| | | ‘Affordable’ ObamaCare: Woman With Chest Pains Skips X-Ray After Realizing She Has a $5,500 Deductible
Posted by Jammie on Jan 03, 2014 at 10:43 am
There’s going to be a lot of this going on. These suckers have no clue that if they have a $5,500 deductible on top of their $450 per month “Affordable” health care they’re on the hook for all of that $5,500 before the wonderful benefits of their insurance kick in.
Another ObamaCare success story:
Hospital staff in Northern Virginia are turning away sick people on a frigid Thursday morning because they can’t determine whether their Obamacare insurance plans are in effect.
Patients in a close-in DC suburb who think they’ve signed up for new insurance plans are struggling to show their December enrollments are in force, and health care administrators aren’t taking their word for it.
In place of quick service and painless billing, these Virginians are now facing the threat of sticker-shock that comes with bills they can’t afford.
‘They had no idea if my insurance was active or not!’ a coughing Maria Galvez told MailOnline outside the Inova Healthplex facility in the town of Springfield.
She was leaving the building without getting a needed chest x-ray.
‘The people in there told me that since I didn’t have an insurance card, I would be billed for the whole cost of the x-ray,’ Galvez said, her young daughter in tow. ‘It’s not fair – you know, I signed up last week like I was supposed to.’
The x-ray’s cost, she was told, would likely be more than $500.
Galvez said she enrolled in a Carefirst Blue Cross bronze plan at a cost of about $450 per month through healthcare.gov, three days before Christmas.
‘No one has sent me a bill,’ she said.
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius testified in a December 11 congressional hearing that the federal government can’t say how many new enrollees have written checks for their first month’s premiums.
‘Some may have paid, some may have not,’ she conceded.
It’s unlikely that a valid insurance card would have changed Galvez’ fortunes, however.
Her Carefirst plan, identified on the Obamacare website as BlueChoice Plus Bronze, carries a $5,500 per-person deductible for 2014 – an amount she would have to pay out-of-pocket before her coverage would apply to medical expenses.
It won’t be long until people start dying because they couldn’t afford to pay their deductibles for treatment. |
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