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ACA success stories

Mr Spinkles

Mr Spinkles

Mr
Does a health insurance horror story due to pre-existing conditions prior to 2009 count as an ACA success story, since the ACA ends all such discrimination?

Legal Loophole Ensnares Breast-Cancer Patients - WSJ.com
In June 2003, Shirley Loewe went to Good Shepherd Medical Center here with a softball-size lump in her breast and was diagnosed with a rare form of breast cancer. She didn't know it, but she had just made a big mistake.

Ms. Loewe was uninsured. Under federal law, she could have gotten Medicaid coverage -- and saved herself a lot of hardship -- if she'd gone to a different clinic less than a half-mile away. But by walking through Good Shepherd's doors, Ms. Loewe unwittingly let that opportunity slip and embarked on a four-year journey through the Byzantine U.S. health-care system.

It was an odyssey that would take her to five hospitals, two clinics, two charitable organizations and two nursing homes in two states. She was denied assistance or care at least six times along the way, for reasons that ranged from not being poor enough to not being sick enough.

Ms. Loewe eventually got treatment, but at personal cost and great aggravation.
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Mr Spinkles

Mr Spinkles

Mr
Murray Waas: Insurance Company Must Pay $10 Million For Revoking Policy Of Teen With HIV
The South Carolina Supreme Court has ordered an insurance company to pay $10 million for wrongly revoking the insurance policy of a 17-year-old college student after he tested positive for HIV. The court called the 2002 decision by the insurance company "reprehensible."
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Mitchell learned that he had HIV when, while heading to college, he donated blood. Fortis then rescinded his coverage, citing what turned out to be an erroneous note from a nurse in his medical records that indicated that he might have been diagnosed prior to his obtaining his insurance policy.

Before the cancellation of the policy, an underwriter working for Fortis wrote to a committee considering whether or not to rescind his policy: "Technically, we do not have the results of the HIV tests. This is the only entry in the medical records regarding HIV status. Is it sufficient?" The underwriter's concerns were ignored and the rescission went forward.
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Dirty Penguin

Dirty Penguin

Master Of Ceremony
esmith said:
Let see if I have this straight the story DP relates is about a person in Washington and your story, Revoltingest, is about a woman in Washington also but with totally different results. Something doesn't sound exactly right, but I'm sure there will be forthcoming post to explain the defugalty.
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The stories I posted don't need any explanation....
 
Uberpod

Uberpod

Active Member
In the last ten years I had insurance for about one year. Through the federal exchange I can afford to get insurance next year.
 
Dirty Penguin

Dirty Penguin

Master Of Ceremony
My brother who suffers with diabetes and works part-time is is now able to get insurance through the Maryland Exchange at a very low rate (after subsidies)...and can now better afford his insulin prescriptions.
 
DallasApple

DallasApple

Depends Upon My Mood..
I can't be charged for a "high risk" (pre existing) condition or dropped that I had in the past that has been resolved.
 
Dirty Penguin

Dirty Penguin

Master Of Ceremony
John Boehner Successfully Enrolls In Obamacare 45 Minutes After He Blogs About 'Frustrating' Experience
Nearly an hour after his tweet, Boehner received an email confirming he was signed up, his spokesman said.
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As the article and other articles around the web are reporting....he did have a tough time signing up but as he indicates above...he received an e-mail informing him he was all setup.

I'm wondering what was the point in his attempt to sign up. Maybe he was trying to prove a point. I'm ok with that. For him healthcare isn't an issue considering the federal governmet pays I believe the majority of his premium but for those who don't have insurance...a little time spent trying to sign up may be well worth it. I got signed up and confirmed in about 30-45 minutes...online during the middle of the day about a week ago....but I could have caught it on a relatively light day....
 
esmith

esmith

Veteran Member
Dirty Penguin said:
John Boehner Successfully Enrolls In Obamacare 45 Minutes After He Blogs About 'Frustrating' Experience


As the article and other articles around the web are reporting....he did have a tough time signing up but as he indicates above...he received an e-mail informing him he was all setup.

I'm wondering what was the point in his attempt to sign up. Maybe he was trying to prove a point. I'm ok with that. For him healthcare isn't an issue considering the federal governmet pays I believe the majority of his premium but for those who don't have insurance...a little time spent trying to sign up may be well worth it. I got signed up and confirmed in about 30-45 minutes...online during the middle of the day about a week ago....but I could have caught it on a relatively light day....
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the reason he signed up is that he as all other Representatives and Senators have to enroll through the D.C. Exchange. Now I do not know anything about who pays for their health insurance or if they are limited to the same policies as everyone else.

