She couldn't stop crying and hugging everyone in sight . . .

[ProSense]

She couldn't stop crying and hugging everyone in sight . . .

by Old Redneck

We Democrats in my rural, very red Virginia county are sponsoring ACA sign-up clinics 22 and 29 March at our local library. In preparation for the clinics, several of us volunteers spent a few hours helping our regional navigator as he worked with uninsured people to help them get insurance.

One of the people he assisted was a single mother of three -- husband killed a few years ago in an industrial accident. She works a part-time cashier's job and cleans houses; her mother and sister take turns keeping the kids. Of course she has no medical insurance and doesn't remember when she or any of the three children saw a doctor.

The Navigator found her a policy that pays 95% of her medical costs, has lots of free stuff (mainly regular exams and check-ups for her and the kids), and with subsidies will cost her $51 a month.

She couldn't believe she didn't have to pay the Navigator. She didn't believe she did not have to promise to vote for Democrats. She didn't believe it when the Navigator printed her insurance card on the spot. When the fact of what she had done finally sunk in, she couldn't stop crying and hugging everyone in sight. Neither could the rest of us.

Episodes such as this make me proud to be a Democrat and make me realize how fortunate I am to have Medicare and TriCare For Life. And it makes me want to punch out the next dozen or so Republicans I hear spreading bullshit about the ACA.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/21/1286537/-She-couldn-t-stop-crying-and-hugging-everyone-in-sight

Reminds me of the guy in rural Kentucky

"I Believe I'm Going To Be A Democrat"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024085734

ACA Tide Turns: Protesters Arrested In GA, GOPer Schools Scottie
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024695722

Obamacare: It's Obama's signature achievement
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024695694

[Whisp]

1. K&R

[MineralMan]

2. A good result and another good example of how ACA

is helping people. I hope she troops her kids down for their free physical soon.

[vankuria]

3. Thank-you for sharing!

This is a great story and one that I'll be sure to pass on.

[mercymechap]

4. For every good story we

get on ACA, the Republican/conservatives are making up 20 stories that aren't even true against it....damn.

[ProSense]

6. The Kochs

"For every good story we get on ACA, the Republican/conservatives are making up 20 stories that aren't even true against it....damn."

...have a problem: Americans are desperate for access to health care. I love this chart:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024697984

[mercymechap]

22. That's great......

I'm so glad to see that kind of progress.

[Cha]

12. Yeah, they have to Lie at a fast clip to rationalize this shite..

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napkinz http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=4709558

[ProSense]

15. That should be a billboard. n/t

[notadmblnd]

5. Someone should have told her that she is entitled to social security survivors benefits for

her and her children. A surviving spouse with minor children should not have to work two jobs to survive and provide for their children.

[okaawhatever]

7. Even with SS survivors benefits she likely would have to work (maybe not 2 jobs). I don't think the

survivors benefits pay that well. You're right, she shouldn't have to work 2 jobs, but I don't think getting the benefits will be enough to allow her to stay home and take care of her children, which is sad.

[ProSense]

8. Yup. For low-income workers it isn't much. n/t

[notadmblnd]

10. It depends on how much her deceased sppouse made, but I think the minimum

amount would be about 900 a month for each child and herself. So 9x4= 3600.

My husband worked for one of the big 3 auto makers. When he died, I received 1485.00 for myself until our son was 16 and another 1485.00 a month for our son until he graduated high school. It didn't make us rich, but it enable me to stay home and finish raising him.

[Mustellus]

9. But I've had no luck at all.......

persuading people to give up their Government health care.

I work with the military and civil servants, and many have been very vocal about Obamacare and standing on your own feet and not Sucking On The Federal Tit (TM) and... and.. Freedumb!

So I try to get them to be leaders. To show their fellow Americans how its done. To give up their civil service / military health care and to take Personal Responsibility (TM).

No takers at all, so far....

[SharonAnn]

11. Like my uncle, a West Point graduate and then defense contractor employee.

He received ALL of his higher education, including a graduate degree from the taxpayers, no student loans, ALL of his pay for his entire career came directly from the taxpayers, even his retirement from the Army and defense contractor came from the taxpayers.

When he, the ultra-right-wing conservative, complained about people being a burden on the taxpayers - I pointed out to him that perhaps he should be included in the "burden" since he had never paid a penny for his higher education nor earned a penny that didn't come directly from the taxpayer.

Needless to say, he would get so angry with me and claim that his case "was different".

[rhett o rick]

13. Isnt this a dup of what kpete posted yesterday?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024705967

[LuckyLib]

14. Billboard on highway this morning:

Obamacare games -- where the odds are never in your favor

sponsored by refusetoenroll.org -- Citizens Council for Health Freedom

It makes me furious! To every idiot who sings that tune, I reply: Whose interests are served by keeping folks from access to medical care?

[Cha]

16. As PS said.. this should go up..

[ProSense]

18. Seriously,

refusetoenroll.org

...how despicable is that?

[3catwoman3]

17. Dare we hope that...

... she will decide to vote the Democratic ticket?

[ProSense]

19. Statement by the President on the Fourth Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act

Statement by the President on the Fourth Anniversary of the Affordable Care Act
http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024713702

[riderinthestorm]

20. I love stories like this. K&R nt

[ProSense]

21. Someone posted this at Daily Kos:

New Ad: Yo, Kochs. Pushback's a B----
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/23/1286783/-New-Ad-Yo-Kochs-Pushback-s-a-B