BWHAHAHA- GOP’s Biggest Obamacare FEAR Realized: REPUBLICANS ARE SIGNING UP

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Republican voter, Butch Matthews, urges Obamacare skeptics to do their own due diligence before deciding it won’t be helpful to them.

If anyone is wondering why the Right Wing Tea Party Republicans are in a frenzy, one need only see what is happening now that the reality of the Affordable Care Act is emerging. The lies they told are coming back to bite them. They are attempting to discourage young American citizens from going to the exchanges by telling them Obamacare will either be too expensive or an intrusion from the government. Good things are happening however. Inasmuch as the Right Wing is being outright destructive with the nation’s economy in their attempt to derail Obamacare. Empirical and factual data is proven to be a hindrance to their obstructionist tactics. The State Health Bureaucracy in Texas is actually promoting Obamacare. That is a feat in its own right. On October 1st, the Obamacare health exchange servers were overwhelmed because of the inordinately large number of people accessing it.






Republicans racing for Obamacare


The coup de grace, however, is the stories that are now coming out of Republicans who are going onto the exchanges and realizing that they had been lied to. This was the case with Republican Butch Matthews, a 61-year-old former small business owner from Little Rock, Arkansas. ThinkProgress reports that,

Butch Matthews is a 61-year-old former small business owner from Little Rock, Arkansas who used to wake up every morning at 4 A.M. to deliver canned beverages to retailers before retiring in 2010. A lifelong Republican, he was heavily skeptical of the Affordable Care Act when it first passed. “I did not think that Obamacare was going to be a good plan, I did not think that it was going to help me at all,” he told ThinkProgress over the phone.


But after doing a little research, Matthews eventually realized how much the law could help him. And on Tuesday, his local Blue Cross Blue Shield (BCBS) provider confirmed that he would be able to buy a far better plan than his current policy while saving at least $13,000 per year through Arkansas’ Obamacare marketplace.



http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/10/02/2721501/butch-matthews-obamacare-convert/

It turns out that pre-Obamacare, Matthews was paying $1069.per month with a $10,000 deductible. Matthews’ doctor visits went from a co-pay of $150 to $8. Matthews has a simple message to all Americans. He says,

I would tell them to learn more about it before they start talking bad about it,” he noted. “Be more informed, get more information, take your time and study and not just go by just what you hear on one side or the other. Actually check the facts on it.


http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/10/02/2721501/butch-matthews-obamacare-convert/

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http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/10/03/gop-obamacare-fear/

[allan01]

1. re:BWHAHAHA- GOP’s Biggest Obamacare FEAR Realized: REPUBLICANS ARE SIGNING UP View profile

and no manditory implated microchip required !!

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2. "...This story is not unlike Clint Murphy’s story...

...Murphy is a 38 year old Republican operative. He worked for Republican US Senator Paul Coverdell in the 1990s, Republican Casey Cagle in 2006, John McCain in 2008, and Republican Karen Handel’s gubernatorial campaign in 2010. He has come to his senses and simply could not wait for the exchanges to open.



Neither of these guys has given up on their Conservative ideology. They are Republicans. The difference is unlike Right Wing Tea Party Republicans, they are honest and pragmatic. They are willing to let the truth lead. The Tea Party realizes that their credibility is coming to an end for most Americans......"


http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/10/03/gop-obamacare-fear/

[meadowlark5]

3. A fiscal conservative called into the Ed Show this morning

He's a truck driver and was paying $1100 a month for insurance so went to the website to see what he could get. He will have a plan that cost $400 per month with prescription coverage. He said Obama gave him an $8400 a year raise by what he's saving on insurance premiums.

He sounded pretty happy.

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5. The cat's out of the bag.....

Republicans falling over themselves trying to sign up for Obamacare!!....

[Stellar]

25. They got suckered in by Obamascare...

and wined up loving ObamaCareS !!!

[pitbullgirl1965]

26. THAT IS AWESOME!! :D :D

My ex is a owner operator trucker driver and it's a hard way to make a living. I'm happy for him.

[Ikonoklast]

45. I drive for a living. Many truck drivers who work for smaller companies or themselves do not carry

health insurance of any kind, and are whining and crying that they are being "forced" to make plans for their own healthcare.

I ask them, being the Rugged Individuals that they are, why they would drop a potentially huge medical bill unpayable by them onto the taxpayers, hospitals, and doctors? That sounds like cheating the system.

Why is it OK for them to free ride on the rest of us who work and *do* pay their own way, through either an employer or out of their own pocket, and also get stuck paying the bills of those that stiff the system because they were too cheap to provide for their own health care?

It's not like some of these guys are broke, they just figure, "Hey, I'm not sick today, why bother spending any money on health insurance, I'll never use it, I'm healthy!"


