Cancer patient chooses death after Obamacare causes his premium to increase by 833%

Bill Elliott has cancer. He had a healthcare plan that had paid for “just about everything” of his cancer treatment, including pharmaceuticals and medical devices like MRI. He had doctors whom he “loved” and his premium was $180 a month.

But Elliott, like hundreds of thousands of Americans, got a cancellation notice from his medical insurance BECAUSE OF OBAMACARE.

So Elliott tried to find a new health plan that would take him. But his insurance premium will be $1,500 a month — an increase of 833% from his old premium. An MRI under the new healthcare plan will cost $3,000 out of pocket.

And so, Elliott has decided he will just pay the $95 Obamacare penalty by NOT getting medical insurance because “I won’t put a burden on my family.” He will “let nature take its course.”

Bill Elliott had voted for the very man whose unAffordable Care Act is consigning him to an early death. Elliott has discovered, too late, that he’s one of President Lucifer’s useful idiots.

Obama said this in an interview in 2004: “One of the qualities I think I do bring to this race is as an African-American, my entire politics is based on a desire to fight for people who are disadvantaged. And that is not just a cause of this campaign. It’s been the cause of my life.”

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And Obama does not mean a middle class American who has cancer as one of the disadvantaged people he is fighting for. Read closely and his goal was and is single payer and collectivism. He believes it is your place in life to give it up for the poor. Did any of you really believe he was going to hit only the uber rich? To a person on welfare, you the middle class are too rich and need to share the wealth and be brought down. And Obama is accomplishing this by making you pay more and more for insurance until you beg for the government to take over and lower the costs.

Here in Florida the press is celebrating an African American woman with breast cancer who was paying COBRA $500 a month and now only has to pay $30 a month. She isn’t working if she has COBRA and is rewarded with practically free health insurance while the rest of us including Bill work to pay for insurance or die because we care more about our family’s finances than our own lives.

This man with cancer and a premium of $180 is probably pretty normal. He needed coverage for a catastrophic illness he didn’t yet have when he enrolled in the policy and the insurance company underwrote his risk and decided to take a chance on him. That’s what insurance is. Transferring the chance of a risk that may or may not ever materialize from the policyholder to the insurer in return for premium payments. The premiums collected overall from all policyholders and held in reserves, in theory, will be enough to cover any claims or risks that actually materialize. In the case of Medicaid, portions of Medicare, CHIP or VA care, the federal government, meaning the taxpayers, pay for the care except for any co-pays required.

Just as your auto insurance is not designed to pay for new wiper blades or an oil change or for new tires or your homeowners insurance should not cover a visit by the plumber, small repairs or a new coat of paint, your medical insurance shouldn’t be used to pay for routine doctor visits, x-rays, lab work or most prescriptions. This makes the cost of the medical insurance go up dramatically. It should be reserved for big costs that the policyholders can’t cover themselves.

This ridiculous requirement under ObamaCare that EVERYBODY must have the same comprehensive coverage whether they need or want it, is part of the reason why the premiums for most folks are going to go up. And the fact that the government is trying to add 30-45 million uninsured new people also raises the premiums. And adding people with pre-existing conditions, which almost automatically will result in more losses to the insurers, will raise premiums. The hope that existing uninsured young healthy people will sign up for policies under ObamaCare is because they will pay for the old folks and unhealthy people who will use most of the care. People who are eligible for subsidies on the exchanges, get that money from the government via the taxpayers like you and me. So the taxpayers will continue to cover the costs of some people’s medical care whether it is under the old third party payer or under ObamaCare.

If the American people continue to use their medical insurance as a credit card to pay for every little nickel and dime cost in their medical care instead of for what insurance is truly designed for and that is catastrophic coverage for major injuries or illness to keep them from going bankrupt, we will continue to have this problem.

Thanks IbJensen.

He had a healthcare plan that had paid for "just about everything" of his cancer treatment, including pharmaceuticals and medical devices like MRI. He had doctors whom he "loved" and his premium was $180 a month... like hundreds of thousands of Americans, got a cancellation notice from his medical insurance BECAUSE OF OBAMACARE... new health plan... premium will be $1,500 a month --- an increase of 833% from his old premium. An MRI under the new healthcare plan will cost $3,000 out of pocket. And so, Elliott has decided he will just pay the $95 Obamacare penalty by NOT getting medical insurance because "I won't put a burden on my family." He will "let nature take its course." In other words, he is choosing death. Bill Elliott had voted for the very man whose unAffordable Care Act is consigning him to an early death... has discovered, too late, that he's one of President Lucifer's useful idiots.

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