Thailand Deaths &
Healthcare.gov
Trending on Twitter today: how we can help the terrible Thailand weather massacre
Trending on Twitter today: how we can help the terrible Thailand weather massacre
by the unwieldy and forceful wind that lay waste much of
Thailand’s coastline and uncounted deaths yet covered by the wreckage.
I suppose, like me, much of the world looks at this situation
as one of the ways humans simply have no control in our lives. We can live in a
tree house in the confined woods of Black Mountain, North Carolina, which is
said to be one of the safest places to dwell, but we still would be subject to
weather, vehicle collisions, illness, and other outlandish anomalies that just
make life have so little earthly sense.
Other online trends talk of the outrage of the United States
government spending tax dollars on overseas outsourcing, only for the money to
go directly to malfeasance against the US. This kind of trade is ridiculous,
especially since no governmental agency will admit there is a problem. Congress
should consider squabbling about this, not trying to keep the underprivileged
from getting affordable insurance.
Though I’m in favor of the movement toward affordable
healthcare for all, my personal experience with Healthcare.gov has been a
fiasco.
I have been trying for over a month to get through the red
tape of my application to the second level of help. The words: APPLICATION IN
PROGRESS have been frozen on my computer screen for over 30 days. I have talked
to three supervisors and had three appointments scheduled for level two help so
far. When I call to ask why no one has returned my call from the second level,
no records are present of my recent calls or my appointments. I understand that
millions of people are trying to pass through this confusion, but, at the very
least, records of my calls and appointments should be kept. After three times,
I’m getting very frustrated.
Before this change in healthcare, I had insurance with my
state called Cover Tennessee, because I am a sole proprietorship and I live in
Tennessee. This insurance was great, because it gave me plenty of yearly coverage,
low co-pays on doctor’s fees, and prescription coverage for only $136 a month
with a $250 deductible, which definitely suited my budget.
Friends of mine in similar situations were paying up to $700
a month for healthcare coverage with a $5000 deductible. I always felt privileged
that Tennessee offered me this kind of insurance benefit. After I got coverage
in 2009, Tennessee closed the program to new members. Three months ago, I was
informed that my current insurance would no longer be available as of January
1, 2014. Now I have to find new coverage. This led me to Healthcare.gov over a
month ago.
I started out on Healthcare.gov by trying to complete the
online questionnaire. The immediate problem happened when the online questionnaire
asked me about my household. As I take care of my aging mother of 81, who lives
in my mother-in-law apartment but pays her own way and has her own insurance, I
answered a couple questions about her living under my roof. The next thing I
knew, the questionnaire was more about her than I. The application added her Social
Security number and Social Security monthly checks with my wages, and suddenly
I wasn’t able to be covered with an affordable insurance.
Also, I teach exactly TWO yoga classes at the local YMCA.
Because this showed up on my tax information, the application process also
expected the YMCA to provide coverage for me. However, the coverage the YMCA
offers this year to part-time employees is much worse than Cover TN and pays
for a lot less with a huge deductible. Also, I don’t think I even work enough
hours to be considered a part-time employee. I believe the number of hours is
ten. I work three.
I don’t understand how the YMCA can offer coverage with much
less privilege than Cover TN, but Cover TN got cancelled. This doesn’t make
sense, nor does it make sense that now I get less coverage for more money.
Isn’t this process supposed to be helping me?
So, I called Healthcare.gov to try to change my application,
which you are allowed to do, under the current laws. In my case, this
application was more interested in trying to find affordable healthcare coverage
for my mother as well as me. My mother is perfectly happy with her coverage
with Humana. Yet, my application is now considering my mother and I as two
people in the same household, who both need insurance from a cumulative amount
of household income. This is just crazy, nuts to me.
I deserve to be able to get back into the application and
certainly get my questions answered.
…Alas, as I was writing this, I received a phone call from
Healthcare.gov. My appointment was supposed to be between 6-9 pm. The call came
at 9 am. Interesting! The woman I spoke with basically told me that there was
nothing she could do at this point about getting into my application to change
it, because all the systems were still locked up. I asked her what her phone
call was supposed to have accomplished. Basically, she said that she was just
answering calls to tell people that her computer was frozen. I was told to call
back in a few weeks to see if things had changed. She had no date when anything
would be fixed. GEEZ!
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