SHE Is ObamaCare

[kpete]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/29/1059789/-She-is-Obamacare-?via=siderec

[annabanana]

1. My son is Obamacare too.

He is 25 and needs medication & treatment for asthma and other things. Thanks to the new health care law, he can stay on our policy for another year as he searches for a job with benefits.

[southernyankeebelle]

2. I don't know how to do it maybe a forum could be done "Obamacare Saved My Live". People could

write comments on how it helped them and share their stories.

[SomethingFishy]

3. don't mean to be the guy who throws the wrench in the works here..

but we are all about the truth on DU correct?

Well here is a followup to this poor woman's story and it's not good. She is financially ruined...

http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/president-obama-government-should-do-

This is a comment from her:

I’m still stupidly bummed, broke and haven’t had any sales in the shop in like a week (despite listing five new items last week) which doesn’t help. I also don’t think I’ll be able to raise $237 before the end of the month to pay February’s PCIP premium and that sucks really bad. Without sales coming in, I don’t have enough so I don’t know what to do about that. I hate being so broke and in medical bill debt Hell. I mean, I’m thrilled to be healthy but it feels like, at what cost, you know? What good is it to be healthy if you’re ruined because of it?

[madmom]

4. From your link...

"she has several chronic conditions and lost her part-time job when she took leave for her surgery". It seems to me that the employer is the one who failed here, for firing her. So the "truth" is she's alive and doing better because of "Obamacare" but "financially ruined" because of former employer.

[SmileyRose]

5. the way of the American world

Even model employees with bennies and official time off often fear what will happen if they get sick. Owner of the business I work for brags about never missing a day in 60 years but conveniently forgets how often he comes late leaves early and phones it in from home.

[dkf]

6. That is what happens when there is such an excess of labor...

Funny how employers treat people so much better when it's hard to find good workers.

I remember back in the day when employers wanted to provide great benefits so they could attract good workers. It's a chicken and egg situation, when there is so much to choose from we all look less valuable.

[SomethingFishy]

7. Yes and now she can't pay the premiums...

so the Obama plan is fine as long as you can afford it, except that there is going to be a mandate. This is the exact problem with the plan that has been pointed out many times. It's going to hurt as many people as it helps.

But hey, it's just a pony and anyone who says different is just a whiner or a hater. At least that's what I'm told.


I might also point out this quote from the link

President Obama: "I’m a Democrat. But I believe what Republican Abraham Lincoln believed: That Government should do for people only what they cannot do better by themselves, and no more. That’s why my education reform offers more competition, and more control for schools and States. That’s why we’re getting rid of regulations that don’t work. That’s why our health care law relies on a reformed private market, not a Government program.

That does not sound like a man who wants universal health care to me.

BTW I'm voting for Obama so please don't go there, I'm just pointing pout the flaw in the HCR that I keep being told is "a pony".

[madmom]

8. and if I'm not mistaken there is a clause that says for the

people who can't afford it there will be subsidies.

[trumad]

13. Uhh-- I think the pre-existing thing is what counts here.

[Romulox]

14. Only if you have $$$. Poverty is a pre-existing condition that they CAN discriminate based on.

[SammyWinstonJack]

16. No wonder there wasn't a public option

That's why our health care law relies on a reformed private market, not a Government program.

WTG Obama

Yeah, that government run government/taxpayer funded Medicare is such a bust, isn't it?

Forcing us to buy private insurance from blood sucking leeches is a good plan?

Well the private for profit health insurance will make a killing so that's a good plan for them.

[Skittles]

15. I was going to ask

what was the price? She conveniently leaves that out.

[Vinca]

17. It varies based on age. I'm 62 and pay $611 a month.

It's a real stretch sometimes to keep it paid, but that's all we've got for the time being and I'm worried the Supreme Court will be taking that much away. What a fucked up country.

[Skittles]

18. I hear you Vinca

actually, your story may be worthy of its own thread. There is a lot of speculation on DU on what we COULD pay; it is important to hear from real experience outside of these feel-good stories

[bvar22]

9. That particular "reform" is great....

... for those Americans who are rich enough to afford the rather expensive Buy In.

[Puzzledtraveller]

10. I wish I knew

No talk about it here, HCR, and that is more than half what I do. Medicaid. Overhaul and the logistics it would take for state and federal systems will take years to complete. As it is now each state manages their own medicaid programs, not one is the same. None of the systems communicate state to state. Many systems are out of date and in much need of overahaul, while some states have advanced systems. This is supposed to be fully running in 2014? I don't see it as being possible.

[bvar22]

12. As long as the Health Care delivery system is left up to the states,

it is going to be a disaster.

Even the states that DO manage to implement their own version of a Public Option
won't be able to show much success over the Private Plans due to the small, diluted risk pool
and redundant administrative structures.

AFAIC, this is failure by design.

[bvar22]

11. Even AFTER all the aspects of the Affordable Health Care Act...

...are implemented in 2014,
Medical Bankruptcy will STILL be Big Business in the USA,
perhaps even BIGGER.

As long as the Centrist Democratic Party Leadership is working to "preserve the private delivery system" (Rahm Emanuel, July, 2010)
nothing will really change.

This is NOT the Health Care System envisioned and initiated by Democrats like FDR and LBJ.


"Medical Bankruptcy" is a term that is unknown in civilized countries,
but in the USA is the "Uniquely American Solution".