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"My plan was cancelled. Now I worry how long I'll live."
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"My plan was cancelled. Now I worry how long I'll live."
This Obamacare disaster is not about just politics. This personal account of the possible outcome is difficult to read....

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Edie Littlefield Sundby
Nov. 3, 2013 6:37 p.m. ET

Everyone now is clamoring about Affordable Care Act winners and losers. I am one of the losers.

My grievance is not political; all my energies are directed to enjoying life and staying alive, and I have no time for politics. For almost seven years I have fought and survived stage-4 gallbladder cancer, with a five-year survival rate of less than 2% after diagnosis. I am a determined fighter and extremely lucky. But this luck may have just run out: My affordable, lifesaving medical insurance policy has been canceled effective Dec. 31.


http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10...0423780446
11-04-2013 01:39 PM
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RE: "My plan was cancelled. Now I worry how long I'll live."
I don't even know what to say, but I think I speak for everyone the possesses at least an ounce of common sense when I say, thanks obama.
11-04-2013 01:41 PM
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RE: "My plan was cancelled. Now I worry how long I'll live."
Quote:Take away people's ability to control their medical-coverage choices and they may die. I guess that's a highly effective way to control medical costs. Perhaps that's the point.

Duh.

Just curious who Ms. Sundby supported w/ her votes.
11-04-2013 01:43 PM
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RE: "My plan was cancelled. Now I worry how long I'll live."
This part is easily the most oppressive part you had to pass to read..

"Before the Affordable Care Act, health-insurance policies could not be sold across state lines; now policies sold on the Affordable Care Act exchanges may not be offered across county lines."
11-04-2013 01:44 PM
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RE: "My plan was cancelled. Now I worry how long I'll live."
Last paragraph is the TRUTH.

For a cancer patient, medical coverage is a matter of life and death. Take away people's ability to control their medical-coverage choices and they may die. I guess that's a highly effective way to control medical costs. Perhaps that's the point.
11-04-2013 01:46 PM
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Just the tip of the ice bergs.
11-04-2013 01:47 PM
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WAR ON WOMEN (who are battling cancer)
11-04-2013 03:28 PM
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Alan Grayson "Die quickly".
11-04-2013 03:31 PM
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