The repeated and prolonged phone waits were Sisyphean, the competence and customer service abysmal. When finally she found a plan that looked like it would cover her Sandostatin and other cancer treatments, she called the insurer, Humana…to confirm that it would do so. The enrollment agent said that after she met her deductible, all treatments and medications\u201d\u201dincluding those for her cancer\u201d\u201dwould be covered at 100%. Because, however, the enrollment agents did not\u201d\u201dunbelievable though this may seem\u201d\u201dhave access to the “coverage formularies” for the plans they were selling, they said the only way to find out in detail what was in the plan was to buy the plan<\/b>.<\/p>\n
[My mother].. is a woman who had an affordable health plan that covered her condition. Our lawmakers weren’t happy with that because . . . they wanted plans that were affordable and covered her condition. So they gave her a new one. It doesn’t cover her condition and it’s completely unaffordable.<\/p>\n
Though I’m no expert on ObamaCare (at 10,000 pages, who could be?), I understand that the intention\u201d\u201dor at least the rhetorical justification\u201d\u201dof this legislation was to provide coverage for those who didn’t have it. But there is something deeply and incontestably perverse about a law that so distorts and undermines the free activity of individuals that they can no longer buy and sell the goods and services that keep them alive. ObamaCare made my mother’s old plan illegal, and it forced her to buy a new plan that would accelerate her disease and death. She awaits an appeal with her insurer.<\/p>\n