Editor's notes: Keep in mind that Julie Boonstra’s 6,000 dollar deductible
is not a fixed, written in stone,
amount. It will increase year
after year as will her monthly premiums.
Understand that her complaint is first and foremost, the fact that Obama promised her she could
keep her insurance. With her previous
policy, she knew what her expenses were
going to be. With the new policy, she does not.
Under her first policy, an additional procedure was paid for. Under the ObamaCare policy, some new procedures are not allowed (who knows what those procedure are, at this time?) and she has to come up with as
much as $6,000 in addition to her monthly premiums. It makes no difference whether she comes out "even," with this new policy, no difference at all. The fact of the matter is this: she was told she could keep her insurance, "period," and that was a bold faced lie.
We all know that ObamaCare is a “bait and switch” federal
program. That is what all the lying is about. Ms Boonstra should have been
allowed to keep her policy but that was never going to happen, and,
now, she does not know what the
future holds. None of us know.
From the Washington Examiner:
While Julie Boonstra of Dexter, Mich., struggles to survive
leukemia, she now also has to cope with being called a liar by the Democrat who
wants to be her next senator.
And the campaign of Rep. Gary Peters is also going after television stations airing ads in which
her story is featured, threatening their licenses.
The ad by Americans for Prosperity features Boonstra talking
about how her insurance was canceled under Obamacare and saying that Peters'
decision to vote for the law "jeopardized my health." The ads are
airing in Michigan as Peters seeks the Democratic nomination to replace Sen.
Carl Levin, D-Mich., who is not seeking re-election.
Media organizations investigating the ad's claims note that
Boonstra was able to find comparable new insurance under the law; the
Washington Post's "Fact Checker" blog gave the ad "two Pinocchios" (as compared to four for President Obama's claim that people could
keep their insurance under the law).
But Boonstra, in response, told the local Dexter Leader newspaper that though she
has no idea whether she will break even with her new plan, as the fact-checkers
claim, the uncertainty of having to restructure her health care while coping
with a deadly disease is damage enough.
"People are asking me for the numbers and I don't know
those answers -- that's the heartbreak of all of this. It's the uncertainty of
not having those numbers that I have an issue with, because I always knew what
I was paying and now I don't, and I haven't gone through the tests or seen my
specialist yet," she said.
"People don't have that certainty -- they don't have
the stability of knowing every month what they're going to be paying now and
it's the ability to actually have that sum of money to pay. People don't have
these out-of -pocket expense moneys."
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