1) You can keep yer doctor.. OKAaaaaY....
2) You will pay less premiums.. OKAaaaaY...
3) Yer deductible will go down... OKAaaaY!...
Posted on 11/03/2013 10:51:56 PM PST by Lmo56
Everyone now is clamoring about Affordable Care Act winners and losers. I am one of the losers.
My grievance is not political; all my energies are directed to enjoying life and staying alive, and I have no time for politics. For almost seven years I have fought and survived stage-4 gallbladder cancer, with a five-year survival rate of less than 2% after diagnosis. I am a determined fighter and extremely lucky. But this luck may have just run out: My affordable, lifesaving medical insurance policy has been canceled effective Dec. 31.
My choice is to get coverage through the government health exchange and lose access to my cancer doctors, or pay much more for insurance outside the exchange (the quotes average 40% to 50% more) for the privilege of starting over with an unfamiliar insurance company and impaired benefits. [SNIP]
You would think it would be simple to find a health-exchange plan that allows me, living in San Diego, to continue to see my primary oncologist at Stanford University and my primary care doctors at the University of California, San Diego. Not so. UCSD has agreed to accept only one Covered California plan—a very restrictive Anthem EPO Plan. EPO stands for exclusive provider organization, which means the plan has a small network of doctors and facilities and no out-of-network coverage (as in a preferred-provider organization plan) except for emergencies. Stanford accepts an Anthem PPO plan but it is not available for purchase in San Diego (only Anthem HMO and EPO plans are available in San Diego).
So if I go with a health-exchange plan, I must choose between Stanford and UCSD. Stanford has kept me alive—but UCSD has provided emergency and local treatment support during wretched periods of this disease, and it is where my primary-care doctors are.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
Yeah, but those were inferior insurance polices, doctors and hospitals foisted upon the ignorant by bad apples.
Boy that is a pretty powerful essay. Of course the Stalinist won’t care.
That’s ok. Edie needs to take one for the team. He might get worse healthcare, but that’s fair to give other people healthcare. I saw a liberal say something like that in the comments to a person in Australia who has been on a year long waiting list for a tonsilectomy because he has severe sleep apnea. The liberals would rather we all get equally bad care than have the majority get good care off the free market.
Across the nation...I would imagine that Edie is one of 20,000 folks who had a four-star policy....at a higher-than-average price....that worked perfectly. And now? They are in the twilight zone....doubting the future and looking for reality (they won’t find it).
I would highlight this. What the liberal left should now stand up to say....is that everyone is entitled to the same quality service. That would mean that a high-cost cancer survivor in Nashville (with great facilities nearby), ought to be the same for a cancer person in the middle of southern Montana, or Red Bay, Ala, or rural Kentucky.
If you wanted to really screw up the system and entangle things for a decade or two...that’d be the next mess to create.
Personally, I’m almost of the mind that Mexican health care officials have bribed the Democrats to create such a bad atmosphere....that the only place left to get first-class treatment....will be across the border (in cash).
Obama Lied!
Fascism Thrived!
Just take the pill./sarc
One D. Edie. She, not he.
When Obozocare was being rammed down our throats it had nothing to do with compassion but all with confiscation and re-distribution of wealth and to increase and multiply the ignorant, with their hands out socialistic block of voters. Enough dumb and ignorant people fell for all those lies which were instrumental to the re-election of the perpetrator of this Ponzi scheme along with his cohorts.
And if anyone should wonder why a good portion of the American public has been taken in and still is enamored with the prospect of socialized health care and was hoping for some great deals, all you have to do check the statistics on circulatory problems such as strokes, heart attacks high blood pressure and diabetes just to mention a few with the majority of them related to to poor eating habits along with little or no exercise. Over time bad habits and ignorance have a way of catching up with us, may this be what we stuff our bodies with or the crappy politicians we elect.
You may not “have time” for politics, but I guarantee you, politics has time for you, whether you like it, or not.
This statement is worth saving as it is a good one!
I have never heard of gall bladder cancer being a big problem, though have heard about many people having gall bladder removal. If cancerous, too late for just removal?
(Just a question out of curiosity, not a medical statement by someone claiming to know anything about the subject.)
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders/diseases/gallbladder_cancer/can_overview.aspx#link3
Stage IV: The cancer has moved to adjacent lymph nodes and/or to organs that are located far from the gallbladder.
1) You can keep yer doctor.. OKAaaaaY....
2) You will pay less premiums.. OKAaaaaY...
3) Yer deductible will go down... OKAaaaY!...
Obamacare is going as planned......it’s MEANT TO DESTROY OUR ONCE SUPERIOR HEALTH CARE!!!! It’s the Cloward-Piven strategy of OVERWHELMING the SYSYTEM and COLLAPSING IT so they can bring on Single Payer Socialist Medicine which is FAR INFERIOR and RATIONED.
Politics will definitely kill anyone idiot enough to sacrifice their fight against cancer for it. Good lord have some respect.
Go back and re-read my post. If you need help, let me know.
I believe it is “ OhTaaaaay!”
This mess makes me sick to my stomach. Pray for this country and then vote these slimebags out.
Hey Grim.
(Though there’s nothing grim about grimalkins. That just means grey cat.)
Yep it deserves a big ole hairball and maybe some brown stomach slime to go with it.
I think this is God’s way of delivering a warning to Americans that they FINALLY can’t ignore.
Redneck
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