Your tax dollars at work - Same story, different day
Jun 29, 2013 12:19:46 #
Why isn't this surprising? And, in how many ways is it just wrong? By the way, those are rhetorical questions. :D
"With great excitement, the Los Angeles Unified School District has designed a nearly $1 million program to train teenagers to promote the glories of ObamaCare to parents, relatives and friends at home.
The state's health insurance exchange, Covered California, is handing $990,000 to LA schools, along with federal grants totaling 36-million more U.S. taxpayer dollars to districts around the most populous state.
The goal is to train millions of student messengers statewide to sell the idea of government-subsidized health insurance to parents and relatives at home and to get more people enrolled in ObamaCare."
Here is the link if you want to read more.
http://news.investors.com/politics-andrew-malcolm/062813-661774-los-angeles-schools-teach-students-to-enroll-parents-in-obamacare.htm
"With great excitement, the Los Angeles Unified School District has designed a nearly $1 million program to train teenagers to promote the glories of ObamaCare to parents, relatives and friends at home.
The state's health insurance exchange, Covered California, is handing $990,000 to LA schools, along with federal grants totaling 36-million more U.S. taxpayer dollars to districts around the most populous state.
The goal is to train millions of student messengers statewide to sell the idea of government-subsidized health insurance to parents and relatives at home and to get more people enrolled in ObamaCare."
Here is the link if you want to read more.
http://news.investors.com/politics-andrew-malcolm/062813-661774-los-angeles-schools-teach-students-to-enroll-parents-in-obamacare.htm
Jun 30, 2013 06:21:11 #
I can personally vouch for the wonders of the Affordable Care Act.
I went without health insurance from November 2003 to July 2012. As soon as the Supreme Court ruled that the Affordable Care Act was legal, health insurance companies were mailing me, emailing me, texting me, calling me, and even knocking on my door to sign me up. I was able to get health insurance at a reasonable $257 a month for just me. Previous to the Affordable Care Act, the lowest premium any health insurance company had offered me with my pre-existing conditions was $1,850 a month.
If I were a teenager I'd sign up to help get knowledge to the masses about the Affordable Care Act and its usefulness.
I went without health insurance from November 2003 to July 2012. As soon as the Supreme Court ruled that the Affordable Care Act was legal, health insurance companies were mailing me, emailing me, texting me, calling me, and even knocking on my door to sign me up. I was able to get health insurance at a reasonable $257 a month for just me. Previous to the Affordable Care Act, the lowest premium any health insurance company had offered me with my pre-existing conditions was $1,850 a month.
If I were a teenager I'd sign up to help get knowledge to the masses about the Affordable Care Act and its usefulness.
Jun 30, 2013 10:19:25 #
ole sarg
Loc: south florida
Oh Boy are you in for a rough ride.
Your experience is in direct contradiction to the right wing nuts on the site. You know the ones who defend their medicare but want to deny you insurance.
I strongly believe that OBamacare will become as popular as medicare. Nevertheless, there will be those who deny this reality!
Your experience is in direct contradiction to the right wing nuts on the site. You know the ones who defend their medicare but want to deny you insurance.
I strongly believe that OBamacare will become as popular as medicare. Nevertheless, there will be those who deny this reality!
Jun 30, 2013 10:26:50 #
ole sarg wrote:
Oh Boy are you in for a rough ride.
Your experience is in direct contradiction to the right wing nuts on the site. You know the ones who defend their medicare but want to deny you insurance.
I strongly believe that OBamacare will become as popular as medicare. Nevertheless, there will be those who deny this reality!
Your experience is in direct contradiction to the right wing nuts on the site. You know the ones who defend their medicare but want to deny you insurance.
I strongly believe that OBamacare will become as popular as medicare. Nevertheless, there will be those who deny this reality!
We need only look back at the brouhaha when Social Security and Medicare were passed decades ago. Try changing those two systems now. The people who protest changing them now are the exact same people who protested their creation 40-50 years ago when they were in their teens and twenties..........lol
Jun 30, 2013 11:10:00 #
I think you guys are missing the point here. I did not post this as a diatribe pointed at Obamacare. What I find fault with is using taxpayer money to teach students to extol the virtues of the program to their parents. Taking a captive audience of impressionable students and tell them how wonderful a program is, then send them home to convince their parents is just plain wrong. I wont even get into the fact that they will be using class time to perform this brainwashing. Of course, if they werent doing that, they would have to waste that valuable class time studying foolishness like math, science, English, Social Studies, language, etc. I guess it is a matter of priorities.
Jun 30, 2013 11:32:03 #
TchrBill wrote:
I think you guys are missing the point here. I di... (show quote)
I think school is the perfect place to teach civics, also known as "Social Studies." Wouldn't a social welfare program for a country's citizens come under "social studies"?
