Boo fucking hoo. Stupid fucking Republican.

His story is bullshit anyway. He can enroll in Obamacare until the end of the month.


"For 2015 only. From now until April 30th 2015 there is a one time extended enrollment period for a tax season 2015. If you were confused about open enrollment, and owe the fee from last year, you may qualify." Source: Front page of Obamacare website. Hahaha suckers! :D

Oh wait, it's May now huh? :cheers

So enrollment ended 12 days ago, this guy was so blind that he stopped working in December, but miraculously this story comes out 12 days past the extended enrollment. Hahahahahaha not suspicious at all

hello sir. prior to the ACA, you could buy a policy any day of the year. but the insurers would say no-way-jose if you were sick. As the ACA bans denying clients who are sick, enrollment periods are the only means to ensure the actuaries can calculate a profit for the capitalist insurance companies who do nothing but add a 50% markup for healthcare services.

if people can enroll any day of the year, insurance would be nonviable & either most people would go bankrupt saving their lives, or we would need a national healthcare program like the VA or medicare.

so the choice is price gouging insurers, or medicare for all. Obamacare is a hybrid. medicare for the poor(at least for the blue states LOL), & subsidies to pay the insurers the price gouging part of their fees so its affordable to the middle class.

:)

But instead he believed the lies Right Wing Legislators and Bloviators spewed ad nauseam. How those amoral pieces of shit live with themselves is beyond me.

Yup. Diabetes can be a very expensive disease. Dumbass.

If you go to his Gofundme page there area lot of people donating $5 with notes that say things like, "I'm a liberal and you brought this on yourself. I'm donating a little because I think everyone should healthcare. I hope this experience changes your politics."

And of course there are those bashing those who are donating and calling him an idiot who brought this on himself.

Diabetes is also a very sneaky disease. it's not the disease that harms and kills, it's the complications from it that do. combined with the difficulty of accepting that you have a disease, it's a difficult process to come to grips with having it and realizing you need to completely change your lifestyle to deal with something that may or may not happen later on down the road.

its funny a shitload of liberals are giving money to his gofundme account. Need help to save my eye sight by Luis Lang - GoFundMe

Saw this one which was pretty much spot on..

i'm glad none of y'all are first responders/ambulance drivers. you get to a crash scene and don't provide first aid to the driver that caused the accident, because of,..you know, on account of him causing the accident and therefor not deserving help.

jtfc.

50 uninsured going blind.

I'm pretty sure someone needing help at an accident scene wouldn't be blaming the Ambulance workers for his wreck.. That's essentially what has happened here and why people are scolding him.

1. fuck that guy and let him go blind and he deserves going blind blah blah is not scolding.

2. and really, so fucking what if his belief structure causes him to currently place blame on failed legistlators and legislation.

next time you're diagnosed with a fatal disease we'll put your reaction to it under the microscope so we can find reasons to tell you you got what you deserved.

That must be it. I've never worked for anyone else...so all that I knew about was simply going in as a person and buying insurance.

And since Obama Care is theoretically a "group" purchase, that would explain the "enrollment period".

It's still detrimental to the stated goals of Obama Care (everyone being insured and of course the now forgotten "affordable" part of that which was supposed to make our premiums $2500 less per year from the 2009 price)

If only this guy had a pizza shop that hated the gays. He would of had $100 thousand by now..

UM ok , here's the thing. The behavior that lead to his current demise, will lead him to the same end again. He put off taking care of his diabetes. He put off getting insurance. His wife, with a husband going blind, refuses to work.

So he gets the operation, she wont work, he stops taking care of his diabetes again and what?

You do realize this is a political setup released 12 days after the EXTENDED deadline for Obamacare signup. We all know he's getting his operation money to relax. It's all a setup :thumbsup

Also remember, he stopped treatment because "I thought my eyes were better"

but that's not the thing. teaching this guy a lesson by not treating him because he'll just make another mistake in his life is quite callous and far from how civilized societies are expected to act.

the politics and timing of the situation are regardless to my observation of the mean-spirited comments in this thread. i'm really surprised you would think this guy timed his going blind to happen right after open enrollment so a to send a political message.

you = smarter than that!

What? WTF are you talking about? Don't you know that fake liberals/Democrats aren't that way?
They are all-caring and all-compassionate and have nothing but the best wishes for all mankind.
It's unicorns and rainbows and $15 an hour for the slacker flipping burgers at McDonald's.

How dare you question faux-liberalism and it's deeply felt love of all humanity!