Showed two drivers yesterday at a truck stop how to access the exchange information for their state on my laptop.

Both got real excited, better coverage for way less money than they currently pay.

[meadowlark5]

46. Good for you!!

I talked to my brother last night who lives in a really small, conservative town. All the talk, I'm sure, is how ACA is going to destroy the country, blah, blah, blah.

He has horrible insurance. He works for the state but with all of these attacks and cuts to state workers, he basically has no insurance because his deductible is so high. I doubt he even thought to apply for ACA. I told him some of the stories I've been hearing over the last couple of days and how affordable it is to get *good* coverage. I told him to call. Just get online and look. He needs to have a sleep study for possible apnea that he won't do because he pretty much would have to pay for it out of pocket since his deductible is so high.

I'll keep hounding him to try and sign up. It's foolish to keep paying for bad insurance, especially when you can't afford it.

[Ikonoklast]

48. The Exchanges were designed for guys just like your brother.

They may help to save his life, keep after him until he signs up, it's for his own good.

You just might help him to live longer.

[panader0]

4. k and r

[JoePhilly]

6. But they are standing in front of the pit that the death panels toss you in!!

[liberalmuse]

28. My first laugh of the day.

Usually it comes much sooner, so I really needed it.

[JoePhilly]

33. Happy to help ... hope your day gets better!

[Ikonoklast]

49. Joe, it's OK, the bottom of the pit is already filled with dead Canadians.

You know, the millions that all died waiting to see a doctor. The NSA got the contract to haul their bodies away and dump them out of sight in this country.

It makes for a soft landing when Obama tosses you in.

[Whisp]

7. beautiful. K&R.

[doc03]

8. My Republican next door neighbor is signing up. He lost his job

over a year ago when his employer liquidated. He lost his employer health insurance so
his union found him a plan for over $800 a month. He was able to get the Health Care Tax Credit which paid all but $225 of his insurance cost. The HCTC expires at the end of the year so he is anxious to sign up for Obamacare. I wondered why he hadn't said anything about Obamacare for months now, yesterday I found out why he was so silent.

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9. "..More Republicans than Democrats have signed up for Obamacare...

...The more Republicans that sign up for Obamacare through the exchanges, the harder it will be for Republicans to get re-elected trying to repeal the law. Hypocrisy is not a popular trait in politicians for any party...."

http://www.examiner.com/article/more-republicans-than-democrats-have-signed-up-for-obamacare

[zipplewrath]

50. They should, it's a GOP plan

Really, considering how much of the ACA was drawn from GOP plans in the past, not to mention the Heritage Foundations work on the subject, a republican should be comfortable with it. I always thought the GOP objections to the mandate were strange since it was basically a right wing/GOP idea to begin with. I seem to remember Newt getting in a bit of trouble in the primaries because he had supported mandates in the past.

[Cha]

10. Oooops!

[Peacetrain]

11. Loving this!!

[senseandsensibility]

12. He's still a very strong republican.

Even after this experience, he's still on the side of those who have been lying to him.

[SunSeeker]

13. That is what blows my mind. My father-in-law is the same way.

I guess those Republicans may have lied to him, but Obama is still black.

[BobbyBoring]

15. Sad to say

but that's a fact Jack! Racism lives on in America!

[SunSeeker]

34. Yes. To them, lying is forgivable. Blackness is not.

[tridim]

37. The Democrats in Congress who crafted and voted for the ACA aren't all black.

I don't buy that excuse. Faux and Limbaugh lie about EVERYTHING, not just Obamacare. That's the problem.

[SunSeeker]

51. Yes, of course. But racist whites tend to be Republican.

They like to be among kindred spirits.

[Jackpine Radical]

21. In a year he may not be. This was the first crack in the shell.

That's the way change works. He has now discovered that at least one thing is not as he was led to believe. Then there will be something else. Then something beyond that. At some point the change is likely to happen, and once it breaks, it's like a dam going.

[arcane1]

23. Yep. He will still continue to hear lies about it for quite some time

And his new-found skepticism might encourage him to look into other lies as well.

[Arugula Latte]

24. They are stubborn, closed-minded fucking morons, those Republicans.

They will take whatever they can get, like Obamacare, but continue to prop up the imbecilic thugs.

Go figure.

[Augiedog]

14. We don't need no stinking facts

Image that, a republican using evidence based decision making processes. What next? Perhaps the unthinkable! Yes, you guessed it watching Faux News with a quizzical look on their face, oh the humanity of it all. Perhaps Thug nation ruler Bill O'Rielly will have to write a book called "Kill'n Meself".

[malaise]

16. This was always going to happen

[AtheistCrusader]

17. Don't worry.

At some point they'll pretend they supported it all along, and their base will eat that bullshit right up.

