Boston Survivors can't cash award checks because they will lose State health Medical Insurance.

[trumad]

Read the whole story--- Mass Legislature needs to fix this.

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Costello agrees: “The amputees got a check they can’t cash, if you think about it.”

The payments are tax-free, but they will force the Norden brothers off the state health insurance program for the poor. At the end of the year, they must begin buying their own medical insurance.

Coverage for prosthetics varies from policy to policy, but doctors and prosthetists agree that the lifetime cost of a new limb — especially for Paul Norden — easily could be more than the Norden brothers were awarded. The devices, which wear out, must be replaced every few years and regularly maintained.

“The prosthesis will make all the difference in what their lives are going to look like,” says Christopher Carter, a psychologist at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, where all 16 amputees convalesced before going home. The cost isn’t “just the prosthesis, but it’s all the medical care that goes along with that.”

Mike Sheehan, treasurer of the One Fund, said the charity has taken in an additional $10 million since the original donations were handed out and expects more as the anniversary of the attack approaches next April. The charity will contact all the survivors to determine the services they need before spending the rest, he said.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/for-some-boston-marathon-bombing-victims-charity-checks-bring-frustration/2013/09/15/759bd786-1983-11e3-82ef-a059e54c49d0_story_3.html

[Mnemosyne]

1. Gawd forbid they have a couple extra bucks to make life easier. nt

[durablend]

2. Can't have that

Because that would be socialism (or some other -ism) and would give the 1% and Republicans a sad.

[Mnemosyne]

3. Pitiful, isn't it, that the wealthy decide what the poor need to survive. And of course,

if you are poor, you must always be trying to scam the system.

Projection is their middle name.

[Dash87]

4. It's obvious what the problem here is.

We need to get rid of state medical insurance.

[RC]

6. The answer is to get rid of medical insurance altogether.

Single Payer, Universal Health Care. If the rest of the world can do it, why can't we?

[Dash87]

7. Universal Health Care? Whad are ya, one of dose dang nam Liberals?

Dont'cha know that nobody would ever work again if we did that? And what do ya think ya are, entitled to health care!?

Well guess what, no one is!

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Except me if I need it. Then it's different.

[ctsnowman]

8. Because

we are too busy "protecting" the world. Same reason our kids have to go into indentured servitude to get an education.

[madrchsod]

9. why? our death budget....

[RC]

11. That is why we can't have nice things.

We are too busy killing people, so that they do not need health care.

[hardcover]

13. Yes yes yes!

Get rid of medical insurance altogether.

[Sgent]

5. I'm missing something....

why can't a person who gets a check for 900,000+ tax free afford to buy insurance? Especially once the ACA kicks in in January, insurance will be relatively cheap, and the program only looks at income, not assets.

He said he bought a ford explorer for each of his brothers, I'm not sure why a life necessity should be secondary to that.

Finally, private insurance, at least in my area, is much better about prosthetics than Medicaid which pays for the cheapest only and one for a lifetime.

[trumad]

10. 1 million aint shit longterm

especially when it's a 100 grand for a new leg.

[Sgent]

12. True

but this doesn't deny them medicaid coverage long term, only for this year. ACA price for a new leg is a maximum out of pocket of $2,500.