Company Threatened to Annul Insurance as Woman Faced Blinding Eye Disease

[RamboLiberal]

Source: ABC News

Shannon Dagher, a 22-year-old college student, said she was at the eye doctor for a checkup last November, one month after her new insurance policy kicked in, when she received terrible news.

"I was diagnosed with a very rare disorder, called pseudotumor cerebri. It basically looks and acts like a brain tumor," Dagher said.

Dagher's doctors said she needed surgery or she may go blind.

"I'm petrified of the thought of going blind," Dagher said. "I've never been sick before in my life and now in the past six months I've started to lose my peripheral vision and I'll never get that back."

But instead of authorizing the surgery, her insurer, Blue Cross of California, stopped processing her bills.



Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3289308&page=1

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Bastards. Can't wait to see Sicko - I hope a ton of people go to see it.

[villager]

1. we need to nationalize those insurance bastards, and fast...

n/t

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. Or...

Drag them out of their executive suites, by the heels and leave them to the tender ministrations of an enraged mob.

[villager]

9. I could agree to that...

n/t

[Tyler Durden]

16. OOOO you my FRIEND!!

That is one little instance of mob violence that I would PAY to watch.

LOVE the way you think.

[ThomCat]

4. Yes, we do.

They make their money by taking our money while providing at little as possible in return. If we cut them out of the healthcare process we'd all benefit.

[burrowowl]

15. Universal Single-payer Health Care

Except for private health-care insurers, may these executives and board memebers (any of the bottom feeders profiting from these companies) loose their jobs and not get any coverage since they have millions socked away.

[WindRavenX]

2. oh what horseshit

:grr:

[ThomCat]

5. Can you imagine

if every insurance company executive, salesperson or representative was required to be insured by some OTHER insurance company? They'd find out quickly what they're putting us through.
x(

[conspirator]

6. Insurance companies are the biggest crooks in society. In second place come lawyers. nt

[monktonman]

10. Where have I heard that bit about lawyers before?.......

Oh yah thats right....over at the free republic.

[Tyler Durden]

17. Assuming you are a lawyer...

I would say you get the benefit of the doubt. However your profession does play CYA more than it polices itself.

An honest barrister does get a bad rap.

[eppur_se_muova]

7. It is the most fundamental CONFLICT OF INTEREST when insurance companies

decide what treatments they will pay for, and which they won't. Insurance policies should cover illnesses, NOT treatment. If you come down with a certain condition, you should be able to collect on the policy. How you spend the money should be entirely up to you. Compare this to D&D insurance: if you suffer a given degree of injury, you get a pre-set payout -- it does not "depend" on how the injury is treated. Disease and injury should be treated the same way.

[StarryNite]

8. Blue Cross & Bull Shit

How can they get away with that? We can't get away with how much we choose to send them for their monthly payments. Both of my kids have BC&BS.

[Sgent]

11. Just to complete the story

they made a rescission investigation -- a necessary part of issuing insurance when health condition underwriting is allowed.

They finished the investigation and her condition was covered.

[kurth]

13. "According to the insurance industry's own estimate,

thousands of similar rescission investigations into policy holders occur every year, and most of them lose all their coverage as a result."

[kurth]

12. There are countless more in the same situation who have no media exposure

and therefore no recourse.

[Trillo]

14. Sure they'll insure you, just pay the (insurance) bills

and don't forget: NEVER GET SICK.

[Vinca]

18. Bastards - they mysteriously reconsidered pulling her policy after

ABC News contacted them. The people who most need care don't get it. If you're sick and can't pay the bill they cancel you and won't pick you up again because you were sick. Worse than that, the information is shared among other insurers so you're screwed. They deny that, of course, but have a diagnosis of anything and try to get a policy that anyone other than the megawealthy can pay for.