Kirsten Powers, a Liberal Columnist Who Backed Obamacare Sees Her Insurance Rates Skyrocket

[FrankRep]

After Supporting Obamacare, Liberal Daily Beast Columnist Gets an Unwelcome Health Care Surprise in the Mail


The Blaze
Oct. 25, 2013


Daily Beast columnist Kirsten Powers, who has been an Obamacare supporter, admitted on “The Kelly File” Thursday that her insurance premiums will nearly double from $160 per month to about $300 per month if she wants to keep the same deductible.

The reality of higher premiums and the broken promise that Americans can keep their current health care plans isn’t “quite the way they sold it,” she said.

“I’m in the individual market and I got the letter, the same letter everyone’s talking about. I live in D.C., so it’s a state exchange, and I went on and I guess I can roughly get the same insurance…but it will go up from about $160 a month and a $2,500 deductible — if I want to keep a $2,500 deductible, it will go up to about $300 a month,” Powers explained.

The administration may argue that its the “young” and “healthy” who will see their premiums go up, but that’s really not “quite the way they sold it,” she added.



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[AlexAmore]

I think the real news here is Kirsten Powers isn't hitched. Dayyyyum.

 

[Philhelm]

I think the real news here is Kirsten Powers isn't hitched. Dayyyyum.

It would be too much of a liability to provide health insurance for her, apparently.

I must admit that the Obamacare fiasco fills my heart with blackened glee.

 

[AlexAmore]

I must admit that the Obamacare fiasco fills my heart with blackened glee.

 

[erowe1]

It's exactly what they sold to you, you vacuous whore.

The law was passed years ago. You cheered for it. It's been on the books all this time. There wasn't some new law that made your rates go up the day before you got that letter.

Admit you're a moron who's unqualified to vote or comment on politics and go away.

 

[Tod]

"schadenfreude" comes to mind when I hear of the mess. May the problems compound!

 

[erowe1]

"schadenfreude" comes to mind when I hear of the mess. May the problems compound!

Not for me. For me it's all freude, no schaden.

 

[Occam's Banana]

I blame the free market. The government needs to do something about this problem.

 

[Carlybee]

I had some douchebag lib tell me that my insurance going up by 300 a month (our portion of employer covg for family) really wasn't too bad and that if my insurance is costing that much, I must be upper middle class, and that its not the ACA fault but insurance company greed. I am seriously going to go postal on somebody soon.

 

[erowe1]

I had some douchebag lib tell me that my insurance going up by 300 a month (our portion of employer covg for family) really wasn't too bad and that if my insurance is costing that much, I must be upper middle class, and that its not the ACA fault but insurance company greed. I am seriously going to go postal on somebody soon.

Show them this article, and ask if they'd be willing to fight against that corporate greed by extending the Obamacare deadline.

 

[Carlybee]

Show them this article, and ask if they'd be willing to fight against that corporate greed by extending the Obamacare deadline.

Oh no they aren't willing to do anything except gloat that it's the law.

 

[erowe1]

Oh no they aren't willing to do anything except gloat that it's the law.

Then she's on the greedy insurance companies' side.

 

[oyarde]

Kirsten is a dirtbag , been defending the commie dems so long she does not know why , I was hoping hers would be $999 a month and 12 K deduct.

 

[brushfire]

"That's the BAM!" "BAM!" "There's another BAM!"

Seems to be enough steam to carry us for a while. I recall it well - 13 hours on a Sunday, to pass this abomination - against the will of nearly all the people. Who's getting spit on and being called n--ger now?

If the flatliner obummercare advocates are coming out against it, just imagine the reaction of the non-zealot average joe. I think we're gonna see Rand's suggestion - let them do what they want to do, and then try to defend it later. I think I'm a believer... Why let this thing fester? Just let it implode already.

 

[Brian4Liberty]

 

[Cleaner44]

I had some douchebag lib tell me that my insurance going up by 300 a month (our portion of employer covg for family) really wasn't too bad and that if my insurance is costing that much, I must be upper middle class, and that its not the ACA fault but insurance company greed. I am seriously going to go postal on somebody soon.

I thought liberals were supposed to want us all to be lifted up. Seems to me this douchebag want you to be brought down. Why does he hate the 99%?

 

[Jack Bauer]

After Supporting Obamacare, Liberal Daily Beast Columnist Gets an Unwelcome Health Care Surprise in the Mail

 

[Austrian Econ Disciple]

The world would be righteous if all these bozo's plans were hiked by 5000%, the Chickenhawks of the world would get sent over to their wars to die, and the spy machine becomes the spied upon and we incessantly make their lives living hell. Oh, what a world that would be.

 

[Koz]

I think the real news here is Kirsten Powers isn't hitched. Dayyyyum.

Cute no doubt, but I couldn't date someone let alone marry someone who has a limited ability to reason as does Kirsten Powers.

 

[CaptUSA]