In Middle Of Cancer Treatment Woman Loses Her Insurance

[Treasure_Hunter]

THIS IS A CRIME !

Never Forget Who Forced This On America!

WOMAN WITH CANCER LOSES ‘WORLD-CLASS’ INSURANCE PLAN BECAUSE OF OBAMACARE

A San Diego woman says she has been kicked off her insurance plan due to Obamacare while battling Stage 4 gallbladder cancer.

“I had great cancer doctors and health insurance,” Edie Littlefield Sundby wrote in a Sunday*Wall Street Journal op-ed. “My plan was canceled. Now I worry how long I’ll live.”

“For almost seven years I have fought and survived Stage 4 gallbladder cancer, with a five-year survival rate of less than 2 percent after diagnosis,” she said.

Her op-ed, which received significant attention from conservatives online, comes as*millions of Americans are being dropped from their health insurance plans because of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama’s signature health care law.

Sundby will be released from her current plan effective Dec. 31. She said her only options going forward are to either enroll in Obamacare and lose her cancer doctors, or to start her treatment all over again with a new provider at rates that are approximately 40 to 50 percent more expensive.

Worse than just losing her doctors through Obamacare, Sundby said, is that nothing available through the government-run program comes even close to comparing with what she had through her private insurer.




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[Old Bookaroo]

The Real Reason That The Cancer Patient Writing In Today’s Wall Street Journal Lost Her Insurance
By Igor Volsky

on November 4, 2013 at 9:08 am

Monday’s Wall Street Journal features an op-ed from Edie Littlefield Sundby, a stage-4 gallbladder cancer survivor who won’t be able to keep the coverage she currently has. Her insurer, United Healthcare, is pulling out of the individual health care market, forcing Sundby to find new coverage in California’s health care exchange.

But the plans available through Cover California don’t offer in-network coverage for all of the care Sundby needs. As a result, she has to choose between her two health care providers if she wishes to remain in-network. “Stanford has kept me alive—but UCSD has provided emergency and local treatment support during wretched periods of this disease, and it is where my primary-care doctors are,” she writes:

What happened to the president’s promise, “You can keep your health plan”? Or to the promise that “You can keep your doctor”? Thanks to the law, I have been forced to give up a world-class health plan. The exchange would force me to give up a world-class physician.

But Sundby shouldn’t blame reform — United Healthcare dropped her coverage because they’ve struggled to compete in California’s individual health care market for years and didn’t want to pay for sicker patients like Sundby.

The company, which only had 8,000 individual policy holders in California out of the two million who participate in the market, announced (along with a second insurer, Aetna) that it would be pulling out of the individual market in May. The company could not compete with Anthem Blue Cross, Blue Shield of California and Kaiser Permanente, who control more than 80 percent of the individual market. “Over the years, it has become more difficult to administer these plans in a cost-effective way for our members,” UnitedHealth spokeswoman Cheryl Randolph explained. “We will continue to keep a major presence in California, focusing instead on large and small employers.”

The two insurers were also operating at a tax disadvantage in the state. As California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones explained, “One of the factors I believe contributed to this decision….is the special tax break that California law gives to Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, which has allowed and continues to allow those two companies to avoid paying $100 million in state taxes a year.” “Aetna and United Healthcare don’t get the special tax break provided to Anthem Blue Cross and Blue Shield, and so they faced a major competitive disadvantage in California.”

And then there is the company’s own justification for leaving. “The company’s plans reflect its concern that the first wave of newly insured customers under the law may be the costliest,” UHC Chief Executive Officer Stephen Helmsley told investors last October. “UnitedHealth will watch and see how the exchanges evolve and expects the first enrollees will have ‘a pent-up appetite’ for medical care. We are approaching them with some degree of caution because of that.”
Get that? The company packed its bags and dumped its beneficiaries because it wants its competitors to swallow the first wave of sicker enrollees only to re-enter the market later and profit from the healthy people who still haven’t signed up for coverage.

Sundby is losing her coverage and her doctors because of a business decision her insurer made within the competitive dynamics of California’s health care market. She’ll now have to enroll in a new plan that offers tighter networks of providers as a way to control health care costs and offer lower premiums. Eleven insurers are participating in Covered California and for the first time they won’t be able to deny coverage to Sundby or any other cancer patients.

