Nevada family reportedly faces $1.2M in medical bills over ObamaCare typo, confusion

[Corey_Baker08]

17. I Am Confident This Issue Will Be Resolved & Their Insurance Company Will Pay Up...

As far as them 'fighting to get their newborn on their insurance', this should be absolutely no problem. Under the Affordable Care Act anyone under the age of 27 can stay on their parents insurance, which is obvious from the article that the parent(s) do in fact already have health insurance through the ACA through Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield....

I am hoping that Anthem Blue Cross corrects the mistake because its only logical that the mistake was made by the insurance company because it seems absolutely absurd to think that the woman in question forget the year of her birth, I would say that it comes down to a simple typo on behalf of the individual at Anthem Blue Cross or the Nevada Health Exchange worker who helped sign her up for the insurance policy.

Either way I hope this gets resolved peacefully & quickly because if they haven't already the Conservatives will be jumping all over this. However I believe it also shows that Obamacare is working, just think if the Affordable Health-care Act was non-existent, this woman would probably have had absolutely NO insurance. Imagine having NO insurance and going through this catastrophic health situation, having to pay 1.2 million dollars just to save the life of your baby because of complications during birth, not to mention the cost of the Doctors saving her & her babies lives at the same time requiring multiple surgeries and a 40 day hospital stay in most likely the intensive care unit, now without insurance I do not even want to begin to imagine the effect this would take on the family not only financially but emotionally.

I am 25 years old and thanks to President Obama, I have health & dental insurance because of the Affordable Health Act. I saw a woman wearing a shirt that said 'Repeal Obamacare', so I walked up to the lady and politely told her that I currently have insurance because of the Affordable Care Act, I then asked her if she ever actually read the bill...Her reply was no, so as someone who has read the bill I started informing her of things that would benefit her that is now in effect because of the ACA. She was an older woman, probably 59 or 60, and I asked her if she knew that her insurance company can no longer deny her due to pre-existing conditions, I reminded her that there are so many things that her insurance will now cover such as mammograms & other preventive health-care options thanks to President Obama and as she called it, 'Obamacare'.

I was surprised she seemed to have actually been listening, she was polite and I saw her facial impressions change as I told her some of the benefits of the ACA that benefit women. She seemed taken back and was virtually speechless but at the end, she shook my hand and introduced herself to me.

It was an experience that reminded me that with facts, statistics and a friendly conversation, perhaps we can inform some voters who know nothing about the ACA but choose to dislike it because her husband doesn't like it because of the Bullshit spewed out by Republicans & Fox News, so this year, 2014, we need a great voter turnout that are going to vote for Democrats, even if they don't happen to be Democrats or have no party affiliation at all, we need the young to show up in mass, and we need independent voters who have saw the Republicans block everything & shut down OUR government...