Posted on 10/05/2014 8:08:56 AM PDT by Nachum
As the mother of two chronically ill children, I have long faced high health care costs. My sons suffer from a rare bone-marrow failure syndrome called Shwachman-Diamond syndrome and have secondary mitochondrial disease that requires treatment with a broad range of expensive medications. We averaged $10,000 to $12,000 a year in billed out-of-pocket medical expenses before Obamacare became law. In 2013, we incurred just over $27,000 in out-of-pocket medical expenses. President Obama’s signature piece of legislation has more than doubled our yearly medical costs.
Having read the then-proposed Affordable Care Act in 2010, I was skeptical of the legislation from the start. I knew that a vast expansion of government involvement in health care would create unintended consequences, and I publicly warned my own senator, Kay R. Hagan, North Carolina Democrat, about the impact the legislation would have on my children. Though she denied the truth of my claims at the time, almost everything I imagined would happen because of the law has come to fruition.
Prior to 2011, our insurance provider covered all of my sons’ treatments, surgeries and hospitalizations without one instance of a denied claim. I always considered our family very fortunate for the medical availability that we had before the law made its impact. As the founder of a nonprofit organization designed to support research and education for Shwachman-Diamond syndrome, I saw over the years the lack of medical access opportunity for families contacting me from Canada and England. They frequently reported difficulty obtaining necessary medications and even receiving routine diagnostic testing owing to denied coverage. One injectable medication my youngest son gets to boost his white blood cell count before surgery was denied to families in these countries because the medication was considered too expensive. Since Obamacare passed, what I saw happen to those
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America. Fundamentally changed.
It is really up to the voters, if there is to be a return to a vibrant America, in all respects. Who our government is, and what they are, is strictly controlled by the public if they choose to be part of that reality. America was designed that way deliberately.
The people have the power to get the government they deserve and they will get it. GOOD or BAD.
VOTE FOR AMERICA in Novermber.
In a few months, when she has lied her way back into her Senate Seat and is helping him complete his "transformation," will be too late.
Today, and over the next three weeks, TV commercials need to hit her with her oft-repeated "If you like your doctor. . . .," and the facts surrounding cancer patients who lost their good coverage, and the doubling and tripling costs of premiums under the Hagan/Obama travesty called "Obamacare."
De-fund what hasn’t been already of Obamacare....de-fund; de-fund; de-fund; de-fund.......BILLIONS have been spent on this mess and it still is a mess.....there is no way to “fix” it, that is an allusion.....how can Obama’s administration bungle this so badly...who made the money???
How ObamaCare more than doubled one family’s yearly costs
Mother describes the health care nightmare
I predict that at some point if ACA is not scrapped women who become pregnant and find their preborn child has a genetic defect that requires expensive long term medical treatment will be told to abort or pay for all future treatments themselves. Genetic testing for such illnesses will be mandatory.
The Liberals think that the underlying cause of all their problems is that there are too many people in this world. They think the planet can only support about 30,000,000 people. We have over 300,000,000 people in this country. I’m not particularly fond of Liberals, but I don’t wish death on them. Do they feel the same way about us?
That is an interesting point. No disrespect to the woman whose plight is described here, but the U.S. medical insurance system didn’t exactly “work” before ObamaCare, either. Her insurance carrier was only able to cover her enormous medical expenses by charging excessive premiums to all of its healthy customers. The end result of that system is that fewer and fewer healthy people see a need to carry all that insurance coverage.
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