Posted on 05/03/2014 2:38:12 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A local mother is battling for her life with an unknown bone disease, and making matters worse, her insurance has just been ripped from under her.
Aubry Domeikis is spending every moment trying to make memories with her 5-year-old son, not knowing if she will live to see tomorrow. "He said he was scared to be alone with me because what if he woke up and I was dead?" Domeikis told Action News tearfully. "It's terrifying, I'm scared."
Domeikis needs a life-saving blood infusion every single day while her doctors try to figure out if the bone infection that's wracking her body is cancer. The cost for the infusion alone is more than $400 per day. "That doesn't even include the blood work that I have to get done weekly to see that it's working," she said.
On top of her health battle, Domeikis is now fighting a second front with Nevada Health Link. After months of trying to sign up on the Health Link website and getting the error message, she was finally enrolled in Medicaid, given insurance cards, and started seeing doctors.
But it all came to a grinding halt last week when she received a heart-dropping letter from Medicaid saying her eligibility was miscalculated and her coverage was terminated. "I told them without treatment, I could die. The girl said, 'As cold as it sounds, it's not our problem,'" Domeikis said.
Domeikis was directed back to square one, the Health Link website, where she got a plan but was told coverage won't begin until June. Her only option now is to go to the hospital for infusions, where they can't turn her away for lack of coverage, and ultimately face a bill potentially in the millions.
Domeikis has signed onto local attorney Matt Callister's class action lawsuit against the state, the Silver State Health Insurance Exchange, and Xerox, the company behind the Health Link website. "It's life and death, we're there now," Callister said. "She's now being denied for 30 days for some totally bureaucratic reason, not of her making, access to the only medicine that you can see keeps her alive."
Right now, Aubry Domeikis wants only one thing: Coverage. "We jumped through all their hoops, we did everything right," she said. "Now I just want them to do their job."
Callister said as part of the class action suit he will be requesting expedited help for people like Domeikis, who have immediate health needs.
No misreading on your part!
I read an article a few years back that said 99.9% of those sob, feel good, etc stories on Facebook are bogus yet people still share/like them and pass them on.
A good group plan would save her... Obamacare will kill her and bankrupt her family.
What - do you think ‘healtcare’ should only be for liberal elites?
Missing pieces. There’s prices for your doctor to treat you on a scheduled basis, then there’s prices for impromptu treating via an emergency room when you earn enough for it to not just be written off, plus whatever the final treatment will be.
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