The Real Reason That The Cancer Patient Writing In Today's Wall Street Journal Lost Her Insurance | ThinkProgress

Good luck to all,

~The Old Bookaroo

 

[Crispin]

United Health is lousy insurance to begin with. For those of you wondering why they just don't take out the gallbladder...Stage four has mets. Odd to begin with...one does not see a whole lot of gallbladder cancer.

 

[Ammonhotep]

Being killed by cancer or by capitalism?

Old Bookaroo nails it again.

 

[davest]

I have UnitedHealthCare and it seems everytime I go to the doc for a follow up the payment changes. I called them to find out how close I was to meeting my deductible and I swear the guy on the other end of the conversation laughed. Seems that individual deductible and family deductible are two different things until you get close to meeting the first.

For profit healthcare makes about as much sense as for profit incarceration.

 

[ivan salis]

I take in your money for coverage while your "healthy"--but then when you get ill and need costly coverage --I deny, delay or low ball pay your doctors ---the companies want to limit your choices to lower your cost to them, they got theirs , now you try to get yours.

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Bookaroo nailed nothing, end result is the same, her loss of insurance is still caused by satanscare. If it wasn't being forced down American's throat she would not have lost her original health care.

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[Dave44]

Are you guys really gonna allow yourselves to get wound up by a misleading socialist statement from "thinkprogress"? WOW, you fellas are really rabid.. that whole article was a communistic bashing piece. Painful to look at the leaps of logic and insertions of fallacy. And you guys are the first to scream about using "blogs"! Sad really.


ThinkProgress - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
ThinkProgress is a liberal American political blog that "provide a forum that advances progressive ideas and policies".[SUP][2][/SUP] It is an outlet of the Center for American Progress.

• ^ Think Progress Editor Joins Nancy Pelosi's Office
• Jump up ^ Somanader, Tanya. "Think Progress blog". Thinkprogress.org. Retrieved 2011-07-07.
• Jump up ^ McDuffee, Allen (May 27, 2011). "CAP’s new sites and a goodbye to Wonk Room". The Washington Post.
• Jump up ^ "Nancy Pelosi Hires Think Progress' Faiz Shakir As Director Of New Media". The Huffington Post. 8 May 2012.
• Jump up ^ About ThinkProgress
• Jump up ^ Smith, Ben. "Center for American Progress news team takes aim at GOP". Politico. Retrieved 18 July 2013.
• Jump up ^ Smith, Ben (7 December 2011). "Israel rift roils Democratic ranks". Politico.
• Jump up ^ Weinthal, Benjamin (28 December 2011). "Bloggers drag US think tank into scandal". Jerusalem Post.
• Jump up ^ "Islamophobia". CAP.
• Jump up ^ "Center for American Progress Defends Shariah, Charges America with Islamophobia". Center for Security Policy. Retrieved 16 May 2012.
• Jump up ^ Fang, Lee. "Exclusive: Foreign-Funded ‘U.S.’ Chamber Of Commerce Running Partisan Attack Ads". ThinkProgress. Retrieved August 30, 2012.
• Jump up ^ "MoveOn Asks DoJ To Launch Criminal Investigation Of Chamber's Funding". Huffington Post. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
• ^ Jump up to: [SUP]a[/SUP] [SUP]b[/SUP] "Foreign Money? Really?". FactCheck.org. Retrieved 30 August 2012.
• Jump up ^ Lichtblau, Eric. "Topic of Foreign Money in U.S. Races Hits Hustings". New York Times. Retrieved August 30, 2012.

Interesting what Wiki thinks of them? Notice who Pelosi Hearts?



"Media Matters wasfounded with the help of another Soros-sponsored enterprise, the Center for American Progress, the radical brain of the Democratic Party. Media Matters itself couldn’t care less about upholding professional standards in journalism. Its affinity with Al Jazeera has nothing to do with a shared commitment to journalistic integrity. Rather, it shares a common enemy with Al Jazeera: Fox News."

"Media Matters Action Network senior foreign policy fellow MJ Rosenberg has a profile on Al Jazeera’s website, where his articles attacking Israel and the United States regularly appear. As reported by the Daily Caller, Rosenberg represented Media Matters at the first Al Jazeera “Unplugged” forum on social media in Doha, Qatar in May 2010. At the forum, he praised Al Jazeera as a “mainstream network” and “factual” while attacking Fox News as a “very, very dangerous force in the United States.” For good measure, Rosenberg also charged that Al Jazeera “was bombed by orders of the United States government.”

