<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span></span></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">Courtesy of today's (December 26, 2013) Moscow-Pullman Daily News with thanks to Kurt Obermayr.</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">----------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><h1 id="blox-asset-title" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; line-height: 34px; font-size: 30px; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span class="blox-headline entry-title" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(204, 0, 0); line-height: 38px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">GOP offers no alternative</span></h1><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">I'd like to share how Obamacare has worked for me and my family. Three years ago we had to buy a policy, so I can compare what we got then with what we got now. The policy we were able to sign up for now was $250 a month cheaper, had a deductible that was half the old policy and a $6,350 out-of-pocket limit.</span></p><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Many preventive services are covered with no charge to us, and there is no co-insurance after the deductible is met. We no longer have to bet our house we don't get sick. It took me about five hours of research and an hour to sign up for the policy with a local agent. There were a number of other policies close to our cost that covered much more of the yearly expenses, but for us the HSA was best. It was certainly easier to compare the available policies when they all use similar formats.</span></p><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Is Obamacare (the Affordable Care Act) perfect? No. Is it far better than what I could get three years ago? Yes, millions of people who were uninsured were able to get covered in the first three months of the law's taking effect.</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">The Republicans say repeal and replace, and have voted more than 40 times to repeal the law. How many times have they voted to replace it with anything that covers a single uninsured American?</span></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="text-align: start; outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><strong style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Kurt Obermayr</strong></p></div><div class="encrypted-content" style="outline: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; float: none !important;"><p style="text-align: start; outline: 0px; margin: 10px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; background-image: none; float: none !important;"><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow</span></p></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">----------------------------------</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">"If the poor cannot afford healthcare, they should not have it."</div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;">- Rush Limbaugh (Fox News' 2013 Person of the Year)</div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://open.salon.com/blog/je_robertson/2009/12/03/rush_limbaugh_says_poor_dont_deserve_healthcare">http://open.salon.com/blog/je_robertson/2009/12/03/rush_limbaugh_says_poor_dont_deserve_healthcare</a></span></div><div><span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"> </span><br><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: auto;"><br></div></div></div></body></html>