I put the same questions to him as I did Merkley, especially the one about the tax on self-insured employers which insure their retirees and dependents producing revenue and why did you think it would produce revenue? He failed to even attempt and answer too, but wtf is this about Cover Oregon??? Last I heard that failed to cover a single person, not one! Isn't this what the State is suing the contractor over? Dear Mr. MarAzul: Thank you for contacting me about your health insurance coverage. I appreciate hearing from you on this very important and personal issue, and I apologize for the delay in my response. As a result of the Affordable Care Act, folks enrolling in health care coverage today are able to enjoy the most robust consumer protections in our country’s history. Insurers are no longer able to deny individuals health care coverage or kick them off their plan because they get sick. Lifetime and arbitrary annual limits have also been eliminated. Because of the Affordable Care Act fewer Americans will be forced to make the choice between further treatment and bankruptcy. While these changes have improved the overall quality of health care plans available to Oregonians, there are individuals and families whose health insurance policies were not continued in 2014 because they did not meet the minimum coverage requirements now in place. I know that for many of those folks it has been difficult to find and enroll in a new health plan. In order to make sure that you find the plan that best fits your needs I recommend using Cover Oregon as a resource to find information on available plans. While individuals are not able to enroll through the Cover Oregon website, the website does provide valuable information about available tax credits and other various health care plans offered on the marketplace. Open enrollment for 2014 coverage is over and the next open enrollment period will begin on November 15, 2014, however, you may still have options to get health coverage. If you qualify for a Special Enrollment Period you can still buy coverage through the Marketplace. Below is a list of resources you can use to help you navigate the process; To compare plans offered on the Cover Oregon exchange, please visit: https://www.coveroregon.com/individual/browse/medical I want you to know that as Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee I am committed to building on the progress made by the Affordable Care Act and putting in place common sense reforms to bring down the cost of health care for all Oregonians. Thank you again for taking the time to share your experience with me. If I may be of further assistance to you in this or any other matter, please do not hesitate to contact me. Dammit Senator, my healthcare costs were zero before you fucked it up. Now I don't know what the hell I have.
It's Oracle's fault, even though Oracle successfully implemented web exchanges for other states. Larry Ellison hates Oregon!!
We don't see the letter that MarAzul wrote the senator. But Barfo is implying the Senator doesn't care what MarAzul wrote, and is just giving him a vague response. Barfo is mocking the senator.
Here's the way I see it. MarAzul gets out his typewriter and fires off a long, incoherent, inconsistent message to a politician. Some pimply-faced intern in the mailroom receives it, scans it just long enough to see a keyword like 'healthcare','insurance', or 'Obamacare'. He then puts it in the 'healthcare' pile, and another intern mails everyone in that pile a boilerplate letter that was written by a recent college graduate now working as a junior staffer. The senator himself might get a summary like 'we got 500 letters this month, 300 of them were about bengazi, 100 were about healthcare, and 100 were death threats', and he probably doesn't bother to read the summary. Otherwise, the senator is unaware of either MarAzul's letter or the response 'he' sent. barfo
I'm gonna guess here that the steaming piles went in both directions. And Merkley works for what, 3 million of us? It's a waste of MY tax dollars to have him (or rather his staff) spend time on MarAzul's rants. barfo
