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Sergio bronco on was diagnosed with acute leukemia
earlier this year as a result his family was gonna rack up a really really heavy
medical bill and as that you know as he took some leavin he was going to this
whole process
end up losing his job at the waste management company
Russell Reed locally for
Sergio you could always fall back and count on Cobra
the consolidated omnibus Reconciliation Act that allows for individuals
to get health care through the government option while other unemployed
so heat you know be to him and his wife
the paid the premium for the gap this Cobra health care
he underwent five hundred thousand dollars a half million dollars worth of
life-saving bone marrow transplants and made
August in but there was a slight miscalculation
you see in his wife only sent Oct 5
dollar 518 dollar check to pay check which the company the Russell Reed used
to fund their Cobra program
in too bad the bill was 518 dollars and twenty-six cents
but nobody from paychecks called
the bronco family then column OD call
I'll be righted know we said hey you miss pager by 26 cents paychecks happily
cash the check
in right and then gets Kiwi 4 way for america's this is the the part of
america this is the part that makes me so sick
right and as Sergio was getting a life-saving treatment that he needed to
live
in they Russell Reed sent a letter saying you are no longer covered by
colour because he did not pay the full amount of the premium
in and I'm like I will when I read the story I was heartbroken by
absolutely positively heartbroken
and they said the reason why your premium wasn't paid in full
is because you missed 20 6
cents a quarter and a penny in
26 pennies two dimes and nickels on a pen
5.5 nichols' and a pen
and the whole the crazy part about it is in
is that they could just call them that hey listen you sure the 26 at the
Georgia game 26 instead
they cancel his health care policy and to make matters worse
his doctor wrote them and said Sergio ni this
treatment to stay alive and this insurance company did not care
well that was until the media got involved and as reporters
and attorney started to pick up this story suddenly
paychecks had a change of heart add they indicated
in that you know the company did it was wrong
and they're super happy the way the family super happy with what about their
shoulders
but the cup the company's been like we're sorry we're gonna put it back on
the pair then it on the health care and the Labor Department the company will
reinstate him
from eight till now to get a rescission retroactively so he can get the care
they definitely needs
with the problem is on corporations run amok in
26 cents could call somebody
to lose their life America I get the Affordable Care Act is going on I think
it's a good thing
but the fact that these private health insurers can get away with this type of
crap it really blows the mind it
upsets me too the and degree well
well
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