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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJaysus. WSJ: ObamaCare Forced Mom Into Medicaid
In brief, this sick op-ed bemoans that the author's mom has been "forced" from paying $276 a month for catastrophic care coverage only, onto Medicaid which will pay for doctor's visits, drugs and hospitalization.
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Of course, Medicaid is not a new option for my mother; she knew that she was poor enough to qualify for cost-free health care. It was a deliberate choice on her part to pay that monthly $276 out of her own pocket. Clearly she had judged that she received a personal benefit from not being on Medicaid.
"I just don't expect anything positive out of getting free health care," she said. "I don't see why other people should have to pay for my care, whether it be through taxes or otherwise." In paying for health insurance herselfshe won't accept help from her family, eithershe was safeguarding her dignity and independence and her sense of being a fully functioning member of society.
Before ObamaCare, Medicaid was one option. Not the option. Before this, she had never been, in effect, ordered to take a handout. Now she has been forced to join the government-reliant poor, though she would prefer to contribute her two mites. The authorities behind "affordable care" had erased her right to calculate what she was willing to spend to preserve her dignityto determine what she thinks is affordable.
That little contribution can mean the difference between dignity and despair.
For the truly poor, being institutionally forced to take welfare is demoralizing. The Affordable Care Act is at risk of systematizing learned helplessness by telling individuals like my mother that they cannot afford to care for themselves in the way they could before the law was enacted. "This makes me feel poorer than ever," she said.
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http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303531204579207724152219590?mod=djemEditorialPage_h
fuck you, you stupid, heartless piece of shit.
surrealAmerican
(11,360 posts)That $276 "coverage" would have left the author's mother bankrupt if she had had any kind of medical need, and she would have ended up on Medicaid after her bankruptcy. The ACA is keeping her from losing what little she has.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)LuvNewcastle
(16,844 posts)wants to keep paying hundreds of dollars for some worthless policy? Fuck him. His mother needs to use her Medicaid to go get a checkup and see if dementia has set in.
Skidmore
(37,364 posts)R support het mother financially like many others have done gladly? This is the other elephant in the room that noone cares to address.
lovelyrita
(241 posts)The fact that there are people walking around that are thinking that way is disturbing.
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)that she could save her mother that "horrific" fate by purchasing some decent insurance for her mother herself.
And it didn't bother the author in the least that (since her mother's policy was simply junk) if her mother did get sick the costs would be passed on to the rest of us since she wouldn't be able to pay her hospital bill (and obviously the author wouldn't step up and pay the bill).
Or perhaps the author is suggesting that her mother would just die quietly without any medical care that she couldn't afford and the author is fine with that.
LuvNewcastle
(16,844 posts)she has a serious illness and goes bankrupt. I mean, it wouldn't be fair for the rest of us to pay for her to be in a nursing home or another elder care facility, would it?
Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)if she moved in with the ignoramus.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)Lots of crazy in this family.
mn9driver
(4,425 posts)I worry sometimes about selecting my media based on my beliefs, but the bubble of unmitigated crazy that these people live in is terrifying.
eqfan592
(5,963 posts)The disconnection from reality is unbelievable.