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.”
Figueroa is not alone.
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Reid going to the floor of the Senate to claim the woman is lying in 3….2…..1…..
@Pete:
You can hear him already.
Truly have to feel for the poor woman. She’s certainly in need of plenty of prayers.
At least she can get free birth control (/sarc.)
I’m so glad to hear her congressman jumped through some hoops in her behalf.
Reminds me of the young girl who wasn’t going to get the double lung transplants.
Is this the new way of insurance?
You get sick and depending on how close you are with your elected officials, you MIGHT be helped.
No news here. The woman is racist. She is not really ill. It is a made-up story. The raving right wing made all this stuff up. She is insured. That means she is protected and has affordable care. It says so in the Bill.
It is all just a lie, intended to decieve the Lo-Fo voters, who get their news from State-controlled Media.
Just wait. The slavering attack dogs of the WH are even now preparing their propaganda to prove this story is false. The Won has assured us that the war is over, and that our indendtured servitude to the Death Panels is settled law, never to be overturned. We are slaves now; Dhimmis all, and we can’t escape.
This worked so well in the USSR. Oops. Can’t find them on the map anymore. But it worked really well.
Funny thing about settled law. Remember slavery? Remember when only men could vote? Remember segregated schools? Remember Prohibition? Those were all settled law.
Just don’t vote for any RINOs in November.
Well this can’t be. President Obama repeatedly promised that if you like your doctor, that you could keep your doctor, period. He made himself clear.