Posted on 03/16/2010 11:12:36 AM PDT by Nachum
Natoma Canfield, the cancer-stricken woman who has become a centerpiece of President Obama's push for health care reform, will not lose her home over her medical bills and will probably qualify for financial aid, a top official at the Cleveland medical center treating her told FoxNews.com.
Natoma Canfield, the cancer-stricken woman who has become a centerpiece of President Obama's push for health care reform, will not lose her home over her medical bills and will probably qualify for financial aid, a top official at the Cleveland medical center treating her told FoxNews.com.
Though Canfield's sister Connie Anderson said her sibling is afraid she'll lose her house and Obama warned at an Ohio rally Monday that the patient is "racked with worry" about the cost of tests and treatment, she is already being screened for financial help.
Where’s the link?
In Desperation, Obama Exploits Cancer Patient Natoma Canfield to Sell Obamacare...and Lies About Her
If Obama and his minions say it, you know it’s a lie.
Did she get her free Obama t-shirt yet?
I know that if you go into a nursing home, they can take your house and other assets - perhaps it is because of that.
She had insurance until she got tired of paying for it and dropped it. Then she expects a handout a couple of months later when she gets sick. I’m sorry she got cancer but she dropped her insurance, not me.
Under Oboma Death Care, they'd do the same thing, only they'd do it long before you got sick.
Nice. If she's at the Cleveland Clinic being treated for cancer she's probably getting just about the best care in the world!
That’s the way insurance works. When you’re well and not running up a lot of medical bills it seems like an expensive waste of money. Once you get sick and it starts paying you realize what it’s worth. I have no sympathy for this woman;s financial plight. She caused it herself.
So she started voting for democrats because she knew they'd steal her neighbors pay check to pay for it.
Gosh. What a sweet lady. (/s)
Yet she's trying to make us look like the bad guys for not paying her bills for her.
How can anyone vote democrat and admit it in public?
"commander zero" says that's no good enough. The a$$ is a shameless liar.
Mm Mm Mm so Bummer did stick his pedal appendage in his os.
Again.
It would, if you could be sure you might never need the coverage. What insurance does is mitigate risk. You premiums are the reflection of the actual cost of claims payment for your type of policy, to your age group, in your location.
In most states (I am in California) health insurance companies are required to pay out a minimum of 70% of all premium collected in claims. The average profit margin for these companies are between 2 and 5%, which is in low. Medicare is less efficient, has much more fraud and waste, and pays your doctors, the hospitals and other providers much less than the actual cost of service.
Guess who has to make up the difference?
If you refinance to pull cash out every 5-10 years you never pay it off.
Exactly why obamacare will not work either.
Risk is expensive. Especially some particular risks. That’s a free market operating, when you pay someone else to take your risk.
Folks,
Republicans can destroy the health care reform bill right now if they will stress this message: By immediately raising taxes, this bill will sink our already struggling economy.
If media-prominent Republicans emphasize that single crystallized point, the political pressure on wavering Democrats in the House to vote no will increase enormously. Factually, the bill legislates massive new taxes on personal incomes and on medical devices & services: all of which go into effect immediately upon the bill’s passage. RAISING TAXES DURING A RECESSION will obviously hurt the economy. (Which is why Democrats have not dared attempt a tax increase despite controlling both chambers of congress.) So as unpopular as this ugly bill already is, it can be made much more so with simple clarion emphasis that: this bill is instant poison to our ailing economy.
The American people already hate what the bill stands for (the rotten substance of the bill) as well as they hate the corrupt process that has produced it. Now it needs to be branded into the national psyche that passage of the bill will straightaway cause personal financial harm to everyone. The ball game will be over if Republicans will simply apply immense pressure to that one crippling point. (They can use the new CBO numbers coming out on the reconciliation/fix-it bill as a fresh predicate to sound the alarm.)
Imagine variations of the following sound bites issued from someone like John Boehner: “If the Health Care Takeover Bill becomes law, our taxes instantly go up, and it will make one of the worst recessions we’ve ever experienced much worse. Everyone knows you don’t raise taxes during a recession.” Or how about: “There’s something else Democrats aren’t telling the American people about this bill – which is that it suddenly raises taxes in the middle of a recession. And you can’t do that and expect the economy to recover.” Did you feel that? Those were the scales tipping in the House. That was wavering House Democrats quietly sliding into the “no” category by the handful.
Note that this is not the same as arguing that the added deficits this bill is certain to generate will be unsustainable in the long run. That’s the “Generational Theft” message which has been lucidly conveyed and has resonated with the American public. Yes, severe concern has been raised… about the future. But the argument that the bill will also do serious harm to TODAY’S jobs and to TODAY’S fragile economy has yet to be forcefully made. – And this is the checkmate move that is needed during the endgame this week.
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