More on the woes of Obamacare. My husband had a motorcycle accident last year (September). It was a nasty break to both bones in his leg, just above the ankle. He went through two surgeries. But FIRST, the ambulance took us to a hospital that doesn't take our insurance. We were in the Emergency room, after the x-ray was taken, and they attending physician said that the surgeon had call that weekend and wouldn't be able to get to him until Monday. This happened on Friday. The emergency room has to take whatever insurance you have, but not the hospital. So we asked if, instead of getting admitted and waiting until Monday if there was anyway he could be sent home with pain killers and we could go to our own orthopedic surgeon. He actually had to call so they knew he had an appointment before they would release him, which is good, I suppose. We didn't realize just how bad the break was. They sent him home with a prescription for pain pills, and he went to his doctor on the following Monday, with the first surgery on the next day.
So, after 2 surgeries, time in a cast and then a walking boot, he was given permission to walk. He broke a screw. They put him in a cast again, changing it every 2 weeks, for 3 months. He was given permission to walk again, and broke another screw. They did a CT and determined that part of one of the bones was not healing. His orthopedic surgeon wanted to send him to "a specialists specialist." I guess that means it was beyond him, so he wanted someone better than he was. He chose the best in our area to refer him to.
President Obama said with government health care, you would have your pick of doctors. Apparently this "specialist's specialist" doesn't take Tricare Prime. So they found another one, he didn't take Tricare Prime, either. After a week, he got an email that they "finally" found one. It made it sound like they had to go through all the trauma orthopedic specialists in our area. So we got the best one that will take Tricare, not the best one.
Folks, this is not an individualized case. This happens ALL the time. Obamacare must be appealed. The statement that you can keep your doctor, or choose which doctor you want under your existing plan is a lie. There, I said it. Apparently no one in government has the courage to come out and say it but us little people.
If you've followed me at all, you know my personal battles. I have been fighting cancer for 16 months. Just the last 5 or so months have I felt like doing anything. Sometimes I wonder if the cure is worse than the disease in this case. But for the past 8 months, I've also had to take care of my husband, as he's still on crutches. He can't cook, I have to. He can't clean the house, I have to. He can't make coffee and take a cup into the bedroom as he gets ready for work, I have to. I suppose I'm thankful that his small business that he works for is finding stuff for him to do sitting down. It's the small businesses that are the backbone of this country. His boss didn't take a salary for himself for a year, so that he didn't have to lay anyone off. I don't need to fight Tricare for my health care needs. I don't need to fight the Medicaid system that my oldest son is on (due to being on SSI for being permanently disabled and the fact that our GOVERNMENT health care kicked him off when he turned 21). I had to deal with being sent to a collection agency because Medicaid said my trip to the ER with him for a suspected broken wrist wasn't actually an emergency. How many dollars did they spend trying to get out of paying $1248 and change? And they'll probably only end up paying about a quarter of what was billed. This has got to change. I would almost be willing, even with all our health problems, to pay cash, or be on a payment system, and cut insurance companies out of the loop totally.
I've started getting emails from people that I tried to tell this three years ago. It states in the health care bill that insurance companies must comply or be fined an extreme amount (something like $1,000 per person insured per day). They are going to have to provide me with pregnancy coverage? When I'm post menopausal? They have to provide me with contraceptives when my husband has had a vasectomy and I'm post menopausal? That is just ridiculous. And then turn around and force young people to be insured or pay a penalty, when they are healthy and don't need a Cadillac program?
You need to wake up and smell the coffee. This is all designed to destroy America and make her the nanny state that Greece is. You see where that got Greece, right? People, pretty soon American will be burning if we don't reverse this now.
Update (June 13, 2012): The Specialist's specialist they sent my husband to didn't take Tricare PRIME, only standard. They had to find another one. After finding one that did take Tricare Prime, his original surgeon said he didn't trust any of those to do the surgery, that he'd just do it himself. So, in other words, we don't get the best trauma surgeon, we get the best that will accept our insurance. He looked a bit deeper and found one at the VA, but I can't imagine how long it will take to get him into the VA system. First, he'll have to take a whole day off, the only the good Lord knows when they'll get him in to be seen. I know I tried to get into the system, only to discover that we made too much money. I don't know if it will be different for him (seeing as I was only in 4 years and he retired at 20), I guess we'll have to see. We have to wait until he has enough overtime that we won't miss missing a day.
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