Obamacare Killed My Sister

 

My sister Julie had health insurance that was deemed unsuitable by Darth Obama. Now she is dead. We will bury her on Wednesday. My brother wrote a piece explaining the sad tale here:

Julie, her husband, and four children were covered by a medical plan they liked, and had been promised they could keep by President Obama. But like so many others in this country, her family’s private health care policy was cancelled because of the Affordable Care Act. So my sister and her family struggled through the expensive and incompetently designed Obamacare website to find a new policy. Unfortunately, while they waited for their new Obama-approved healthcare plan to finally kick in, my little sister fell ill. She couldn’t keep down solid food. She should have gone to a doctor. But she toughed it out, as many people do, until her new coverage would kick in on February 2. She and her husband didn’t have a lot of money, so she didn’t want to incur what she thought were avoidable medical expenses. 

But she didn’t make it. It turns out that, unbeknownst to her, she wasn’t suffering from an upset stomach or food poisoning, but a badly blocked gall bladder that had become highly infected. Her body went into septic shock just two days before her Obamacare policy would have kicked in. Her kidneys shut down. She went to the emergency room where, after heroic efforts, a marvelous medical team managed to stabilize her condition. I saw Julie that day for several hours. She could not move, or speak, but a tear trickled down her check when she saw the eldest daughter of her four children. After I left, hoping for the best, I learned the next day that her gentle heart stopped beating around 4:00 a.m.

So, while the White House sends out talking points to the talking heads who proclaim Americans will be better off because Obamacare forced them off of inadequate health care plans, my family knows better.

Our family is in shock that an otherwise healthy 54-year-old woman is now gone. I guess she was just one of the proles sacrificed for the greater good of the state.

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    @spacemanspiff

    An utterly preventable, slow motion humanitarian crisis… I’m so sorry for your loss, Melanie. You and your family will be in my prayers. 

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    @TheRightNurse

    Melanie, I am so, so sorry for your loss.  I don’t want to make this into a political ranting point, but as a healthcare practitioner, I wanted to let you know that this shouldn’t happen.  I am so, so sorry that she became septic and that your family lost such an important part.

    My heart goes out to you and yours.  Please let me know if there is anything I can do to speak, to advocate or to donate to her family.  Obamacare will likely kill my mother eventually, but I want to do what I can for everyone else who is adversely impacted by this poorly-written-idealistic-bs-massively-stupid bill.

    Thoughts, love and prayers.

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