“Obamacare Worked Today”
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My mom has been trying to get health care for years. She’s 57 years old, has rheumatoid arthritis, diabetes, and congestive heart failure. As bad as that may sound, these are all very treatable conditions if you have insurance.
Ten years ago, my mom started a non-profit performing arts school and theater company that has changed the lives of hundreds of kids. But the school is too small to be able to buy a group plan for its employees. And my mom has been trying for years to get private healthcare and been denied by ALL the major health insure companies where she lives. There was no government high-risk insurance pool in her state, and to get on Medicaid, they wanted her to sell her house and reduce her income by half so that she wouldn’t look like she had so many assets. This summer, her state opted to use the federal money from the recent health care reform law to establish its own high risk health care pool. Today, she got the letter that she will be covered in 30 days at a very reasonable cost.
What this means to her is that she will finally be able to access the kinds of treatments that will greatly improve her quality of life. The fingers on her right hand have bent almost 30 degrees. Before this, she couldn’t afford the tests to qualify for the better treatments that will halt the deformation of her hands. She also frequently has to wait on tests because she has to save up or petition the doctor’s office for a payment plan. My mom works seven days a week to give her community access to amazing cultural experiences – and this healthcare is going to allow her to keep that going for much longer. I’m not sure that everything in that legislation was a perfect idea. But this will change a huge number of people’s lives in very real ways and we need to let people know.
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“BAH IF SHE’D HAVE GOTTEN A JOB SHE COULD PAY FOR HER MEDS AND NOT LEECH OFF THE REST OF US!!!!” -cons
“THE DEATH PANEL WILL KILL HER NEXT YEAR”-Matt Drudge
OT, but the reichtards found a new toy today. They’re freaking out over the DOJ changing its website design.
Speaking of healthcare:
Congress just approved $600 million for predator drones to fly over the US/Mexico border but there’s no money for single-payer healthcare. ARGHHHH. >< YEA.. America! No money for keeping the citizens happy but at least we can root out them foreigners!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38923281/38849607
I expect the conservative reaction will be something along the lines of “oooh! she started a ‘a non-profit performing arts school and theater company‘? Well of course this dumb bitch can’t afford health care – if she’d get a real goddam job like the rest of us instead of wasting her time on the prancing arty-farty bullshit, she’d get taken care of! But no, she wants to prance in the flowers and do touchy-feely plays with the kiddies, and have hardworking producers like me pay her way! What a sponger!!”
“CHECK HER HOUSE FOR NICE COUNTERTOPS!!” -Michelle Malkin
What do you want to bet that, in the name of protecting taxpayer dollars, conservatives at the federal, state and local levels will obstruct, drag their feet and generally do everything in their power to derail health care reform. Then they’ll say, “See? We TOLD you it wouldn’t work!”
Rheumatoid arthritis is the result of poor life choices!
First of all, goody for her, but thanks to Obamacare, my employer based health insurance will now be going up. I’ve already been told of a 10% increase in my premiums and a 25% increase in my copays and prescription costs. Since that is what they’ve told me about, I know that there is even worse around the corner.
I’ve been with this employer and health insurance company for a little over ten years and in that time neither my premiums, copay or prescriptions have seen that much of an increase.
How many more people need Obamacare versus how many people are going to get screwed by it? That is the number of people who won’t be voting Democrat in November.
Secondly, diabetes is not inherited, and diabetes causes congestive heart failure. She lived “the good life” and now we have to pay for it.
And I take it that you all still see this as a good thing? Is it really “working” if the majority of people are taking home less money because of it?
“I’ve been with this employer and health insurance company for a little over ten years and in that time neither my premiums, copay or prescriptions have seen that much of an increase.”
Yeah, well, mine increased twice in the last two years, both prior to the new program, so by extension, Obamacare is perfect and will affect no one negatively.
Wait, I shouldn’t assume that everyone’s experience is just like mine? Why not?
“diabetes is not inherited”
http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/genetics-of-diabetes.html
“In most cases of type 1 diabetes, people need to inherit risk factors from both parents.”
Oops. Stupid facts. Nice attempt to make this a personal responsibility issue, though.
Finally,
“Is it really “working” if the majority of people are taking home less money because of it?”
Maybe — i mean, are they taking home a *lot* less money? Is take-home the only measure of wealth? Are their medical expenses lower? There’s lots of ways it might be working even if the majority of people are taking home less money because of it.
Like, what if someone had to work two jobs to pay medical bills for which they couldn’t get coverage? And now they get to quit the second job and take care of their kids? They’re taking home less, and I’m sure they’re thrilled.
Amateur hour.
diabetes is not inherited
My doctor disagrees. And my preiums and copays have been rising for years.
I’ve been with this employer and health insurance company for a little over ten years and in that time neither my premiums, copay or prescriptions have seen that much of an increase.
