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REB2: Healthcare denial. Got this Obama mail just now.

Posted by Spawn Oct 20 '09, 11:44

Michael --

Jenny U. from Missouri did what any parent would: When her son needed a kidney, she donated one of hers. But she didn't realize insurance companies would use her kindness as an excuse to never cover her again, calling her donation a "pre-existing condition."...

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Stuff like this makes my blood boil. It's so sick. And people out there actually want to protect these companies. -- nm - Don Homer Oct 20, 11:49 15
- You're assuming that everyone out there that doesn't want government run healthcare don't want any type of reform. - Stephen Oct 20, 12:09 8
  - as an example: everyone agrees that denial of coverage is sickening. so why is it legal? why can that company legally do that? - TFox Oct 20, 12:10 7
    - Here's the rub with that...if you make denials illegal...you open a completely new can of worms. - Jim Oct 20, 12:14 2
      - Even if you tackle the whole issue all at once, it could be disastrous. -- nm - Beryllium Oct 20, 12:16
      - i fully agree. i'm talking about fairly open and shut stuff like pre-existing exclusions, rescission for mundane ambiguous shit, etc. - TFox Oct 20, 12:16
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      - sure. but those principles aren't working here, for obvious reasons. so regulate. make that shit illegal. - TFox Oct 20, 12:13 1
        
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    - Absolutely agree. -- nm - Stephen Oct 20, 12:12
- they don't want to protect these companies per se, they want to protect their lives against any change that might negatively affect them. - znufrii Oct 20, 11:58
- they do whatever Rush and Glen tell them to do -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 20, 11:55
- People out there *who aren't investors* want to protect these companies - that's what boggles MY mind ... -- nm - Beryllium Oct 20, 11:54 1
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- I will never understand that. And those folks who would protect health insurance companies better hope against hope that they never get truly sick. - Deevil Oct 20, 11:54
- because -- nm - tRuMaN Oct 20, 11:53

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