Posted on 11/05/2013 6:11:33 AM PST by tobyhill
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 percent 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 percent to 50 percent more) for the privilege of starting over with an unfamiliar insurance company and impaired benefits.
Countless hours searching for non-exchange plans have uncovered nothing that compares well with my existing coverage. But the greatest source of frustration is Covered California, the state's Affordable Care Act health-insurance exchange and, by some reports, one of the best such exchanges in the country. After four weeks of researching plans on the website, talking directly to government exchange counselors, insurance companies and medical providers, my insurance broker and I are as confused as ever. Time is running out and we still don't have a clue how to best proceed.
Two things have been essential in my fight to survive stage-4 cancer. The first are doctors and health teams in California and Texas: at the medical center of the University of California, San Diego, and its Moores Cancer Center; Stanford University's Cancer Institute; and the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center in Houston.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.msn.com ...
This goofy bastard did and said anything to win an election, but thats ok, he’s half black . . .
Thousands of people will be in this same situation.
There should be an appropriate way to thank Democrats and especially Nancy Pelosi for doing this to them.
Unfortunately you are now reaping the rewards of your apathy. While your apathy is understandable, given your medical condition, it still allows those who could care less about you to steal your freedoms.
All that said, my sympathies and prayers go out to you.
This is a powerful piece.
For the record it is by a woman in California.
“This post, by Edie Littlefield Sundby, appeared in the Opinion section of partner site The Wall Street Journal.”
MSN is finally going to allow zero to be challenged.
They are as guilty as zero himself, yet will never admit.
I want to see an apology from NBC-ABC-PBS-CNN-NY Times etc.
I’m thinking “giant gavel and a place the sun don’t shine”.
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