ObamaCare Found to Restrict Where You Live and Travel... !!

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If you can believe this, and it appears this is honest, legitimate reporting of demonstrable facts, this is a twist even the most ardent supporters of the illegitimate, socialist Obamacare farce will have a hard time justifying...  if they have enough money to be independent.

Of course, if you're not able to avail yourself of a vacation for economic reasons, and you don't ever see yourself in a "snowbird" lifestyle, or if you never expect to be affluent enough to afford a summer home, why, you probably don't give a rip about this subtle restriction on your freedom of movement - your freedom to travel wherever you wish, whenever you wish and still be covered against the catastrophic.  If it doesn't restrict your "right" to steal other peoples' money in the form of subsidies, welfare, EBT, etc., you likely don't give a damn how it hurts those other people or restricts their freedom.  After all, as far as you're concerned those "rich" people simply exist for you to exploit, and their rights and liberties just don't much count against your right to free stuff that other people earned.

Remember when your mama warned you to "Be careful what you ask for, because you just might get it."?  Seems to be very appropriate when referring to Obamacare - not just small parts of it here and there, that applies to pretty much the whole un-Constitutional monster...

Cashu

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ObamaCare Found To Restrict Where You Live And Travel

 

Posted 12/18/2013 06:54 PM ET
 

 

Freedom: It's bad enough that the president's health insurance takeover costs more, breaks his pledge of letting you keep your plan and diminishes choice. It actually restricts your travels too.

 

'We have never had to put a wall up to keep our people in." Those words from President John F. Kennedy in June 1963, standing at the Berlin Wall, neatly illustrated the moral superiority of the free West over the Soviet bloc.

 

But Americans are now about to find themselves grappling with their own bureaucratic Berlin Wall. The American Thinker's Stella Paul has exposed the virtually unnoticed fact that within the ObamaCare exchanges so many Americans are being forced into, "most plans only provide local medical coverage."

 

Paul warns this will have "a profound impact on the real-estate market, particularly the second home sector, and on the travel business." She interviewed one Connecticut retiree whose health required having a winter home in South Carolina. Her $450-per-month, $2,500 deductible, no co-pay Blue Cross policy that had worked well in both states was suddenly canceled.

 

The new policy she was offered under ObamaCare was twice as expensive, with a deductible costing $1,000 more, and no out-of-network coverage.

 

Having had a surgery at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, out-of-network coverage was a must. And she found it. "It's $900 a month," she told Paul, "with a $7,000 deductible and a co-pay on everything. Basically, it's catastrophic insurance, and I'll be paying my South Carolina doctors out of pocket."

 

A prominent New York insurance broker pointed out that most of the policies offered on the ObamaCare exchanges are not national networks, so "if you need routine medical services, they will not be covered when you leave your local area," as they were before.

 

Travel health insurance, unfortunately, only covers emergencies. So, the broker told Paul, "a large portion of the population will have their insurance as a consideration for their mobility, which they never had before."

 

Imagine having to take all this into account in making decisions about where in America you want to live.

 

And as Paul asks, "With Americans no longer able to receive routine medical services when they travel, will they start showing up in emergency rooms for sore throats and backaches? And how will these new throngs of patients affect the waiting time of people with genuine medical emergencies?"

 

Meet the latest unpleasant ObamaCare surprise, right on the heels of HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius this week finally admitting that, contrary to Obama's endlessly repeated promise, "there are some individuals who may be looking at increases" in premiums.

 

Unrestricted movement is a birthright of our liberty. Even socialized medicine's harshest opponents didn't suspect Washington would trample that freedom.

 

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