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Judi Lynn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 11:28 PM Original message |
A 5-Year-Old Girl Is Dying in Brazil Because Insurance Refuses to Pay for US$ 10,000 Surgery |
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midnight (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 11:33 PM Response to Original message |
1. K&R Can't these hospitals throw another galla for the rich to |
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Bozita (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Oct-31-11 11:37 PM Response to Original message |
2. Death panels (insurance companies) in Brazil, death panels here - What's the diff? |
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Joe Shlabotnik (45 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 12:35 AM Response to Original message |
3. Q: how much is a 10 year old life worth.... |
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Marazinia (398 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 03:31 AM Response to Original message |
4. No one should be able to make money from sickness and injury |
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dotymed (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 07:42 AM Response to Reply #4 |
10. Thank you. It should be a global law that "for profit" health |
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DRoseDARs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 05:12 AM Response to Original message |
5. Is my understand correct, that they've already paid more in fines than the actual surgical cost? nt |
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drm604 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-02-11 03:47 AM Response to Reply #5 |
21. That's how I read it. |
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newfie11 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 06:36 AM Response to Original message |
6. How can the people making this decision live with themselves |
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Sarah Ibarruri (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 06:42 AM Response to Original message |
7. Insurance companies are trash no matter where you go. nt |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 07:12 AM Response to Original message |
8. Insurance paid over $500K in a futile effort to keep my uncle alive for a little while |
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Xithras (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 03:28 PM Response to Reply #8 |
15. It should never be about what "cooler heads" wanted. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 04:29 PM Response to Reply #15 |
18. It's a racket, fueled by false hope |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 03:37 PM Response to Reply #8 |
17. "Cooler heads", eh? |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 04:30 PM Response to Reply #17 |
19. We were right |
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liberal N proud (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 07:33 AM Response to Original message |
9. America - the land with the best insurance MONEY can buy |
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No Elephants (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 08:01 AM Response to Original message |
11. And you thought the life of a child was priceless. Would they have gone $2,000, I wonder? |
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in_cog_ni_to (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 03:16 PM Response to Reply #11 |
14. The life of a child is priceless ONLY in utero. Once it's born...it's shit like everyone else. |
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DaveJ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 08:20 AM Response to Original message |
12. It probably would cost a quarter million dollars in the U.S. |
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jtrockville (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
13. Why do we allow bean-counters to come in-between us and our doctor? |
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WinkyDink (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 03:36 PM Response to Original message |
16. And THIS exemplifies why I believe the very allowance of billionaires is EVIL. |
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Lorien (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-01-11 10:12 PM Response to Reply #16 |
20. What most of them make in a matter of minutes could save this child's life |
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