Posted on 11/08/2013 3:18:35 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Despite extensive problems with healthcare.gov, a few dozen Alaskans have managed to enroll in a health plan on the marketplace, and Lara Imler is one of them.
Imler spends a lot of time in doctors' offices. She has Hashimoto's disease, an autoimmune disorder that affects the thyroid. The treatments and blood work she needs are expensive.
Imler qualified for subsidies, and chose a mid-level plan that will cost her $110 a month.
"The website sucks -- I'm not going to lie," she says, "but the idea that I might be able to afford health insurance is huge to me. It will be a huge burden off my family."
The plan is a great deal for Imler. But for her insurance company, it's a different story. The claims from her chronic condition are likely to pile up quickly.
(Excerpt) Read more at medcitynews.com ...
My Medicare part D (I think that’s what it is) costs much less than my monthly meds. crazy
People signing up for Obamacare must be in very desperate need of doctor care, to finally work through the broken system and risk their personal information.
Some might not even be alive anymore.
Not that expensive.
Quarterly office visit. Check.
Quarterly T3 & T4 blood levels. Check.
Monthly Armour Thyroid Prescription about ten bucks. Check.
Once a year, maybe a CBC, Complete Blood Count.
She has a degree in computer programming and was an accountant. She doesn’t want to do that type of work anymore, she wants to be a hairdresser. So now she qualifies for a handout. That is what the article says. We r paying for her healthcare b/c she won’t do what is required to provide it for herself.
Many, many people before her did many, many jobs they did not want to do just to eat. It is sad how lazy and entitled so many have become.
I noticed nobody mentioned how much her deductible was going to be.
Hey dimwit. You still can't afford your health care. You're just allowing your neighbors to pay for it.
It's quite conceivable that she has no idea, herself.
I suspect a horrific surprise in the near future...
Not expensive at all. Generic thyroxine is $4 a month at Walmart, and the tests are so cheap that in the local Quest lab offices they have brochures trying to get people to take the tests on their own dime.
Agree. Diagnosed with this years ago (current endo is questioning the diagnosis and has taken me off of thryorid meds. No problem so far). Blood work, thyroid med was free on my program as a generic. I imagine you can get it for $4 at Walmart.
There are expensive health problems, but this ain’t one of them.
This brings up the old imponderable-if an infinite number of monkeys are pounding on an infinite numbers of keyboards, would they reproduce the complete works of Shakespeare first or enroll in Obamacare?
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