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Cancer and ObamaCare: a Double Whammy
The New American ^ | February 18, 2016 | by Michael Tennant

Posted on 02/18/2016 8:32:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Being diagnosed with cancer is scary enough. Having cancer and ObamaCare can be a nightmare.

According to the Associated Press, "Hundreds of thousands of people lose subsidies under the health law, or even their policies, when they get tangled in a web of paperwork problems involving income, citizenship and taxes. Some are dealing with serious illnesses like cancer."

The American Action Forum estimates that the regulations issued under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) "will cost businesses and individuals more than $45 billion and will require approximately 165 million hours of paperwork in order to comply."

Now imagine you're a cancer patient of modest means trying to figure out which ObamaCare policy to buy that will both cover your treatment, preferably at the provider of your choice, and be, as the law's moniker suggests, affordable. Then imagine that you get churned about in the wheels of bureaucracy and end up with either no coverage or coverage you can't afford.

Such troubles for patients do not bode well for the future of ObamaCare, which has some ACA advocates worried.

(Excerpt) Read more at thenewamerican.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: failure; obamacare; rinocare; socialism
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1 posted on 02/18/2016 8:32:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Obama’s prescription for aged cancer patients “go home and take this pill.”


2 posted on 02/18/2016 8:33:56 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

they get tangled in a web of paperwork problems involving income, citizenship and taxes.


Yeah, you know, like when they lied about their income to get a subsidy, are illegal aliens, and are years behind on income taxes. Oh, the unfairness of it all.


3 posted on 02/18/2016 8:36:11 AM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If you are a broke joke you still have the same bad welfare insurance without deductible.
Residents are supposed to support themselves or leave, so no issue.
Illegals should get nothing they don’t pay for and should be gone anyway.
If you make a little money you are off of welfare insurance and onto a subsidized plan where you pay a $6500 deductible.

So in every way you are screwed as a citizen, the rest is not our issue.


4 posted on 02/18/2016 8:38:32 AM PST by A CA Guy (Are God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Gaffer

They do have some pill kemo therapies these days. That could happen.


5 posted on 02/18/2016 8:39:33 AM PST by A CA Guy (Are God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Rationing by waiting. Those that survive the wait of the paperwork may get treatment.


6 posted on 02/18/2016 8:40:08 AM PST by arthurus (Het is waar. Tutti i liberali sono feccia.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Yep. And people think Obama isn’t going to get his SCOTUS pick? Hell yes he is, the GOP-E can’t buckle to their knees fast enough for this scmbag. “Eric Holder to replace Scalia? Oh yes Sir Obama yes Sir yes Sir! Anything you say Sir!”


7 posted on 02/18/2016 8:42:31 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (Can we please kill the guy already who invented the saying "My bad"?)
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To: A CA Guy

MY time is coming. I want Oxy, and lots of it.


8 posted on 02/18/2016 8:49:28 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

Under Obamacare you pay $6500 treatment deductibles and after your first $500 on medicine you get a reduction in cost.


9 posted on 02/18/2016 8:53:38 AM PST by A CA Guy (Are God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: A CA Guy

Oh....oh my...so it’s a $7000 death pill then.


10 posted on 02/18/2016 8:54:45 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Gaffer

Would be far cheaper to stare at a poster of Hillary while listening to recordings of Yoko Ono.
It would be over before you know it and being the poster would render you blind you would not even see the end coming.


11 posted on 02/18/2016 8:56:59 AM PST by A CA Guy (Are God Bless America, God Bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Unfortunately I have first hand experience with this bullsh*t.

Not only do people lose coverage, but the drugs allowed on individual plans are limited when it comes to Cancer.

There is a good reason why the survivability rates for Cancer are worse in socialized countries.


12 posted on 02/18/2016 8:57:34 AM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

13 posted on 02/18/2016 9:00:06 AM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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LOL. I’ve got shall we say, plenty, left from when I had chemo. I’ll bring you some. (JUST JOKING! NO POLICE AT MY DOOR PLEASE)


14 posted on 02/18/2016 9:00:16 AM PST by Shimmer1 ("I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells." -Dr. Seuss)
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To: Jet Jaguar; NorwegianViking; ExTexasRedhead; HollyB; FromLori; EricTheRed_VocalMinority; ...

The list, Ping

Let me know if you would like to be on or off the ping list

http://www.nachumlist.com/


15 posted on 02/18/2016 9:00:36 AM PST by Nachum (Obamacare: It's. The. Flaw.)
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To: Gaffer

What age does that kick in?

Thankfully not at 67 (my experience anyway)


16 posted on 02/18/2016 9:01:25 AM PST by nascarnation (RIP Scalia. Godspeed)
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To: Shimmer1

Well, for me, it’s either that of a subsonic .22 to the brain. I’d prefer to be high as a kite, though.


17 posted on 02/18/2016 9:02:21 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: nascarnation

I’m guessing it’s the age when Democratdom considers not a long term guaranteed Democrat vote.


18 posted on 02/18/2016 9:03:46 AM PST by Gaffer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

AIDS patients get preference.


19 posted on 02/18/2016 9:08:22 AM PST by Does so (Europeans had better start "overstaying their visas" in the USA. ==8-O)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I got whacked by ObamaCare this week. The cost of my insulin quadrupled when I went to get it at the pharmacy on Monday. It had been the same price for nearly 20 years, and then 2016 gets here, DeathCare really kicks in, and I pay 4 times what I did in November.


20 posted on 02/18/2016 9:20:18 AM PST by TheConservativeParty (TRUMPNADO)
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