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Markle wrote:Coming SOON to your Health Care via ObamaCare!

Brain Surgery Patient's Obamacare Plan Denies Meds, Drops Doctors

A New York woman suffering from a neurological disease that has required four brain surgeries has been dropped by all of her doctors and denied medications due to her Obamacare plan.

"I've been vomiting. I lost 22 pounds. The pain is unbearable," said Margaret Figueroa, 49, on Wednesday. "My medication helps me function during the day."

Figueroa suffers from a disease known as Arnold Chiari Malformation and Syringomyelia. Even though the Obamacare plan she purchased assured her that she was covered, her insurance card was denied when she went to fill her prescriptions. Then she learned that none of her doctors accept her Obamacare plan. Figueroa says she cannot find a doctor who accepts her Obamacare plan; indeed, there are only six doctors in all of Staten Island who take her plan, none of whom she's been able to get appointments with.

Figueroa's congressman, Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY), intervened to help her obtain some of her vital prescriptions. Grimm says he's already received calls from at least a dozen Staten Island residents facing the same problem with Obamacare's "narrow networks" – extreme restrictions to doctor and hospital access imposed by Obamacare.

"Even though the insurance company cashed your check, it doesn't mean it (the policy) has been implemented," said Grimm at a Wednesday press conference with Figueroa. "That's the problem – that the back end of Obamacare hasn't been fully built. You can go on the front end of an application and look at a list of plans, but what they don't tell you is that many of those plans don't have doctors yet."

Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/04/16/Brain-Surgery-Patient-s-Obamacare-Plan-Denies-Meds-Drops-Doctors

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PBulldog2 wrote:

Markle wrote:Coming SOON to your Health Care via ObamaCare!

Brain Surgery Patient's Obamacare Plan Denies Meds, Drops Doctors

A New York woman suffering from a neurological disease that has required four brain surgeries has been dropped by all of her doctors and denied medications due to her Obamacare plan.

"I've been vomiting. I lost 22 pounds. The pain is unbearable," said Margaret Figueroa, 49, on Wednesday. "My medication helps me function during the day."

Figueroa suffers from a disease known as Arnold Chiari Malformation and Syringomyelia. Even though the Obamacare plan she purchased assured her that she was covered, her insurance card was denied when she went to fill her prescriptions. Then she learned that none of her doctors accept her Obamacare plan. Figueroa says she cannot find a doctor who accepts her Obamacare plan; indeed, there are only six doctors in all of Staten Island who take her plan, none of whom she's been able to get appointments with.

Figueroa's congressman, Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY), intervened to help her obtain some of her vital prescriptions. Grimm says he's already received calls from at least a dozen Staten Island residents facing the same problem with Obamacare's "narrow networks" – extreme restrictions to doctor and hospital access imposed by Obamacare.

"Even though the insurance company cashed your check, it doesn't mean it (the policy) has been implemented," said Grimm at a Wednesday press conference with Figueroa. "That's the problem – that the back end of Obamacare hasn't been fully built. You can go on the front end of an application and look at a list of plans, but what they don't tell you is that many of those plans don't have doctors yet."

Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/04/16/Brain-Surgery-Patient-s-Obamacare-Plan-Denies-Meds-Drops-Doctors

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Baloney.

It's easy to see which hospitals and doctors accept any given plan. It's easy to call your doctor before you commit to a plan to make certain your doctor is in-network. It's easy to see which meds will be covered in any given plan and which ones won't.

This woman didn't do her homework.

What you posted above, Markle, is a propaganda piece, pure and simple. Then again, your source is breitbart.com.   

Markle wrote:Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/04/16/Brain-Surgery-Patient-s-Obamacare-Plan-Denies-Meds-Drops-Doctors

boards of FL wrote:

Markle wrote:Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/04/16/Brain-Surgery-Patient-s-Obamacare-Plan-Denies-Meds-Drops-Doctors

Dreamsglore wrote:Leave it to Ol" Markie to keep posting lies. LOL! He's right there next to PD.

boards of FL wrote:

Markle wrote:Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/04/16/Brain-Surgery-Patient-s-Obamacare-Plan-Denies-Meds-Drops-Doctors

Markle wrote:

PBulldog2 wrote:

Markle wrote:Coming SOON to your Health Care via ObamaCare!

Brain Surgery Patient's Obamacare Plan Denies Meds, Drops Doctors

A New York woman suffering from a neurological disease that has required four brain surgeries has been dropped by all of her doctors and denied medications due to her Obamacare plan.

"I've been vomiting. I lost 22 pounds. The pain is unbearable," said Margaret Figueroa, 49, on Wednesday. "My medication helps me function during the day."

