The Care She Needed
This is Gail O’Brien’s story: After years of paying too much for catastrophic health insurance, she and her husband, who work at jobs that don’t have health coverage, let their coverage lapse, hoping they could make it until her husband’s pension and health coverage kicked in this fall.
Then she was diagnosed with cancer, leaving her uninsurable.
“The first thing that was on my mind wasn’t, ‘Oh my God, I have cancer,’ ” Gail O’Brien said in an interview Monday. “My first thought was, ‘Oh my God, how am I going to pay for it?’ ”
Then:
It was only after O’Brien found out that the new health care reform law includes a provision allowing her to buy into a high-risk insurance pool that she knew her illness wouldn’t bankrupt her family.
The provision, which kicked in in July, offers coverage to people who have been uninsured at least six months and are deemed uninsurable by insurance companies because of pre-existing conditions.
Tags: Affordable Care Act, Health Care
And the Republicans want to take this away.
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Let Corporate America pick up insurance tabs. They have raped and pillaged this country. They’ve sent jobs overseas. If they want to bring goods and services into this country impose large tarriffs on them and use those tarriffs to fund health insurance. The people who are working now can not manage the burden of paying for everyones health insurance which is what is happening. My health insurance has tripled and I’m a single mom with a dead beat dad, working my butt off.
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