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GOP Rep asks for Obamacare horror stories

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ivwshane said:
Seeing that you support politicians that create laws that essential force women's health clinics to close so that women have to travel pretty damn far, I give exactly....
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Dont confuse legitimate health issues with avoiding responsibility for your poor decisions.
 
Texashiker said:
Dont confuse legitimate health issues with avoiding responsibility for your poor decisions.
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And you continue to equate your morals with personal responsibility.


Until you stop supporting people who want to fuck over other people's lives who have zero effect on you, I'll continue not giving a shit about your personal situation and point out your hypocrisy.
 
Texashiker said:
Is that why my daughter-in-law had to drive 2 and a half hours one way to find a doctor that took her insurance?

She needed her gallbladder taken out. The nearest doctor that would take the insurance she bought was on the other side of Houston.

Use mapquest or google maps and go from 75951 to Katy Texas.
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Probably has more to do with you living in the middle of nowhere.
 
ivwshane said:
And you continue to equate your morals with personal responsibility.

Until you stop supporting people who want to fuck over other people's lives who have zero effect on you, I'll continue not giving a shit about your personal situation and point out your hypocrisy.
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Kinda like how society does not tolerate smoking crack, prostitution,,,, and all other kinds of stuff that does not affect others?


dank69 said:
Probably has more to do with you living in the middle of nowhere.
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Lufkin, Beaumont, Port Arthur are all closer than Katy.

The problem is not living in a rural area. This issue is doctors are providing services.
 
SheHateMe said:
I remember my mom got a new job about a year before ObummerCare was put into place. I was still in college and still eligible to be covered by her insurance benefits. I remember her calling me one day to tell me that I would have to figure out what to do about health insurance because Blue Cross told her that they would not cover me because I have Diabetes. I was like "fuck...what can I do?".

I ended up having to pay for an independent plan from Blue Cross that was expensive as shit. It wouldn't cover anything for 90 days and to top it off...they told me I had to wait an additional 90 days because I have a pre-existing condition.

So, I told them "no thank you" and did my best to not get hit by a car or get sick during that time I didn't have insurance. My insulin was expensive as hell and I ended up just begging my doc for samples so that I could live (I have type 1).

FF to December 2013, I graduated from college and my mom had lost her job. I had been able to sign up for an ObummerCare plan when there was open enrollment. With that insurance, I was able to get prescriptions for my insulin and get my bloodwork and such done without having to pay everything 100% out of pocket. It was glorious and quite frankly...it saved my life because I was very depressed when I had to beg for samples at the doctor's office and ration off my insulin because I simply could not afford to pay $290 a box for my meds.

That sucked major ass and I will never forget how much that sucked. My bloodsugar was so awful back then, I was merely existing. Just doing enough to keep myself out of a diabetic coma.
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Thank you for that. Unfortunately, all too many people are left in similar circumstances in States that have not implemented Medicaid expansion. Not poor people but rather working people barely scraping by.
 
Texashiker said:
Is that why my daughter-in-law had to drive 2 and a half hours one way to find a doctor that took her insurance?

She needed her gallbladder taken out. The nearest doctor that would take the insurance she bought was on the other side of Houston.

Use mapquest or google maps and go from 75951 to Katy Texas.
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And, uhh, so what? Is that supposed to be a horror story?

Tell us- does she receive any subsidy? What's the bottom line?

Did she have a choice of insurance? Perhaps she should have done more homework?

Do local doctors take her insurance for routine stuff?
 
Texashiker said:
Kinda like how society does not tolerate smoking crack, prostitution,,,, and all other kinds of stuff that does not affect others?

Lufkin, Beaumont, Port Arthur are all closer than Katy.

The problem is not living in a rural area. This issue is doctors are providing services.
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I'm glad to see you are tying your irrational opposition here to the equally irrational war on drugs.

I guess that makes sense. If someone can't think rationally about one issue it's likely they won't be rational about others.
 
eskimospy said:
I'm glad to see you are tying your irrational opposition here to the equally irrational war on drugs.

I guess that makes sense. If someone can't think rationally about one issue it's likely they won't be rational about others.
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He's just trying to divert conversation away from his earlier display of hoof in mouth.

There a a lot of people, I suspect, who've had problems for years, problems they couldn't pay to have fixed. People live with miserable gall bladder problems for years along with a lot of other stuff & nobody supporting the ACA begrudges them the catch up they need nor the care that anybody might need when they get older. We accept that obligation.
 
I'm a little disappointed that ttown, given his outspoken insistence that he only uses facts to make his determinations, has not returned to this thread to follow up on the latest information presented to him.

Not surprised in the least, just disappointed.
 
Texashiker said:
Is that why my daughter-in-law had to drive 2 and a half hours one way to find a doctor that took her insurance?

She needed her gallbladder taken out. The nearest doctor that would take the insurance she bought was on the other side of Houston.

Use mapquest or google maps and go from 75951 to Katy Texas.
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Maybe if she had been more responsible with her life she wouldn't need her gallbladder taken out.
 
MomentsofSanity said:
I'm a little disappointed that ttown, given his outspoken insistence that he only uses facts to make his determinations, has not returned to this thread to follow up on the latest information presented to him.

Not surprised in the least, just disappointed.
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I mean did anyone actually believe him though?
 
Texashiker said:
The problem is not living in a rural area. This issue is doctors are providing services.
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So your daughter didn't investigate what doctors were in the insurance plan until after she signed up? How about your daughter taking some personal responsibility to do some research before signing up?
 
Jhhnn said:
Thank you for that. Unfortunately, all too many people are left in similar circumstances in States that have not implemented Medicaid expansion. Not poor people but rather working people barely scraping by.
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Yeah, the same states that are "pro life" until you're out of the womb, at which point they wash their hands of any responsibility of helping to pay to keep you alive.
 
Mxylplyx said:
Krugman posted an article today that is relevant to this.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/30/opinion/paul-krugman-imaginary-health-care-horrors.html

Now that all the doom and gloom about Obamacare has not come to pass, it's detractors have resorted to telling outright lies.
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From the article

". . . what we’re looking at here is the impact of post-truth politics. We live in an era in which politicians and the supposed experts who serve them never feel obliged to acknowledge uncomfortable facts, in which no argument is ever dropped, no matter how overwhelming the evidence that it’s wrong.
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This is the most accurate observation of US politics today.
 
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