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kentuck

(111,092 posts)
Mon Nov 4, 2013, 03:12 PM Nov 2013

“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes”.

A quote attributed to Mark Twain.

For example:

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/insurance-companies-misleading-letters-obamacare

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Otherwise, she'd be automatically rolled over to a new plan -- and, as the letter said, "If you're happy with this plan, do nothing."

If Donna had done nothing, she would have ended up spending about $1,000 more a month for insurance than she will now that she went to the marketplace, picked the best plan for her family and accessed tax credits at the heart of the health care reform law.

"The info that we were sent by LifeWise was totally bogus. Why the heck did they try to screw us?" Donna said. "People who are afraid of the ACA should be much more afraid of the insurance companies who will exploit their fear and end up overcharging them."

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“A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes”. (Original Post) kentuck Nov 2013 OP
Good quote, another favorite "climb a tree and tell a lie when tbe truth sounds better on the Thinkingabout Nov 2013 #1

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
1. Good quote, another favorite "climb a tree and tell a lie when tbe truth sounds better on the
Mon Nov 4, 2013, 03:25 PM
Nov 2013

Ground". I wish the insurance companies was out of the loop. In France if you have a family member who is a French citizen you can purchase insurance for $10 a month. If you want the Cadillac plan then the cost is $32 a month. We inflate the cost of insurance and then wonder why we do not have affordable health care. Too many fingers in a pie and it cost our citizens lots in order to maintain lifestyles of others.

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