Tumors

Yesterday at 6:00pm my dad was diagnosed  with a tumor about 2cm big in his right lung. My father was a pipe caser for about 35 years and had insurance till last June when they forced him into retirement. My mother has always stayed home to be the home maker. Well after her brother passing and the not even a year later her sister dying and my father losing his job came almost in the same day. My mom dealt with it all and making a huge mistake in the process not accepting the cobra my fathers employer had offered. My fathers unemployment 1800 a month cobra 1950 a month. My dad being my father decided that going uninsured was better and advised my mother they would not take the cobra. Over the next few months my father began to lose slot of weight and also developed a caugh that would not go away. 

Mom called the Obama care exchange and found they could get coverage she got her number and mailed in her paperwork. While up here for Halloween my fathers dramatic weight loss was the least to say shocking to me. I told her she needed to talk to the exchange and find out when coverage would begin he had to go to the doctor. Under the guidance of his lung specialist dad had already paid for an office visit and had almost finished a coarse of anti biotics nothing was getting better. We called the exchange to find out moms claim had not really been processed and the number she had gotten was nothing. No coverage until 2016 and she would have to start the process all over again. So today my father is being treated for cancer in a hospital room in pearland Texas with no insurance. Dad does have retirement although he is too young to withdraw and not even 200k. If my dad can afford treatment he may live, if not he will die. How in America can this happen? If he pays and withdraws his retirement it will financially destroy him and mom if not he will not survive? We shall see how this plays out. Just makes me sick all the years he paid insurance and never used it and now that he is sick it counts for nothing.