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But if nobody hears about it, then despite being an utter fool you're not losing.
This is another one of those "inside baseball" Twitter moments where our side jumps up and down yelling, and we might as well take a nap instead because ain't nobody going to cover it.
Where this is going to come home to roost on the DemocRats is when cancer patients with no hair are standing by the side of the road with a sign "Help me, need medicine, insurance cancelled!" That's going to happen, and its going to wake up some of those sleeping low information voters. Not all of them, it would take the Four Horsemen to do that. But some. The light sleepers, as it were.
For every one that is able to articulate like Edie, there are a hundred more that cannot write as clearly as she has.
ACA=hopeless.
The colour is bleeding from this so called "healthcare"plan. Its about socialism with power over a 6th of the economy, period. These politicians could care less about peoples real care. After all they made sure they are covered completely.
This whole idea of coverage for all is a pretext for triage medicine for the Citzans. While the political plus social elite gain even more control of the populace, including information on people to use.
And from a commenter at Ace's: How the left is explaining this away...
A glimpse into the mind of one from the reality-based community (KosKid#2 wrote a post describing his parent's loss of insurance letter and unsatisfactory results shopping the ObamaCare marketplace for a replacement):
KosKid #1: No, you choose to smear the law because a few people who were cheating the system have to pay up now.
KosKid#2: Really? "Cheating the System"???? How are people who shopped around and bought the insurance that they thought best suited them "cheating the system"?
KosKid#1: What if a large number of the people who's rates are going up were not really chipping in their fair share to start with?
Too bad they lost their advantage.
I have no sympathy for a woman who won't pay for other human beings maternity needs because she herself won't have any (more) children.
None. Pay.
She wants to pay less because she is too old to have babies. That's the heart of a selfish cheat. And it's what underlies the entire disgusting display going on.
[And the best part? This person votes!]
Posted by: Count de Monet at November 04, 2013 09:38 AM
"The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few,...."
That's why it won't get very much attention in the MSM, Marxists to the core.
Circumvented the death panels by just denying insurance.
You get a bingo for that. That is exactly where we are at.
Lenin and Stalin are laughing.
And people say Atlas Shrugged was fiction...
Look at the language the KosKid uses: cheat the system, chipping in fair share, other human beings needs, too old to have babies and doesn't want to pay.
Let it burn and light it with these kinds of people.
These idiots don't get it until it's too late. Too late often times means when the doctor comes on down and says sorry we missed that tumor 4 years ago bub, we gotta prioritize spending somehow. Anyway you've got about 2 weeks to live cya sucka. Ain't life a bitch... this moment happened to my aunt.
I thought the whole idea was to help more people get health insurance. It appears the opposite is happening. Part of the master plan, I'm sure, to move onto single-payer.
From El Rushbo:
This is the story that Sarah Palin told us all those months ago about death panels, and people laughed. People started insulting her, laughing at her, impugning her. People started saying, “There she goes again. This absolute lunatic broad doesn’t know what she’s talking about.” And she nailed it.
Obamacare is the old god news/bad news joke without the good news part. On that subject:
Doctor: I have good news and bad news.
Patient: Give me the bad news>
Doctor: the last tests we did show you with eight weeks to live.
Patient: That's terrible, what's the good news?
Doctor: We finally go hold of you after seven weeks.
This is what you get when you vote for a sub-standard president.
It may not develop in the next five years, but as the costs mount, expensive treatments/pharmacotherapy will
indeed be less available. Simplist way to do this is high copays: highly directed chemotherapy, fairly
effective for a limited subset of cancers typically runs in the thousands of $/treatment and tens to a hundred
thousands for a regimen may have a 10-20% copay. Not many will be able to come up with $10-20k every few months.
Ditto for drugs such as humira which lists in the low thousands per treatment, other drugs with generic
names ending in *ab. In 10 yrs you had better not get cancer, MS or any autoimmune disease. The HIV drugs in
the '90s were cheap compared with protocols for these diseases. This does not consider age related cutoffs
in treatment which will also drift in as well.
As sad as this woman's story is, what shes looking for isn't insurance but rather a subsidy. If you already have cancer and then try to get insurance against getting cancer, then you are committing a fraud identical to burning your house down and then trying to buy fire insurance on the smoldering heap.
Way to miss the point, Ed. The woman already had insurance that was covering the cost of her cancer treatment. Her insurance company canceled her coverage because supposedly it was not "in compliance" with Obamacare regulations.
She had insurance, and it was paying for her treatment. Now that she has a "pre-existing condition" it's going to be next to impossible for her to get insurance at an affordable price, even though one of the alleged features of Obamacare is no refusal for pre-existing conditions.
Now a cynic might say that her insurer merely used the advent of Obamacare as a convenient excuse to drop an expensive client, and that might even be true, but it doesn't alter the fact that Obamacare is the proximate cause of her losing her benefits.
Changing who pays or how much they pay is the least of the problems.
Continuity of care is the MOST important thing for anyone with a health problem. This is especially true for cancer patients. A cancer patient who loses their doctor and care team is likely going to die because of it.
Obama and the Democrats are going to kill thousands of people even in the short term ... and they are just getting started.
http://townhall.com/columnists/kurtschlichter/2013/11/04/maybe-pain-will-teach-you-millenials-not-to-vote-for-your-own-serfdom-n1733722/page/full