Mary Brown became the lead plaintiff in the National Federation of Independent Business’ challege to President Obama’s health-care law, better known as “ ObamaCare ” and now it turns out medical bills and mounting debt led her to file for bankruptcy.
Obama’s law team quickly jumped on Mary Brown’s $4,500 in unpaid medical bills that are to be wiped clean from her bankruptcy as the perfect illustration for why people need medical coverage.
According to Obama’s team Mary’s bankruptcy once against highlights how “uncompensated care that will ultimately be paid by others.”
In examining her filing one health law expert wrote:
“This is so ironic. It just shows that all Americans inevitably have a need for health care. Somebody has paid for her health care costs.”
When contacted by the Los Angeles Times the 56-year-old said the bills were her husbands while adding:
“I never said medical insurance is not a necessity… It should be anyone’s right to what kind of health insurance they have.”
Brown’s lawyers point to $55,000 in non-medical bills that are also owed, however the heart of the issue still remains that $4,500 in bills will now be passed along to other patients because of the couple’s bankruptcy.
Brown alludes to possibly having insurance but does not definitively state she is using a healthcare provider:
“Anyone has unforeseen things that happen to them that are beyond their control. Who says I don’t have insurance right now?”
Do you find it a bit ironic that one of Obama’s biggest health care opponents has left $4,500 in medical bills to be paid by other people?
