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Highmark drops Obamacare in York area
Highmark drops Obamacare in York area
When talking about health care, Donna Taylor doesn't like to use the word "consumer." For her, health insurance is about survival."They look at you as a consumer," Taylor said. "They don't look at you as a human being."Taylor had been a chemistry teacher at Dallastown Area High School until 2006 — a rough year.
Her oldest brother died. So did her uncle. Severe stress led to an eating disorder. After Taylor lost a dramatic amount of weight, school officials got her to take medical leave.She never returned."It was a lot harder to get over than I ever imagined it would be," Taylor said.These days, Taylor, who holds a Ph.D. from Cornell University, works part-time as an adjunct chemistry professor at York College, a job that provides no health insurance.
Like about 14 million other people in the U.S., she gets her insurance through the Affordable Care Act marketplace — though that may change this year.
Taylor's insurer, Highmark, quietly pulled its 2017 marketplace health insurance plans from York and Adams counties. Her behavioral therapist may not be able to accept any of the other plans available on the marketplace, Taylor said. That leaves her scrambling to find a way to keep the vital health services that she's relied on since the eating disorder that ended her high school teaching career and the bouts with depression that followed.
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Re: Highmark drops Obamacare in York area
This is what happens when we allow the for-profit, employer-based health insurance industry run the show.
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Re: Highmark drops Obamacare in York area
And the GOP solution is what ? I have yet to hear something that would have premiums lower than what the subsidized premiums are today. Health care and premiums for the same are a problem outside or inside of the ACA.
BTW, if you take the time to read the entire article vs just read the headlines, Ms Taylor actually had a very positive thing to say about the ACA as BEFORE the ACA she could not get any insurance other than the COBRA that her previous employer offered at about 10K per year. Tha ACA ended the discriminaiton because of pre-existing conditions that allowed her to actually pursue other insurers.
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