Posted on 11/03/2013 5:53:04 PM PST by Hojczyk
I had great cancer doctors and health insurance.My plan was cancelled. Now I worry how long I'll live.
Everyone now is clamoring about Affordable Care Act winners and losers. I am one of the losers.
My grievance is not political; all my energies are directed to enjoying life and staying alive, and I have no time for politics. For almost seven years I have fought and survived stage-4 gallbladder cancer, with a five-year survival rate of less than 2% after diagnosis. I am a determined fighter and extremely lucky. But this luck may have just run out: My affordable, lifesaving medical insurance policy has been canceled effective Dec. 31.
My choice is to get coverage through the government health exchange and lose access to my cancer doctors, or pay much more for insurance outside the exchange (the quotes average 40% to 50% more) for the privilege of starting over with an unfamiliar insurance company and impaired benefits.
Since March 2007 United Healthcare has paid $1.2 million to help keep me alive, and it has never once questioned any treatment or procedure recommended by my medical team. The company pays a fair price to the doctors and hospitals, on time, and is responsive to the emergency treatment requirements of late-stage cancer. Its caring people in the claims office have been readily available to talk to me and my providers.
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The answers to your questions are probably somewhere in the 1.8 million words/40,000 pages (so far) of 0bamaCare regulations. Given enough time someone is bound to come across them.
God please help her and all of us.
It’s only a small portion of people who will die b/c of losing their doctor and insurance - less than 5%.
If you like your life, you can keep it. Period.
If you like your eyeballs, you can keep them. Period.
All lies.
Ms. Sundby,
Obamacare wants you dead, as quickly as possible. You are what is known in the government racket as a “useless eater”. The fact that you will not be able to get lifesaving treatment is not a bug. It is a feature.
If Obamacare was in charge five years ago, there is no way they would have paid $1.2 Million to keep you alive. They would not have spent one tenth that much. You would have been sent home with pain pills and instructions to take one pill to stop the pain, or take the whole bottle to stop the pain for good.
Well, no use crying over sunk costs. Obamacare will not be able to get that $1.2 Million back. But they will make sure that the money stops, ASAP.
"Take away people's ability to control their medical-coverage choices and they may die. I guess that's a highly effective way to control medical costs. Perhaps that's the point."
Right now, Dr. Ezekiel Emmanuel is reading this with a smile on his face, and saying to himself, "Yes, Ms. Sundby, that's exactly the point. Tough (bleep). It might be different if I saw you at the $45,000-a-plate dinners with Harvey Weinstein, John Kerry, Larry David and Scarlett Johansen... but I didn't. You, instead, are a little person- you are simply a cost in a cost/benefit analysis..."
You should be so lucky to get a death panel.
All you are going to get is a website informing you that your care is limited to things that do not work. There will be no Death Panel that you can go to for appeal. Your care will be denied by the computer programming (once they get the bugs worked out).
Ms. Sundby’s best bet at this point is to burn her Social Security Card, change her name to something vaguely Hispanic sounding, and apply to Medicare as an indigent.
It’s Ms Sundby. And this horror story is published in the Wall Street Journal, so it’s a rather safe bet she didn’t vote for obama,
Because America needed a "full employment" program for attorneys...
All lies without a doubt. 5% (15 million) is bad enough but the IRS did an analysis which said that up to 93 million people might lose their current ins plans. No big deal, merely 28% of the entire population.
My best guess is that a typical doctor is going to have to pay out the equivalent of two more full time employees to keep straight with the FedMob. With reimbursements now set by the FedMob, and set lower, it won't be possible for them to keep their practices open even if they want to.
The field of medicine is about to hit a brick wall.
They’re all going corporate.
Basically becoming well paid wage slaves to large healthcare conglomerates.
The days of a doctor having a “practice” are fading quickly.
On top of that their very practice of medicine will be confined by countless regulations. Doctors will not accept being mere technicians who follow narrow instructions given to them by pencil pushing DC bureaucrats who couldn't apply a bandaid properly.
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