STUDY: Households Facing ObamaCare "Rate Shock" Will Get an Average of $2,672 In Free Money

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24. California. I don't know the answer to that.

But I do know we had to go to Cigna to get insurance for my husband and our son. Our daughter's covered under mine, but Anthem refused the rest of our family because my guy and our boy had what can be considered pre-existing conditions. I couldn't get them covered under my policy for love nor money. I looked everywhere. Started checking other companies. We finally got them covered under Cigna last October. I was terrified of a romney presidency - in which the Affordable Care Act would surely be decimated, and Mr. Bain Capital would let all his sharky, snaky, fellow vultures and vampires and hyenas and other economic opportunistic infections feed on it til its carcass was picked to death.

I figured that the insurance industry was probably gonna hedge its bets, and if I had ANY shot at all at getting my men covered, I had to try and do it before the election. I figured somebody in that corporate Hell MIGHT still be amenable to covering some people - just in case Obama did pull out a win, even though the accelerating drumbeat sure made it look as though romney was gonna steal it. I had hoped I'd still have at least SOME chance of getting coverage before the election, because afterwards, if romney had won, there'd absolutely be NO chance at all.

It would have been a PR nightmare to have to swim through upstream - against a profoundly adverse current. There would have been all kinds of dancing in the endzone - "SEE???? America walks with US!!! SEE, WE were right, NOBODY out there REALLLLLLY wants affordable coverage or help or easier access. Laissez-faire WORKS!!! No laws! No regulations! Free market-free market! Obama and the lefties REPUDIATED!!! SEE??? There's yer proof! Right there in the ballot boxes of America! The voters have spoken! Nobody wants those "do-gooders" and their give-away-free-stuff ideas to all their moocher friends, and we've now proven it - the people have spoken and they're on OUR side, America has spoken and WE won and they all want it OUR way, and FUCK YOU, you damn Commies and Socialists! Leave it to the Free Market! Freedom-freedom! You were WRONG and WE WERE RIGHT!!! HA-HA-HA!!! GO EAT SHIT!!! GET OVER IT!!!!!" And blah-blah-blah. You KNOW it would have been that way. You KNOW it would have been EXACTLY that way! Every media outlet in America would have been using the Pox Noise script. Bad behavior just reinforced again and again and again. That would have been their message from then on, while romney and his smug haughty little empress would have been wiping their expensive shoes on our faces while at the same time telling us how wonderful and compassionate and humanitarian and noble and entitled to all this that they were. You KNOW it would have played out EXACTLY that way. Those bastards would have RUN with this message. They were well-prepared to do just that. After all, even romney himself didn't even bother to write a concession speech. And they had the romney transition team and the romney's-on-his-way-to-the-White-House website all up and completed and ready to go.

There's a shitload of dumping on Obama going on here, seemingly throughout DU. For many reasons. But you will not find me there. I just CANNOT get my mind off the whole nightmare notion of what could have been, and how big a bullet we dodged. CRIMINY, people! Those who are so quick to condemn, thinking it's all so shitty now, and he's blown this and he's fucked up that and blah-blah-blah - just stop and think for a moment how "marvelous" it'd be now if romney had won. That'd be me over in some corner mumbling "well, are you happy NOW?"