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Sparkly

(24,149 posts)
Thu Apr 5, 2012, 11:09 AM Apr 2012

One more example of the need to keep "Obamacare"

I know there are many tales of woe out there, but this one points to how quickly the whole course of a life can change... and how badly we need the little bit the Affordable Care Act does.

I highly recommend reading this.

[div class = "excerpt"]Down the Insurance Rabbit Hole
By ANDREA LOUISE CAMPBELL
Published: April 4, 2012

May the justices please meet my sister-in-law. On Feb. 8, she was a healthy 32-year-old, who was seven and a half months pregnant with her first baby. On Feb. 9, she was a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the chest down by a car accident that damaged her spine. Miraculously, the baby, born by emergency C-section, is healthy.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/opinion/down-the-insurance-rabbit-hole.html

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One more example of the need to keep "Obamacare" (Original Post) Sparkly Apr 2012 OP
The GOP says it's all the author's relative's fault catbyte Apr 2012 #1

catbyte

(34,335 posts)
1. The GOP says it's all the author's relative's fault
Thu Apr 5, 2012, 11:24 AM
Apr 2012

You can't believe the vicious, vile, mean-spirited, despicable comments I received when I wrote on another site if the SC strikes down the ACA, I will have to divorce my husband of 28 years because he's hit our insurance company's lifetime benefits cap (Type I Diabetic for 53 years). If we don't divorce we will be financially ruined.

Their responses were "tough shit". "It's not my problem" "You should have thought about that when you married him", "Who cares?", etc. The comments ran about 4-1 attacking me.

It actually broke my heart. I hate what this country has become.

Diane
Anishinaabe in MI & mom to Leo, Sophie, Taz & Nigel, members of Dogs Against Romney, Cat Division
"We ride inside--HISS!”

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