Day of rage
By Carl
I'm in a real pissy mood, and my attention span is for crap, mostly because I've not slept much these past few weeks, last night being a sort of final straw for my equanimity.
So I'm going to break from my traditional analytic posts and head off into the Eschaton-like world of slam-dunking shit and letting you folks hash it out in comments:
Item 1 -- Skinny baby denied health insurance by company that advised sterilization to woman
Item 2 -- 17-Pound, 4-Month-Old Baby Denied Health Insurance for Being Too Fat
Item 3 -- Why are some middle-class women denied health insurance coverage if they had C-Sections?
Item 4 -- Rape Survivor Denied Coverage for "Pre-existing Condition" Shares Her Story
Pretty disgusting, isn't it? Private insurers prey on the most vulnerable among us, denying coverage to sick people.
Funny, because I thought the whole point of health insurance was to try to prevent you from getting even sicker...
(Cross-posted to Simply Left Behind.)
I'm in a real pissy mood, and my attention span is for crap, mostly because I've not slept much these past few weeks, last night being a sort of final straw for my equanimity.
So I'm going to break from my traditional analytic posts and head off into the Eschaton-like world of slam-dunking shit and letting you folks hash it out in comments:
Item 1 -- Skinny baby denied health insurance by company that advised sterilization to woman
Item 2 -- 17-Pound, 4-Month-Old Baby Denied Health Insurance for Being Too Fat
Item 3 -- Why are some middle-class women denied health insurance coverage if they had C-Sections?
Item 4 -- Rape Survivor Denied Coverage for "Pre-existing Condition" Shares Her Story
Pretty disgusting, isn't it? Private insurers prey on the most vulnerable among us, denying coverage to sick people.
Funny, because I thought the whole point of health insurance was to try to prevent you from getting even sicker...
(Cross-posted to Simply Left Behind.)
Labels: health care, health care reform
posted by Carl at
11:55 AM
2 Comments:
" I thought the whole point of health insurance was to try to prevent you from getting even sicker.."
Silly you. It's to make a profit. You should listen to Fox more.
By
Capt. Fogg, at 3:29 PM
Of course it's to make a profit. Which is why the insurers look to find any excuse to deny coverage, even when their clients suffer life-threatening illnesses.
Sadly, there are so many examples like this. Most never make the news. Across the most powerful country in the world, and perhaps in the history of the world, countless people are suffering, and even dying, because they are denied access, or can't afford to access, the care they need. Many, too, are suffering under the weight of bills they can't possibly afford.
Sure, America has a great health-care system... if you have the money to access it. When I lived in the U.S., I did -- or, rather, my parents did. Here in Canada, we have our problems -- fairly long emergency room waits, delays getting care, the need to be referred to specialists -- but we all have coverage, which is to say, we all have access to health care. And even the problems tend to be overstated.
I look at the U.S., and I find it simply disgusting that millions upon millions of people -- men, women, and children -- either don't have coverage or are at the mercy of profit-driven insurers who give a damn only about their own bottom line. History, I suspect, will not look favourably on this. Hopefully, the current powers-that-be on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue will make history by putting the interests of the American people before the interests of wealthy corporations and the wealthy oligarchs who profit off the suffering, and deaths, of others.
By
Michael J.W. Stickings, at 9:09 PM
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