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(47,271 posts)
Sat Jan 18, 2014, 09:36 PM Jan 2014

Hate Obama, Love Obamacare

From TIME, a follow up to a story from earlier this year

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022420991

I don't think Obamacare will help us. I don't want anything to do with it," Stephanie Recchi told me a week after the launch of HealthCare.gov on Oct. 1. "I hear a lot of bad things about it--that it doesn't cover pre-existing conditions and it's too expensive," she added, referring to what she said were "television ads and some politicians talking on the news. Just a lot of talk that this is a bad law."

(snip)

MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston had told Stephanie that their insurance (for which they paid $469 a month) was virtually worthless. So the hospital demanded $83,900, in advance, just to develop a treatment plan for Sean and cover his first $13,702 transfusion, along with simple items like gauze pads at $77 per box and routine lab tests for which he was billed tens of thousands of dollars.

(snip)

The key provisions of Obamacare seem as if they were drafted by someone sitting next to Sean Recchi in that MD Anderson holding room. Under the law, insurance companies can no longer turn away people with pre-existing conditions or even take those conditions into account when determining what people like the Recchis pay for their coverage. When Stephanie logged on in October, she was shopping for a family facing the ultimate pre-existing condition--cancer. Although Sean is now in remission, he is regularly seeing doctors in Ohio and taking drugs costing hundreds of dollars a month.

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They finally got an insurance agent who guided them through the signing process.

And the last paragraph:

"No, we don't get MD Anderson, but we do get the Cleveland Clinic and lots of other good care," Stephanie says. "We understand that." Amid the likely attacks from his opponents that he's taking away patients' favorite doctors and hospitals, Obama has to hope that others come to share her attitude.

http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2162940-1,00.html





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Hate Obama, Love Obamacare (Original Post) question everything Jan 2014 OP
Why is it... liberalmuse Jan 2014 #1
For them it is-- it's simply not in their makeup ailsagirl Jan 2014 #4
Then they wouldn't be Republican! Heather MC Jan 2014 #5
They say, and I quote - TIME, that liberal publication! question everything Jan 2014 #6
We are continually behind the 8 ball.. busterbrown Jan 2014 #2
Those commenters on the Time ellie Jan 2014 #3
So according to members of the GOP, that would make the Recchi's "Takers". politicaljunkie41910 Jan 2014 #7
kind of a side note - but has anyone else noted an increased focus on "non-profit" hospitals hedgehog Jan 2014 #8

liberalmuse

(18,670 posts)
1. Why is it...
Sat Jan 18, 2014, 09:41 PM
Jan 2014

that it has to be about them in order for a lot of Republicans to see the light? Why can't they just have compassion for other people? Is that so hard?

ailsagirl

(22,837 posts)
4. For them it is-- it's simply not in their makeup
Sun Jan 19, 2014, 10:24 AM
Jan 2014

This latest stunt about the lane closures really confirms my belief.

Badly deficient in good, positive, basic human kindness

Chilling

question everything

(47,271 posts)
6. They say, and I quote - TIME, that liberal publication!
Sun Jan 19, 2014, 02:27 PM
Jan 2014

For which I asked, and I doubt I will get a reply: what difference does it make the source? Do you doubt the story?

And, I would hardly consider TIME a liberal publication but, hey..

politicaljunkie41910

(3,335 posts)
7. So according to members of the GOP, that would make the Recchi's "Takers".
Sun Jan 19, 2014, 05:16 PM
Jan 2014

I read the entire article in TIME and I think that the Recchi's owe the Obama administration an apology. Like a lot of people, they were ignorant of what the ACA actually covered, because they didn't want to know the truth, but that didn't seem to keep them from bashing the program. However, I'm glad that things worked out for them eventually.

As with all insurance, healthy people will be subsidizing the health care of sick people and the ACA is no exception. The GOP calls this socialism. So be it. The Recchi's have seen the light. Unfortunately, this kind of revelation will come, one nonbeliever at at time. Based on those commenting on the TIME website, still bashing Obama and the ACA it may take a while.

hedgehog

(36,286 posts)
8. kind of a side note - but has anyone else noted an increased focus on "non-profit" hospitals
Sun Jan 19, 2014, 07:38 PM
Jan 2014

with outrageous patient costs and very, very well paid managers?

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