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.
A very good prop. Kooch is changing his vote now?
Everyone having to deal with medical crises are racked with worry. It appears that this woman is no different, and most likely much better off, than many. She still has her house, her medical bills will be paid, she’s being cared for in an excellent facility.
What I find exceedingly strange is that she says she never reached her deductible of 2k. Every single year (4) that I underwent cancer treatment I met my deductible in January.
Furthermore, she’s being treated at the Cleveland Clinic, a place that she’d never make it to under Obamacare.
Good point. Wonder if Obamacare will allow us to call in the world’s top brain surgeon from Duke for needed surgery just when he’s about to go on a Canadian vacation ala Ted Kennedy?
They are covering this here in Cleveland. She was already assigned a financial counselor, the hospital she is being treated at doesn’t place lien’s on homes for bills (they could, but they choose not too), she most likely is eligible for medicaid (but had not sought assistance soon enough).
Basically it sounds to me she didn’t know how to navigate the government bureaucracy to get the help she needed. The hospital is the one that actually provided her with the counseling and advocate she needed. She will need to apply for SS disability in order to get medicaid.
If anything she demonstrates the already existing difficulty in dealing with the government systems.
Good point.
I pay cash on the day of services. Discount 60%. No bill sent to my home. All offices I’ve ever been to are able to take my payment that day. General practitioner, hospital, even the surgery center was able to take my payment that day.
So if you go into a nursing home, you are not suppose to pay your own way?
Are your assets supposed to be saved up for your children?
Some believe that, not saying I do, but I was just pointing out what could have been the case.
Someday soon when some poor soul dies of one of the myriad maladies
mortal humans suffer from...
some people will be saying:
“Where was Obama?”
Some people seem to have already turned Obama into, at the least,
a small g-d.
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