Dear Editor:
Effective this third quarter, new rules have gone into effect with our health care. You know the stuff that the Obama lawmakers jammed down our gullets since our translucent congress passed the health care legislation.
We were told through the White House to be sure to check with our health care providers to see what was and when will it be covered and at what cost. In addition recently if you did not have enough coffee to dunk your doughnut in, Obama tried to satisfy your high cost of medicine with a $250 one-time rebate.
I know one company that sells doughnut holes perhaps that will help with your inflated cost. With election time is right around the corner, I would suspect Paul Kanjorski would tell you he voted for this rebate in the health care legislation. Liar! Since the law was passed by congress, I have with great interest tried to study this comprehensive 1,000-page bill. We know no one in congress read it and now we have to figure out what it means. Well look no more because I will give you an easy tutorial to figure out the terms and definitions of the bill. this will definitely cost you some money. So save this issue and talk to your congressman for clarification. I did and I'm more confused than ever.
Ÿ Artery - The study of the 495 loop around D.C.
Ÿ Bacteria - Back door to the White House.
Ÿ Cat Scan - Searching for kitty litter to bury the debt.
Ÿ Coma - A punctuation mark on your 1040.
Ÿ Enema - Not a friend in Harrisburg.
Ÿ Medical Staff - A doctor's cane and less able.
Ÿ Node - I knowed it so did Pelosi.
Ÿ Dilate - To live long to pay the trillion dollar debt.
Ÿ Rectum - Darn near killed him and the space shuttle.
Ÿ Terminal Illness - Getting sick at the Oval Office.
Ÿ Tumor - One plus one more equals Joe Biden's I.Q.
Ÿ Urine - Consider this your out Obama.
Good luck. I hope this helps.
From the pen of,
Ken Treger
Lehighton
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Here..
http://www.healthcare.gov/law/introduction/index.html
A simple google search turns up this government website all about the new health care reform bill. THis should make it easy to understand what it is, what it does and how it affects everyone including yourself.
Just to clarify..
the reason I didn't have insurance and lost my coverage was because when I moved here I was told my an insurance rep that X plan was the one I needed. TUrns out that he gave me a plan for a different county. By the time the error was discovered and my initial check was returned, I had lapsed beyond 60 days and pre-existing condition clause kicked in which brought about the above scenario explained.
It's also important to note that medications to the general public, as well as procedures, tests ,etc... are often charged to uninsured individuals at double even triple what insurance companies are able to negotiate.
Sorry.. just needed to clarify.
I , for one,deeply resent the tone of your editorial and your comments.
Too many people are judging something they know very little about - Health care Reform
First, you need to understand the health care system and it's dysfunction before you can truly appreciate what this health care reform is actually doing.
I'm a juvenile diabetic since the age of 16. I'm not a diabetic because I'm lazy or overweight, mind you. I have a genetic disease one I did not choose. I used to think that there were worse things I could have been born with or have come down with, as I chose to look on the positive side.
First, I have been self employed for quite some time. Health insurance as a diabetic purchased privately cost me over $800/month for me and my son alone, a cost that I could no longer keep up. I have looked for work for well over a year unsuccessfully thanks to the state of the economy. When I moved to PA I lost my health insurance and coulnd't afford to purchase the plan that was available to me as a pre-existing condition - which would have cost for me alone nearly $600! Instead, I signed my son up with the CHIP program and went without insurance. I also lapsed in coverage because of misinformation given to me by an insurance rep I shopped before moving. So any medications required to treat my condition would have cost me out of pocket for a full year. THat would have meant paying a $600/preimum a month PLUS atleast $200/month (one vial of insulin is over $105/month and I go through 2 a month on my pump) alone in insulin costs bringing my monthly healthcare costs to $800/month - without even adding on copays for Dr's etc.. and without adding my son to that.
I don't qualify for medicaid - I make more than $175/month (you need to make LESS than that in order to qualify !!! ).. yet I dont make enough to afford a $600/month premium - just a few bucks shy of what I pay in rent for my apartment.
I have waited a LONG TIME For reform.. and I got what I voted for.
THanks to the reform, I qualify for PA Fair Care - the bridge policy for those like myself that are uninsured because of pre-existing condition. This policy is meant to hold me over until the rule in 2014 takes affect that stops insurance companies from charging me 2 or 3x's the amount for a policy, making it unaffordable, or denying me coverage at all!
My premium: $283/month. AND no pre-existing condition clause that requires me to pay for coverage and receiving none for a year on my condition - WHICH IS HUGE .
Yes, some people still won't be able to afford that at this time, but I will tell you this much.. it sure is easier to make $283/month (the rate a normal person without a pre-existing condition is quoted) vs. the nearly $600 premium I was quoted three years ago!
See... without my medications I die. So , do I live in my car in order to afford access to health care! Now, I don't have to make that choice!
There are many other aspects of health care reform that , over time, people will see WILL work and all this hot air about it being bad for the country will have faded. After all, that's what people were screaming about Medicare over 30 years ago when it was implemented.
MOst who oppose it, dont' understand the system or have never been a victim of it's dysfunction. It is NOT perfect reform but it is a HUGE first step to fixing a terribly broken system.
Don't judge it until you have had a chance to see it in action. YOu want to know why it was "crammed down your throat".. simply becase any information put out there about the reform was twisted and distorted by Fox news pundits. REmember the "death panels" they raged about - NON EXISTANT!! I know this because I ACTUALLY READ..yes READ the entire first bill that was proposed over the summer from which that whole death panel nonsense was created.. and it was disgusting how everything in it was distorted - they used FEAR to push their own agenda - the agenda that protects big insurance companies and their profits (and overbloated CEO salaries) at the expense of the rest of us!