‘Bette in Spokane,’ cited in McMorris Rodgers’ speech, declined health insurance options

[Grassy Knoll]

Source: spokesman.com

The woman described only as “Bette in Spokane” during a nationally televised address by U.S. Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers said Wednesday she had no idea her frustrations over increasing insurance premiums would become part of the Republican attack on health care reform.

Not that Bette Grenier, a critic of the Affordable Care Act, minds that much.

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The carrier also offered a less expensive, $1,052-per-month option in lieu of their soon-to-be-discontinued catastrophic coverage plan. And, Grenier acknowledged the couple probably could have shaved another $100 a month off the replacement policy costs by purchasing them from the state’s online portal, the Health Plan Finder website, but they chose to avoid the government health exchanges.

“I wouldn’t go on that Obama website at all,” said Grenier, 58, who lives in the Chattaroy area and owns a roofing company with her husband. “We liked our old plan. It worked for us, but they can’t offer it anymore.”

Read more: http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2014/jan/30/bette-in-spokane-cited-in-mcmorris-rodgers-speech/

[louis-t]

1. Amazing. The "I won't go to Obamacare website" attitude

costs Glenn Beck listeners tons of money. OK, stupid, whatever makes you happy.

[PumpkinAle]

2. She is just cutting off her nose to spite her face

and Obamacare could help her with that.

People like Bette are just ignorant, selfish and stupid.

[Blue Idaho]

3. And then Betty visits her doctor...

"You better sit down Betty, I have some bad news..."

[kristopher]

4. And she scuttles to the Obamacare site to get insurance in spite of her preexisting condition. nt

[Grassy Knoll]

5. Sean Hannity pulled the same shit...

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/18/inside_the_fox_news_lie_machine_i_fact_checked_sean_hannity_on_obamacare

[elleng]

6. Sound familiar,

making pocket-book decisions against one's own interest/voting against one's own interest, out of ignorance and/or spite???

[Tanuki]

7. So Rogers used her national spotlight to lie.

She owes the public an abject apology, as does her reprehensible party for putting her up to this.
I know that won't happen, though.

[Turbineguy]

8. They pay more

so they can claim they are patriots who sacrifice.

[SoapBox]

9. Uhhhmmmm, Bette? I'm sorry to tell you...we've diagnosed you with

Dumb Fuckitise.

There is a cure!

Pull your head out of your ass.

[SoapBox]

10. p.s....

Ya know, after reading the linked article, it makes me think of the recent,

"Atlanta Mayor vs. the Weather Forecast" finger pointing.

Where exactly is the truth (even though I do think Bette is stupid and lying her ass off)?

[GodlessBiker]

11. She didn't "decline" coverage, she "refused" to consider it.

[Grassy Knoll]

12. .

decline
verb
1 she declined all invitations: turn down, reject, brush aside, refuse, rebuff, spurn, repulse, dismiss; forgo, deny oneself, pass up; abstain from, say no to; informal give the thumbs down to, give something a miss. ANTONYMS accept.

[mtasselin]

13. FIX

YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID.

[frylock]

14. her all-consuming hatred will kill her soon enough..

shame she won't have insurance when she finally has that heart attack.

[WinstonSmith4740]

15. This might just be...

THE most amazing case of "stupid" I've ever seen. Let me see if I've got this straight. This woman is now going without insurance because she got her panties in a twist over the fact that even though EVERYTHING about a new policy would cover more, she'd have a (maybe) $20.00 co-pay when she went to the doctor? Even though she could go to the doctor whenever she needed to, as opposed to being limited to 4 visits a year? AND she still refused to visit the ACA website to see what she could get even though a friend clearly showed her the benefit of doing so? She really is a special kind of stupid, isn't she?

[Pterodactyl]

16. If she liked her plan, she should have been able to keep it.