Posted on 10/08/2017 8:03:34 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Spend some time on the Twitter feed of the “Sassy Gay Republican,” and at first it all seems pretty simple.
He can't stand “liberals.” He thinks universal health care is extremely suspect. And he loves President Trump, in case that wasn’t obvious. Just another anonymous Twitter personality with 30,000 followers riding the #MAGA train, right?
But then things got complicated. The 21-year-old Mesa resident, Alex Newman, was in a collision on the 202 on September 12, while he was working as a pizza-delivery driver. In the aftermath, his decision to crowdfund his bills on GoFundMe is raising eyebrows.
Newman found himself in the hospital, and although his worker's compensation insurance reportedly took care of some of the bills, the hospital didn't accept his health insurance. Briefly, the incident caused him to re-evaluate his stance on universal coverage.
He later told BuzzFeed that the collision has not led him to change his mind on the Affordable Care Act, which he said caused his family's premiums to triple.
So far, he's raised over $3,000 from 122 people in the eight days of the campaign, with a fundraising goal of $15,000. Newman's page says funds will go toward bills for his physical therapy and medication, as well as a used car so he can continue working as a pizza delivery driver.
Of course, the move smacks of hypocrisy for a guy who says that health care should remain "a privilege," not a right. What's unusual is that plenty of donors to his campaign have pointed this out — lots of the comments from contributors to his GoFundMe page wish him a swift recovery while also asking that he reconsider his position on health care.
(It must be noted that Newman's Twitter posts, when they're not totally incoherent, often cheerfully broadcast bigoted views, particularly
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Your link goes to the Phoenix New Times, but not to this story.
can’t find the story at the link.
I know each state is different, but seems strange workers comp didn’t cover all the bills ?
he had no car insurance ? How’d did the pizza place let him drive ?
He had insurance.
If you have a $15k deductible, you don’t really have insurance. I thought it was bad when they offered me $7k. It’s a scam. It’s just a tax, with no real benefit.
I know a customer who had his trailer insured for $230,000. They only want to give him $50,000.
We have an HSA through my wife’s job. $7,000 deductible for the family before it pays 1 dime. That is after hundreds of dollars a month in premiums.
Obamacare has destroyed our insurance and it is employer sponsored.
One time,
me and a friend went down to the river a caught two big catfish.
They were hugh!
He’s not asking the government to take money from other people to pay his medical bills. How is this hypocritical?
The article is just a partisan diatribe, complete with an alleged note from an allegedly real kid with MS, who would be dead in “weeks” if Obamacare were repealed. That’s weird, because Obamacare is barely eight years old, and MS takes a long time to kill, as one of my cousins can attest, who’s had it for more than 30 years.
BS story. I lost access to my preferred hospital (and much more) because of the ACA.
thanks for the link. still too many questions\holes in this story.
I agree. But, one thing that is clear is that ACA has taken healthcare away from a lot of people.
As for questions about worker's comp - most drivers aren't covered, they're contract employees who technically have to provide their own. As for insurance, that deductible is $2,600 if he used the pizza place's coverage (which I hope he did, as broadcasting all of this and using personal insurance would get his company off the hook for using personal coverage for business driving...)
All in all, $15k seems like a reasonable goal to cover likely $10k in insurance deductibles and a cheap used car.
My guess is EMTALA would cover this and any other issues this guy or any uninsured individual has.
https://www.cms.gov/Regulations-and-Guidance/Legislation/EMTALA/
It is not hypocrisy to oppose “universal health care” and when the chips are down do charitable fundraising to help pay medical bills.
Universal health is a government demand to take money from people, and charity is money people freely give, not because the law is going to legally steal it from, but by their own choice, and their own agreement of where exactly the money is going.
There is no hypocrisy there.
There is a Christian run organization whose members agree to donate sets amount of money each month, to help cover excess out of pocket health care expense needs of the membership. It is not “insurance” and does not make special (collusion) arrangements with health care providers that limit members to any particular providers. As far as any provider knows, the customer is paying the whole bill out of pocket. That often means lowers costs, once the health care provider understands they don’t have to navigate and deal with insurers. So far, the average monthly required donations are lower than most insurers are charging (yes, it’s a voluntary organization, and you can volunteer to leave the membership should you chose to not make the monthly donation). People in such a plan do work to, want to and try to lower their needs for the plan’s assistance, because they know it is funded by the charitable donations of all the members.
This is just one of the cost-sharing examples that already exist.
https://christianpf.com/christian-health-insurance-alternative/
That is BS. Can they do that? I mean he overinsured but they sure took those premiums. I can’t believe how crocked the insurance companies are. If this country ever gets single payer, those insurance companies will be sorry. I don’t want single payer of course but the insurance company should pay out what is insured.
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