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AIDS patients in Obamacare limbo as insurers reject checks
Posted: Feb 8, 2014
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Maybe these are the death panel people that - sm
[ In Reply To ..]we've all heard about. This is a heartbreaking situation for these patients and their loved ones.
I am a person with AIDS - anonymous
[ In Reply To ..]and Obamacare just scares me to death.
You are in my prayers. - NPC
[ In Reply To ..]I will pray that you will not be without good health care. May God bless you and keep you well.
I second what NPC said. You are in my prayers as well. - Mrs. Tingles
[ In Reply To ..]May God bless you and keep you safe and healthy. And may God get us through these troubling times.
PS - my post is not religious, it is in response to what the poster I replied to wrote. Just wanted to make that clear up front.
Wow - 4 dislikes...really - Talk about cold hearted
[ In Reply To ..]Disliking a post that says she will pray for someone with AIDS.
Now that's cold hearted. Then again I'm not surprised.
Maybe some people are a little skeptical. - Anyone can be anyting on the Internet.
[ In Reply To ..]xx
Well since Abby and I post here all the time - Mrs. Tingles - sm
[ In Reply To ..]The excuse you gave would not pertain to us.
There are only 2 reasons that are plausible.
1. - People have such hatred for Abby and me that they just look at the moniker and hit the dislike before they even read what we write.
2. - They have no compassion towards people with an illness like this.
In this case, both of those reasons are true.
By being so cold hearted to select the dislike, reflects on how much lack compassion they have towards the poster we replied to. We say we are going to pray for someone with AIDS that they have good insurance and we get a dislike. Yeah, right. If they dislike us so much then dislike our other posts. Not the ones where we show compassion towards others who are ill.
Sometimes it's just better to not vote like or dislike rather than show the true colors of a persons nature.
Very shameful there are people like that in our society.
I will pray that you get the care you need. - Abby
[ In Reply To ..]nm
Ooh hey, you got dislikes too. - All because we care about
[ In Reply To ..]someone with AIDS and that they get the care they need.
What compassion.
It exudes from their every pore. O the Compassion! - Abby
[ In Reply To ..]nm
Who knew showing compassion for someone diagnosed with AIDS - would get a dislike
[ In Reply To ..]and whoever said liberals have compassion, I'll just say - and I have a bridge for sale.
Those dislikes just proved they don't. What a shame.
It's disgusting. - NPC
[ In Reply To ..]They can't put their political opinions aside for the common good! I think this can be used as an example of what must happen in Washington, i.e., schoolyard games.
Where's all that liberal "compassion" we hear about? - SM
[ In Reply To ..]Or is that just for people who "fit" into their little peg board?
It's fake. That's why the dislikes. - sm
[ In Reply To ..]They only care when it entails oppression of the underprivileged to get their votes.
I'm confused about the compassion shown by the - conservatives
[ In Reply To ..]The party that wants to deny homosexuals the basic right to legal marriage.
The party that has a history of blaming promiscuity and homosexual sex for the birth of AIDS.
All of the sudden the conservatives have compassion for AIDS victims? Sounds more like exploitation and hypocrisy.
Blue Cross and Blue Shield is being accused of discriminating. The conservatives have been discriminating against AIDS victims since the disease was discovered by accusing its victims of deserving what they got. Now they're all warm and fuzzy toward homosexuals and promiscuous women, advocating for their rights? Conservatives have been discriminating for years and now they're appalled that an insurance company might discriminate and blame it on the ACA.
But that's what it's all about, right? It has nothing to do with the victim. It's all about Obama and the ACA. The history of conservative discriminative views and statements reinforces this argument. The victim is being exploited.
And by the way, this matter is not yet settled. When it's fixed will the conservatives post that story?
Compassion because person is afraid of - sm
[ In Reply To ..]Obamacare and we feel for her/him and wish her/him the best in terms of health care. It doesn't matter how she/he developed AIDS.
