2.24.2014

Ooops, this is a little awkward

Krugman, here…

Health Care Horror Hooey - NYTimes.com

…writes in this morning’s Times Obamacare opponents just make up stories about people who’ve been caused hardship by the health care act:

Even supporters of health reform are somewhat surprised by the right’s apparent inability to come up with real cases of hardship. Surely there must be some people somewhere actually being hurt by a reform that affects millions of Americans. Why can’t the right find these people and exploit them?

But here, in yesterday’s edition of the Wall Street Journal is a guy offering his own mother’s story:

Stephen Blackwood: ObamaCare and My Mother's Cancer Medicine - WSJ.com

"With no other options, she bought the plan and was approved on Nov. 22. Because by January the plan was still not showing up on her online Humana account, however, she repeatedly called to confirm that it was active. The agents told her not to worry, she was definitely covered.…

Maybe this is not exactly the kind of case Krugman has in mind but the woman does sound real enough to me. Rare, perhaps, but real nonetheless.

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