Obamacare: People leave without treatment because hospitals cannot verify coverage

 One thing that people in the blogosphere have been trying to warn people about is the fact that just because you successfully enrolled in Obamacare it doesn’t necessarily mean you have healthcare coverage. We have been telling people that they need to make a payment in order to receive the benefits, this was something that Kathleen Sebelius was forced to admit when she testified in front of the Congress.

  Sometimes it takes people real life experiences before they realize the truth, seeing is believing, and we are now starting to see hospitals unable to verify healthcare coverage and people are leaving without receiving any treatment rather than pay the full price of the services they need.

Hospital staff in Northern Virginia are turning away sick people on a frigid Thursday morning because they can’t determine whether their Obamacare insurance plans are in effect.

Patients in a close-in DC suburb who think they’ve signed up for new insurance plans are struggling to show their December enrollments are in force, and health care administrators aren’t taking their word for it.

In place of quick service and painless billing, these Virginians are now facing the threat of sticker-shock that comes with bills they can’t afford. 

‘They had no idea if my insurance was active or not!’ a coughing Maria Galvez told MailOnline outside the Inova Healthplex facility in the town of Springfield.

She was leaving the building without getting a needed chest x-ray. 

‘The people in there told me that since I didn’t have an insurance card, I would be billed for the whole cost of the x-ray,’ Galvez said, her young daughter in tow. ‘It’s not fair – you know, I signed up last week like I was supposed to.’

The x-ray’s cost, she was told, would likely be more than $500.

  One doctor’s office spent two hours on the phone with an insurance company trying to get the okay to perform a scheduled surgery on one patient before giving up and going ahead with the surgery without the okay. If it turns out this patient wasn’t covered  you can imagine the bill this patient will be on the hook for.

   One has to wonder how many of these people had healthcare coverage which would have covered them but were forced to find a new healthcare plan when Obamacare forced them to lose coverage in the first place.

  Yeah, this is a much better system, this is what happens whenever the government fixes anything…..