Hospital staff in Northern Virginia are turning away sick people on a frigid Thursday morning because they can't determine whether their Obamacare insurance plans are in effect.
Patients in a close-in DC suburb who think they've signed up for new insurance plans are struggling to show their December enrollments are in force, and health care administrators aren't taking their word for it.
In place of quick service and painless billing, these Virginians are now facing the threat of sticker-shock that comes with bills they can't afford.
'They had no idea if my insurance was active or not!' a coughing Maria Galvez told MailOnline outside the Inova Healthplex facility in the town of Springfield.
She was leaving the building without getting a needed chest x-ray.
'The people in there told me that since I didn't have an insurance card, I would be billed for the whole cost of the x-ray,' Galvez said, her young daughter in tow. 'It's not fair – you know, I signed up last week like I was supposed to.'
The x-ray's cost, she was told, would likely be more than $500.
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"But I signed up last week"
ReplyDeleteYea but did you pay for it?
What an idiot to think it only takes a week to get enrolled.
Entitlement mentality
No problem Maria Galvez. Just come to Maryland and get a drivers license and free education and can even vote, even if you are an illegal immigrant. Better than that, wait a couple of years and you can get free section 8 housing in downtown Salisbury. And to top that off, bring all your family. They to are covered. Your job here is to make sure you vote for a Democrat even if you are not a citizen of the United States.
ReplyDeletered beans and rice , heartburn , problem solved.
ReplyDeleteI can see it now , hospitals flooded with runny noses , pimples, scratches , bruises , colds etc.
Obama , you light up my life!
Northern VA is a bastion of liberalism. Those of us with common sense don't need to hear this. It's something we already knew and predicted. These people need to be knocking on the doors of their neighbors who most likely were/are Obama/democrat supporters and tell it to them otherwise they need to just sit down and shut up and suck it up.
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