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Cancer patient chooses death after Obamacare causes his premium to increase by 833%
Fellowship of the Minds ^ | Posted on November 9, 2013 by Dr. Eowyn | Dr. Eowyn

Posted on 11/10/2013 5:52:42 AM PST by IbJensen

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To: IbJensen

we will continue to have a blast if you get my name right.....


61 posted on 11/10/2013 6:58:35 AM PST by yldstrk (My heroes have always been cowboys)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas
re: policies like life insurance policies, a Rand Paul idea.

My gosh, that's fantastic! The older you signed on, the more it would cost. The person could decide what they wanted covered. If you dropped it and had to start over the risk just might make the individual decide they're uninsurable.

You RandPaul supporters should get out there front and center (with advertising if necessary) with this solution, before the feds and the corrupted complicit health insurers mess things up even more.

62 posted on 11/10/2013 7:02:21 AM PST by grania
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To: IbJensen

IMPEACH AND JAIL!


63 posted on 11/10/2013 7:03:12 AM PST by isthisnickcool (NO MORE IRS!)
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To: IbJensen

I despise Zero and his Marxist mentors (and minions) almost beyond comprehension.

But...but....while we are all saying that, it needs to be noted that the GOPe is complicit in this. VERY complicit. Dirty as hell IMO.

McConnell and that bunch could have seriously impeded this law, probably even stopped it getting out of committee or to a floor vote. They deliberately choose not do that. Why? Because they wanted a hot button election issue that they thought would pay off well in 2010, 12 & 14.

I want this noted and remembered by all of those who tell us to vote for the lessor of two evils next year. Well, I’m not voting for McConnell. Period. They are noting less than Vichy collaborators who, as in this case, are helping the fascists send Americans to their deaths. A lot more of this is coming down the pike.

The GOPe has publicly stated their goal in 2014 is to destroy the TEA Party movement and conservatism. In their minds, that is the first priority, fighting Dems a distant second.


64 posted on 11/10/2013 7:04:24 AM PST by ChildOfThe60s ((If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

I agree with your every word, especially the part about the GOP being the real enemy. Without their constant running interference, the fascist democrat filth would be powerless. Also, I predicted that by next year (less than two months from now) we’d start seeing the deaths due to obamacare. Looks like I was too generous with my prediction.


65 posted on 11/10/2013 7:10:44 AM PST by SpaceBar
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To: IbJensen

Blood on Obama’s hands...blood on the hands of the Democrats...blood on the hands of the RINO’s.


66 posted on 11/10/2013 7:15:32 AM PST by who knows what evil? (G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
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To: gitmo

“Some will live and some will die.” Kathleen Sebelius.


67 posted on 11/10/2013 7:21:56 AM PST by castlegreyskull
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To: baddog 219

I can’t help but think of the pictures of Bush or republicans pushing old people off a cliff....


68 posted on 11/10/2013 7:24:47 AM PST by EBH ( The Day of the Patriot has arrived.)
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To: IbJensen

The ruling elite will never have to go through this kind of thing. They have a better plan, paid for by people like this man.

We are marching towards full communism. One of the tragedies of that is that only a few people will recognize it for what it is.


69 posted on 11/10/2013 7:29:06 AM PST by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible traitors. Complicit in the destruction of our country.)
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To: gitmo

Sarah, I believe, used the term “death panels” first. Apparently, Elliott either didn’t hear her or, if he did, he didn’t believe her.

This is, as you say, the first of millions. I saw Megan interview him and it was sad,sad.


70 posted on 11/10/2013 7:29:08 AM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: Mercat

“At this point, WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES IT MAKE?”


71 posted on 11/10/2013 7:31:33 AM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: Mercat
I do have to ask however, whether it was through taxes or my higher health insurance premiums over the last ten years, who was subsidizing his cancer treatment.

It was through your premiums. Premiums are based on paid out claims.