 

[Dave44]

Remember the Dems idea that we were not allowed to look for insurance across state lines( presumably it would bring too much competition, and lower the cost too much)? Bocare screwed that up even worse. Even that blog pointed out the problem.. you may not be able to buy insurance outside of your COUNTY! And if you have a doctor outside of your county,, or region, that doctor will be paid for you OUT OF POCKET, because of BOcare.

From Old books Blog quote;
"Sundby is losing her coverage and her doctors because of a business decision her insurer made within the competitive dynamics of California’s health care market. She’ll now have to enroll in a new plan that offers tighter networks of providers as a way to control health care costs and offer lower premiums. Eleven insurers are participating in Covered California and for the first time they won’t be able to deny coverage to Sundby or any other cancer patients. "

If the Blog was real journalsim they might explain this to you. And the fact is these "Tightened networks" will make your doctor"out of network".

Good luck to all of you. Californians actually may be one of the first states to rebel!

 

[Old Bookaroo]

Dave44:

Mr. Soros did not "found" Media Matters for America.

Good luck to all,

~The Old Bookaroo

 

[Old Bookaroo]

Dave44:

Health insurance companies don't sell across state lines because health insurance companies are regulated by each state.

States' rights and all that.

If they sold across state lines, what laws would govern them? Who would regulate them and be sure they are making a profit (the primary task of state insurance regulators)?

And here is a very simple question, Dave44. Perhaps you can answer it for me. What backstop would there be for a national health insurance company if it failed? Each state has an independent fund - or a treaty for the other insurers in the state to cover the losses. How would that work on a national scale.

Please - none of your typical dodges, ducks, denials or distractions. An easy question, since you think it would be a good idea. How would that work?

Good luck to all,

~The Old Bookaroo

 

[Dave44]

Dave44:

Mr. Soros did not "found" Media Matters for America.

Good luck to all,

~The Old Bookaroo

Comprehension problems still on display?

"Media Matters wasfounded with the help of another Soros-sponsored enterprise, the Center for American Progress, the radical brain of the Democratic Party. Media Matters itself couldn’t care less about upholding professional standards in journalism. Its affinity with Al Jazeera has nothing to do with a shared commitment to journalistic integrity. Rather, it shares a common enemy with Al Jazeera: Fox News."

You wonder why I highlight for you?

 

[Dave44]

Dave44:

Health insurance companies don't sell across state lines because health insurance companies are regulated by each state.

States' rights and all that.

If they sold across state lines, what laws would govern them? Who would regulate them and be sure they are making a profit (the primary task of state insurance regulators)?

And here is a very simple question, Dave44. Perhaps you can answer it for me. What backstop would there be for a national health insurance company if it failed? Each state has an independent fund - or a treaty for the other insurers in the state to cover the losses. How would that work on a national scale.

Please - none of your typical dodges, ducks, denials or distractions. An easy question, since you think it would be a good idea. How would that work?

Good luck to all,

~The Old Bookaroo

At this point your question is moot,, and a dodge by you. Since you love the BOcare so much you should explain how that has been fixed? Try to be simple in your dodges thopugh?

 

[Old Bookaroo]

Dave44:

You wrote "...of another Soros-sponsored enterprise..." Note to Mod: Red in the original. Not mine.

Do you not know what "another" means?

Meanwhile - why can't you defend your post and answer a simple question? Calling it "moot" after you brought it up is a dodge, a duck, a distraction...

Good luck to all,

~The Old Bookaroo

 

[UncleMatt]

If the only time you will answer questions is when they promote your agenda....

 

[UncleMatt]

AND "satanscare" ?

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

AND "satanscare" ?

Lucifercare. ..

We will NOT go quitely into the night!

 

[UncleMatt]

Lucifercare. ..

We will NOT go quitely into the night!

No idea what you mean by that. If you are trying to say Obama is the devil, I would have to politely walk away before I start my belly laugh...

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

Bye..

 

[Ammonhotep]

Namecalling ... the lowest point in any political debate.

Let's take it up a few notches. I'd love to hear Dave44 respond to OB.