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Alabama Mom's ObamaCare Horror Story Gives America a Glimpse of Government-Run Healthcare
Independant journal Review ^ | 12/31/2013 | Emily Hulsey

Posted on 01/01/2014 3:59:41 AM PST by afraidfortherepublic

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To: Reddy

You are right. I wish I could find an old blog I used to read every week or so. It belonged to a Brit, whose ex-wife was dying of cancer. Under the UK’s system, she would be allowed one course of chemo and radiation. It failed, and she was told to go home and get her affairs in order.

The blogger/ex-husband refused the verdict (death panel), contacted MD Anderson in Houston, and asked if it was curable. They replied, at that stage, they had a high remission rate for it.

When I lost track of him, he was in the process of selling the home and other assets. He was extremely anxious and exhausted from caring for his ex-wife. He also had a sullen step-daughter who proved to be more useful staying in her bedroom. I don’t believe he had many readers.

I was away from my normal routine for awhile (moving) and lost his link. I’d found it through another writer’s extensive blog roll. She doesn’t remember it, and I couldn’t find it in a google search.

I don’t know if the man and his ex ever made it to Houston. Maybe someone here knows about the man’s blog and his ex-wife’s fate. The blog page had the Texas flag on it. He had a lot to say about NHC, and, of course, almost all of it was negative.

This is where we are headed, thanks to the Kenyan, Congress, and clueless voters.


81 posted on 01/02/2014 7:23:12 PM PST by floralamiss ("If anything, the new taboo is decency." --Jonah Goldberg)
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To: Fzob

I would think that she could petition the ins commissioner of her state and also write to BCBS and ask how they can cancel her policy when she has a child with a preexisting condition (ala Bill Elliott and a few other people who got their ins reinstated citing similar issues).

I’d hoist them on their own petard using their laws! The following is from C. Steven Tucker: The health insurers across the nation who are canceling health insurance policies based on a posting in the Federal Register in June of 2010 which redefined the ‘grandfathered clause’ in the original PPACA (Obamacare) legislation are violating federal law. Specifically section 2742 of Public Law 104-191 (HIPAA). It is linked at my blog: TruthAboutPreexistingConditions.com.

This is an existing federal law that is still on the books and that is relied upon, expanded upon, and referred to multiple times throughout the 960 pages of the PPACA legislation. This law was codified by congress and signed by President Clinton in 1997. Since that was signed into law it has been and still is illegal for any health insurer to cancel anyone’s coverage when they are sick. Regardless of what Barack Obama or anyone else says. It has been and still is illegal for any health insurance anywhere in the nation to ‘drop your coverage’ when you get sick. Period. And, when I say period I mean it, unlike Barack Obama.

That may be terminal conditions only, but I would get in contact with Mr. Tucker...


82 posted on 01/03/2014 5:21:24 AM PST by jurroppi1
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To: Go Gordon

you never own your home, the government in one way shape or form always has the last say through taxation and regulation...


83 posted on 01/03/2014 5:54:26 AM PST by jurroppi1
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To: tanknetter

Her big problem seems to be that they won’t pay for mind-altering stimulants for her kid, so he doesn’t sit in class staring out the window.
Better bad grades than 15 years of sleeplessness and psychotic breaks diagnosed as “bi-polar disorder” requiring more mind-altering chemicals.
She probably only eats drug-free beef and pork.


84 posted on 01/03/2014 8:08:55 AM PST by steve8714 (New tag line under construction)
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To: I am Richard Brandon
(Rahm’s brother”) but he did not write the words. Who did?

I have heard, I think from Beck, it was the "Tides Foundation"

85 posted on 01/03/2014 3:16:41 PM PST by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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To: XenaLee
Exactly! I have given up asking “pitchfork time yet?”. It’s never going to be. We have morphed into a nation of apathetc sheep and probably deserve the ‘screwin we’re a gettin’.....

Now, now, don't become a Nattering Nabob of Negativity. </s>

86 posted on 01/03/2014 3:22:28 PM PST by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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To: Go Gordon; afraidfortherepublic
Just one point of clarification - you don't own your home if you still have a mortgage.

