Health Insurance That Doesn't Cover the Bills Has Flooded the Market Under Trump

[riversedge]

Health Insurance That Doesn’t Cover the Bills Has Flooded the Market Under Trump

September 17, 2019, 3:00 AM CDT

The administration’s moves to weaken the Affordable Care Act have taken hold, and companies are cashing in.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2019-09-17/under-trump-health-insurance-with-less-coverage-floods-market?utm_source=pocket-newtab


Early one Friday morning two years ago, David Diaz woke up his wife, Marisia, and told her he didn’t feel right. He asked her to pray with him. Their son called 911, and within minutes, Marisia was tailing an ambulance down the dirt road away from the couple’s house on the outskirts of Phoenix to a hospital in the city. David had had a massive heart attack.

Before being wheeled into surgery, he whispered the PIN for his bank card to Marisia, just in case. But the double-bypass operation was successful, and two weeks later he was discharged.
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[Mike 03]

1. From the article:

The Diazes’ plan was nothing like the ones consumers have come to expect under the 2010 Affordable Care Act, which bars insurers from capping coverage, canceling it retroactively, or turning away people with preexisting conditions. But the law includes an exemption for short-term plans that serve as a stopgap for people between jobs. The Trump administration, thwarted in its attempts to overturn the ACA, has widened that loophole by stretching the definition of “short-term” from three months to a year, with the option of renewing for as long as three years.

SKIP

For years, the Diazes had paid for comprehensive coverage from Aetna, but the insurer had recently announced it would no longer offer ACA plans in more than two-thirds of the U.S. counties it served, including the couple’s, citing cost-control concerns. Eager to avoid the ACA marketplace, which she’d heard negative stories about, Marisia turned to Google to find a provider. She wrote down a slew of toll-free numbers and called them all, taking notes about their offerings.

Her first call was to HIIQ. She reached a broker named Linda Thiel, who was working from an office on Friendly Lane in Haltom City, Texas, for a subsidiary of HIIQ called American Service Insurance Agency LLC. “She was very friendly, seemed like she cared, and seemed like she wanted to give us the best plan for our family,” Diaz recalls. “I trusted that.”

It's tragic but completely predictable. You can bet some MAGAts ended up with this type of insurance and it would be nice to hear from them in the coming months. They'll turn against Trump like the farmers have.

[machoneman]

2. I hope only MAGATS are dumb enough buy this insurance.

Sorry, but schadenfreude does strike me as appropriate here for Trump camp followers.