THE Anthem Blue Cross representative who answered my call told me that there was a silver lining in the cancellation of my individual P.P.O. policy and the $5,400 annual increase that I would have to pay for the Affordable Care Act-compliant option: now if I have Stage 4 cancer or need a sex-change operation, I’d be covered regardless of pre-existing conditions. Never mind that the new provider network would eliminate coverage for my and my son’s long-term doctors and hospitals.
The Anthem rep cheerily explained that despite the company’s — I
paraphrase — draconian rates and limited network, my benefits, which
also include maternity coverage (handy for a 46-year-old), would “be
actually much richer.”
I, of course, would be actually much poorer. And it was this aspect of
the bum deal that, to my surprise, turned out to be a very unpopular
thing to gripe about.
“Obamacare or Kafkacare?” I posted on Facebook as soon as I hung up with
Anthem. I vented about the call and wrote that the president should be
protecting the middle class, not making our lives substantially harder.
For extra sympathy, I may have thrown in the fact that I’m a single mom.
(O.K., I did.)
Then I sat back and waited for the love to pour in. Or at least the
“like.” Lots of likes. After all, I have 1,037 Facebook friends. Surely,
they’d commiserate.
Except that they didn’t.
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