Peak Schadenfreude Alert

Were you worried that ObamaCare was maxing out as a source of comedy gold? Hmm, not even a little worried? Well, fine, but here is some more Obama-induced hilarity anyway; today's cast of thousands is the creative upper crust of Manhattan, so you know they voted for this:

With Affordable Care Act, Canceled Policies for New York Professionals

Many in New York’s professional and cultural elite have long supported President Obama’s health care plan. But now, to their surprise, thousands of writers, opera singers, music teachers, photographers, doctors, lawyers and others are learning that their health insurance plans are being canceled and they may have to pay more to get comparable coverage, if they can find it.

They are part of an unusual informal health insurance system that has developed in New York in which independent practitioners were able to get lower insurance rates through group plans, typically set up by their professional associations or chambers of commerce. That allowed them to avoid the sky-high rates in New York’s individual insurance market, historically among the most expensive in the country.

But those professional association plans were nixed by ObamaCare. Were the deductibles too high and the coverage too spotty? Au contraire, these people needed to share:

...many of the New York policies being canceled meet and often exceed the [ACA] standards, brokers say. The rationale for disqualifying those policies, said Larry Levitt, a health policy expert at the Kaiser Family Foundation, was to prevent associations from selling insurance to healthy members who are needed to keep the new health exchanges financially viable.

Siphoning those people, Mr. Levitt said, would leave the pool of health exchange customers “smaller and disproportionately sicker,” and would drive up rates.

That's right - solidarity! Which leads to vignettes such as this:

For many of them, that is likely to mean they will no longer have access to a wide network of doctors and a range of plans tailored to their needs. And many of them are finding that if they want to keep their premiums from rising, they will have to accept higher deductible and co-pay costs or inferior coverage.

“I couldn’t sleep because of it,” said Barbara Meinwald, a solo practitioner lawyer in Manhattan.

Ms. Meinwald, 61, has been paying $10,000 a year for her insurance through the New York City Bar. A broker told her that a new temporary plan with fewer doctors would cost $5,000 more, after factoring in the cost of her medications.

Ms. Meinwald also looked on the state’s health insurance exchange. But she said she found that those plans did not have a good choice of doctors, and that it was hard to even find out who the doctors were, and which hospitals were covered. “It’s like you’re blindfolded and you’re told that you have to buy something,” she said.

That was after being blindfolded and asked to vote for someone.

Ms. Meinwald, the lawyer, said she was a lifelong Democrat who still supported better health care for all, but had she known what was in store for her, she would have voted for Mitt Romney.

Mitt Romney, that lying liar who warned (per CBO) that people would lose their coverage? Too late! Another Obama voter is heard from:

“We are the Obama people,” said Camille Sweeney, a New York writer and member of the Authors Guild. Her insurance is being canceled, and she is dismayed that neither her pediatrician nor her general practitioner appears to be on the exchange plans. What to do has become a hot topic on Facebook and at dinner parties frequented by her fellow writers and artists.

“I’m for it,” she said. “But what is the reality of it?”

"What is the reality?" asked the member of the reality-based community. Asking the tough questions a mere five years too late.

Comments

[Black Hat]

These Obama voters deserve every minute of every sleepless night they have over this.

[narciso,]

Well she's very observant, sarc;

http://theartofdoing.com/camille-sweeney/

[henry]

The avalanche is just beginning. These people need to do as Pelosi says and embrace the suck. They need to suck so the prog elite can prosper.

[whiny beaches]

Dang ! You folks rate right up there with Nero, fiddlin' with your fiddles, brazenly smokin' that Marlboro 100 Red whilst you fill your gas tank with premium accelerant. Hellbedamned if you don't look just like Christians in the Circus Maximus.

[Sponge count]

Heh, they don't know anyone who voted for Romney, but they can feel them in the operating theatre.

[Janet]

Then there is this too - the website is mistakenly debiting their accounts.

http://weaselzippers.us/2013/12/13/wa-state-exchange-erroneously-deducting-money-from-peoples-bank-accounts/

[MaryD]

Thank God for the narcisolator -- goodbye whiny beaches, you moron.

[DrJ]

The Times ought to tell these people to lay back, relax and think of Obama.

[narciso,]

They are the ones they've been waiting for,

[Janet]

Asking the tough questions a mere five years too late.

Hah!

[narciso,]

Did you really meant to say that?

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/randy-hall/2013/12/13/chris-matthews-proudly-states-thrill-my-leg-came-barack-obama-not-sarah-

[Ignatz]

Well, if it's opera singers and music teachers can we at least break out the world's smallest violin for them?

