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HuffPo -- How Obamacare Leaves People Without Doctors!
Posted on 4/16/14 at 2:16 pm
Posted on 4/16/14 at 2:16 pm
Decided to give this its own thread.
SIAP.
$16K oop later, and she now knows.
SIAP.
quote:As I've said previously, these Exchange Plans are a buyer beware prospect. This poor lady probably assumed the Exchange version of BCBS was identical to normal BCBS Plans in coverage. She had no idea what she actually had bought was Obamacaid. She had no idea how badly her policy sucked.
How Obamacare Leaves People Without Doctors
by Kathleen Miles
04/10/2014
LOS ANGELES - In January, a doctor told Noam Friedlander, who was suffering from excruciating lower back pain, that she needed surgery to remove part of a severely herniated disc. Friedlander had Blue Shield insurance through Covered California, California's version of Obamacare, and planned to use it to cover the costs of the operation.
But when she started to call surgeons covered by Blue Shield, she ran into a roadblock. Surgeons who were covered by her insurance operated out of hospitals no longer covered by her insurance -- or vice versa. Friedlander spent days on the phone, hours on hold, making dozens of calls across Southern California, trying to match a surgeon with a hospital that would both be covered. In total, she reached out to 20 surgeons and five hospitals.
"No one could help me. Some expressed sympathy," Friedlander, 40, told The Huffington Post in an email. "They told me, 'I'm so sorry -- it's all just so new. You're a victim of the changes. No one knows what they're doing.'"
Unable to match a hospital and a surgeon that were both covered, Friedlander started haggling between doctors for a cash price for the surgery. She chose a surgeon who wasn't covered by her insurance but who operated in a hospital that was covered. She expects her insurance to pay the hospital bill, but she had to pay for her surgeon's bill herself. In the end, she had to take out two credit cards so she could pay $16,000 out of pocket.
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$16K oop later, and she now knows.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 2:18 pm to NC_Tigah
but... free... and everyone has it now...
Posted on 4/16/14 at 2:42 pm to NC_Tigah
I hope this means Rex can't get his dimwit pills.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 2:45 pm to S.E.C. Crazy
quote:
I hope this means Rex can't get his dimwit pills
Posted on 4/16/14 at 3:12 pm to S.E.C. Crazy
And he'll still find a way to bitch about it.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 3:16 pm to NC_Tigah
But... But... Harry Reid said that's a lie made up by the evil Koch brothers!
Posted on 4/16/14 at 4:45 pm to DByrd2
The serious thing is there are thousands of patients who have been on Blue Cross Blue Shield, or Aetna, or United Health Care, etc. previously, who rightly assume Exchange Plans from the same companies have (at least somewhat) similar coverage. They do not!
The Exchange Plans are cheap for a reason.
Many, many people are going to get burned with this BS!
The Exchange Plans are cheap for a reason.
Many, many people are going to get burned with this BS!
Posted on 4/16/14 at 6:48 pm to NC_Tigah
The Huffpo is a bunch of racist superstitious teabaggers who hate women and want poor people to die. The article is obvious propaganda and only ignorant sheep will believe it. The truth is that every American now has lifetime healthcare security thanks to Obama, the greatest President ever.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 7:08 pm to Bestbank Tiger
Like Rush said today, this is the start of the push for single payer.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 7:59 pm to miketiger
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Like Rush said today, this is the start of the push for single payer.
I've got back problems...and I can guarantee you that that woman would go for Single Payer in a heartbeat after a couple of weeks in that pain.
Breaking eggs to make omelets. Rahm Emanuel quote. They will rot in hell for this.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 8:08 pm to NC_Tigah
It's okay to lie when you're a Democrat.
Posted on 4/16/14 at 8:59 pm to NC_Tigah
God forbid if she needs pain meds
Posted on 4/16/14 at 11:19 pm to NC_Tigah
We need to repeal the steaming pile of poo that is Obamacare.
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