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[Ms. Toad]

681. But this thread is a rant

by someone who has the intellectual resources to negotiate the system, and every reason to know what a formulary is (unless his wife was just diagnosed), who has a following, and who certainly seems to be trying to blow it to smithereens.

That is different from acknowledging that it is imperfect. And as much as we need a public health care system, it would never have passed in the first place and - if by some miracle it did pass, the challenges to implementing it would have made the living on the edge of terror that I have been doing waiting for 2014 and praying that the law was not gutted before them seem like a mere speed bump.

And - as far as calling the company before I was a verified cash cow - I have had to do that with nearly every insurance policy I have had for the last 15 years (at least a half dozen policies). Never once has one refused to answer questions about the formulary, or the doctors, I would have access to. And I do it because I know that my daughter's life depends on having access to specific medications and, to a lesser extent, the doctors who have been treating her for years. And when I have issues with coverage, I work the system. I don't go into a public forum, with full knowledge of the weight my name carries, and call the person who put his political reputation on the line to obtain this significant step forward a "piece of shit used-car salesman" and start a second nearly identical thread when I've said something so offensive that I'm locked out of this one.