For the scumbags that think I would lie about this, feel free to act like the assholes you are. For the rest of you, this is where I am at right now.
I have aggressive adenocarcinoma cancer of the esophagus. There are numerous small nodules in my right lung that they suspect are also cancer, but they have not confirmed it yet. I have to make a follow up appointment for a CT scan to check my liver, but the one I already had didn't show anything there. Have no idea why they want another one, but it will give a chance to lie down for about 15 minutes, so I will take it.
It is still early in the process of dealing with this, and I haven't actually spoken to an oncologist at this point. Part of the reason for this is structural to the bureaucracy in that it takes time to get an appointment, I need a referral from my PHP and I haven't actually got that yet because, despite having obeyed the actual law and signed up for Covered CA back in December, they still haven't processed the application, so I don't actually have insurance right now. Want to tell me again how great Obamacare is?
That's right, the one state state that jumped whole hog into Obamacare is screwing the pooch, so I am in limbo. Thanks to that I am now relaying on the staff of SF General hospital to dig through the mess that is Obamacare and figure out why I cannot access the best oncology center in the Bay Area. They are going to go ahead and pretend everything is hunky dory there and provide me with preliminary testing, but they can only do that for a month before they run into the wall of the law that requires me to have insurance from somewhere.
So, despite actually having signed up for insurance, and having it flagged in the system that I do have it, I don't. Despite being told that Obamacare is the greatest thing ever, it sucks. Even the doctors who are used to dealing with Medical are complaining because it is screwing everything up. Frankly, I can't blame them because, if it wasn't for Obamacare, if there was some sort of problem with my insurance before, I could have gotten emergency Medical by now and they would get the money from my private insurance after I got it straightened out.