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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Beware of various types of Articulated Orchestrated Tactics,Divide & Conquer is one of them! 🙁
hahaha get what YOU voted for
That’s not news…older people divorce to get more SS
that’s what welfare did to the Black community
Many older people don’t get married because they don’t want to lose coverage.
so SAD
Ignorance by ignorant marxist morons at all levels is showing up every day of their freakish attempts to control every aspect of the lives of the people! A hundred years of history of failed socialist non sense and these fascist thugs proves they have not learned a damn thing but cover up of failure.
nadene says:
“No the obamacare is the problem period. They both would have had insurance to cover most of their expenses. The Affordable Care cut into the Medicare and Advantage Programs by cutting them almost a half trillion dollars. This cost is now being forced on the taxpayer. I have medicaid and hate it. I seldom go to the doctor, was paying copayments that are not required, however, the care I did receive when I went in the last time is horrible. I really like the doctor but now we can only discuss the problem I came in for, not the other problems that are actually related. This is NOT quality care, it is barely the basics. There are only a small percentage of people it is helping. Congrad’s to you, you guys are very lucky. I hope your luck continues because they said the next increase for premiums could jump as high as 40 percent. Lets see. How much will that increase your premiums and you need to take in your deductible because that is going up too. the fact that the other taxpayers are picking up the tab doesn’t bother you? The reality is if there was competition in the insurance business, it was privately run and you could pick the best plan for you and your family at what you can afford, all of us would be paying less and into the system and not just those who are working (this includes the working poor).”
From: http://www.truthandaction.org/couple-married-33-years-must-divorce-obamacare/comment-page-6/#comment-552094
This should never have to happen to any couple ever.