Stephanie
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- Jul 11, 2004
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people need to wake UP to what the left/progressives (the Democrat party) with the HELP of this media is doing to us and our country...they are on full attack on anyone who disagrees with them...we have enemy's within folks
SNIP:
Michigan is a crucial piece on the 2014 U.S. Senate chessboard, and Republicans have a good shot at gaining retiring Democrat Carl Levins open seat, given Democratic nominee Gary Peterss unpopular House vote for the Affordable Care Act. Yet Peters has hope. The presidents unilateral delays in Obamacare mandates have eased planned layoffs by local governments and businesses. Moderate GOP governor Rick Snyder supports the ACAs Medicaid expansion. And the states liberal news media have largely ignored the estimated 225,000-plus canceled individual policies and the job losses at medical-device maker Stryker.
But Julie Boonstra wont be ignored. So she must be destroyed.
The Dexter, Mich., leukemia victim lost her coverage last fall and now stars in a devastating ad fingering Obamacare and Peters for her resulting distress. In an extraordinary media counterstrike, Boonstra, a schoolteacher, has come under assault from Democrats and their media allies decrying her as a liar and an ignoramus for failing to embrace her new, Obamacare-approved plan.
As with outspoken female Obamacare cancer victims in other states, the intent is to intimidate critics from coming forward. Senator Harry Reids outrageous Senate-floor claim that all Obamacare horror stories are untrue is the mantra of the Democrats scorched-earth campaign to elect Peters and preserve a Democratic Senate.
Boonstras ad, backed by Americans for Prosperity, says her policy was canceled because of Obamacare and that she fears her out-of-pocket costs are so high they are unaffordable. Health-care experts like the Manhattan Institutes Yevgeniy Feyman say Boonstra has legitimate concerns.
It comes down to uncertainty, Feyman says. Cancer treatment is a very personal decision. Her new treatment may not take into account out-of-pocket costs. If her drugs are off the formulary, then [an ACA-mandated cost cap on out-of-pocket drug costs] doesnt apply.
If I do not receive my medication, I will die, worries Boonstra, who was invited to the State of the Union address as the guest of Representative Tim Walberg (R., Mich.). I believed the president when he said I could keep my health-insurance plan. I feel lied to. Congressman Peters, your decision to vote for Obamacare jeopardized my health.
Peters and the media have come out swinging, claiming Boonstra is a right-wing Koch-brothers tool (the Kochs donate to AFP). Like their fellow Democrats in office, newsrooms have long been sympathetic to universal health care.
No doubt that was a difficult experience, patronized Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler before knocking Boonstras lack of enthusiasm for a lower-premium, higher-out-of-pocket-cost Blue Cross plan that Democrats insist is more affordable.
Michigans media piled on. The Detroit Free Press trumpeted Kesslers claim that Boonstra was a liar deserving two Pinocchios. A Dexter womans claims in a political ad criticizing U.S. Rep. Gary Peters dont add up, echoed MLive.com (a consortium of Booth newspapers in the state), faulting Boonstras math skills.
These organizations have ignored the details of Boonstras plan instead using numbers from Blue Cross (an advocate for Obamacare) numbers to attack her. Through AFP spokesman Scott Hagerstrom, Boonstra communicated her concerns with her new plan.
Uncertainty dogs her especially having been lied to once by the president. Where her canceled plans premiums once covered all her costs, she now must plan for out-of-pocket expenses. Those expenses are capped but will double to $10,200 if she goes out of her network a not-uncommon need for cancer patients, whose treatment often changes for a doctor or tests. Of her five cancer drugs, she has already discovered that one (Loratadine) is not covered. Detroit News columnist Dan Calabrese also unearthed the fact that glaucoma and long-term care and nursing care are not covered.
ALL of it here
The War on Julie Boonstra | National Review Online
SNIP:
Michigan is a crucial piece on the 2014 U.S. Senate chessboard, and Republicans have a good shot at gaining retiring Democrat Carl Levins open seat, given Democratic nominee Gary Peterss unpopular House vote for the Affordable Care Act. Yet Peters has hope. The presidents unilateral delays in Obamacare mandates have eased planned layoffs by local governments and businesses. Moderate GOP governor Rick Snyder supports the ACAs Medicaid expansion. And the states liberal news media have largely ignored the estimated 225,000-plus canceled individual policies and the job losses at medical-device maker Stryker.
But Julie Boonstra wont be ignored. So she must be destroyed.
The Dexter, Mich., leukemia victim lost her coverage last fall and now stars in a devastating ad fingering Obamacare and Peters for her resulting distress. In an extraordinary media counterstrike, Boonstra, a schoolteacher, has come under assault from Democrats and their media allies decrying her as a liar and an ignoramus for failing to embrace her new, Obamacare-approved plan.
As with outspoken female Obamacare cancer victims in other states, the intent is to intimidate critics from coming forward. Senator Harry Reids outrageous Senate-floor claim that all Obamacare horror stories are untrue is the mantra of the Democrats scorched-earth campaign to elect Peters and preserve a Democratic Senate.
Boonstras ad, backed by Americans for Prosperity, says her policy was canceled because of Obamacare and that she fears her out-of-pocket costs are so high they are unaffordable. Health-care experts like the Manhattan Institutes Yevgeniy Feyman say Boonstra has legitimate concerns.
It comes down to uncertainty, Feyman says. Cancer treatment is a very personal decision. Her new treatment may not take into account out-of-pocket costs. If her drugs are off the formulary, then [an ACA-mandated cost cap on out-of-pocket drug costs] doesnt apply.
If I do not receive my medication, I will die, worries Boonstra, who was invited to the State of the Union address as the guest of Representative Tim Walberg (R., Mich.). I believed the president when he said I could keep my health-insurance plan. I feel lied to. Congressman Peters, your decision to vote for Obamacare jeopardized my health.
Peters and the media have come out swinging, claiming Boonstra is a right-wing Koch-brothers tool (the Kochs donate to AFP). Like their fellow Democrats in office, newsrooms have long been sympathetic to universal health care.
No doubt that was a difficult experience, patronized Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler before knocking Boonstras lack of enthusiasm for a lower-premium, higher-out-of-pocket-cost Blue Cross plan that Democrats insist is more affordable.
Michigans media piled on. The Detroit Free Press trumpeted Kesslers claim that Boonstra was a liar deserving two Pinocchios. A Dexter womans claims in a political ad criticizing U.S. Rep. Gary Peters dont add up, echoed MLive.com (a consortium of Booth newspapers in the state), faulting Boonstras math skills.
These organizations have ignored the details of Boonstras plan instead using numbers from Blue Cross (an advocate for Obamacare) numbers to attack her. Through AFP spokesman Scott Hagerstrom, Boonstra communicated her concerns with her new plan.
Uncertainty dogs her especially having been lied to once by the president. Where her canceled plans premiums once covered all her costs, she now must plan for out-of-pocket expenses. Those expenses are capped but will double to $10,200 if she goes out of her network a not-uncommon need for cancer patients, whose treatment often changes for a doctor or tests. Of her five cancer drugs, she has already discovered that one (Loratadine) is not covered. Detroit News columnist Dan Calabrese also unearthed the fact that glaucoma and long-term care and nursing care are not covered.
ALL of it here
The War on Julie Boonstra | National Review Online
