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Don'tcha love their 'logic'?

POSTED BY: Niki2
UPDATED: Friday, October 30, 2009 03:04
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NIKI2

Thursday, October 22, 2009 8:09 PM

The two recent stories of infants being denied coverage is so absurd it would be hysterical...if it weren't for all those we DON'T hear about.

First the kid that was "too fat" to be covered: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_13530098#

Then the little girl who was TOO SKINNY: http://www.walletpop.com/blog/2009/10/20/two-year-old-colorado-girl-de
nied-health-insurance-for-being-too/

This is getting so insane...and will get insaner if something isn't done. I hope they get rid of the antitrust exemption, and I hope we get a public option--especially if we're going to get mandatory coverage (!), or we are dead meat, folks!

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STORYMARK

Thursday, October 22, 2009 8:19 PM

Don't worry - the free market will wave it's wand and fix it.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

KWICKO

Thursday, October 22, 2009 8:22 PM

Yup, we'll just do some fast-waving of the "invisible hand" of the market, and it'll be like it never happened!

Mike

Let the wild rumpus start!

BYTEMITE

Thursday, October 22, 2009 8:57 PM

My friend, in Oklahoma isn't even able to AFFORD insurance. He has serious medical problems, he's slowly going blind even though it would be a relatively simple process to reverse, and just recently, he found out his shortness of breath and chest pains he's had since childhood where the result of a hernia in his diaphragm and barely having one functional lung.

The doctors repaired the hernia because it was causing significant problems, but he just found out the hernia opened up again, AND he's bleeding into his chest cavity, AND he right now has developed pneumonia.

No insurance, no coverage, no even getting on disability, because Oklahoma won't even give disability to a paraplegic. He can't afford his medical bills from before, let alone afford to get the surgery to re-fix the hernia and save his life.

This system FUCKING SUCKS.

NIKI2

Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:31 PM

Oh, gawd, Byte, I'm so sorry. There are so many horror stories, but when it happens to someone you know and care about, it's especially horrific.

I can't BELIEVE Oklahoma won't give disability to parapalegics!!! WHY??? There are few diseases SO disabling, that's monstrous. Makes me shudder to think about it; can't he get on federal disability? Surely...?

My heart goes out to both of you, I can't imagine how I'd deal with such a thing. Certainly want to dig out the trusty old and get to work!

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WULFENSTAR

Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:33 PM

We need insurance regulation... not healthcare regulation....not forced insurance either.

BYTEMITE

Thursday, October 22, 2009 9:55 PM

There's federal disability?

Any ideas anyone has I'm all ears, because he's all but given up, he thinks by the time he fills out the forms and actually gets a response it may be too late. He's going to try to reapply for disability, but they've already denied him once. Which is unfathomable to me, his mother is a nurse at a hospital, and you'd think that nurses and doctors would have some sway, but no.

He tells me that everyone is denied the first few times they apply in Oklahoma. The story about the paraplegic guy he also told me, it was someone he met one of the times he was applying, there'd been an industrial accident and the guy was not only paralyzed, but lost both of his legs. To get disability, that guy had to move out of state. My friend does not have that option.

WULFENSTAR

Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:03 PM

Which is why we need insurance regulation... not heathcare regulation.

BYTEMITE

Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:20 PM

Could you elaborate? I didn't quite understand the first time.

I know what insurance regulation is and I agree with your statements, but what do you mean by healthcare regulation?

WULFENSTAR

Thursday, October 22, 2009 10:24 PM

I mean:

Insurance has come to the point where it needs to be regulated. Denying a baby cus they are too fat or too skinny is part of the problem.

Its wrong what the insurance companies are doing.

But...

Forcing people to get insurance? Its like forcing people to buy a car. (Hey it will help the economy, right?)

Its wrong. More so, its illegal, and unconstitutional.