Irony of ironies - a mom whose kid gets Medicaid complaining about "Obamacare" on Facebook. [View all]
Her mom is at the emergency room, and there's a "long wait" - damn that Obamacare!
I commented that I hoped her mom is okay, and that I'm happy for Obamacare because as a new cancer survivor, I'm really glad no insurance company can now deny me coverage. She answered that she's happy about that, but no one should be "forced" to have insurance. I commented that if they don't, they end up in the emergency room where we all end up paying for them anyway.
I also said that I *happily* pay for kids in my state to have Medicaid if they have parents who are jobless or whose own companies don't provide healthcare for them. In fact, I'd rather get employers out of the business of providing healthcare for their employees and move that the the federal government where currently Medicare has the lowest overhead of all healthcare providers.
Today was my last day of radiation for breast cancer, and I'm fortunate as hell to have insurance that has covered my diagnosis, surgery, radiation oncology, and all follow up visits. Yes, we'll pay some out of pocket, but it won't bankrupt us, I'm alive (yay me!), and I'm not worried about how I'm going to pay the bills.
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