People slipping through Nev.’s health exchange
By Kyle Roerink, Las Vegas Sun
Nevada’s Silver State Exchange was supposed to rescue people like Jill Parker.
Parker, a 35-year-old Las Vegas mother of three, needed health care. She was in constant pain, suffering from Graves’ and Hashimoto’s diseases and hypoglycemia.
She was relieved to see that Nevada planned to use the Affordable Care Act to help people such as her see doctors. In December, she signed onto the Nevada Health Link and paid $362 for an insurance premium.
The Silver State Exchange took Parker’s money. But for five months, despite phone calls and reassuring words from state officials, the exchange gave her nothing in return.