,
22 tweets,
2 min read
Read on Twitter
Next in my "How Trump Just Destroyed You" series. My wife is a doctor. let's talk pre ACA. Two stories. A trucker is working in his yard...
2...falls out of tree. Badly hurts his back. Goes to my wife, in course of their appointment, brags about his cheap insurance. Will ....
3...require a lot of work. Has four appointments. At the fifth, he is told his insurance ran out. His policy covered four appointments.....
4...which is why it is cheap. He needs surgery: not covered. Hospitalization: Not covered. Rehab: not covered. Can't even see my wife....
...or any internist anymore because they cant take insurance AND provide free care. Must now go to free clinic. They cant help. He ends up..
6...in emergency room. YOU pay for it. They patch him up, send him on his way. Problem not gone. Can't drive truck anymore with back....
7...problem. Sells home for surgery. Can't get rehab. Still can't drive. Goes on unemployment. YOU pay for it. ACA kicks in, with minimum...
8...coverage standards. He signs up for policy. Cant get rejected for preexisting condition. Gets full hospitalization etc. coverage. So...
9...gets treatment. Is now a trucker again. Was a rock-ribbed republican. Now understands the lies they tell. 2nd story: ACA didn't kick...
10...in soon enough. Had cheap policy. Got cancer. In the middle of his chemo treatment, hit the coverage cap. Ranted and raved. "Why am...
11...I paying for coverage if it doesn't cover me when I'm sick?" Welcome to GOP health care pal. Chemo cut off. He dies while ACA is ....
12...being debated because the cancer has spread throughout his body. THIS is the real world. THESE are the death panels. Unfortunately....
13...people in this country have a horrible combination of treating politics like it's about "my team," MASS ignorance and MASS arrogance...
14...they think they are experts on insurance when Sean Hannity says something. And now they will die. Or lose everything. But hey! At....
15.,..least now they can go back to buying cheap insurance that lets them shell out $ for premiums year after year for fake coverage....
16...thanks to Donald "I dont understand anything" Trump. Oh, and dont think u can now rush onto a good policy when u need it. Sorry folks..
17...because policies without minimum standards will divert stupid people in good health, risk pool for pre-exist condition folks will ....
18...shift to high-risk, and premiums will explode. And the more ppl who try to rush back from cheap policies to real policies when they...
19...get sick, the higher the premiums will go. WAY past unaffordable. Because the insurers will be making their money collecting from....
20...stupid healthy people. The private market is dead. Make America Die Again. And again, if these cheap policies are SO GREAT, then....
21...every member of Congress and the Trump admin should save taxpayers $ and be forced onto them. Yah, right. They want to live. They....
22...don't give a damn whether or not you do.
