Salon: A left-wing Tea Party may be closer than you think

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64. The saddest example I have seen of this is a a liberal justifiably angry that a loved one died

simply because an insurance company refused to pay for something that would have saved that life while simultaneously thanking God for the ACA that enabled said insurance company to do so.

I was more than a bit empathetic as my wife was similarly killed by Blue Cross in '06 for the same reason, they delayed a procedure for eight months (surgery) that every single member of her health care team deemed necessary to be done and at a precise time after chemo was stopped (just long enough for her system to strengthen) but no longer. during that delay, the tumor shrunken by chemo prior to surgery to remove it began to grow again after three months and by 8 months had doubled in size and metastasized. The time it took for the insurance to lose the battle to fight an expenditure of a very needed second surgeon, changed it from operable to only operable in the sense that some could be removed but not all the brand new mets that caused her death.

Insurance is not health care, it is a way to avoid paying for health care unless it is something inexpensive and designed solely for the profits of vultures.