It's only that.Originally Posted by cwolff
Tgo01 wins another one. This is too easy.
It's only that.
Tgo01 wins another one. This is too easy.
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This guy's the winner.
"I probably would have ended up falling over dead" without the surgery, Angstadt said. "Not only did it save my life, it's going to give me a better quality of life."
Angstadt faces a long recovery, but his conversion to ACA supporter is done. The political storm around the ACA, he said, is the political parties "fighting each other over things that can benefit people."
"For me, this isn't about politics," he added. "I'm trying to help other people who are like me, stubborn and bullheaded, who refused to even look. From my own experience, the ACA is everything it's supposed to be and, in fact, better than it's made out to be."
There's nothing in that story that couldn't have been accomplished before Obamacare.
He never said he couldn't afford health insurance, he just didn't want it.
This is a great story about a man getting life saving surgery just in time but all of the credit for some reason is going to Obamacare.
I guess when your law sucks you have to credit it with every good story that comes down the pike.
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His ACA payment is 26$ a month. He had a pacemaker and defibrilator installed already and faulty aortic valve that required surgery. This is not a man who can afford the premium on private insurance with that kind of pre-existing condition. What insurance company, pre-aca, would even write a policy for someone who's immediately going in for heart surgery?
But last summer, his health worsened again. It was taking him 10 minutes to catch his breath after felling a tree. By fall, he was winded after traveling the 50 feet between his house and truck.
"I knew that I was really sick," said the Boyertown resident. "I figured the doctors were going to have to operate, so I tried to work as long as I could to save money for the surgery. But it got to the point where I couldn't work."
Last edited by cwolff; 04-28-2014 at 11:05 PM.
How do you know?
This happened in New Jersey, right? In NJ health insurance companies could only not cover preexisting conditions for up to 12 months. The man could have bit the bullet and bought health insurance years ago.
Yes, you're absolutely right that if he literally waited until the very last minute to get health insurance to cover his health problems then in most states it probably would have been too late.
I guess this is the way things are going to be in the future; fuck paying for health insurance, just wait until you need it then pay 20 bucks for it. What could possibly go wrong with this plan?
Last edited by Tgo01; 04-28-2014 at 11:12 PM.
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You're crying over spilled milk. We've decided to not let people die in the street here and it's nothing new.
Classic case of appealing to emotion.
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Keep trying. You're still wrong but I don't want to discourage you.
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We decided that a long, long, long time ago.
This is more like "we've decided to take more of the poor's money because they're too stupid to know we're raping them anyway, as long as we do it with a smile and tell them it's best for them."
Appeal to ridicule.
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