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plethoro

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12. With me it is much the same. In 2014, my wife will be forced to leave the hospital where

Reply to doc03 (Reply #8)

Sun Nov 25, 2012, 12:38 AM

Nov 2012

she is Director of Nurses because as a result of Obamacare the company will no longer offer employer-paid insurance. We will start examining our alternatives early next year. Medicare won't be the same when the corporatists are done with it. We may have to leave the country. I hope I have enough money saved should it come to that. Maybe Australia or New Zealand, neither which I know much about. I predict a lot of people will leave the United States, including a mess of doctors. This will be a sea change. Many people will leave this time that might not have left before. America is not what it was; I look around even my neighborhood and don't recognize the place. Until five years ago we had quite a neighborhood. It is all but gone.

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With me it is much the same. In 2014, my wife will be forced to leave the hospital where plethoro Nov 2012 #12

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I already know the details. I was a former regional controller of Sears. I've been doing plethoro Nov 2012 #19

"as a result of Obamacare the company will no longer offer employer-paid insurance" pinto Nov 2012 #15

I didn't understand the wording of your post. However, if you mean why would Obamacare be plethoro Nov 2012 #22

Are they going to stop offering paid insurance? Suggest you both contact employer for clarification. pinto Nov 2012 #25

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Sorry to hear that. Especially from a health care organization. Any insurance available from pinto Nov 2012 #29

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