[Jane]

The Times ought to tell these people to lay back, relax and think of Obama.

More afternoon delight.

[Rob Crawford]

Hellbedamned if you don't look just like Christians in the Circus Maximus.

WTF were they doing at the chariot races? Besides placing bets like everyone else, that is.

[Ignatz]

--Asking the tough questions a mere five years too late.--

But she's still not...not really.
She still admits she doesn't know what's in it but she's still for it.
Ineducable. Apparently the Authors Guild is chock full o' Lackwitz Sisters too.

[whiny beaches]

At triple the capacity of Colossuem, Circus Maximus saw far more Christian deaths. JFYI

[Janet]

All of you guys better get to bed early. You need to earn 1.5 million dollars tomorrow to give to Planned Parenthood....

[Jeff Dobbs]

But now, to their surprise, thousands of writers, opera singers, music teachers, photographers, doctors, lawyers and others are learning that their health insurance plans are being canceled and they may have to pay more to get comparable coverage, if they can find it.

Wait. What?

"Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
--stuff Nancy Pelosi said

Are you telling me that Pelosi wasn't being on the level with us when the bill passed?

I . . . I have to sit down. I wasn't prepared for this.

[narciso,]

But the wrappings on the chocolate rations are shiny;

http://www.propublica.org/article/turning-the-corner-in-california-at-least-obamacare-sign-ups-zoom

[pagar202]

Plus earn a lot to pay for a few Obamacare signups.

http://www.libertynews.com/2013/12/outrageous-each-individual-obamacare-enrollee-costs-american-taxpayers-14000/

[Jane]

All of you guys better get to bed early. You need to earn 1.5 million dollars tomorrow to give to Planned Parenthood....

I may not be able to do my part. We are expecting a foot of snow tomorrow night.

[Account Deleted]

Narciso,

That's marvelous news from California. It's just a shame it's impossible to distinguish between people who were uninsured from people who were canceled and forced to buy a BOzocare Prole Killer. California has had more than 500K cancellations, so there is quite a bit of room for improvement on the 110K actual enrollment number. That's especially true given the census estimate of 7.6 million fruit and nutters currently without insurance.

[narciso,]

I don't know Rick, one looks 'for the small particle of brain' in vane, then again you wouldn't be finding it in the Times, on either coast, or the Daily News.

[clarice]

I Can't link on this borrowed Mac but you want to read this:Who Funds the Far Left? You'll Be Surprised
www.powerlineblog.com
The Center for American Progress

[narciso,]

Those are just the ones we know of;

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/12/who-funds-the-far-left-youll-be-surprised.php

didm't we discover Arabian interests are also behind them.

[clarice]

I don't remember that, narcissi, but if my memory were one-third as good as yours, I'd be a bit dangerous.

[narciso,]

Well this came out, around the time Solyndra imploded;

http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/center-american-cronyism-and-saudi-progress_593703.html

are you still in Florida.

[henry]

We are expecting a foot of snow tomorrow night.

I'm jealous, we're only getting 6 inches tomorrow.

[Gmax]

On this topic I think I want to quote James Taranto:

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA

embrace the suck, low info Obama voters.

[narciso,]

Boy, they have taken 'more selective' to a new and expensive level:

http://theothermccain.com/2013/12/13/ed-schultz-goes-way-off-message/

[DrJ]

And the long knives start to come out for Megyn Kelly:

http://blog.sfgate.com/hottopics/2013/12/13/daily-shows-jon-stewart-slams-fox-news-megyn-kelly-for-white-christmas/#18866101=0

She must be doing well.

The comments to the article are inane.

[Comanche Voter]

My heart bleeds for these assholes; bless their heart.

[Dave (in MA)]

In the event that the 22nd Amendment stays intact, I think I've found something that Obama can do with himself in a little over three years:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuDuF9IWrhQ

[narciso,]

some awareness seems to be dawning on other areas;

http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/obama-weary_770850.html?utm_campaign=Washington+Examiner&utm_source=washingtonexaminer.com&utm_medium=referral#

[narciso,]

no we don't believe in basilisks, and unicorns;

http://www.truthrevolt.org//news/pelosi-tea-party-doesnt-believe-government-science-or-presidency

[clarice]

YES, NARCISO. I PLAN TO LEAVE HERE AND GO UP TO SARASOTA ON SUNDAY.

[clarice]

NITE ALL--NO COLUMN ON SUNDAY--TOO DISTRACTING HERE TO REALLY WORK..

[Ignatz]

--daily-shows-jon-stewart-slams-fox-news-megyn-kelly-for-white-christmas--

Weren't Uncle Tom and Jim in Huck Finn white?

