Heath Provider Accused Of Sentencing HIV-Poz Man To Death

[davidinalameda]

http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/02/021105transplant.htm

Saying that one of the nation's largest health insurance companies may cost a Maryland man his life by refusing to cover a liver transplant because he has HIV, Lambda Legal on Friday urged the administrator of a Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Jersey health plan to reverse its denial in light of a range of scientific data and the man's personal health history and experience.

"To deny our client the care he needs, Horizon is ignoring published reports on organ transplants for people with HIV and not looking at its patient's individual health status," said Jon Givner, HIV Project Director at Lambda Legal. "In the last nine years since the advent of better treatments for people with HIV, the medical community nationwide has learned a great deal about organ transplants. Denying this man a transplant because he has HIV is not based on good medicine or sound science, and it may cost him his life."

[mitchtv]

1. I was refused a liver transplant for HBV

by the company(now Secure Horizons). Luckily I was represented by a union , and we had open enrollment. I chose more carefully. I wish him luck

[goodboy]

2. self-delete

[meganmonkey]

3. Hepatitis B Virus n/t

[xchrom]

4. grrr -- blue cross helped kill my partner

years ago now -- but they fought tooth and nail every treatment for him.
many times delaying what he needed.
it was a fucking nightmare for so long.

i belame the insurance game that we all bound to like fucking slaves.