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In reply to the discussion: The checkout girl in the grocery store [View all]graham4anything
(11,464 posts)I was doing one of those leg machines and right behind me, two middle aged folks were talking and (this too is 100% true)
the one said to the other, "you know, I don't want to get into politics"
(that immediately set my Obama radar tingling) and he continued
"but those people don't realize how much more they are now paying for their health care, they just don't realize, and I pity them."
Now, I pay as a self-employed under our own "group" they call it about 3 grand A MONTH to keep mine,which is an old fashioned insurance, no pre-admitance, no cap, no exclusions, which became high since it started 19 years back as a company paid health care for at most $200 a month, then cobraserve, then we paid out of pocket ourself and got a 15% increase every year since (which after cobraserva pushed it to the level it is now.)
The two continued and were by that time shaking their heads in sorrow over who won the presidency.
As I come to the health club to remove pounds and stress, I didn't argue the point that day, but made a mental note of their looks and at the right point one day soon, I am going to give them a piece of my mind.
Do they not know that "Obamacare" has not started yet, and that for 19 years the insurance I had had been upped 15%?
In fact, last May 2012, was the first year we got a ZERO premium increase, and I thank President Obama for making the insurance companies justify now an increase.
So these lies are going around. Stupid fools they are.
And they think they are talking privately and no one else hears them. We do.
(oh, that reminds me, I always wear buttons and have continued to do so. First days after, I altered my Obama button with a second button I overlayed with a sticker that said
THANK YOU AMERICA for reelecting President Obama.
Now I wear a Hillary 2016 button. And have tweeked that a little to Hillary/Michelle 2016.
You should see the looks