Actually you don't own it ever as long as it can be taxed. There used to be real homestead exemption in some states, but I think that has largely disappeared, or the amount allowed has shrunk because of inflation.

87 posted on 01/03/2014 3:26:10 PM PST by itsahoot (It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
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To: jocon307

“... this attitude that people are getting what they deserve is simply wrong.”

How is it wrong? Decisions have consequences. Elections have consequences. Ignoring the truth when it’s there to be found has consequences. Even if Romney, et al., didn’t raise the issues during the campaign, the truth was still there. We knew it; so could everyone.

Frankly, I hope Obama voters can’t get healthcare and dreadful thing happen to them. God works in mysterious ways.


88 posted on 01/03/2014 3:41:09 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait until it's free." P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: MayflowerMadam

“I hope Obama voters can’t get healthcare and dreadful thing happen to them.”

But it isn’t just going to be Obama voters, that’s the thing.


89 posted on 01/03/2014 4:07:48 PM PST by jocon307
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To: WildHighlander57
Maybe had a Pre existing condition?

That medical history evidently caused the 7 YO's application to get funneled into some kind of code bug in the federal exchange software. It definitely isn't disqualifying in a legal sense as one of the big points of PP&ACA is to mandate acceptance of applicants with pre-existing conditions. This is why the staff she talked to on the phone were uniformly puzzled about the situation.

I wonder if this would have happened if Alabama had been running a state exchange. I have not heard of any similar problems on my own state's exchange. There have been glitches such as incorrect subsidy calculations, but not outright erroneous rejection for either a subsidized exchange plan or state Medicaid to the best of my knowledge. However, mixed commercial and government coverage-type applications are quite complex and the required code must reflect this complexity if it is to process the apps correctly.

90 posted on 01/03/2014 4:20:51 PM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: jocon307
I don’t know why people keep saying things like this. This stuff is happening to many people, and even if many did vote for Obama (or didn’t vote) the fact is they were mislead by those in power, and maybe we can say they were even mislead by Romney, et al. also who was/were unwilling to raise these issues during the campaign. But this attitude that people are getting what they deserve is simply wrong.

I fully agree with what you said back on New Year's Day. These comments are embarrassing and a stain on the conservative mantle. They make great fodder for "mean Republican" comments on DU, etc., and certainly aren't Christian.

91 posted on 01/03/2014 4:25:38 PM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: Jacquerie
For pubbies, it is a club with which to pound democrats.

Right, which is why the Stupid Party will never repeal it, even if they do get the White House and Congress in 2016. They'd rather have something to beat up the Democrats with than actually do the right thing and repeal this monstrosity. So it's up to us. Here's what we do: We all QUIT our jobs and force the Government to cover us under Obamacare (thus breaking the system and destroying it at its core) or we all have our salaries reduced to qualify for the Obamacare "subsidies" and break the system that way.

It's the only way we're gonna get rid of this thing I'm afraid. The Stupid Party sure as hell isn't doing anything about it, nor will they!

92 posted on 01/03/2014 4:29:13 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: steve86

Thank you. I’d love to laugh at this stuff, but I know some people are going to really suffer because of it.

It’s amazing how Obama really doesn’t care; he’s barely feigning to care. I think he’s ruined himself with the public.

He’s like Cinderella’s coach at midnight.


93 posted on 01/03/2014 4:34:24 PM PST by jocon307
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To: jocon307

“But it isn’t just going to be Obama voters, that’s the thing.”

Sadly, you’re right.

I did say that I hope dreadful things happen to the OBAMA VOTERS.


94 posted on 01/03/2014 6:08:02 PM PST by MayflowerMadam ("If you think healthcare is expensive now, just wait until it's free." P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: Truth29

I’m afraid you’re right.


95 posted on 01/04/2014 12:34:21 PM PST by kathsua (A woman can do anything a man can do and have babies besides;)
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To: MD Expat in PA

She said that the doubled insurance monthly cost was almost that of her mortgage.


96 posted on 01/04/2014 12:45:54 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point. CSLewis)
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