Figueroa suffers from a disease known as Arnold Chiari Malformation and Syringomyelia. Even though the Obamacare plan she purchased assured her that she was covered, her insurance card was denied when she went to fill her prescriptions. Then she learned that none of her doctors accept her Obamacare plan. Figueroa says she cannot find a doctor who accepts her Obamacare plan; indeed, there are only six doctors in all of Staten Island who take her plan, none of whom she's been able to get appointments with.

Figueroa's congressman, Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY), intervened to help her obtain some of her vital prescriptions. Grimm says he's already received calls from at least a dozen Staten Island residents facing the same problem with Obamacare's "narrow networks" – extreme restrictions to doctor and hospital access imposed by Obamacare.

"Even though the insurance company cashed your check, it doesn't mean it (the policy) has been implemented," said Grimm at a Wednesday press conference with Figueroa. "That's the problem – that the back end of Obamacare hasn't been fully built. You can go on the front end of an application and look at a list of plans, but what they don't tell you is that many of those plans don't have doctors yet."

Read more: http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/04/16/Brain-Surgery-Patient-s-Obamacare-Plan-Denies-Meds-Drops-Doctors

Oops....

Baloney.

It's easy to see which hospitals and doctors accept any given plan. It's easy to call your doctor before you commit to a plan to make certain your doctor is in-network. It's easy to see which meds will be covered in any given plan and which ones won't.

This woman didn't do her homework.

What you posted above, Markle, is a propaganda piece, pure and simple. Then again, your source is breitbart.com.   

What part of the story is not true?

So according to you, it is the WOMAN'S FAULT she was dropped from previous insurance and forced into something else.

Have some more Cool Aid!

:)This is a fact.

http://nypost.com/2014/03/19/nations-elite-cancer-hospitals-off-limits-under-obamacare/

services and treatments and certain therapies are off limits under these plans.

I hope you didn't think they could provide you with the "BEST" for free, that was never their intentions. Only the rich will get the best, the rest well.... you know. It will even apply more and more to access to primary doctors as they all leave, go to hospitals leaving fewer primary care docs to see the poor. then many primary care docs will turn to cash fees for better care. Its already occurring, all these things Ive mentioned.

You don't see it because its not upon you YET.

QueenOfHearts wrote:What happens if you choose a plan that covers all you need, but then later develop a medical condition that your plan (or its network providers) does not cover?  Can you change plans at any time?

:)This is a fact.

http://nypost.com/2014/03/19/nations-elite-cancer-hospitals-off-limits-under-obamacare/

services and treatments and certain therapies are off limits under these plans.

I hope you didn't think they could provide you with the "BEST" for free, that was never their intentions. Only the rich will get the best, the rest well.... you know. It will even apply more and more to access to primary doctors as they all leave, go to hospitals leaving fewer primary care docs to see the poor. then many primary care docs will turn to cash fees for better care. Its already occurring, all these things Ive mentioned.

You don't see it because its not upon you YET.

PBulldog2 wrote:

:)This is a fact.

http://nypost.com/2014/03/19/nations-elite-cancer-hospitals-off-limits-under-obamacare/

services and treatments and certain therapies are off limits under these plans.

I hope you didn't think they could provide you with the "BEST" for free, that was never their intentions. Only the rich will get the best, the rest well.... you know. It will even apply more and more to access to primary doctors as they all leave, go to hospitals leaving fewer primary care docs to see the poor. then many primary care docs will turn to cash fees for better care. Its already occurring, all these things Ive mentioned.

You don't see it because its not upon you YET.

You know darned well I don't expect anything for free.   You're just hassling me here. And on the day after my birthday, even!  

Here is a quote from the article you posted above:

"For now, the issue seems to be limited to the new insurance exchanges. But it could become a concern for Americans with job-based coverage too if employers turn to narrow networks."

This is exactly what happened to me. My employer narrowed our network so severely last year that we didn't have decent coverage if we were, say, to be hospitalized while out of town for a cardiac event. If you were hospitalized in Destin after a car accident, well....too bad for you. If you had a kidney stone episode while visiting family in Tallahassee, well...so sorry.

Another local hospital system (the one I use) was deemed out of network, too.

The deductibles for out of network care were outrageous. The deductibles alone could have bankrupted families.  

Even the people from the benefits department who were tasked with pitching the new plan shook their heads at some of the exclusions.

Essentially, we were forced to receive care within the hospital system for which we worked. Period. I sincerely doubt I would have had access to an elite cancer center had the need arisen.

This type of narrow network development was present before the options on the healthcare exchange were even available. The article you posted is right on in that respect.