He bought into that whole "ObamaCare is a bad deal" argument. He might lose his sight now. And the state can't afford it because his state has turned down extra medicare funds. Because, well South Carolina doesn't like the fact the funds to help people comes from a Democratic Administration. He listened to the bullshit and now might go blind because of it. (And he somehow blames President Obama.)
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Here is the crux of the story.
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Case in point: this Charlotte Observer profile of Luis Lang, a rock-ribbed conservative from South Carolina who refused to comply with the ACA’s insurance mandate and proudly paid for all his own medical care, until disaster struck:
But after 10 days of an unrelenting headache, Lang went to the emergency room on Feb. 25. He says he was told he’d suffered several ministrokes. He ran up $9,000 in bills and exhausted his savings. Meanwhile, his vision worsened, and he can’t work, he says.That’s when he turned to the Affordable Care Act exchange. Lang learned two things: First, 2015 enrollment had closed earlier that month. And second, because his income has dried up, he earns too little to get a federal subsidy to buy a private policy.Lang, a Republican, says he knew the act required him to get coverage, but he chose not to do so. But he thought help would be available in an emergency. He and his wife blame President Barack Obama and congressional Democrats for passing a complex and flawed bill.“(My husband) should be at the front of the line, because he doesn’t work and because he has medical issues,” Mary Lang said last week. “We call it the Not Fair Health Care Act.”
We’ve been hearing stories similar to Mr. Lang’s for a long time now – low-income people in red states who are in acute need of medical care but refused to be a party to the Affordable Care Act owing to their conservative politics. They made a decision: the ideological satisfaction of resisting “big government” outweighed the practical benefit of access to medical care. And partly as a consequence of that decision, they’ve suddenly found themselves in the situation that the Affordable Care Act was designed to prevent: they’re sick, uninsured, and unable to obtain coverage.
I feel bad for him. Not just because of what he is going through, but because this is allowed to happen in America and THIS is what the Affordable Care Act was designed to prevent. But the politicians called it ObamaCare and a bunch of dopes bought the crap they were selling and didn't sign up. .
And now he and his wife blame Obama! The Affordable Care Act would have fixed each problem this poor guy has, but he hated ObamaCare and didn't sign up.
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It is pathetic that our country allows these medical problems to happen and more pathetic that we now have a solution and people are avoiding that solution to spite President Obama. And in a lot of ways, I don't blame him or his wife. He listened to our elected officials and Fox News which basically traded his quality of life for ratings. It is sad.