ObamaCare and My Mother's Cancer Medicine

Wall Street Journal ^ | 02/24/2014 | Stephen Blackwood

[SeekAndFind]

[SNIP]

And then in November, along with millions of other Americans, she lost her health insurance. She'd had a Blue Cross/Blue Shield plan for nearly 20 years. It was expensive, but given that it covered her very expensive treatment, it was a terrific plan. It gave her access to any specialist or surgeon, and to the Sandostatin and other medications that were keeping her alive.

And then, because our lawmakers and president thought they could do better, she had nothing. Her old plan, now considered illegal under the new health law, had been canceled.

Because the exchange website in her state (Virginia) was not working, she went directly to insurers' websites and telephoned them, one by one, over dozens of hours. As a medical-office manager, she had decades of experience navigating the enormous problems of even our pre-ObamaCare system. But nothing could have prepared her for the bureaucratic morass she now had to traverse.

[SeekAndFind]

This isn't a joke, his mother could be your mother or mine too.

[alloysteel]

De facto Death Panel.

No meetings, no discussion.

And not even an offer of “take a pill”. Just die in agony.

[scooby321]

Better Insurance for $2,500 less?

[Red Badger]

As I have written before, when peoples’ loved ones start dying as a result of this administration’s horrific policies, there will be a backlash, the likes of which has not been seen in America for over a century and a half................

[Diogenesis]

[jsanders2001]

And unlike the Left the people on these ads aren’t paid actors nor do they need to be because they’re not reciting 30 second plays like their Leftist counterparts who have to use a pretext or lie to advance their cause

[Truth29]

Look to countries like Ukraine for what it is likely going to take to rid the US of Obamacare and a government that has become the enemy of the people. The uniparty is not going to get it done and the courts have been compromised.

[GeronL]

How long before they stop funding dialysis for certain segments of those patients?

[Truth29]

Obamacare can be used to target to population segments that oppose Obama or which he and his fellow Marxists want to reduce in size. In the mean time, I suspect that Stephen Blackwood and Ralston College are about to get unremitting attention from every Federal agency that can be brought to bear against them. This is totalitarianism and we don’t seem to now how to stop it.

[GeronL]

Yep. I expect them to set age limits for all kinds of surgeries and medicines and treatments before long.

[Tired of Taxes]

This is a different patient.

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