If he was healthy at the time he bought his insurance, the company took the risk that he may become sick...as you may.

That's how insurance works.

72 posted on 11/10/2013 7:33:46 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER ("The government" is nothing but a RAT jobs program)
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To: riverrunner
Some else was paying for the rest he wasn’t getting that kind for coverage just for 180 dollars a month.

This is how insurance works. If I remember correctly, you get placed into a group. It's all insurance $ that's been paid in; he was simply unfortunate enough to *win* the cancer lottery.

Having been the recipient of about $3/4M of treatment that kept my little girl alive, I am grateful.

Having to make choices like he's having to make - that's just wrong.

73 posted on 11/10/2013 7:38:25 AM PST by SCalGal (Friends don't let friends donate to H$U$, A$PCA, or PETA.)
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To: IbJensen

I could feel sorry for this man if he hadn’t voted for Obama.

In actuality he committed suicide.


74 posted on 11/10/2013 7:42:34 AM PST by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: riverrunner
Some else was paying for the rest he wasn’t getting that kind for coverage just for 180 dollars a month.

Probably employer provided group coverage. They usually pay around 50%.

75 posted on 11/10/2013 7:42:48 AM PST by ROCKLOBSTER ("The government" is nothing but a RAT jobs program)
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To: oh8eleven

You are right tell him to go F himself.

Like I said he should go rob a bank , get arrested and let the State pay for his care.


76 posted on 11/10/2013 7:44:16 AM PST by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: Mercat
Let me simplify this for you: This guy had insurance before he got sick. Then he got sick. That is the whole point of insurance. Why don't you whine about someone whose house catches on fire after he buys homeowners insurance.

Under the old pre-obamacare rules, the insurance company couldn't cancel him or raise his rates any more than anyone else in his group. But, obamacare forced the cancellation that the insurance company legally couldn't do before obamacare.

77 posted on 11/10/2013 7:44:33 AM PST by sportutegrl
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To: Mercat
If he was paying $153 for his insurance premiums, anyone else who had the same health insurance and approximately his age would be paying the same. That's what insurance is about. Most of us don't need it, but because of the number of people enrolled, the ones that do get sick can get medical care. Granted if the insurance pool that you are in is small enough, then your premiums will go up because of other people's needs, but this insurance was $153 a month. It must have been a policy that covered a lot of healthy people.

It shouldn't have anything to do with your taxes. At least it was that way before ObamaCare. Now it is going to be your taxes, because there is no way enough young healthy adults will be enrolled in this mess. Someone has to pay for all the new subsidized high-cost insurance premiums. If this continues we will have the single payer system that the Dems wanted in the first place at least for us peons.

78 posted on 11/10/2013 7:45:07 AM PST by FR_addict
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To: yldstrk

Many years ago on the way to a Cowboy football game in Dallas we all piled into a van with a “designated” driver. I immediately recognized that we weren’t going toward the stadium so I inquired of my buddy “where the hell we going””. He replied “to pick up Bill”.

We drove I to an older neighborhood of decidedly less value than any of us lived in and picked up Bill at his home of maybe 2,000 sq feet and AT LEAST 20 years old (and looked it).

Anyway, Bill was a fun guy and theCowboys lost and we took him home. Oh, bill was dressed in a ragged shirt, coat and blue jeans.

After he got out and we drove off I inquired of my friend about “who was Bill?”

My friend said “he’s the owner of blank oil company”. I will give you an article on them when we get back to the house. Turns out blank oil company was worth over a billion dollars and was rated the most successful “wildcatter” in Texas at that time.

Oh, his wife he said was staying home to “clean the house” and didn’t like football.


79 posted on 11/10/2013 7:46:39 AM PST by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid!)
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To: spokeshave

I hope that those bureaucrats are well insured. Life insurance, that is.


80 posted on 11/10/2013 7:47:55 AM PST by NTHockey (Rules of engagement #1: Take no prisoners. And to the NSA trolls, FU)
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