Linda and Larry Drain have been married for 33 years but are now forced to separate because of the pitfalls of Obamacare and their state Medicaid program .
Stuck in a health care coverage gap, their combined income is too little to qualify for Obamacare subsidies yet exceeds the limit on unearned income to qualify for TennCare after Larry opted for early retirement.
Linda has epilepsy and must take expensive medication so she can’t do without insurance. Larry is without insurance but he has a hernia and is living on hope that he suffers no complications as he can’t afford surgery.
They have been appealing to Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam in numerous letters to expand TennCare.
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I have been there
He was tired of her anyway.
‘Obama care’ is a phrase that really grates on my nerves with its apparent negative connotations. It’s a simple social construct of helping those that need help and cannot afford it! Why on earth is that a bad thing? Don’t we all at a base level want to help our fellow humans? Do we really relish in laughing at or denigrating those that cannot afford health care? A little empathy would go a bloody long way in this instance. Grow the $#%&!@* up America, you are making the rest of the world feel sick with your attitudes to your own people!
Why don’t you read some of the other comments. Why don’t YOU open your mind to the issues that are happening rather than just the “helping others” angle. That’ angle is all well and good but it’s causing harm to many people. No one is laughing at anyone, that is just your narrow-minded perception.
THERE ARE ALOT MORE PEOPLE OUT THERE LIKE THIS
Joycie: there area “alot” of people like you, too, who can’t spell worth a darn and believe everything anti-Obama they read and hear. Go back to settin’ on your front steps and watch the dog sleep.
This is all on the useless democrats
I hate Obamacare too, but there’s a caveat to this argument. If the state set up its own exchange, would they be better off?
WELCOME TO MUSLIM OBAMA’S AMERICA,IMPEACH NOW
An incredibly insane and hateful comment!
Can’t wait for these old bigoted red necks to die off. Probably one of those that thinks I don’t want no Obamacare, but don’t touch my medicare! Too dumb to realize that medicare is socialized medicine for the elderly.
Does that make you a Satan worshiper? Must be I have as much proof of this as you do that Obama is a Muslim. Even if he is a Muslim, do you have any idea about Muslim beliefs? I thought not!
A Muslim, sometimes spelled Moslem,[1] is an adherent of Islam, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the Quran. Muslims consider the Quran to be the verbatim word of God as revealed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad. They also follow the teachings and practices of Muhammad as recorded in traditional accounts called hadith.[2] “Muslim” is an Arabic word meaning “one who submits to God”. A female Muslim is sometimes called a “Muslimah”.
Muslims believe that God (Arabic: الله Allāh) is eternal, transcendent and absolutely one (monotheism). They hold that God is incomparable, self-sustaining and neither begets nor was begotten. They also believe that Islam is the complete and universal version of a primordial faith that has been revealed before through many prophets including Abraham, Moses, Ishmael and Jesus.[3] Muslims also believe that these previous messages and revelations have been partially changed or corrupted over time[4] and that the Qur’an is the final unaltered revelation from God (The Final Testament).[5]
Most Muslims accept as a Muslim anyone who has publicly pronounced the Shahadah (declaration of faith) which states:
There is no god but God, Muhammad is the messenger of God.[6]
The religious practices of Muslims are enumerated in the Five Pillars of Islam, which, in addition to Shahadah, consist of daily prayers (salat), fasting during Ramadan (sawm), almsgiving (zakat), and the pilgrimage to Mecca (hajj) at least once in a lifetime.[7][8]
I hate Obamacare and NONE of the states should have set up exchanges
10+ million people have been able to get medical insurance coverage that couldn’t get it before. Why would you “”hate that? What kind of despicable person are you?
That’s sad but I personally know married people with children who can’t afford it but illegal aliens should get it for free. Thanks Obama
Are you aware of the considerable subsidies for married people with children? Do you know that “illegal aliens” don’t get it for free? Your criticisms are lies and bullcrap.
Don’t blame The ACA , blame the State they live in. They can always move to a state that has done the expansion, or vote out the idiots who won’t take the expansion. Elections have consequences.