidy, but she just can't find out what because she hasn't been able to use Healthcare.gov yet.

This might be a nothing story when she finds out what she can get on the exchange.

[SoCalDem]

38. If she worked a low paying job (likely) she may even qualify for medicaid

and if she lives in a state with a stupid governor, her gripe is with Him.her..not the ACA

[Enthusiast]

4. There isn't a trace of a liberal media in this country.

MSNBC pretends to be liberal but they always betray their true intentions. The other networks are no better than more palatable versions of Fox "News".

[Pretzel_Warrior]

5. CBS News. Brought to you by United Healthcare

And Blue Cross-Blue Shield.

"Oh my God! Obamacare is the worst thing to hit the U.S. since Hitler!!!11"

[Rex]

6. There is no liberal media in this country.

That is just one huge conspiracy theory created by the RWing to keep the media on a certain narrative.

[Tony_FLADEM]

8. I looked up what this woman would pay on the healthcare.gov website

A woman older than 50 living in Polk County Florida would pay these amounts:

https://www.healthcare.gov/find-premium-estimates/#results/&aud=indv&type=med&state=FL&county=Polk&cov=self&age=50plus

Plans range from $235-$700.

[gollygee]

9. $50/month insurance?

I call bullshit on that and on any reporter who reported on that without asking to see some paperwork showing how much the insurance was and what it covered.

[Xipe Totec]

10. People who carried no insurance will now be paying infinitely more due to Obamacare.

Shees!

[factsarenotfair]

11. Jan Crawford gets more evil by the day.

One of these days, the mask will just fall off.

[deutsey]

23. I'm sure she'll be able to milk all this for $$$ at the Federalist Society

http://www.fed-soc.org/publications/author/jan-crawford

[factsarenotfair]

25. Geez. What a "journalist."

[factsarenotfair]

12. Has CBS ever featured a distraught woman who is very sick and could not get health insurance???

Ever? Does anyone know?

[Bonhomme Richard]

13. Maybe $50 was her contributiojn to an employers plan...

and the employer dropped providing insurance.
I don't know anything about the story but that is my guess. We, personally don't pay anything toward our insurance coverage other than co-pays.

[Sheldon Cooper]

16. I think you're probably right.

But you won't get too much traction here. Your guess doesn't fit the approved narrative.

[Yo_Mama]

17. Yes, that's what it is

And the CBS video says that she is eligible for a subsidy, but she can't find out what that is because she can't use the website yet.

[nadinbrzezinski]

22. That is possible, but the story did not go there

bad, bad journalist.

[Bonhomme Richard]

28. The story was slanted the way they wanted it. n/t

[Azathoth]

14. The last time I saw $50-a-month coverage was in college

And that barely qualified as health insurance.

[kestrel91316]

18. Meanwhile, I'll be paying 1/10 of what the premiums were for my crappy catastrophic policy

that I had to drop due to the cost.

[nadinbrzezinski]

20. Ok, cool story. Not even those on things like Tricare Prime

pay that little

[NCTraveler]

21. A lot of people pay that little.

Some don't have to pay anything into employer based coverage.

[sammytko]

32. I'm on TriCare Prime and pay 22 dollars

My sister pays 11 dollars for SWBell provided coverage

[nadinbrzezinski]

36. Stand corrected

https://www.hnfs.com/content/hnfs/home/tn/bene/enroll/fees/prime_fees.html

Forgot we added dental. My bad.

[LittleBlue]

24. So much for the "post all ur info or u lied" crowd

There are far too many respected media sources reporting this for it to be denied.

The costs for this are quite clearly landing on people who cannot afford to pay it. Which is why we should have gone with government-run healthcare like the UK or France. Healthcare is unaffordable under the for-profit system no matter how we shift the costs, and let's be honest, the costs should have shifted on to the rich before the middle-class and single college graduates.


But noooooo that was off the table from day 1.

[Ikonoklast]

35. Her policy was a catastrophic insurance plan that covered exactly nothing.

She is lying, she had no insurance to speak of, she is also going around to Fox with the same story and you take it as gospel.

[Demo_Chris]

41. You do not know any of this. $50 could have been her portion of an employer plan. nt

[Ikonoklast]

42. Except it wasn't.

[NYC Liberal]

26. Remember when Michael Moore went on CBS

to promote F9/11 and told them their "news" was propaganda?

Still true today.

[Blue Owl]

27. Koch dealers probably tossed her a free 8-ball

First one's free, lady!

[IronLionZion]

29. "Great reporting Jan" is the biggest lie of that video.

This one investigates further and finds that she is infinitely better off with a new plan (not the one the greedy assholes at Kaiser recommended) but from the options available and the subsidies. Her old plan was junk and she would have come out ahead paying cash for routine visits instead of that crap. The new plan would cost about the same but cover so much more.

The sharks prey on those who don't know any better. People who know or are at least curious, are signing up. In the time it took for her to do the interview wit CBS, that lady could have gotten to a local office or Kaiser family foundation's website to see her eligibility for subsidies.

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cbs-news-misleading-obamacare-report-womans-plan-paid-50-per-service-doesnt-cover-hospitalization/

Florida should have built their own state exchange but chose not to because their governor wants to lose re-election. F FloriDUH.

[Raine1967]

34. See my post 33 about the reporter:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10023936922#post33

[WinkyDink]

37. This insurance company ploy should have been OUTLAWED.

[SoCalDem]

40. or they should have been required to confess that their coverage was so BAD

it was worthless and now illegal..

[WinkyDink]

44. Yes, at least that, to take off the mask.

[WinkyDink]

39. NONE of this, true, false, or otherwise, should even BE! Health-care $$ ought come from our TAXES.

Same as the Defense Dept $$$$$$$$$$$$$, which pretty much does nothing good for us.

[mountain grammy]

43. wish CBS news would tell us what she got for $50 month

but that would be ,gasp, journalism. Story sounds completely fake.