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Last summer Ellen Holzman and Meredith Vezina, a married gay couple in San Diego County, got kicked off their long-term Kaiser health plan, for which theyd been paying more than $1,300 a month
Thats when they discovered the chilly hazards of dependence on the individual health insurance market. When they applied for a replacement policy with Anthem Blue Cross of California, Ellen, 59, disclosed that she might have carpal tunnel syndrome
They said, We will not insure you because you have a pre-existing condition, Holzman recalls.
But they were lucky, thanks to Obamacare. Through Covered California, the states individual insurance marketplace, theyve found a plan through Sharp Healthcare that will cover them both for a total premium of $142 a month
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. Holzman and Vezina are exactly the type of people Obamacare is designed to help indeed, rescue from the cold, hard world of individual health insurance of the past. That was a world where even an undiagnosed condition might render you uninsurable. Where your insurance could be canceled after you got sick or had an accident. Where your financial health was at risk as much as your physical well-being.
These are the stories youre not hearing
.Lets hear from a few more of them
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More here: http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-mh-obamacare-success-20131125,0,1801769.story#axzz2lg1jq2jr
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Ganja Ninja
(15,953 posts)They're looking for some cantankerous old fart with an old Commodore 64 and dial-up connection to swear the website doesn't work.
Lifelong Dem
(344 posts)Below all the horror stories there are "some" success stories. Keyword "some", making it sound like 1 percent out there are success stories, when in reality there's probably less than 1 percent horror stories.