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Perspective and context....... If only another 10% of the populace fully appreciated what those bring to the table.
http://jezebel.com/5865791/woman-who...ncer-diagnosis
Today in a L.A. Times op-ed, a woman who was so upset with President Obama for having "let down the struggling middle class" that she switched her registration from Democrat to Independent and altered her Obama bumpers sticker to read "Got Nope" is apologizing to the President. She says that while she was angered by Obama's plan, she's suddenly come to appreciate it, now that she's benefitting from it personally.
Two years ago, e Dolomite Ward and her husband had to choose between paying their mortgage or keeping their health insurance. They kept the house, and now at 49 Ward has been diagnosed with breast cancer. She didn't know how she'd afford months of expensive treatment, until he discovered the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan, which is part of Obama's healthcare plan. Now she's publicly "outed" herself in the hopes that she can teach ObamaCare opponents that the uninsured aren't just lazy freeloaders. She writes:
What I want people to understand is that, if this could happen to us, it could happen to anybody. If you are fortunate enough to still be employed and have insurance through your employers, you may feel insulated from the sufferings of people like me right now. But things can change abruptly. If you still have a good job with insurance, that doesn't mean that you're better than me, more deserving than me or smarter than me. It just means that you are luckier. And access to healthcare shouldn't depend on luck.
Ward's right, and she deserves credit for admitting she was wrong. It's just a shame that most people who are rabidly against enabling all Americans to have healthcare coverage won't have a change of heart unless they're put in a similarly horrible situation.
Damn right.
Perspective and context....... If only another 10% of the populace fully appreciated what those bring to the table.
Fake name, fake story.
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Thanks for posting. Good story.http://jezebel.com/5865791/woman-who...ncer-diagnosis
Today in a L.A. Times op-ed, a woman who was so upset with President Obama for having "let down the struggling middle class" that she switched her registration from Democrat to Independent and altered her Obama bumpers sticker to read "Got Nope" is apologizing to the President. She says that while she was angered by Obama's plan, she's suddenly come to appreciate it, now that she's benefitting from it personally.
Two years ago, e Dolomite Ward and her husband had to choose between paying their mortgage or keeping their health insurance. They kept the house, and now at 49 Ward has been diagnosed with breast cancer. She didn't know how she'd afford months of expensive treatment, until he discovered the Pre-existing Condition Insurance Plan, which is part of Obama's healthcare plan. Now she's publicly "outed" herself in the hopes that she can teach ObamaCare opponents that the uninsured aren't just lazy freeloaders. She writes:
What I want people to understand is that, if this could happen to us, it could happen to anybody. If you are fortunate enough to still be employed and have insurance through your employers, you may feel insulated from the sufferings of people like me right now. But things can change abruptly. If you still have a good job with insurance, that doesn't mean that you're better than me, more deserving than me or smarter than me. It just means that you are luckier. And access to healthcare shouldn't depend on luck.
Ward's right, and she deserves credit for admitting she was wrong. It's just a shame that most people who are rabidly against enabling all Americans to have healthcare coverage won't have a change of heart unless they're put in a similarly horrible situation.
I might be mistaken but wasn't that the healthcare reform laws in 94 that did this? I was under the impression that ObamaCare Pre Existing part didn't go into affect until 2014? Also FTR for individuals Cal is 12 months and TX is 2 years, for individuals and before ObamaCare.
Chances are she would have never got breast cancer w/o the radiation is good for you supporters like Agloco.
I'll just assume you are mistaken.
What are you babbling on about?
If she wanted to have both health insurance AND a home, she should've worked a little harder. Freeloader.
SNC, there's a bridge over the gap to 2014:
"This program may be able to help you, if you’ve been locked out of the insurance market, until 2014. In 2014, you will have access to affordable health insurance choices through a new compe ive marketplace called an Exchange and you will no longer be discriminated against based on a pre-existing condition."
https://www.pcip.gov/LearnMore.html
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