As the #Obamacare website gets fixed, expect to see more stories like this

[JaneyVee]

Well, just not on FOX news.

In Colorado, A Couple Finds Relief In Obamacare

There's plenty of criticism of the Affordable Care Act and how it's being implemented.

But let's introduce you to someone who is quite pleased with her Obamacare experience: Lela Petersen of Flagler, Colo. She's a small business owner with a very big health insurance bill.

But thanks to the health law, she expects that bill will be cut by more than half in January.

Petersen is 57, and her husband, Mike, is 60. They have some pre-existing conditions. He has diabetes. She has a back injury. The HMO policy they've carried since 1992 has risen over the years to $1,950 per month, just for the two of them.

"When you pay $1,950 for insurance you might as well forget retirement," says Petersen says. "There's just no way." Five years ago, she was planning on an early retirement, but she didn't anticipate health insurance costing as much as the rest of her bills combined.

At the beginning of October she checked out Colorado's insurance exchange and found the exact same policy from the same insurer for only $832 a month. "It's dropping us down about $1,100 a month. We can retire. We can go fishing. We can actually see a future," says Petersen.

The rest (surprisingly from NPR) http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/11/05/242416423/in-colorado-a-couple-finds-relief-in-obamacare

[Journeyman]

1. My wife and I have a similar story (only our numbers are much greater). . .

Under the ACA, my wife & I will get a slightly better plan than we have for less than half our current premium and it will be with the same carrier we presently have.

She has a pre-existing condition, and I got falsely diagnosed with one years ago (but could not get the insurance company to change my status -- and why should they, they could ratchet up my premiums and I had nowhere else to go!), so between our two "pre-existing conditions" our individual policy went up 15% to 40% each year for the last 15 years.

But now that we can divest ourselves of the "grandfathered" policy we had, we're going to get the same insurance with better benefits for about 46% of the cost.

Yeah. The ACA wasn't what I wanted, and it needs to be changed in many ways, but without it I don't know how we would have made it. So though I'm not happy with the ACA, I'm very pleased with it.