It's my understanding Nelson Mandela himself was a lifelong user of blackface and sang Mammy to Winnie every night before she tucked him in.

[Ignatz]

I'd rather have a penguin than a half white Barry bobblehead; penguins are half black.

[narciso,]

ah, Stewart, one of Obama's early adopters, we can't look too closely in the CAve.

[Threadkiller]

"Along with the principles of Kwanzaa, the flag, adopted by African-American liberation in the 1960s, displays the three colors of Kwanzaa; red, black and green. Red represents courage and blood. Black represents the skin of black people. Green represents the land and the harvest."

http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/byrnes-celebrations/kwanzaa2.html

If they had white in their flag it would be easier for me to think of a penguin.

[miss Marple]

KwNza is a made-up holiday. I don't care if people want to celebrate it, but I want the media to quit acting like it is some centuries-old African traditional holiday,.

[Captain Hate]

Wasn't Kwanza invented by Ron Karenga? Was he ever associated with the Pitzer home for the mentally ill? I hear that deranged dimwits can realize a "liveable wage" there.

[Danube on iPad]

I'll put it as succinctly as I can: my heart soars like the hawk.

[Gus]

Henry!!! How are you my friend?? Lets get together Sunday.

[Gus]

I'd rather have a penguin than a half white Barry bobblehead; penguins are half black.

Posted by: Ignatz

Ignatz, any black equals all black. It's the pee-milk-TRANSITIVE property. If I gave you a gallon of milk. Free. I poured out one ounce of milk, and added one ounce of PEE/urine.!!?
WHAT DO YOU HAVE???
Answer; A gallon of Piss. You're not drinking any of it.
What value do you gain by being HALF WHITE???

[Gus]

But being KIND OF..SORT OF ...BLACK...kind of... gets you into OCCIDENTAL as BLACK....then you get into...........IT DOESN'T TAKE A FUCKING GENIUS to UNDERSTAND how it works.
Obama is a CLOWN. Michelle Robinson Obama is a JOKE. Seriously, Michelle Robinson Obama is a CLOWNISH JOKE..... Yet the LIBTARD PUBLIC loves her, and her Commie Clown hubbie.

[pagar202]

" There is no part of Kwanzaa that is not fraudulent."

http://www.martinlutherking.org/kwanzaa.html

[DrJ]

pagar, that piece was written by Tony Snow. May he rest in peace. We could use a few more like him.

[pagarnow]

DrJ,
I agree, we need more like Tony Snow.
----------------------------------------------
Powerline has a question.

"Has our society reached a point where it is too stupid to survive?"

http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/12/racial-profiling-comes-to-minnesota.php

[narciso,]

I do find it as curious, everything about this administration is a deception, in a Lillian Hellman way,

'It's Wasteros. (the Medieval kingdom in Game of Thrones' Jake, don't try to figure it out.

[narciso,]

Where is that stupid Slaughter person, now;

http://hotair.com/archives/2013/12/13/obamacare-makes-braces-glasses-more-expensive-for-some-families/

[peter]

worthwhile remembering Tony Snow at this point. I remember listening to him on New Years Eve before y2k. He was so calm and optimistic.

[Jane]

Tony Snow made such an impression. He has so much credibility and it just oozed out of him.

[Captain Hate on the iPhone]

The decline of FNS under Chris Wallace has been severe imo.

[moron]

Under no circumstances are you welcome in Texas. Quite the contrary. Thank you.

[Charlie Martin]

I think I've found something that Obama can do with himself in a little over three years

I've got some suggestions right now.

[Opinionated Vogon]

How cute, the NYT is catching up to ME.

I made a parody video about one of the left's elite. He was a socialist too, and an artist - he painted!

Hitler's health insurance is cancelled

Please watch. You'll laugh, You'll cry, You'll thank me!

Cheers,

O.V.

[bosco]

I had heard that Downfall was actually filmed in Texas, but did not know Cruz had the leading role from the Bunker. Thanks for that, but I don't think he intended the comedic effect of that scene.

[Brown Line]

To paraphrase Robert Conquest, "We were right, you f***ing fools!"

[Jane]

Clearly we've been instalaunched!

[Tom Perkins]

"That was after being blindfolded and asked to vote for someone."

Should probably read.

"After blindfolding themselves and voting with an uninformed and undeserved sense of moral superiority."

[clarice]

I LOVE TM AND THIS IS ONE OF HIS GREATEST ALL TIME POSTS WHICH IS SAYING SOMETHING.(SORRY ABOUT THE CAPS, DIM LIGHT, IMPOSSIBLE CONDITIONS.)

