Unaffordable Care Act

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
A Charlie Brown Christmas in New Haven? Does it? Anybody
know the way to Union Station?

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Even Charlie Brown is insane in the Elm City. Wow,
I shouldn't do that.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
I've got doctor Frank Langello in here who has been
working in the Elm City, living in the Elm City
for a.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
Good long time. Now, I's not your whole life A
whole life Warner raised there.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
Yeah, Yale grad himself my ticket to Maury's, which I love.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
We should go there for the holidays. We should in
the time, will be there. We don't have to do this.
I can't tell you.

Speaker 1 (00:36):
I say all the time, how many gofundmes get brought
to my attention? Please bring them up for somebody who's
fighting cancer, And it's always their insurance isn't covering it.
And it also goes to show. And I know you're
not gonna like this, Frank, but cancer, damn, it's big business.
It is a big I don't see he's not making

(00:56):
a move for the microphone.

Speaker 2 (00:58):
Is he's right now?

Speaker 1 (00:58):
Is that right?

Speaker 2 (01:00):
But cancer really is?

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Could they make fighting cancer a smidge more affordable?

Speaker 3 (01:07):
I think the problem is hopefully your insurance will cover
the treatment the chemotherapy and all the medications you need.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
It doesn't cover like support.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
So if you need home health aids and things like that,
that's out of pocket, the.

Speaker 2 (01:21):
Insurance will not cover it.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
The chemo and radiation should be covered, so that shouldn't
depending on your insurance.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
So if you have like a high deductible, you're paying
the deduction.

Speaker 3 (01:31):
But what's not covered is when you go home and
you're miserable and you need somebody to help you, you know,
get to the bathroom and take care of your daily
daily needs.

Speaker 2 (01:43):
That's not covered.

Speaker 3 (01:44):
So that extra the health aids and things like that,
which which we need, that's medical insurance doesn't cover that.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
I just see so many I get so many gofundmes.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
The real problem with the insurance industry now is Obamacare
put a lot of mandates of things that need to
be covered, including pre existing conditions, and now insurance is
becoming less and less affordable. I just got I just
personal story. My premiums went up two hundred dollars.

Speaker 2 (02:12):
So my medical insurance for the coming year is eighteen
thousand dollars.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
Obamacare's proactive, preemptive, forcing you or they'll bill you. You know,
get this exam this year, or we built that's I
don't know if totalitarianism is the right word there. It's
expensive and misbegot an idea. I didn't like it, you know,
I was dealing with that light. I didn't like it.

Speaker 3 (02:43):
From the libertarian point of view. I'm opposed to it.
From professional point of view, getting people in for physicals
and preventive care is a good thing. I get your
point that this is a little bit invasive, that you're
being required to do this.