Obamacare's Unlikely Winners [View all]
Source: National Journal
Sue Spanke of Missoula, Mont., was highly displeased this fall when she learned her health insurance had been canceled.
"I got so mad that I went to my phone and started calling all the political people and giving them what for," Spanke told The Billings Gazette. That was before she learned she was eligible for a policy at a much lower cost.
After angrily calling her state auditor's office, Spanke, a self-employed artist in her 50s, found she was eligible for a federal subsidy. Her new insurance will cover her for a mere $30 to $40 a month with a deductible of only $500. She had been paying $350 a month for a Blue Cross policy with a $5,000 deductible. "I went from a horrible policy that didn't cover anything, that was breaking me, to the best policy at the best price I've had since I was in my 20s," she said.
With the website largely fixed, one of the last lines of attack against Obamacare is that the president lied when he said if people like their insurance plans, they can keep them. The White House is hoping stories like Spanke's will inoculate them against those arguments. And the positive stories abound.
Read more: http://www.nationaljournal.com/politics/obamacare-s-unlikely-winners-20131217
The MSM is largely refusing to follow-up on their stories of people getting their insurance cancelled as the celebrate President Obama's "Lie of the Year." Yet, here is a surprising story that actually follows-up on some of these cancellation stories.
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