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ellisonz

(27,776 posts)
Tue Dec 6, 2011, 10:19 PM Dec 2011

'Obamacare' to the rescue

A woman who felt President Obama had let the middle class down has changed her mind.

By Spike Dolomite Ward
A woman who felt President Obama had let the middle class down has changed her mind.

December 6, 2011

I want to apologize to President Obama. But first, some background.

I found out three weeks ago I have cancer. I'm 49 years old, have been married for almost 20 years and have two kids. My husband has his own small computer business, and I run a small nonprofit in the San Fernando Valley. I am also an artist. Money is tight, and we don't spend it frivolously. We're just ordinary, middle-class people, making an honest living, raising great kids and participating in our community, the kids' schools and church.

We're good people, and we work hard. But we haven't been able to afford health insurance for more than two years. And now I have third-stage breast cancer and am facing months of expensive treatment.

To understand how such a thing could happen to a family like ours, I need to take you back nine years to when my husband got laid off from the entertainment company where he'd worked for 10 years. Until then, we had been insured through his work, with a first-rate plan. After he got laid off, we got to keep that health insurance for 18 months through COBRA, by paying $1,300 a month, which was a huge burden on an unemployed father and his family.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-ward-in-praise-of-obamacare-20111206,0,6794828.story


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'Obamacare' to the rescue (Original Post) ellisonz Dec 2011 OP
I love that article! DevonRex Dec 2011 #1
Glad to see that this lady was able to benefit under the new health care reforms. NavyDem Dec 2011 #2
That's a wonderful story. greatauntoftriplets Dec 2011 #3

DevonRex

(22,541 posts)
1. I love that article!
Wed Dec 7, 2011, 02:29 AM
Dec 2011

Seems to me that a lot of people will realize there are some good things in that law. Glad she's getting treatment. That's the important thing.

NavyDem

(564 posts)
2. Glad to see that this lady was able to benefit under the new health care reforms.
Wed Dec 7, 2011, 09:36 PM
Dec 2011

I think too often, there is not enough information put out about the good the program does. Of course, the fine folks here at DU know what's in the reform, but the MSM, not so much.

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