Victims of 'Health Insurance Bureaucracy' Speak Out

[RamboLiberal]

Source: ABC News

"These guys are just playing with my life."

Erinn Ackley still remembers her father's words as he struggled with an aggressive form of cancer in 2006. Bill Ackley had health insurance through his job as a public school teacher. But as his life hung in the balance, his insurance company questioned the necessity of a potentially life-saving treatment doctors prescribed and, for a time, refused to pay.

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Ackley's story was one of several accounts shared with members of the House Oversight and Reform Committee on Wednesday of the often heart-wrenching struggles some Americans face in dealing with the "private health insurance bureaucracy."

"We're always more informed when we hear about personal experience," said subcommittee Chairman Rep. Dennis Kucinich, D-Ohio.

At the hearing, lawmakers of both parties agreed that delays – or denials – of coverage like the one faced by Ackley are unjustifiable and have become too common.



Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/health-insurance-denials-delays-target-lawmakers/story?id=8590781

[KansDem]

1. Why this is even a debate is beyond me...!!!

At the hearing, lawmakers of both parties agreed that delays – or denials – of coverage like the one faced by Ackley are unjustifiable and have become too common.

And funneling more money at the insurance companies is not going to solve the problem! As anyone who witness how funneling more money to the wealthy during the "trickle down" years knows didn't work out...

edited to add "knows"

[lysosome]

2. Insurance companies don't need death panels.

A couple hours of red tape and the problem takes care of itself.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22357873/

Republican's memory is, as dad would say, as long as their dicks. Remember when this was an outrage?

[barbtries]

3. i'm listening to the hearing

one of the best i've heard: http://cspan.org/Watch/Media/2009/09/16/HP/A/23251/House+Oversight+Cmte+Hearing+on+Private+Health+Insurance.aspx