Dylan Ratigan in an idiot. He claims that after he left his well-paying job at MSNBC he bought a catastrophic health insurance plan that cost him $170 a month. According to him, he cannot find a health care plan on the California exchange for less than $600 a month. So, I checked. I used their shop and compare tool and entered in Dylan’s data: 41 years old, living in San Diego County, and making too much money to qualify for any subsidies. Here are the cheapest plans available to Dylan Ratigan.
Bronze (Anthem Multi State Plan Bronze 60, EPO): $237/mo.
Silver (Health Net Silver 70, HMO): $277/mo.
Gold (Heath Net Gold 80, HMO) $313/mo
Platinum (Health Net Platinum, 90 HMO) $377/mo
In other words, even if he gets the top-of-the-line platinum plan, he’ll barely be paying more than half of what he said he’d be paying for the cheapest available plan.
“Well,” you say, “maybe he’s covering someone else on his plan?”
In that case, the Health Net Platinum 90 plan would cost him $525, and the Anthem Multi State Plan Bronze 60 plan would cost him $352.
So, he’s either a liar or a moron.
I’m putting my money on both.
Even if he was paying what he said: so fucking what? Boo hoo the poor millionaire can’t afford a $4000 annual increase.
Iunno, when I first saw the tweet I thought it was along the “Thanks, Obama” meme snark than actually being pissed/annoyed.
Guess it’s $5k increase. Woops.
So now Dylan joins the ranks of the other complainers whose claims of being victimized by the ACA are false.
Good job Health Insurance companies, you’ve successfully found a way to hide behind the ACA skirts.
Health Insurance fish tales are almost becoming a hobby for anyone who has a beef with anything that the administration has tried to do over the last five years.
And like we have seen with almost all these types of things, most of which emanate from the right, whether or not they are actually true is completely beside the point. Once again, the Cokie Roberts Rule always applies, “If people are talking about something out there, then we have an obligation to broadcast it”.
…keep it on the QT, but I heard that you can get a MUCH better rate if you avoid the website and call the toll-free number FROM YOUR OBAMAPHONE.
How do they know? NSA!
Members of my family are convinced the ACA is screwing them so I checked out what they’d pay. It’s a lot less than they’d pay now with subsidies, pretty much the same without. However, I might as well have played chess with myself. They just won’t accept the ACA could be good for them. It’s like they’re so committed to the ACA being awful, they’re willing to screw themselves.
That meme is how the GOtP has for decades gotten people to vote against their own interests. Convince then they hate a policy that could help them because of racist or religious reasons, then sit back and watch the people damage themselves by voting against their own best interests.
Those are HMO’s, not real insurance. If he had his catastrophic event, he might not be told about the various treatment options, just stuck with the cheapest. McMedicine.
Why only two choices?
I’d add lazy, click whore, and a few others –
Liar
Moron
Stupid
Lazy, torpid
Incompetent
Unprincipled
Click whore
Unprofessional
Ed Henry clone
Jeff Gannon clone
Mentally diminished
Logic and fact challenged
All of the above
All of the above – on steroids
I knew Dylan Ratigan when he was in diapers, running around the local pub in his hometown. He’s turned out to be a self possessed “new age” libertarian posing as a populist. If you chafe through his rants on the HC issue, he’s incensed that catastrophic policies are illegal now. Of course, this is all the fault of the ACA. Never mind that his insurer decided to screw him by cancelling a policy that could have been grandfathered. He has enough money to just pay the fine and self insure himself. I suggested as much to him on twitter. Haven’t heard a peep out of him. What a disappointment he’s become from the local boy makes good.