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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It’s the fault of our representatives that things like this has happened… I don’t believe I’ll vote this election…. I’m sick of these bas***d’s…. I’ve never missed voting, and I didn’t vote any of the slugs into office…. I think I’ll let the ones that did reap their harvest…
Don’t! It may be coming to an end.
Get People to change the Laws, they can do that !!!! Do You Not Know That ??? This Idiocy can be overturned !!!!
“Stuck in a health care coverage gap, their combined income is too little to qualify for government subsidies to buy health insurance and the state isn’t expanding Medicaid.” I DO believe you meant to say that the combined income was too much to qualify for the subsidies.
Expanding Medicaid, is expanding debt!
There is no money.
http://www.nationaldebtclocks.org/debtclock/unitedstates
Bernard, keep your rhetoric to yourself. Don’t encourage people not to vote.
I don ,t believe it is right anyone would have to get a divorce to get health insurance. Something is very very wrong here.
Sad !!!!
A government that has us nearly eighteen trillion dollars in debt, telling the American people to pay their health care bills? It sounds like a f-cking joke. But it’s not funny.
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