I'm not going to address your insulting issues, but will say have you forgotten all the work Laura Bush did for HIV/AIDS?
But conservatives don't wish him/her the best in terms of other basic civil - rights?
[ In Reply To ..]Marriage, job discrimination, etc.?
"It doesn't matter how he/she developed AIDS." Does this mean the conservatives now condone gay sex, sex out of marriage, promiscuous women (the Sarah Flukes of the world)?
Conservatives can't all of the sudden stand up for a group of people they have bashed, discriminated against, and refused other basic civil rights to. It's just plain hypocrisy and exploiting a group of people they really could care less about. Conservative policy bears this out.
Please do not tell me what I can and cannot do. - A conservative
[ In Reply To ..]nm
You do not speak for conservatives with your hateful remarks - Mrs. Tingles - sm
[ In Reply To ..]We care.
Sounds like you are trying to stir up trouble where none should be.
Conservatives do have compassion of all issues of human life. Please do not state otherwise with falsehoods.
Someone inquired about liberal compassion. Liberals have always had compassion - for AIDS victims
[ In Reply To ..]I just found it odd that all of the sudden conservatives (not necessarily anyone on this board) want to stand up for a group of people that they've criticized for years for leading a risky and immoral lifestyle.
I probably wouldn't have even commented on the original post had someone not invited a liberal point of view. And I expressed mine.
I wasn't speaking to any person on this board. Just the conservative record of intolerance toward gays and how curious it is that now there is outrage about a situation that hasn't even yet occurred and probably won't. I'll keep on top of it though.
Again, not all conservatives have done what you are - accusing, which is rude and hateful
[ In Reply To ..]Liberals are the ones who say they have compassion, yet I know a lot of liberals (not speaking for anyone on this board, speaking of my friends, family and politicians), who do not have the compassion they say they do.
Not all conservatives have said what you said they do. There are many conservatives who have compassion. Something I find that is lacking in a lot of democrat politicians. I've never seen anyone as cold hearted as some liberal politicians.
There is no "conservative record of intolerance". If so then liberals can join in on it because of their lack of compassion for anyone who doesn't share their viewpoints. Christians are the biggest ones under attack right now, but many others.
And if liberals cared so much about gays and people who have contracted AIDS they would not be kicking them out of their health plans.
The liberals aren't kicking them out, the insurance companies - are and
[ In Reply To ..]it looks like, by this article, that they are still trying to figure everything out.
I understand it is unfair to make blanket statements about a group of people. But Republicans are the ones who oppose same-sex marriage and refuse to include laws to provide equality in the workplace for gays. I would classify that as intolerance. And the righteous right has also blamed gays and promiscuity for the AIDS virus.
These are the same people who are exploiting the people they criticize to perpetuate unfair and sensational criticism of the ACA.
I know that not everyone who is a conservative or a republican is aligned with these values. Just like when conservatives here make statements like "the stupidity boggles the mind," that they aren't talking about me. They are referring to the posted story. And even if it is a blanket statement to all liberals on the board, I know I'm not stupid so I don't take offense.
The insurance company, BC/BS, is threatening to drop AIDS patients, not the ACA, not the liberals. And they haven't yet. The story does not yet have a conclusion.
Obamacare is under democrats and their doing, so - yes they are kicking them out
[ In Reply To ..]no other message is needed.
I could not have said this better. - NPC
[ In Reply To ..]Thank you, Mrs. Tingles.
First of all, you're assuming this poster - is gay.
[ In Reply To ..]And secondly, you seem to be stating that only gay people get AIDS. Sounds kinda bigoted to me.
They always make assumptions. - Thank you for a concise post.
[ In Reply To ..]NM
This post is about the failure of obamacare. - sm
[ In Reply To ..]It is not about the illness per se nor how the illness was contracted. It is about yet another facet of obamacare that is failing people it was purportedly going to help.
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