Jun 30, 2013 12:22:16 #
Schwabo
Loc: Florida
What a great idea, Students can now teach their parents about healthcare and parents can teach how to spell and read.
Jun 30, 2013 12:59:23 #
russelray wrote:
I think school is the perfect place to teach civics, also known as "Social Studies." Wouldn't a social welfare program for a country's citizens come under "social studies"?
Seriously? You folks just don't give up, do you? Are you intentionally being obtuse? Surely this must be an act.
Jun 30, 2013 13:21:36 #
TchrBill wrote:
Seriously? You folks just don't give up, do you? Are you intentionally being obtuse? Surely this must be an act.
I looked at the link and it's all rabidly right-wing garbage from Faux News and others. I take their stuff with a grain of salt, knowing that 99.9% of it is, indeed, faux.
They don't like Covered California, which is simply California's health insurance exchange. No surprise there.
As most of the health insurance companies already know, the way to make this work is to get as many people as possible to sign up. Duh. That's basically the way all health insurance works. The more subscribers you have, the less it costs per person. Heck, that's the way ALL health insurance works -- car, home, health, key man......
Jun 30, 2013 13:30:18 #
There is actually $37 million going to the new outreach program. Read the facts, without and right-wing or left-wing drama, here: http://www.coveredca.com/news/press-releases/pr-05-14-13.html
I don't know where they are getting the $37 million, but frankly I don't care. I voted for it and I'm willing to help make it work. A country like the United States should be able to take care of the health of all of its citizens. It's called a "civilized society" for a reason.
I don't know where they are getting the $37 million, but frankly I don't care. I voted for it and I'm willing to help make it work. A country like the United States should be able to take care of the health of all of its citizens. It's called a "civilized society" for a reason.
Jun 30, 2013 13:57:25 #
russelray wrote:
There is actually $37 million going to the new outreach program. Read the facts, without and right-wing or left-wing drama, here: http://www.coveredca.com/news/press-releases/pr-05-14-13.html
I don't know where they are getting the $37 million, but frankly I don't care. I voted for it and I'm willing to help make it work. A country like the United States should be able to take care of the health of all of its citizens. It's called a "civilized society" for a reason.
I don't know where they are getting the $37 million, but frankly I don't care. I voted for it and I'm willing to help make it work. A country like the United States should be able to take care of the health of all of its citizens. It's called a "civilized society" for a reason.
I am glad you are happy with it. And, you are right, a website called CoveredCA.com and Covered California News is certainly unbiased when it comes to ummmm, Covered California. That certainly is a pretty picture of the prez there on the website, and all his unbiased supporters. :-)
Jun 30, 2013 14:00:42 #
TchrBill wrote:
I am glad you are happy with it. And, you are right, a website called CoveredCA.com and Covered California News is certainly unbiased when it comes to ummmm, Covered California. That certainly is a pretty picture of the prez there on the website, and all his unbiased supporters. :-)
What would you want the web site called? Covered Alabama? Covered Russia News? Really hard to believe that TchrBill might actually stand for "teacher."
We have to give Obama credit for getting it passed. As with Social Security and Medicare for those presidents that got it passed, Obama will also go down in history as one of the greatest caring presidents ever.
Jun 30, 2013 15:19:53 #
russelray wrote:
What would you want the web site called? Covered Alabama? Covered Russia News? Really hard to believe that TchrBill might actually stand for "teacher."
We have to give Obama credit for getting it passed. As with Social Security and Medicare for those presidents that got it passed, Obama will also go down in history as one of the greatest caring presidents ever.
We have to give Obama credit for getting it passed. As with Social Security and Medicare for those presidents that got it passed, Obama will also go down in history as one of the greatest caring presidents ever.
Again, you are purposely being obtuse. It isnt the name that is the problem. It is the fact that you seem to think they are unbiased. The best thing I can say about Obama is that after this term, he IS history.
Jun 30, 2013 16:45:40 #
russelray wrote:
I can personally vouch for the wonders of the Affo... (show quote)
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Jun 30, 2013 19:33:47 #
TchrBill wrote:
Again, you are purposely being obtuse. It isnt the name that is the problem. It is the fact that you seem to think they are unbiased. The best thing I can say about Obama is that after this term, he IS history.
I think they are biased only in the sense that they are set up as a health insurance exchange under the Affordable Care Act. However, California's a reliably Democratic state, and they have chosen to be a part of a Democratic President's Democratic agenda, yea, I guess you are right. Yep. They are biased. Sheesh.
We survived 12 years of the Bushes (thankfully, it wasn't 16). I suspect you'll survive 8 years of Obama followed by 8 years of Hillary followed by 8 years of Michelle Obama followed by 8 years of Chelsea Clinton..............lol
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