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<blockquote data-quote="roadrunner2012" data-source="post: 1215663" data-attributes="member: 40736"><a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/10/29/fox-news-clears-up-cbs-news-story-about-perils-of-obamacare/" target="_blank">Fox News clears up CBS News story about perils of Obamacare</a>What is her cost after subsidies? A quick search revealed this:&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; However, the health care law that was passed in 2010 outlined <a href="https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/essential-health-benefits/" target="_blank">10 essential benefits every plan has to provide</a>:&nbsp; &quot;ambulatory patient services; emergency services; hospitalization;&nbsp; maternity and newborn care; mental health and substance use disorder&nbsp; services, including behavioral health treatment; prescription drugs;&nbsp; rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices; laboratory&nbsp; services; preventive and wellness services and chronic disease&nbsp; management; and pediatric services, including oral and vision care,&quot;&nbsp; according to Healthcare.gov. So while you can probably keep your doctor,&nbsp; you can&#039;t keep you bare bones limited liability plan. &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Barrette&#039;s plan didn&#039;t offer most of this. According to the same GoBlue&nbsp; summary mentioned earlier, and a GoBlue representative, her plan:&nbsp;<ul>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Only paid &quot;up to $50 per provider per date of service for covered services.&quot;</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Discounted medicines, but didn&#039;t cover them. &quot;Contraceptives and&nbsp; self-injectable drugs are not covered. GoBlue pays up to $5 or $15 per&nbsp; prescription, depending on the plan purchased.&quot;</li>
<li data-xf-list-type="ul">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Didn&#039;t cover maternity/pre-natal care or hospital visits.</li>
</ul>Granted, a 56 YO woman doesn&#039;t need most of this, but most of us don&#039;t. I sure don&#039;t, being a male. I don&#039;t need expensive cancer or heart drugs, or any drugs, for that matter. But we are looking at the greater good, no an individual.More: &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; But Dianne Barrette&#039;s new plan is 10 times as expensive!&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; That&#039;s true, though we don&#039;t know how much her new plan will cost her&nbsp; after her subsidies. More importantly, in Barrette&#039;s case you can&#039;t&nbsp; really compare her old plan to the new plan. Under her old limited&nbsp; liability plan Barrette wouldn&#039;t have been covered if she was admitted&nbsp; to the hospital, for instance.Why can&#039;t we all have access, at cost, to what YOU have on Medicare?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="roadrunner2012, post: 1215663, member: 40736"] [url=http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/erik-wemple/wp/2013/10/29/fox-news-clears-up-cbs-news-story-about-perils-of-obamacare/]Fox News clears up CBS News story about perils of Obamacare[/url] What is her cost after subsidies? A quick search revealed this: However, the health care law that was passed in 2010 outlined [URL="https://www.healthcare.gov/glossary/essential-health-benefits/"]10 essential benefits every plan has to provide[/URL]: "ambulatory patient services; emergency services; hospitalization; maternity and newborn care; mental health and substance use disorder services, including behavioral health treatment; prescription drugs; rehabilitative and habilitative services and devices; laboratory services; preventive and wellness services and chronic disease management; and pediatric services, including oral and vision care," according to Healthcare.gov. So while you can probably keep your doctor, you can't keep you bare bones limited liability plan. Barrette's plan didn't offer most of this. According to the same GoBlue summary mentioned earlier, and a GoBlue representative, her plan: [LIST] [*] Only paid "up to $50 per provider per date of service for covered services." [*] Discounted medicines, but didn't cover them. "Contraceptives and self-injectable drugs are not covered. GoBlue pays up to $5 or $15 per prescription, depending on the plan purchased." [*] Didn't cover maternity/pre-natal care or hospital visits. [/LIST] Granted, a 56 YO woman doesn't need most of this, but most of us don't. I sure don't, being a male. I don't need expensive cancer or heart drugs, or any drugs, for that matter. But we are looking at the greater good, no an individual. More: [B]But Dianne Barrette's new plan is 10 times as expensive![/B] That's true, though we don't know how much her new plan will cost her after her subsidies. More importantly, in Barrette's case you can't really compare her old plan to the new plan. Under her old limited liability plan Barrette wouldn't have been covered if she was admitted to the hospital, for instance. Why can't we all have access, at cost, to what YOU have on Medicare? [/QUOTE]

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