Kyle Becker | On 04, Nov 2013
Edie Littlefield Sundby is a stage IV gallbladder cancer patient who has fought her life-threatening illness for seven years, but liked her health insurance plan just fine. And then along came ObamaCare.
Sundby penned a heart-rending testimonial in the Wall Street Journal about how her insurance plan was cancelled after ObamaCare was implemented in California. The consequences? Let Edie tell you:
For almost seven years I have fought and survived stage-4 gallbladder cancer, with a five-year survival rate of less than 2% after diagnosis. I am a determined fighter and extremely lucky.But this luck may have just run out: My affordable, lifesaving medical insurance policy has been canceled effective Dec. 31.My choice is to get coverage through the government health exchange and lose access to my cancer doctors, or pay much more for insurance outside the exchange (the quotes average 40% to 50% more) for the privilege of starting over with an unfamiliar insurance company and impaired benefits.
She can no longer see her doctors, putting truth to the well-anticipated lie “you can keep your doctor.” But here’s the key point to bear in mind while shameless talking points swirl the drain:
Since March 2007 United Healthcare has paid $1.2 million to help keep me alive, and it has never once questioned any treatment or procedure recommended by my medical team. The company pays a fair price to the doctors and hospitals, on time, and is responsive to the emergency treatment requirements of late-stage cancer. Its caring people in the claims office have been readily available to talk to me and my providers.But in January, United Healthcare sent me a letter announcing that they were pulling out of the individual California market. The company suggested I look to Covered California starting in October. (Read more…)
Think Progress blames the insurance company, which is really no surprise. But then the left-wingers chide Sundby for being confused: her insurance getting dropped is actually part of the Democrats’ super-awesome “reform”!
But Sundby shouldn’t blame reform — United Healthcare dropped her coverage because they’ve struggled to compete in California’s individual health care market for years and didn’t want to pay for sicker patients like Sundby.
But these honesty-challenged spinmasters miss one essential point: Edie would still have her plan and her doctor if it were not for ObamaCare!
White House assistant Dan Pfeiffer then latched onto the Think Progress talking points:
Not only that, the ObamaCare legislation has a plan to drop patients permanently if the government doesn’t find it “cost effective” to pay for their treatments. They’re called “death panels,” and some leftists are actually pining for them to be installed in the U.S.!
So, tell me: is it justifiable for the government to pay $1.2 million on
http://www.ijreview.com/2013/11/92052-stage-iv-cancer-patient-exposes-obamacare-lie-can-keep-doctor-gets-scolded-white-house/
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