John Boehner Signs Up For Insurance Through Obamacare - Business Insider
 
tytlyf

tytlyf

Not Religious
esmith said:
the reason he signed up is that he as all other Representatives and Senators have to enroll through the D.C. Exchange. Now I do not know anything about who pays for their health insurance or if they are limited to the same policies as everyone else.

John Boehner Signs Up For Insurance Through Obamacare - Business Insider
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He's getting a good deal too.

Thanks to a Republican amendment to the Affordable Care Act, most members of Congress will see their government-provided health insurance lapse at the end of the year, leaving many of them no other choice but to enroll in dreaded Obamacare.
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Whoops! Obamacare turns out to be great deal personally for Boehner - Salon.com
 
Dirty Penguin

Dirty Penguin

Master Of Ceremony
In rural Kentucky, health-care debate takes back seat as the long-uninsured line up - The Washington Post

“All right,” she said to her next client, a 52-year-old disabled master electrician who said his mother, two brothers and two sisters all died from lung cancer. He had been ignoring a spot on his lung discovered during a visit to the emergency room after he had broken his ribs several years ago.


He also vaguely recalled being told at the time he had something called “wedging of the spine.”


“What do I need here?” said Jeff Fletcher, who was being sued for those medical bills. “Proof of income?”
“Yep,” Lively said, and Fletcher pulled out documents showing that he and his wife live on about $500 a month in food stamps and her disability check.
“You smoke?” Lively asked, going through a few routine questions.
“Right- and left-handed,” he quipped as she typed.
“All right,” Lively said after a while. “You are covered.”
“I’m covered?” Fletcher said. He slapped the table. He clapped twice.
“Woo-hoo! I can go to the doctor now?” he asked Lively. “I’m serious. I need to go.”
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Soon, Ronald Hudson walked in.


“Okay,” Lively began. “What Hudsons are you kin to?”
“R.T., Uncle Lenny . . .” said Hudson, a skinny 35-year-old who worked as an assistant director at the senior center and had just been released from the hospital after a blood-sugar spike.


He’d never had insurance before and said his hospital bills were up to $23,000 at this point.


“Good night,” Lively said, tapping in his information.


Kids: five. Salary: about $14,000 before taxes.


“You’re going to qualify for a medical card,” she told Hudson.
“Well, thank God,” Hudson said, laughing. “I believe I’m going to be a Democrat.”


Lively printed out his papers.


“RONALD’s Health Care Coverage Options,” one of them read.
“Oh, man,” Hudson said.
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Dirty Penguin

Dirty Penguin

Master Of Ceremony
esmith said:
In your first example medicaid was program applied.
In your second example medicaid was program applied. .
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Once again...Due to the ACA these people who desperately need insurance and who may not have qualified for Medicaid or other forms of insurance are now able to get it. It matters not that it is under Medicaid or private insurance to me. These stories rightfully deserve to be in this thread. The thread is calling for ACA success stories...not ACA "private insurance"...success stories....:rolleyes:
 
Mr Spinkles

Mr Spinkles

Mr
esmith said:
In your first example medicaid was program applied.
In your second example medicaid was program applied. .
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Yep. The new expanded Medicaid, under Obamacare:

The ACA has two primary mechanisms for increasing insurance coverage: expanding Medicaid eligibility to include individuals within 138% of the federal poverty level,[42] and creating state-based insurance exchanges where individuals and small business can buy health insurance plans—those individuals with incomes between 100% and 400% of the federal poverty level will be eligible for subsidies to do so.[37][29]
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Emphasis added.
 
Mr Spinkles

Mr Spinkles

Mr
Dirty Penguin said:
In rural Kentucky, health-care debate takes back seat as the long-uninsured line up - The Washington Post
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Well sure, Dirty Penguin, that article describes at least 7 ACA success stories (Noble, Fletcher, Strong, Hudson, Robinson, Gross, Stamper) and alludes to hundreds more. But that's still only ONE article. When CBS, Fox News, Forbes, and the WSJ find 7 "horror" stories they publish a separate article about each one--oftentimes publishing multiple articles repeating the same story. 7 articles beats 1 article.
 
Dirty Penguin

Dirty Penguin

Master Of Ceremony
Mr Spinkles said:
Well sure, Dirty Penguin, that article describes at least 7 ACA success stories (Noble, Fletcher, Strong, Hudson, Robinson, Gross, Stamper) and alludes to hundreds more. But that's still only ONE article. When CBS, Fox News, Forbes, and the WSJ find 7 "horror" stories they publish a separate article about each one--oftentimes publishing multiple articles repeating the same story. 7 articles beats 1 article.
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But I'm not done....I'll be posting more....

I guess I could have posted each individual success story from the article...:D
 
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