A Dexter cancer patient featured in a conservative group’s TV ad campaign denouncing her new health care coverage as “unaffordable†will save more than $1,000 this year.
Julie Boonstra, 49, starred last month in an emotional television ad sponsored by Americans for Prosperity that implied Democratic U.S. Rep. Gary Peters’ vote for the Affordable Care Act made her medication so “unaffordable†she could die. …
… The Detroit News and fact checkers last month cast doubt on the accuracy of the TV ad. On Monday, Boonstra acknowledged which health plan she chose, offering the first evidence of cost savings..
Boonstra said Monday her new plan she dislikes is the Blue Cross Premier Gold health care plan, which caps patient responsibility for out-of-pocket costs at $5,100 a year, lower than the federal law’s maximum of $6,350 a year. It means the new plan will save her at least $1,200 compared with her former insurance plan she preferred that was ended under Obamacare’s coverage requirements. …
…Boonstra’s old plan cost $1,100 a month in premiums or $13,200 a year, she previously told The News. It didn’t include money she spent on co-pays, prescription drugs and other out-of-pocket expenses.
By contrast, the Blues’ plan premium costs $571 a month or $6,852 for the year. Since out-of-pocket costs are capped at $5,100, including deductibles, the maximum Boonstra would pay this year for all of her cancer treatment is $11,952.
When advised of the details of her Blues’ plan, Boonstra said the idea that it would be cheaper “can’t be true.â€
“I personally do not believe that,†Boonstra said.
So, basically, she opposes the ACA because she is extremely stupid.
I personally do not believe that speedometer.
I’m NOT going 90 through a school zon…
THUMP!!!
Maybe they’re right, and there is a God, because these feckin’ eedjit’s live past their teenage years.
Let this ignorant dipstick pay full freight.
That’s less some rational people will have to pay.
She doesn’t believe it, not because she’s stupid, but because she doesn’t want to. Willful ignorance. Willful defiance of reality, because she might have to adjust her mental furniture, maybe throw some of it out. She’s too attached to it, even to the point of refusing a better deal. A huge set of conservatives are in this boat – not stupid, but just absolutely resisting anything that would require them to change.
Julie Boonstra is also the ex-wife of Republican Mark Boonstra, who is a judge on the Third District Court of Appeals in Michigan, so I would believe she’s hardly disinterested.
And I personally don’t believe it’s not butter. So don’t go reading that ingredients label to me.
Well,since that’s her personal belief, we have no right to tell her that she is wrong. It’s a religion.
She has a letter/op-ed in today’s Detroit News:
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20140313/OPINION01/303130005/Dexter-cancer-victim-m-not-lying-about-Obamacare
in which her ignorance is on full display: “Those people [i.e., who have criticized her] choose to ignore the problems inherent with high out-of-pocket limits and prescriptions that aren’t covered for a person like me.”
I could be wrong, but it is my understanding that there are no “prescriptions that aren’t covered” under the ACA.
The ACA itself does not carve out prescriptions that aren’t covered, of course. But, insurance companies themselves do typically have formularies that determine what is and is not covered. It’s still a bit disengenous though, unless her doctors are extrordinarily unhelpful. in general, the insurance company will insist on generics over name brand unless not available, or the doctor provides a reason why the named is required. Then, in each category of medications the formulary will generally have a ranking of standard coverage; reduced coverage; not covered. The doctors thus will need to take that into account. Still, a lot of times, especially with chemo, that is as simple as prescribing the IV version instead of a pill version. Frustrating to be sure, but not quite the same as being not covered at all.