Then your insurance company has been plucking you like a pigeon for the past decade. If they haven’t seen the need to raise your premiums while health care inflation has been in double digits, you might ought to consider why that is.
Phil, why the hell are you angry at Obama that you’re health insurance premiums went up. Shouldn’t you be angry at, I don’t know, the health insurance company that actually chose to increase the premiums?
Zython, that would be a great plan if Phil was interested in blaming the first liberal boogeyman in front of him.
For those of us interested in root causes, however, there’s this big, fat, honking piece of legislation standing behind everything else, and it’s got a big O on the front of it.
No irony in accusing others of talking about partisan boogeymen immediately prior to yakking about a partisan boogeyman whatsoever…
For those of us interested in root causes, however, there’s this big, fat, honking piece of legislation standing behind everything else, and it’s got a big O on the front of it.
I don’t recall any legislation that requires health insurance companies to increase their premiums.
I take it you also blame the Texas School Board for the assassination of JFK?
Please, Republicans, keep calling it “Obamacare”. Keep that big “O” painted on it. Keep reminding Americans that it was Democrats who passed it, and Republicans who were against it.
Whatever you do, don’t let the American people forget that Republicans opposed Medicare, and Social Security, and American entry into World War Two….
Whatever you do, don’t let the American people forget that Republicans opposed Medicare, and Social Security, and American entry into World War Two….
People will forget it, that’s the depressing part.
Or simply ignore it.
So Phil, not to put too fine a point on it, but you would rather see people suffer more and die younger than is necessary, than you take home less money? Is that what you are saying?
Hnice: Sure, go ahead and assume that if you want. Oddly enough, people focus on two things to determine their wealth: Their take home pay and that big number every April 15th. If they see lower numbers on their pay stubs because of bigger takings to cover their health insurance and they realize the truth about why those takings are happening, they won’t be voting Democrat for some time. Especially those who have to work two jobs. Imagine seeing two paychecks get smaller.
Already the news stories about employer based health insurance costs going up are beginning to hit the media. Wait until next month when it is finally picked up by the networks. And what happens in early November???
Oh, and btw, for you and ol’froth, only the precursors of diabetes are inherited. You have to actively ignore the warnings for them to switch on. My own family is plagued with diabetes. However, having kept my weight down and my living on the healthier side, I am still not effected by it almost 40 years on.
Ol’ Froth: Your doctor is an idiot and you should stop paying him to lie to you.
Diabetes, unless it is juvenile onset, is completely controllable and avoidable. I am living proof.
Quaker: They’ve seen the need to raise my premiums, just not more than 1% per year. Now I’m being hit with a huge increase because of something that was unnecessary.
Zython: Why would I be angry at a company that is being forced by the government to take on more risk while charging the higher risk people only marginally more than they are charging me? That is pointing the finger at the wrong culprit.
Speaking of which, why do you support the government forcing a private corporate entity to take on more risk while not charging appropriately for that risk?
Am I mistaken, or didn’t the mortgage industry take on more risk than they could handle? Didn’t that bite them in the ass here recently?
Finally, Tim: People suffer every single day for no other reason than that’s life. You cannot go around forcing everyone else to give up their hard earned money, no matter how small the denomination, to “save” everyone. I already give out what I can to help those in need. Now people like you have put a gun to my head and said that I have to pay more.
And despite your need to deny that it is with a gun to my head that I pay these taxes and fees, remember who they send to talk me into paying them if I try and stop: Men and women with firearms.
I’m all about “promoting the general welfare.” I am not about “providing” it, which is what your support for the health care insurance bill did.
And here is “teh funneh parht”: You now expect me to either be happy about it or feel guilty about not being happy about it. Sorry, but the minds of intelligent individuals don’t work that way.
I do what I can for me first: Food, shelter, transportation, etc.. I then do what I can for those around me: Family, friends, co-workers, neighbors, strangers. In that order. What I have left goes into savings first, and then investments so that I have something to live off of if I run out of employment or for when retire.
But before I can even begin to do all that, you expect me to do everything for everyone else in the country by gouging my paycheck, and then thank you for the privilege of being gouged? And if I am not thankful and refuse to vote for the people who passed the laws that do the gouging, you and your cohorts call me a racist. Because, obviously, I must have never known a white person who was a welfare recipient.
Take your bleeding heart bullshit, go live in the lowest rent apartment you can find and never own anything more costly than a used TV, and give every single spare penny you make for the rest of your life to the federal government to distribute before you go around telling me and those like me that “I don’t care enough about the suffering of others”.
If you believe that the government is the solution to all the world’s problems and the most intelligent distributor of money, why don’t you go do that and leave me the fuck out of your guilt trip.
I am an independent individual and I plan to stay that way as long as possible. You apparently want me so broke that I cannot pay my own bills and have to ask for some type of assistance from someone else. What kind of loser mentality is that and why would I want to join you in sharing it?