Posted on 05/06/2017 4:50:45 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
Twitter users concerned about the bill passed the House to repeal and replace Obamacare are sharing their personal health stories on Twitter under the hashtag #IamaPreexistingCondition.
The hashtag started to trend hours after Republicans in the House narrowly pushed through the American Health Care Act, which would drastically remake health care in the U.S.
By midday Friday ET, it had trended worldwide with about 146,000 tweets so far.
Some celebrities joined in.
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Nobody wants to insure a house that is on fire.
These sob stories all have one thing in common. Have somebody pay for your own bills.
I simply don’t understand why more people can’t see this like car insurance. You have to buy it BEFORE you wrap your car around a tree. No one wants to talk to you when you call ‘em up and say, “Uhhhhhh ... you don’t know me, but I have this problem ...”
Obama/Soros funded astroturf.
America had charity hospitals for years to take care of poor people. They were staffed by charitable religious orders and doctors - top-notch in their requisite medical fields - volunteered their time.
A number of these charitable hospitals made break-through medical advances that helped society.
We need to bring back these hospitals sans involvement of the paid-off, money-grubbing, creep federal government.
In addition to the fact the left uses this tactic time and time again when Republicans are in power. An emotional appeal is hard to counter when taken in context; the liberal mind always sees emotion, not reason.
We still have one in our county. One of the only ones left. Great hospital. Teaching hospital. Try to stay as far away from it as I can.
Also drains the county coffers every single year.
We have a close family member who is a deplorable and has multiple pre-existing conditions. He hates Ocare. He loves Trump.
Sorry, but there is no such thing as free medical care.
If you get something for free, it’s because somebody else paid for it.
Who cares that working people have premiums that are rising by double and triples, and that they can’t afford the out of pocket on their deductibles. It’s all about me. Me. Me. Me.
Indeed. Insurance is a form of gambling that was only ever proper, even suited, for a financial tool.
It is a very bad tool to pay for services as a matter of preference and habit.
What got us where we are is people abusing insurance as if it were assurance, and people wanting to place their bets after the proverbial horse has stumbled is way beyond doubling down on stupid.
Obamacare was the single largest gift to the insurers since they let them be free from interstate commerce, it could only make things worse.
People thinking that their known pre existing conditions should be somehow paid for by “insurance” are basically demanding for a gift upfront, one paid for at other people’s expense, not gambling that something unknown that is bad may happen at some point and their wager pay off.
#commieagitprop
They are not sob stories. Trying getting insurance when you have a preexisting condition. People work hard, pay lots of taxes. You think everyone is a dead beat...until you find yourself in their situation and then you will be crying like a baby.
Sounds like paid Soros trolls.
I have preexisting conditions that were always covered by the group health plan at WORK!
Sorry. If your sick your sick. Just live with it and stop trying to fight it. If it’s your time to go...just leave. Stop trying to get free stuff.
I’m going to share my Obamacare horror story.
After my husband had cancer and was laid off, we had to pay for our own insurance after we paid for Cobra. It was 2k a month and a 12k deductible.
Well, my husband had some other medical issues and needed very, very medication. It was denied by BCBS of California. He wasn’t sick enough.
Right after that, he started a new job with new insurance BCBS of Illinois. The medication was immediately approved.
The other sad thing is that the company couldn’t stay with BCBS of Illinois because it went up over 30%. We’ve been rather healthy this year, so not sure about the new insurance.
I hate BCBS of California. 40K for nothing.
My daughter has a preexisting condition. Its a life threatening genetic disorder. She was born with it and will always have it. So far, she’s been very healthy, but it is always lurking. We can’t get life insurance for her, but have decent medical insurance. I don’t know what will happen when she has to get her own insurance. Her condition may make working difficult for her. Still, she doesn’t qualify for SSI, or any other financial medical aid.
This is a real problem for people and in many cases, they can’t work to pay for insurance themselves. So, what happens to these people? I feel like there really needs to be some sort of program for the people who can’t get insurance or work to afford their much higher premiums.
If you are already Insured you can’t have any Pre Existing Conditions.
I have paid continuously for my Health Insurance since I was 18 Years Old. I contracted Leukemia at age 52, my first real use of my Insurance Coverage outside of routine Doctor Visits and Prescription Drugs in nearly 35 Years.
That’s why they call it Insurance folks. You pay thinking that you might get sick and the Insurer is hoping that you won’t. It’s the same thing that Life Insurance Companies do.
The people who failed to get Coverage because it wasn’t important enough or worth the cost and sacrifice are the only ones affected by this so called Pre Existing rule.
If my Car had pre existing front end damage, I wouldn’t expect my new Insurance Company to pay for it when I signed up. If I was Insured when it happened, my previous Insurance Company would have paid to fix it (if I spent the money for Collision Coverage). Without that Coverage, I assumed the risk and should pay for the repair myself.
That being said, we have now saddled with the idea that Healthcare is a Right, so there is no going back. In other words, you can never take away an Entitlement once it is given. You can trim around the edges, for instance upping the SS or Medicare Ages, but even that would be a daunting task.
Logically the Age set to receive Benefits when the SS Program began should be adjusted up considering Life Expectancy has risen by about 15 Years (or more) since then. A gradual adjustment over the Years, adding a Month here and a Month there would have made it more palatable, but that didn’t happen.
Back on topic, the answer to this dilemma is setting up a High Risk pool of money to deal with this small group of individuals with so called Pre Exiting Conditions.
Let the Insurance Companies write up Policies that exclude treatment for the particular existing pre condition of previously Uninsured People. Then add a 5% / 10% (?) Tax to the Policies of those particular Individuals that is then paid into a National Assigned Risk Pool.
Why should people be rewarded for their irresponsibility, sick or not? Is a 55 or 10% Tax too much to ask when everyone else has paid the Freight their entire lives?
Any Treatment exempted by the Policy for Pre Existing Conditions would from that Pool of Money, not from the Insurance Company. Now the Insurance Company Risk is mitigated so their Policy Coverage can return to normal.
Only them can the Insurance Companies resume their Business Model offering Plans based on actual Risk Assessment.
Just my $.02, your Mileage may vary. Apologies for the rant.
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