[Daniel Murray]

Who knew that the Free Market was handling things pretty well, not perfectly but well. Progressives think that if we all believe in a better society we can be perfect, with no costs to anyone but thing good thoughts. These peoples' cultural development was arrested in the third grade when they studied ant hill colonies and thought that;s all we have to do, be like the ants.

[NKonIPad]

The camille sweeneys are still 'for' ObummerCare.... So long as OPM pays for it. Poor things, they were the ones Obummer/Dems lied to, we knew what was going on.

[Jane]

At least it is warm there Clarice. It's snowing here. Watch out Marlene, TC, Dave, Bela it's coming your way. Rocco probably already has it.

I found cauliflower at $1.49 today after it being $3.99 for weeks. I have to figure out what to do with 8 heads before the weekend is done. So it's okay that I'm snowed in I guess.

[East Bay Jay]

There should be a law, maybe called the Jon Stewart Law, that says if a citizen advocates for socialism publicly any other citizen can execute, say, a writ of walk the charitable talk whereby the first citizen will have to live under the conditions he or she advocates. So Stewart, who publicly supports socialism, would give up all his assets and be given both the median net household asset amount in a check and a promise for future payments of the median income. As long as he keeps working that is. As we all know, people work just as hard for peanuts as for big bucks so Stewart will still have to show up.

[M. Simon]

Right on cue Democrats are changing the message:
http://classicalvalues.com/2013/12/somebody-has-to-pay/

I expect a huge turn over in the House and Senate if the Republicans don’t blow it. And if the Democrats don’t manage to change the subject. And right on cue a Democrat has changed the subject to marijuana. Just as I predicted. And just in case you were wondering. Her name is Heather Mizeur and she is running for Governor of Maryland. I expect to see a lot more of this come the end of summer 2014. The Democrats will definitely need something. And with about 80% favoring med pot and about 60% favoring full legalization they may have it. I don’t think it will fully save them. But it will stanch the bleeding some.

[Janet - the districts lie fallow, while the Capitol gorges itself]

Ya know, M. Simon...Sebelius should whip out her checkbook & pay with her own money. How bout every Democrat Representative & Senator that voted for this fiasco pay? Dock their paychecks. Consider it a grant -like the federal government is always giving out with our tax dollars to "green" crony businesses - except with their own money. They BELIEVE in Obamacare, don't they? Let them put their OWN money where their mouth is.

[Ignatz]

There should be a law, maybe called the Jon Stewart Law, that says if a citizen advocates for socialism publicly any other citizen can execute, say, a writ of walk the charitable talk whereby the first citizen will have to live under the conditions he or she advocates.

Isn't my version much better and much simpler?

[richard40]

It couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people, who deserve it so much.

[Beasts of England]

Simplicity is the most elegant way, Ig!

[Jane]

I agree completely East Bay Jay.

Sebelius should whip out her checkbook & pay with her own money. How bout every Democrat Representative & Senator that voted for this fiasco pay?

I've been saying that since day 1. I want them to pay back personally the money they have stolen.

[bosco]

" I want them to pay back personally the money they have stolen."

Good precedent. Poppy Bush can front the Boy $2 Trillion out of petty cash.

[William Jefferson]

Wasn't Obamacare going to free up our artists and musicians so they wouldn't have to worry about their insurance coverage. Can't remember if it was Pelosi or Reid who said it.
Almost as if we are not being told the truth.

[Stephanie looking forward to the bowl games]

Pelosi said it.

[Ace]

I just wanted to point out that the MLK.org site linked above to "kwanzaa" is hosted by Stormfront ie- the KKK.

Kwanzaaa may be a fake holiday but I doubt that the article there is written by the real Tony Snow. Let us not confuse our conservatism with the likes of them and be wary as Andrew Breitbart always warned us of both left and right plants.

[narciso,]

Well, I think we can be confident it was him;

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/tony/snow123199.asp

[R Daneel]

Every time a Libtard is hurt or injured because of their own stupidity and Angel gets their wings.

Stupid should hurt.

[Treeofmamre.wordpress.com]

Wealthy libs are always inflicting pain on the middle class in order to pay for their nonsense. It is only right that they suffer some pain with everyone else.

[Ahab]

No, you can't. What part of Obamacaid wasn't lied about? Now that the Cleptocrats passed it, without a single Repulican vote, as Nancy Pelosi said, you find out what's in it! Lean Forward-pull down your pants, they're not done yet..

[Bill H.]

And these are the so-called high information liberal voters.

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