After 37-day delay, cancer patient gets insurance
Indicating that Obamacare will help people, but that we must move on to single payer.
http://www.healthpolicysolutions.org/2013/11/20/after-37-day-delay-cancer-patient-gets-insurance/
While Smith’s insurance dilemma is resolved for now, she worries about others who haven’t even tried to get insurance or those who may be stuck like she was and unable to move forward.
“I have no idea why it took so long. Those of us who were stuck just entered some kind of black hole,” said Smith.
As executive director for a small nonprofit called Health Care for All Colorado, Smith advocates for a single-payer Medicare-style insurance for everyone.
While Smith supports Obamacare as an interim step toward universal coverage, her experience over the past six weeks has underscored the need for additional changes.
“Oh my goodness, do we need a simpler system,” Smith said. “The cost to administer this and the frustration everyone is experiencing…I can’t imagine when we get to January what people are going to experience. Some providers are going to have to absorb new patients. And other people will have to leave their providers just because of insurance.
“It could be so much simpler than this.”
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