When Faux News victims become cancer patients, the Koch Brothers-funded Americans for Prosperity sees an opportunity to put them in front of a camera to rally against the very law protecting them from the abuses of the health insurance racket. Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, this woman is saving about $6,350 this year on premiums, which coincidentally is the most an insurance company can require an individual beneficiary to pay annually in out-of-pocket expenses. In other words, the worst-case financial outcome for her is a total wash. Almost to the dollar. But that doesn’t account for everything else the law has put in place to protect her from past insurance company practices, which will ultimately redound both to her personal and financial health. Her carrier can no longer rescind her plan under any circumstances. It can’t invoke a lifetime cap on outlays, which would easily leave a leukemia patient effectively uninsured. And it can’t hike her premiums on the basis of her health status, because that kind of discrimination is now illegal.
Posted on: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 02:25:35 +0000
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