Angstadt was in bad condition prior to his March 31 valve-replacement surgery. I was going to die, he told this blog. I was preparing myself. I knew I was pretty sick since last October. Yet he still resisted the attempts of friend Bob Leinhauser to get him enrolled in Obamacare. I had to back him into a corner, says Leinhauser, who worked for 27 years for Montgomery Countys fire and rescue department. He told Angstadt, Youre what we call a cardiac cripple.
After signing up for insurance via the Obamacare exchange, Angstadt pays $26.11 for the Highmark Blue Cross silver PPO plan, as reported by the Inquirer. The policy took effect just before Angstadts surgery.
But what accounts for Angstadts resistance to Obamacare in the first place? He says that he leans Republican and essentially listened to what the GOP had to say about Obamacare, and not so much to what the Democrats had to say. As for his media diet, Anstadt says he goes online for some of his news, but when it comes to television, Fox News, of course, and thats basically what I watch on TV, in addition to local news, he says. I like some of those radicals on Fox News, he says. I like OReilly.
Asked if Fox News had molded his view of Obamacare, Angstadt responded, Yeah, yeah they get people fired up. You know what, I really do have a different outlook on it. Its really wrong that people are making it into a political thing. To me, it is a life-and-death thing. Of Obamacares namesake, Angstadt says, I didnt care for Obama. I cant say nothing bad about him now because it was his plan that probably saved my life.
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