Women's Health Week: How Obamacare Helps People with Pre-Existing Conditions
It's National Women's Health Week, and here at Blog for Choice, we're sharing stories about how Obamacare helps women--and men--get quality, affordable health care.
The Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, prohibits insurance companies from discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions. That's great news for Ted in Wisconsin and his kids:
After losing our employer-sponsored health insurance, our family of five was uninsured for months. We had so many pre-existing conditions, such as our kids' asthma, every private insurance company denied our application for coverage. I'm happy that insurance companies can no longer deny coverage my asthmatic children. It's terrifying to witness your children struggling to breathe, knowing there's no way to afford the preventative medication they desperately need. To overturn the health-care law would return our family to the days of this terrifying desperation. To deny even children the basic right of accessible and affordable health care would be a moral outrage.
Thanks to Obamacare, Ted and his children can breathe a little easier. Literally.


IDK...is being a "slut" a pre-existing position? :O
There isn't a human being alive better at loathing me... THAN ME! I am ALL of the things YOU say I am ...& I am MOST of the things I tell MYSELF, I AM! None of these things are very "nice".
However, my argument is about Rights, Free Will, and IMPEDING Free Will. I am not opposed to other people having other positions of contention. I am not opposed to other people making different choices for their own lives. I AM opposed to people forcing THEIR principles ON ME in this MANNER, when the LAW prohibits it. People need to understand E.C. like "Plan B", "Ella" are not the same as RU-486 Abortion Pill [which is still a personal CHOICE]. "Plan B" is tantamount to taking a traditional "round" of B.C. for breakfast ie; the "Morning After". The religious argument would also carry more weight in general if a Man (in the same zip code as I was refused) wasn't able to EASILY and without ANY questions asked of HIM, HE can EASILY obtain the "Plan B" that I was flat out refused. I had insurance AND CASH, "NO" was what I got!
If "no state funds" was the LAW at the time... then I would still have had the "CHOICE" to pay cash, which I had in hand...I was still refused, if it were the LAW at the TIME that there was "no state funding".. it would have been "known" [and mentioned...?] I was denied E.C.regardless of "funding". If it was a religious "conscience clause" refusal, then Rite Aid would have had to have previously [as a Corp.] submitted documentation of that fact, as well as providing "an alternate" employee to 'ring it up!'if it was requested. [ie; if a Woman requests E.C. (regardless of payment method {cash or ins.})] they should not [the Patient/Consumer] be allowed to leave without providing it, provided it is an item that they [Rite Aid] carry and it is paid for/covered.
After being denied the E.C. at a Rite Aid in Corning, CA.12/5/12, I was then "boomeranged" from one Womens Clinic to another who would NOT provide the RU-486 [Jan. 2012-Walgreens/Rite Aid..not sure declined *no scrip] to terminate the pregnancy early, ie; before/up to 9wks. (Driving a Ford F-150) I traveled from My location in 96044 Northern Ca.; to Ashland, OR.3/7/12- where they would have "done it, {but not until the next week} - {there was only ME and ONE other patient present in the WHOLE waiting room/office, in the almost 3 hrs I/she sat waiting!!} and if [at that time a week later] *if, I was OVER 9 weeks, they would NOT provide RU-486 and I would owe $110.00 for the Ultra-Sound... [then a traditional abortion could be sched., but again, "not until the following week"] and I would still..owe $110.00 for the ultra sound *required to determine how 'far along' I am/was", I went to Yreka Women's clinic 96097 Yreka, CA.3/5/12- where I was asked "when I wanted to have my first Pre-Natal appt." when I stated I only wanted RU-486 I was sent away..."cannot help you." [they even called the only other walk-in clinic in the area, who also refused],then to Redding,CA.-Planned Parenthood(3/6/12-called)-I was told I would have to travel to Chico, CA. Planned Parenthood, (I also enquired about PP services in Alameda, CA.2/24-2/25/12 I just happened to be there visiting a friend),and was declined or "blown off" by all of them.
By the time I was able to acquire an appt. at a clinic in Redding, CA.3/14/12, [approx.200 miles away from my home] the RU-486 pill was no longer an option and a traditional abortion was the only option left to me.
I drove myself to the appt. alone and back home again. I had not realized the med.s they [the Clinic] were "sending me home with" were a scrip I had to fill. I thought they were "in the bag o' bits" that I was sent home with.
When I realized the scrip had to be filled. I had the clinic "call it in" to the closest pharm.(Rite Aid 30miles away). My Father happens to drive past it on his way home from work, and I enlist him to collect the scrip for me. He has no idea what [it is/is for] and I can safely say he doesn't care to/want to know anyway.
For what reasons, I still don't know, the RPH decides to ask my Father if "I just had a baby?", my Father replies with an awkward "No, she better not have" and the RPH goes on to state "I don't know why her Dr. would prescribe it if she didn't, that's what it treates.."... eventually RPH rings it up and sends Dad away with my meds and lots of questions.. and answers too.
From the morning after the "sex" until the day I sent "Daddy" for my meds, I have been blocked and prohibited from what would have/could have been as simple as taking an aspirin, if I was not hindered/prevented by SOCIETIES personal beliefs. As most of MY PEERS, have also been known to have "Drop'd E" at least once...in their lives ;), you can relate to how simple a "choice" I was attempting to make for MYSELF.
When prevented from taking a "Plan B" pill to prevent the pregnancy in the first place, then prevented from using the RU-486 [until it ceased to be an option due to length of time/no source to acquire it], and finally acquiring the service I was seeking, only to have another RPH tell my Dad ?!!?
This entire experience should show just HOW FAR away from a religious issue this is... ANYONE whose religious beliefs were SO strong as to justify NOT selling B.C. would have to respect the SAME religious principles on "malice, deciet, and domination of others free will", No?
This was/is more than likely about "white" being "the new minority"! And these same old "racist/capitalist fucks" pushing their "Whitey is Mighty" agenda ... LIKE they have done since the dawning of time. My uterus doesn't ask my permission, I AM NOT ASKING YOURS!
wow nice,
you r so happy that insurance companies can no longer deny coverage my asthmatic children. It's terrifying to witness your children struggling to breathe, knowing there's no way to afford the preventative medication they desperately need.
you drove his self to the appt. alone and back home again. I had not realized the med.s they [the Clinic] were "sending me home with" were a scrip I had to fill. I thought they were "in the bag o' bits" that I was sent home with.
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