I'm socially liberal and fiscally conservative :2 cents:

I've said that so many times here but because I'm Gay people think I'm some fucking fag stereotype. There's a whole spectrum of Gay and a whole spectrum of Liberal :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh I'm the kind of Gay that can fuck your wife good, and cum in YOUR mouth :winkwink:

I don't see investing in this mans healthcare as a fiscally wise investment :thumbsup

civilized societies all have mandatory health insurance that would have taken care of his problem

You are missing the point.. his mistaken belief in a political lie has not only cost him his chance at having health insurance but also tens of thousands of other peoples whom live in non medicare expansion states..

People like him, caused the issue he is now dealing withm

his ignorance and others like him have caused the issue he now deals as well as others in his same situation..


Also why compassion for this guy whom clearly put himself in his own situation, but no compassion for people getting shot by cops because they made a mistake?

I wasn't directing my "fake liberal" comment at you. :)

I was more or less referring to the current state of "liberalism" which doesn't seem to be what it once was.

Today's "Liberal" seems to be pro-govt all the way. The Govt. is infallible and needs to control our lives at every step.

I was a kid when the Vietnam War was going on and TRUE liberals were in the streets protesting.
You would have never caught guys like that sheepishly following any political party or saying that the govt. needed MORE control of our lives.

Sorry if my comment came across that is was directed at you. It wasn't in any way. :)

Having "mandatory" health insurance doesn't make a society "civilized". It only means that the govt. is in control of your life.

Not much to do with being "civilized" either way.

I'm not even sure why giving Big Insurance Companies billions and billions of dollars in MANDATORY sales would ever be considered "Civilized" in any way, shape, or form.

They are middle-men who drive up the cost of health care.

I was being tongue and cheek, that's why all the smileys & laughing in my post :) No need to apologize at all Robbie :thumbsup

I agree about liberalism today and I think Clinton might bring it back to the conservative side, if not, we'll see who else there is to chose from on either side. Honestly if I had the same rights as everyone else I'd be more a conservative.

We all know this guy is going to get his operation & treatment. He's already at $10k in his gofundme. On one part of his gofundmen he said it was minimum $10k, another part he said $18k.

Either way, gofundme lets him take out any amount, instantly, at any time, and keep the gofundme going so he propably has already scheduled the surgery :thumbsup

Get used to it.. if you don't fit the profile of hard core wing bat conservative then you are liberal around here..

I'm kind of the same.. I'm also for fiscal responsibility but because I think the Tea party is a bunch of loons and because I don't hate black people and I support health care.. I'm a socialist liberal.. according to half the conservatives here.

well, at least, he can keep his doctor :thumbsup

are you really trying to suggest AMerica is not a civilized society? and then by consequence, this guy doesn't deserve treatment because we are not civilized?

over here the companies that provide mandatory health insurances are not allowed to make profit (shocking)

of course they do in a different way but it's not in the way you are allowing US health insurance companies raping you

I stand 100% by what i said

and I don't feel like my government is controlling my life in regards to my doctor - if i want something extra that the insurance doesn't cover i pay it myself.

recently i had a blood test in regards to a tetanus vaccination - it cost me stunning 250 czech crowns - that's $10 USD

no, i'm not missing the point. what you just posted is my point. this guy is a human being and no different from most human beings when it comes to being diagnosed with a disease.

i have read on this board about a 100 times "fuck him/her for not getting insurance" - that never occurred civilized to me.

Well that sucks but fear not Mr. Luis Lang, there is always GoFundMe as a Plan B.

yet he blames his issues on Obamacare... perhaps had he eaten some humble pie and said I fucked up.. can you help.. but not he continues on trying to play on the an to Obama care bullshit..

He also continues on with his smoking and living in his nice big home while begging for handouts.. meanwhile there are people with the same issues as him whom live below poverty and can't get help, because people like this guy continue to buy into the right wing lies about obamacare.

is that a yes, you think USA is not a civilized country?

again i get it. while i am trying to avoid trivializing the debate with observations from across the internet, but he did realized he made a huge mistake and did try to go get insured. and Robbie makes a valid point that it makes no sense to have specific times of the year you can enroll and tough shit other wise.

but again, this guy made a grave medical mistake in handling his disease, that's no reason to wish blindness on the guy.

Yeah some people tend to lump everyone to us against them, the ones that don't are fun to interact with :thumbsup

Group insurance plans have always had enrollment periods. It's nothing new with obamacare. So can I now assume you agree that every person should have access to healthcare? Meaning you are no longer aginst govt subsidized health care system?

i have posted a million times that i wonder why the US - as a civilized, western country - does not have a civilized health care system - like all the other civilized western countries (not saying that all those countries have a brilliant system though).

so here you have it - i don't consider the health care system in the US civilized - i consider it a cash machine that does not care about those that cannot afford it.

and the broad consensus at least among the right wing people seems to be that this is fine - i tend more to the "socialist" approach that guarantees everyone basic coverage - no matter what income.

and now - like every Wednesday - i'll go and meet with friends for a beer.

MaDalton has left the building.