White House email: "I am a staunch Republican...Obamacare works. I'm living proof."

[steve2470]

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

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/03/28/im-republican-and-you-should-get-covered

eta: added White House blog link for email

[catbyte]

1. Yet he's still suppporting the party that wants to take it away from him. Duh.

[steve2470]

2. no cognitive dissonance there, eh ? nt

[BlueStreak]

3. A Republican with a PhD

That's a combination you don't see every day.

But he does live in NC, so maybe that isn't so uncommon. It does make one wonder how much reasoning ability is needed in order to get a PhD.

[steve2470]

4. my first thought was, maybe he's a religious studies professor ?

I'm confident his Ph.D. is not in some "liberal" field like social work.

[BlueStreak]

9. Notice that he is very low income

because he dot a very high subsidy on his health policy.

So he is probably not a PhD in one of the major sciences, and he isn't a college professor. But he is probably convinced his fortunes are caused by that black family down the street or that Mexican he saw driving through the neighborhood last week.

[IronLionZion]

13. and the gays and women!

Republicans operate on a completely different logical universe.

It's good to see success stories like this since there are too many people desperately looking for horror stories.

[pangaia]

10. LOL..........

I HAVE A PhD... A real one..

[Cha]

16. fox sux your brain ain't gonna let go of him that easily.

[pnwmom]

5. Is there a link to this man's letter? n/t

[steve2470]

6. yea let me find it...nt

[pnwmom]

8. Thanks. I think that might be less likely to scare off some of my FB friends

than a link to DU.

[steve2470]

7. here it is

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/03/28/im-republican-and-you-should-get-covered

eta: edited link for brevity

[pangaia]

11. If this guy has a PhD I'm the Queen Mary II.

[fascisthunter]

12. The GOP lost badly on this Issue

[IronLionZion]

14. Dude is a retired psychologist

"Mark D. Bearden is a retired psychologist living in Monroe, North Carolina. In February, he wrote a letter to the President letting him know what the Affordable Care Act has meant to him. The message below was sent to the White House email list today."

People who have retired or have low incomes and under 65 (medicare age) will probably see the biggest benefit from the subsidies.

Glad its working out. For the folks who are stuck in the gap where they don't get medicaid or subsidies, but still can't afford the plans, I wish they had the option to buy into medicaid for low premiums.

[Cha]

15. Cool Graphic denoting said email..

TOD

Thanks steve~ This good news is beside the obvious for one Mark D. Bearden Ph.D. is that it might change some minds.

[steve2470]

17. always my pleasure Cha, mahalo ! nt