Rebelling Against Obamacare

I just got a $50/month increase in my insurance rate because of Obamacare mandates.  I am ticked...BIG TIME!  I told my husband that I will not pay it.  I will pay the fine instead and let Obama pick up my tab. Congress has until January 25 to repeal the healhcare bill or I will be without insurance.  I have been covered by insurance for years.  The money I have paid in has probably been enough to pay for anything that could happen to me, did I have it, instead of the insurance companies.

Why do you think we have to pay for the increase? 

Do you know that you can get a significantly lower bill if you pay cash for the hospital's services instead of filing it with insurance?  Either it costs the amount billed or it doesn't.  No wonder insurance rates are so high. 

We have to pay not only for our medical expenses, but those that choose not to purchase insurance for whatever reason.  Then, we have to pay for illegals to use the doctors and hospitals that should not even be here at all.  And, how do the insurance big shots justify the money they make?  Ask yourself, if this were a totally free market, wouldn't the people and premium payers be in control of rates and NOT the big shots?  People would be finding insurance companies that would be able to offer them great service for affordable rates. 

And then, how can hospitals and doctors justify some of their charges?  Why do radiologists have to read every single xray?  Aren't medical schools teaching that anymore?  What is so expensive about a sonogram or CAT scan or MRI?  You pay one person to order the test (physician), another to perform the test, another to read it, then the physician again to tell you what the result was AND you have to pay that months payment on the machine plus rent on the rooms.  That's why.  These people are making money somewhere.  You can't tell me they aren't.

I know there are people that simply cannot afford healthcare and I don't mind helping those people.  I've been there myself for a time, although I never (Thank God) had to use the services.  I'm all for help for those that can't help themselves, NOT those that won't help themselves.  Protect the children, and the aged.  The rest are on their own just like the rest of us and are on an as needed basis only, not a mandatory one.  

I DO NOT believe we should be forced to carry insurance by the federal government or the state government.  That is a personal choice, usually brought on by affordability. I DO believe that the system needs some work, but this is not the way. 

I think more people would choose to be insured if rates were realistic, but when medical providers jack the rates up for an insurance bill, someone has to pay the difference.  Ever wonder why it takes 2 surgeons to perform surgery?  Are we paying them to train?  Are you aware that the emergency group that the hospital hires to come in and take care of their emergency room, doesn't necessarily have to accept your insurance even though the hospital does and you do not have to be notified of that?  

When government issues mandate after mandate to control every aspect of our lives, assuring that no one is without insurance, it's too much.  

Yes, I was ticked when the bill passed.  I fought it every step of the way with everything that I could do.  None of our legislators voted in favor of it.  Now that it's law, I am not any happier, but was riding along until it could either be repealed or found to be illegal and unconstitutional.  Now it has affected me directly and I am even more determined NOT to obey this law.  I am officially in rebellion.....like I haven't already been!  LOL 

Maybe I'll calm down before I actually cancel my insurance, but not likely.  I'm just back where I started when it was being manipulated through all the wheeling and dealing by the Socialists in Congress. 

Now, the government is trying to further control our food supply, even our private gardens.  What's next?  What do they NOT have their tenacles into? 

God bless America and the great nation that she has the potential to be!