And there was an accompanying note touting how wonderful they were - 'cause they were LOWERING My PREMIUMS!!!! Out of the goodness of their hearts and their "Concern" about meeting their customers' best health-care needs!
Bullshit! They did it because they HAD TO.
That $90 check represented a dictate of the Affordable Care Act. The one that says that 80-some-odd percent of the premiums you pay in - MUST be applied to YOUR HEALTH CARE. It doesn't go to some CEO. It doesn't pay some board member's country club dues. It doesn't go toward the stock-holders. It goes directly toward YOUR OWN HEALTH CARE that YOU PAY THOSE PREMIUMS FOR.
There would have been no such thing if it hadn't been for the intervention of this awful hateful government that all the teabaggers despise. Some of them will be getting those checks too, and then what will they do? Hell, some of them will be getting access to affordable health care PERIOD, because of the ACA, the thing they so derisively call "Obamacare." THEY stand to benefit from it. And they probably won't even recognize it. It'll be interesting to see, as this rolls out and the Gotta-Placate-Ben-Nelson measures that were delayed for so long finally are allowed to take hold. The teabaggers will benefit, too. Much to their surprise and dismay, no doubt.
It's fun to watch people act out and throw tantrums and hissy-fits when they see how their world-view DOES NOT FIT with reality, and they still WANT IT TO, SOOOOOO BADLY!!!!!!
"I Want MY America BACK!!!!" yelled with sobbing and burbling from the back of the town hall meeting. "You do? Well, then, you must be a government intervention/regulation/union supporter!" 
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