‘People live in fear’ over pre-existing condition rules

[proud2BlibKansan]

You might say Dean Goering was scared to death.

He had known for months that something was wrong. The pain running through his leg was a lot like what he had experienced seven years ago when he was laid up in the hospital with a potentially lethal blood clot.

Goering had health insurance back then. And after years without coverage, he signed up recently with another health plan. He was just afraid to use it.

A paragraph in his new policy warned that he’d have to wait 12 months for coverage of a pre-existing condition.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/03/15/1815230/people-live-in-fear-over-pre-existing.html#ixzz0iNWw4jPi

[RagAss]

1. Sad...but nothing will ever be done about this...ever.

[sendero]

2. Nothing short....

.... of single payer anyway.

[ixion]

3. Exactly.

This so-called 'reform' bill will do nothing to alleviate those fears, despite it's claims, the insurance companies will still have loopholes that will allow them to deny coverage. It wouldn't have gotten this far if that were not so.

[girl gone mad]

6. As long as we are stuck with a for-profit, no choice insurance system, nothing can be done.

The simple reality is that fat profits can't be made under any system that forces universal, affordable coverage of pre-existing conditions.

[juno jones]

4. K&R

Oh shit.

And the chronically uninsured poor have run up plenty of pre-existings, let me tell you.

Single payer. It just makes sense.

[gratuitous]

5. This story could be told every day

I wonder why it hasn't been? Why are the major media outlets so focused on the selfish tea baggers, and their small numbers, but oblivious to people like this, who live in every city and town in the United States? People who are scared to death that going to see a doctor will either impoverish them or kill them? When you're staring at the specter of total poverty, you'll convince yourself that the pain isn't so bad, that you can hang on for another month or so to see if it gets better, and you'll even talk yourself into thinking that it has gotten better when it hasn't.

But let's let our citizens die before we try another way that might imperil the lavish salaries and bonuses of insurance industry fatcats.

[proud2BlibKansan]

9. Imagine where this health care debate would be if our media told these stories

[WillYourVoteBCounted]

7. with insurance cos, every day is Halloween and full of tricks

but not treats

[Hepburn]

8. What horseshit...

...people sign up for coverage for the problems they have. They DON'T sign up to protect themselves for issues about which they have good health. This pre-existing condition bullshit is just absolutely crazy!

[eridani]

10. And he'll live in fear for another 4 years after "reform" n/t

[proud2BlibKansan]

11. Well not really

He died.