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GOP: him and his continuing existence.
I wonder if he is a tea pottier/ repeal Obamacare type dude?Katy man gets a special seat for State of the Union
He fought cancer with aid of Obama's health care reform
Of all the special guests invited to hear President Obama's State of the Union address tonight, James Howard of Katy considers himself perhaps the luckiest — that he's even alive to make the trip.
Howard, 28, credits Obama's health care reform legislation for providing him with insurance coverage so that he could receive treatment for a rare form of cancer.
"Without the insurance plan I'm on, I wouldn't be alive today," Howard said. "I'm living testimony as to how this has helped out in my life. With the treatment and my family, friends and faith, I've been able to get this to work out."
Almost a year ago, Howard learned why he was suffering from excruciating headaches: a rare type of malignant brain tumor which doctors have limited ability to treat.
'Facing a death sentence'
Almost as devastating was the news that his insurance company would not pay for what treatment there was because it claimed his condition pre-existed the effective date of his policy.
"It was like facing a death sentence," said Howard, a sales manager for Hennessey Performance, a "tuner shop" that modifies production cars to give them more horsepower and better handling.
Howard's diagnosis — gliomatosis cerebri — translated into an octopus-like mass in his brain and a course of treatment that promised to be stunningly expensive. Chemotherapy alone would run more than $25,000 a week.
Howard exhausted what funds he had and his church, The Waters, set up a foundation to help. But it was not going to be enough.
Then came health reform legislation, part of which was a special high-risk insurance pool set up to cover seriously ill people who had been denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions. It took effect immediately, unlike many of the legislation's other measures.
'Little part' looms large
Whatever the political controversies attached to some elements of insurance reform, Howard is happy that doing away with the dreaded phrase "pre-existing conditions" is not one of them.
"Sometimes the good things get overshadowed by the politics of the entire bill," he said. "I don't even know all the parts of it. All I can tell is my little part of the bill and what it has meant for me."
So Howard has been speaking out publicly about the importance of covering ill people denied because of pre-existing problems.
As a reward, the White House invited Howard to sit in first lady Mic e Obama's guest box Tuesday night. There also will be receptions before and after the event.
"I'm excited," he said. "I'm originally from that area, so it's a going home thing. But it has a purpose."
GOP: him and his continuing existence.
George, If I was sick and couldn't afford treatment would you put up the dollars to save my life knowing it would bankrupt you?
I'd kick in a cent with a few hundred million other people. And I hate your guts.
Thanks Bali but that was not the question.
The question, in question, was intellectually dishonest and erroneous.
Nothing in the PPACA makes any one person responsible for paying the entire health related costs of another. Not even anything remotely close to that, actually.
Why did you ask so irrelevant and hypothetical a question?
I already do... I bet you don't know that you subsidize other people's health already..
They ask questions like these all of the time.
No you don't. If you don't want to answer a simple question, I understand. You never do.
So my property taxes don't go to fund the county hospital... ok. you're a dumbass
LOL@ your property taxes paying for my health insurance.
Last time.
Why did you ask so irrelevant and hypothetical a question?
tbh I get exactly where "The Sommerset" is going with this but it doesn't make him any less re ed.
lol fat pedo
Thanks buddy. tbh, that's not me.tbh I get exactly where "The Sommerset" is going with this but it doesn't make him any less re ed.
lol fat pedo
crofl liar.
one day this picture gets posted. a day later the facebook page where this pic was found got deleted. coincidence?
So you're asking him to be a death panel?
Too bad that's already being done.
It's also a gross simplification.
Cool story. Please continue the tale that my real name is Jack Sommerset, I'm a pedo, fat, meat packer, etc.....If you posted any pictures of me or my children I would not be coming to this site anymore. Dumbass.crofl liar.
one day this picture gets posted. a day later the facebook page where this pic was found got deleted. coincidence?
No. Your boy can answer, he doesn't need big brother to help out.
Then you wouldn't die if he didn't s out the money?
Explain.
I already pay for your care dumbass... that's my answer.
"Slow down Jim" "What does a yellow light mean?.."slow down Jim".."Whaaaat doooooees a yyellllllooowww light meeeaann?". "Slow down Jim"..
Umm, no you don't.
crofl it's not your kid, that's the point.
lol fat pedo
Lots of rhetoric going on here. Stay on target and shoot for the crosshairs with all your might. Good night and good luck.
You mean the surveyor symbols.
We do know you are a butthurt got that s and pisses,copy and paste, s and pisses like the dumb animal you are because you don't know how to get along with others. You have no point, you are a dumb animal. I had you pegged many years ago.
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