OBAMA LIED
TO US ABOUT THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT!!
My 97
year-old mom is in the hospital after a fall 11 days ago. She was released the same day as the fall 11
days ago because she did not break any bones and there was no detected internal
bleeding.
Yesterday
she went back to the ER because of increasing pain in the right abdomen. She has had all kinds of tests, and one
possible problem is a precancerous lesion lacted in the stomach 2 years ago,
but most docs there think the pain is secondary to the fall. They can’t find the source, but are being
forced to release her even though she has been on her back for ten days and can’t
sit up because they can’t find anything that requires hospital treatment under
the new, Affordable Care Act guidelines.
All
are released from the hospital because patients can’t stay in the hospital if
they can be treated on an outpatient basis.
The docs tell me this is especially true with elderly Medicare patients, and the doctors have no say as to how long a patient stays. If nothing is found that MUST be treated in a hospital, they must be released, even with pneumonia, open wounds, and other conditions for which they would have been kept in the hospital and treated before Obamacare.
The docs said that the most severe restrictions are on the Medicare elderly, likely due to the $700,000,000 billion taken out of Medicare to fund Obamacare (ACA).
These docs universally say this is the new state of Medicare and the new medical system created by Obama—they have no control over patient care. Care provided is all a matter of government restrictions on stay and treatments, which are most onerous on the age and conditions of the elderly. These doctors are angry and say the system is not treating the elderly as they should be treated, and were treated before Obamacare destroyed Medicare.
In a sense, we have a “gentle form” of “Death Panels” that the Republicans warned about, but they are living people that are making decisions not to treat the elderly, but the words and regulations written into the Affordable Care Act.
Obamacare may cover more people now than before, but it has done soon the backs of Medicare and the elderly.
Sorry to hear it, Edji.
ReplyDeleteLove, Matthew
I wonder then if people like myself who have a supplemental Medicare program(in my case it being the AARP United Healthcare insurance) are still hurt as much by the ACA?
ReplyDeleteI bet they are and this will be particularly problematic in future years because of the Boomers swelling the ranks(which I also am).
Mark
Edji.....
ReplyDeleteYou can't and shouldn't condemn Obamacare JUST because of the unfortunate circumstances surrounding your mother. I'm not covered but a very good customer of mine is so fortunate that thanks to the ACA, her insurance premiums have gone from an "unaffordable"(to her that is) $550/mo. to a more reasonable $170. So you have to consider this on a case-by-case basis.