Posted on 07/03/2014 5:38:48 AM PDT by wagglebee
Linda Rolain passed away at her Las Vegas home on Monday after the Nevada resident but the Obamacare enrolleee died needlessly. Rolain’s family had joined two lawsuits against the State of Nevada and the company that set up its troubled online software, Xerox.
The Nevada resident tried to enroll in the state’s health exchange in November and after numerous issues, finally paid in January for coverage to start in March. But when she went to get treatment, there was no record of her name and she finally received an insurance card in May.
She underwent surgery in mid-May but struggled to recover.
When Congress approved and President Barack Obama signed Obamacare into law, pro-life advocates warned about rationing. This is one of the forms rationing takes — when government bureacracy fails to get it right and provide the lifesaving medical care and treatment patients need.
“I came in, held her hand. I whispered in her ear ‘I love you, I’m gonna be fine,’” Robert Rolain told Action News.
With that, 64-year-old Linda passed away, leaving behind her loving husband of 45 years.
It’s not the first time we’ve heard from Robert Rolain. Back in June, he spoke to Action News along with his attorney, Matt Callister, pleading with the state to get immediate health insurance coverage for Linda and others like her with life-threatening conditions. “She knew she was gonna die. She really knew it,” Robert said.
Doctors said Linda’s life could have been saved, had she gotten the brain surgery she needed six months ago when she was battling Nevada Health Link for coverage. After months of running into problems applying online, Linda finally got a plan and paid premiums every month, but when she went to go use it, her insurance company said they’d never heard of her. By then, it was too late. Linda spent her last four days on this earth in a coma.
“It’s hard, knowing she could have lived a little longer anyway,” Robert said.
Now Robert’s one reason to keep going is to keep fighting Linda’s fight. He doesn’t want one more person to go through the pain his family has suffered. “Even though they tell you you’ve got insurance, call the insurance company. Make sure you’re covered, because chances are you’re not going to be in their computers,” he said.
Robert is getting help from his attorney, Callister, who in addition to a class action suit, is suing the state. Callister is asking for the Health Exchange to get immediate coverage for those who can’t wait until the next open enrollment period, many of whom, like Linda, have been trying but failing for months.
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Yep, but she still is covered for those free xrays and maternity care and the insurance company cant decline her coverage due to pre-existing conditions.
Obama said so.
They need to sue the insurance carrier, the state exchange, the DHHS ... Everyone whose filthy hands are involved in this, by name, including those they know will be excluded by the courts. Fruitless, perhaps. But turning up the heat on this monstrosity seems to be all that’s left at this point.
My heart breaks for that poor husband, he must have felt so helpless. Imagine watching someone you love dying and knowing that some computer error is causing it to happen.
The word used is death.
The fact is Negligent Homicide.
The question is.... how high does the negligence rise?
isee the.ACA is working exactly as planned. there is no room in the reich for the weak feeble and sixkly. Sieg Heil
All the way to the most worthless pResident in history.
0bama is lying, and people are dying.
Liberal policies have been consigning people to lives of misery and in many cases killing them, for decades.
This administration is evil beyond belief.
Der Obamaführer and his Demonicratreich are still waiting on the crematoriums they ordered.
This ACA is helping no one. I am a nurse practitioner and I see patients on a daily basis who either a. can’t get signed up for it, or b. can’t afford it. Mostly the latter. MORE people are going without insurance. MORE people make too much for Medicaid (healthcare for illegals) so they just go without ...
We allowed this progressive cabal to do this to us, under the guise that they were going to “help” Americans. The ACA is designed to help only the bureaucrats who administer it ...and nothing more.
He should add Hairy Reid into the lawsuits - since he woulda been instrumental in the bribing of senators to ram this albatross down our throats.
I don’t know. Looks like DeathCare is working just as planned.
Don’t folks know that treating brain tumors is very, very expensive, and if the tumor is malignant, treatment usually merely postpones death, not really curing the cancer?
The five-year survival rate for many malignant primary brain tumors isn’t so hot.
Here, we have an example of DeathCare culling out someone who would have merely cost the system more and more money down the road, while providing a minimum of benefit - perhaps a few additional years of life.
Besides, the woman was already 64 years old! She was more than 90% through the promised three-score-and-ten.
In the long run this sort of treatment program for serious illness has the opportunity to dramatically alter the cost curve for medical care here in the United States.
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