Letter: Congress poisons Obamacare

In a nonprofit TV station’s news program, a guest speaker in Washington D.C., described his family’s shock. His sister was single, and lived alone. Her apartment was a short walk to and from her work.

One day, she was struck by a car. The police found her awake, complaining of shoulder pain. The hospital’s emergency department informed her physicians of a recent change in her Obamacare insurance. A Congressional committee “strategically” empowered her insurance company to prohibit physicians from using body scans on conscious emergency patients. She was discharged to her apartment; her family was advised to visit or call her every day.

The family members did this for several days, until the day she didn’t answer her phone. Her frightened family rushed to her apartment and found her dead in her bed. The autopsy revealed a massive internal hemorrhage; all her blood from the auto accident’s multiple injuries had pooled into her body cavities.

The health insurance company had restricted her doctors from discovering these injuries, when their bleeding could have been stopped. This is how our Congress quietly promotes corporate profits; by poisoning the public’s existing healthcare law before another bill, discussion, or vote takes place.

This story was originally published August 24, 2017 at 3:14 PM with the headline "Letter: Congress poisons Obamacare."