Yeah, she's mad because us taxpayers won't foot the bill for her mental health and marriage counseling sessions. I really think we need to put together some crowd sourced funding for the poor little thing



https://freebeacon.com/politic...marriage-counseling/

Dem Congressman’s Wife: ‘Mind-Blowing’ Our Insurance Doesn’t Cover Marriage Counseling

Rep. Joe Cunningham's wife says therapy and marriage counseling are 'basic well-known needs'

Democratic congressman Joe Cunningham's wife is furious that their taxpayer-subsidized healthcare plan declined to pay for therapy sessions, according to a rant on an insurance bill she posted on Instagram.

The South Carolina Democrat is currently serving his first term in Congress, where members are given access to Obamacare "gold" plans from Blue Cross Blue Shield and are responsible for paying about a quarter of the premiums. The plan is apparently not good enough for his wife, Amanda Cunningham, who told her Instagram followers she would be urging her husband to do something about it.

"I'm gonna have a little bit of a rant here on social media because I think this is important," she said on her Instagram story last week. "I've been going over my not-a-bill bill here from Blue Cross Blue Shield, and realizing that once again, all of my mental health therapy sessions are denied, in addition to all of our marriage counseling sessions."

"It's just mind-blowing to me that these basic well-known needs, that mental health is health care, are still being denied, that we're still fighting for these absolutely basic things, it's unbelievable to me," she said. "So I'm reaching out to my congressman—yes, also my husband—but saying, like, hey, what can we do about this? Let's go to the House floor, let's write a bill, I don't know what you do, but let's do it because this is ridiculous."

"This affects us, our family, it affects everyone else who's seeking mental health and needs support doing so," she concluded. "I'm just flabbergasted."

Cunningham's office did not respond to an inquiry into whether he agrees with his wife's assessment of the plan, but he wouldn't be the first freshman member dissatisfied with the Obamacare plan they're given.

The Washington Free Beacon reported that Rep. Cindy Axne (D., Iowa) complained to a group of constituents that she doesn't get "good insurance."

"You really don’t want what I have, because I don’t get good insurance," Axne said. "It's okay insurance. Just so you know, congresspeople, we have to purchase from the ACA [Affordable Care Act], we purchase from the network."

Amanda Cunningham, a licensed yoga instructor, sold her ownership stake in a South Carolina yoga studio earlier this year, according to a profile of her in Charleston's Post and Courier. She now works part-time as development director for a nonprofit helping vulnerable women.

The couple met as crew-members on a luxury yacht, according to the profile.

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She now works part-time as development director for a nonprofit helping vulnerable women.

So both he and she are on the public titty.

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The couple met as crew-members on a luxury yacht...

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
A tale of an ungrateful bitch...

Liberalism/leftism/socialism/communism is an incurable mental illness. So, it's good that it's not covered.

"... Obamacare "gold" plans ... and responsible for paying for a quarter of the premiums".

Oh I wish ...

Well, it's "mind-blowing" to me, too. Only for different reasons.

Marriage counseling is often not a covered service. Psychotherapy for a diagnosed mental health condition provided by a licensed clinical psychologist or psychiatrist is covered. Exceptions would be UNQUALIFIED therapists, and quack treatments. Members of Congress covered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield offer some of the most generous mental health coverages.

I did not bother to read the details of her rant. Using social media to complain about a personal issue is pretty inappropriate already. The law is called mental health parity.

Lets not get this lady's antics get in the way of the fact that mental health care is an essential service.

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Lets not get this lady's antics get in the way of the fact that mental health care is an essential service.

Yeah, the point of the post is that she gets taxpayer funded Obamacare gold plan, her husband is paid $174K per year by taxpayers and she has the audacity to complain about the coverage and that she may have to pay something out of pocket for marriage counseling. Cry me a river.

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Yeah, the point of the post is that she gets taxpayer funded Obamacare gold plan, her husband is paid $174K per year by taxpayers and she has the audacity to complain about the coverage and that she may have to pay something out of pocket for marriage counseling. Cry me a river.

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Yeah I get that. I just wanted to make certain that the average citizen knows she is throwing out a LOT of misinformation about mental health coverage. People should pay a portion of their health care. I do not find most members of Congress are advertising the fact that they are in marital counseling, unless it is already the feature of a tabloid expose.

She's only doing the counseling to show due diligence for the impending divorce.

Didn't watch the video because I didn't want to hear her blathering cake-hole. At any point, did she say, "Do you know who I am???". Wouldn't surprise me if she did...

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Lets not get this lady's antics get in the way of the fact that mental health care is an essential service.

I remember seeing some graffiti years ago: "Support mental health, or I'll kill you."

Ignorant bitch.

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Lets not get this lady's antics get in the way of the fact that mental health care is an essential service.

AFAIC, she should pay for fixing her fucked up marriage with her own money.

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:...

Lets not get this lady's antics get in the way of the fact that mental health care is an essential service.

Her entire rant is based upon the fallacy that (mental) health care is a right.

Essential service, yes. A right. Nope.
(And in my belief of this, it has limits. One must be afforded the care as any citizen, and that the care must be equally qualitative in its rendering without regard to race, color creed and all that jazz. In other words, "services" should be available to all, equally as necessary, but a service that must be paid for in part or in whole by the person needing the care, or by their insurance as part of the plan they purchase.

I do not believe in "free" health care, nor health care that is subsidized by any one group for another, if the one group gets nothing in return.

The exception is, those people who wish to give to charitable institutions like the St. Jude's, Shriner's and the like, that is fine, that is a choice people can make.

Charity and insurance, are one thing, paying taxes to support those who do/will not is a nope.

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Lets not get this lady's antics get in the way of the fact that mental health care is an essential service.

AFAIC, she should pay for fixing her fucked up marriage with her own money.

Yes, indeed!

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Originally posted by ZSMICHAEL:...

Lets not get this lady's antics get in the way of the fact that mental health care is an essential service.

Her entire rant is based upon the fallacy that (mental) health care is a right.

Essential service, yes. A right. Nope.
(And in my belief of this, it has limits. One must be afforded the care as any citizen, and that the care must be equally qualitative in its rendering without regard to race, color creed and all that jazz. In other words, "services" should be available to all, equally as necessary, but a service that must be paid for in part or in whole by the person needing the care, or by their insurance as part of the plan they purchase.

I do not believe in "free" health care, nor health care that is subsidized by any one group for another, if the one group gets nothing in return.

The exception is, those people who wish to give to charitable institutions like the St. Jude's, Shriner's and the like, that is fine, that is a choice people can make.

Charity and insurance, are one thing, paying taxes to support those who do/will not is a nope.

Agree with the above. Additionally, many non-profits provide low-cost, sliding scale, care rather than free care. The reason for this is that studies show that humans don’t tend to value what they get for free near as much as the same service when they pay something for it.

She decided to marry the man who became her spouse and he decided to marry her. Her choice, her risk. The automobile she chose to buy, do we have to pay for repairs on that? Nope. Her choice, her risk. There are no guarantees in life.

If she's sincere in wanting to save her marriage, she'll pony up the cash. If she can't afford it, well, there are millions of working people who can't afford therapy, buttercup. Welcome to the real world.

If it is marital therapy she can certainly afford to pay. Mental health is not a right. I did not listen to her blatherering. In the narrative she suggests that there is no coverage for individual psychotherapy. Blue Cross Federal covers that service. Unqaulfied people and quack therapy are not cost shared. There is enough misinformation and stigma already without her adding to it. That was the point I was making. Her eletist entitled attitude is very annoying.