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41. What makes me insane is that they DID support it

I know you know this, but so many of my wingnut acquaintances are NOT aware that this is a Heritage Foundation designed and Mitt Romney approved and implemented plan. This is what the Republicans were pushing when the Dems started talking national healthcare.

Not the Medicare expansion/single payer setup that many of us would have preferred. No. It's the "free market" solution.

And yet, it's still "socialism". Because...you know...Obama.

[AtheistCrusader]

43. Exactly. All bases covered.

The tumor that is the right wing of the political spectrum will be with us for a long, long time to come, no matter how wrong they are on any or all issues, because right and wrong or rather, true and false, don't matter to them.

[0rganism]

18. remember - they're not signing up for Obamacare, they're signing up for the ACA

[hue]

19. One of the Repuke's biggest fears!! Kick & Rec!!

[roamer65]

20. By 2016...

Any candidate who campaigns on repealing Obamacare will have a very rough time getting elected or keeping office. Obamacare is going to be that popular, mark my words.

Even Conservatives in Canada will not talk of getting rid of Medicare. It would be political suicide.

[Ohio Joe]

22. Truth... It will set in for most people

Good post

[Lenomsky]

27. I'm stunned you guys pay $1,000+ a month ..

for Health Care Insurance and have massive deductibles.
I had no idea people had to pay so much.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

32. This is because we're paying for so many who aren't insured.

And then there's the "for profit" form of some providers.

I have a plan for the problems which will arise when we don't have enough doctors and nurses to care for those who now will have access to them. It ought to be an option to have their education provided by the government in exchange for 4-5 years of "service" to the community. Working for a relatively small sum equal to what those in the military make. Then, after serving they can go out and practice medicine wherever they want. They would be replaced by the next graduating class.

[SleeplessinSoCal]

29. Fiscally minded conservatives will want to sign up, but may not speak out.

I figure the most intelligent people have figured out the lies and they're the ones most likely to go and find out for themselves. But if they hate Obama, they'll likely keep quiet about it. God forbid they approve of something he fought for.

[proud patriot]

30. great news

[Cartoonist]

31. The GI Bill

A whole generation of Americans benefited from the GI Bill after WWII, my dad included. He was a conservative repub even though that party called it evil big government and fought it just as hard as they fought Social Security, Medicare, and now the ACA. I remember one officer who spent his life in the military saying he owed his loyalty to the GI Bill. Yep, he was a republican.
As much as I would like this to be a game changer, I don't think it will.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

36. Yep. That's how it will go. And I will never, ever understand it!

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42. My dad's friends included some reactionary Republicans

The only thing that would have allow them to vote for the "mulignan" is that they thought their own party might go after their Social Security and Medicare.

But in the end, they said they STILL voted Republican, because in their mind, the Democrats were too Jewish, too gay, too "anti Catholic" (pro choice) and too black.

[Avalux]

35. This is precisely what the GOP knew would happen and they know they're screwed.

Just like a wild animal forced into a corner, they are terrified and dangerous.

[B Calm]

38. They'll need to rethink why they still consider their self as republican.

[HappyMe]

39. Of course they are.

Most of them would rather shoot their mouth off without any facts.

The whole thing comes down to blocking or crapping on any good the President wants to do. Just because it's him doing it.

[Berlum]

40. There you have it (R)

k and r

[TBF]

44. I'm glad Mr. & Mrs. Matthews have been able to get a decent premium -

This is how it should work.

[whttevrr]

47. k & r

[yuiyoshida]

52. NOT MIKEY...HE Will not try anything....

[louis-t]

53. What? You mean fox news isn't giving their brain-dead listeners

the facts? I am shocked!

[Stuart G]

54. K and R...thanks for posting nt..

[Scurrilous]

55. K & R

[KansDem]

56. "COME OVER TO OUR SIDE!!!"

Wasn't that the call during Reagan's "Southern Strategy?" I believe he used it to further the defection of Southern Dems to vote Repub.

[DeSwiss]

57. Check the facts?!?!

- Now there's a thought!

K&R

[SheilaT]

58. And of course he'll probably vote

for Republicans again. And again. And again.

Too many of these people make absolutely no connection between how they vote and what happens.

It's kind of a shame he or his wife doesn't have a government job that they've been furloughed from.

I do wonder how many of the furloughed govt employees voted Republican in recent elections. It's somewhat too bad that we actually have a secret ballot, because it would be nice to be able to call out those who consistently vote against their own interests. Perhaps if those who voted for the Republicans trying so hard to de-fund the ACA, better known as Obamacare, weren't allowed to sign up for a while, maybe then they'd get it.

I can only hope.

[rivegauche]

59. What a novel idea!

Actually finding out the reality of somethnig, before you shoot your mouth off and spread a lot of bullshit! This must be an absolute revelation to the baggers. *SARCASM*