[cougarnurse]

HealthNet has been ordered to pay $9 million to a patient undergoing cancer treatment: Cut-off cancer patient to get $9M - Yahoo! News

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[XOEmmyLouOX]

I head of this on the news just the other day. Everyone says this will teach the insurance companies not to drop people, but it didn't. The insurance companies don't care about you or I, it's all about that bottom dollar. It isn't right or fair. Medicaid dropped a relative of mine who is 7 years old who has been fighting cancer since he was a toddler (there is a current legal battle going on). If your own government can drop you who says private insurance can't.

[cougarnurse]

Follow up on story: Health Insurers Work To Address Issues Involving Retroactively Canceled Policies

[hj3!]

This is one of the main reasons we need universal healthcare. We have the best in the world but it doesn't do a lot of people any good if they can't be treated. Three years ago my mother was diagnosed with a brain tumor. She has never had health insurance and we had no idea how she was going to be treated. I got online and emailed all the hosptals I could think of and asked if they would treat her out of the kindness of their hearts. In the end our local hospital did end up doing her surgery for next to nothing but all of this could have been avoided if our country had a more progressive take on our healthcare industry. Hopefully this will change some day soon so we don't have more cases like this or even worse ones like the poor woman who recently died after her insurance company wouldn't pay for her transplant. Sickening....